FODDER FOR CATTLE
INTENSIVE CULTIVATION REMARKABLE PROCESS INVENTION OF A GERMAN By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright (Received August 3, 8.5 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 2 A demonstration was given to-day at the station of the National Institute of Dairy Research, Shinfield, neat! Reading, of a new process for the intensive cultivation of fodder for fattening cattle. The process was invented by a German, Dr. Spangenberg, and an English company has been formed to develop it on a commercial basi3. It is claimed that the process enables numerous crops, particularly maize and oats, to bo grown to the same extent in 10 days as normally would occupy two or three months. It consists of sowing seeds in air-tight cabinets from which light is excluded. The seeds are treated with considerable quantities of water containing a small proportion of a chemical. Tho method is said to produce such inteuse growth that a crop can be removed from the cabinets after 10 days when it is 13 to 16 inches high and can bo used immediately for fattening animals. It is claimed that 36 crops can bo grown annually and that they will bo particularly suitable for feeding cattle owing to the vitamin content beingl greater than that in natural crops.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21561, 4 August 1933, Page 9
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206FODDER FOR CATTLE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21561, 4 August 1933, Page 9
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