GORSE AS FODDER FOR CATTLE.

Colonist, Volume VII, Issue 668, 22 March 1864, Page 3

GORSE AS FODDER FOR CATTLE.

"We extract the following letter from the Times, as it contains some useful information concerning a plant greatly grown in Nelson, for hedges-, but which, might be utilized also as food for cattle. To the Editor of the Times. Sib—Will you kindly allow me through the medium of your columns to inform your correspondent " Sussex " that the woy in which I prepare my gorse is to chaff it ? And this is done by a cutter made for the purpose, with strong knives, which cut as small as the eighth of an inch. In. this form, all stock will eat it. Should "Sussex" find that there is any hesitation, at first, I would advise him to put it a second, and even a third time, if necessary, through the machine, which might be accomplished by his pressing the gorse hard on its passage through, the machine turning rapidly at the same time. • I consider cutting the proper principle, as opposed to pulping. By the former method it keeps better, and is more easily prepared. Pulped gorse, as I should imagine, and am informed, shortly passes into a state of acetous fermentation. Where it grows luxuriantly, and in a soil in which it delights, gorse appears to me to be so valuable a fodder, that I would earnestly-advise others to nrako a trial. Yours, &c, W. E. W. Dec. 24,1863.