In Holland excellent silage is mane with surplus potatoes. Alternate layers of pasture grass and potatoes are made into stacks and then covered with. soil. No special treatment is necessary and the silage appears to be excellent in quality and palatable to stock. A full account of the process was given in the journal of the British Ministry of Agriculture for January, 1930, from which it would appear that successful experiments under similar conditions have been conducted in this country. The arrival of the grazing season will find many thousands of tons of potatoes still ih pits, and some attempt might be worth making to utilise them on the lines suggested above.
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Waikato Times, Volume 108, Issue 18159, 25 October 1930, Page 11
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