FOOD FOR STOCK

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 75, 1 August 1929, Page 5

FOOD FOR STOCK

• THE VALUE OF SUGAR, USE IX I'ZECIiO'.kiiOVAXIA. The low price of augur, the scarcity and consequent of ordinary torins or, i.ouder, and the desirability or maintaining the cultivation of sugar beet because or' i -> ugricuitural advantages are conioined causes leading to the serious consideration of the use of sugar tor stock-feeding purposes in Czecho-biovakia. While tne consumption tax makes it impossible to divert sugar subject 10 this tax for consumption by farm animals, it is believed that it win be possible to use considerable quantities of a low-grade product in lieu of other varieties of leedhig stuff that are at present unusually expensive. That the proposal is regarded seriously is indicated by the fact that the Minister of Finance ha s signed a decree t 0 deliver lo farmers the after-runnings of the refining process, with the sole provision that they be denatured so as to prevent their use in competition with tax-paying products. Denaturing, it appears, is accomplished by the admixture of salt, norit, ami waste ehacoal, up to three per cent, of the total quantity of the product. Not only the lower price of the raw sugar, but the high prices of other feeding stuffs, make Hie proposal for the use of sugar as cattle food appear to lie a feasible undertaking at the present time. Tiie prices of corn, bran, oilcake and other customary feeding stuffs have been advancing lately, while that Of sugar lias been declining. This is not an entirely new idea in Czecho-fclovakia, as not. less Rhan 100,000 tons of raw sugar were used as fodder in Austria-Hungary during 1914-15, under the exigencies of conditions produced by the Great War.