POTATO SILAGE
Tlie Germans in recent years have given much attention to methods of making the greatest possible use of home-grown foodstuffs. In connection with pig husbandry they have given extensive trials to potato silage. In a recent issue of the British Journal of the Ministry of Agriculture an article is included of an experiment conducted at the Midland Agricultural College on the making of potato silage and the feeding of the product to fattening pigs. These experiments have done much to confirm the German and have shown that potato ensilage is a successful and economical method of conserving potatoes for feeding to pigs. Practically no nutritive value is lost in storage, while the costs of manufacture, including steaming, was found to he 8s per ton of raw potatoes used. Th~» silage was fed to pigs weighing from 1151b to 2001b live weight at the r a tc of 71b to Id li-) par day, along Avith 21b of a pro. tein rich meal ration.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 47, 14 August 1939, Page 3
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165POTATO SILAGE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 47, 14 August 1939, Page 3
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