EVEN A STRAW HELPS
Imperial Chemical Industries have added straw to the list of acceptable and beneficial foods for cattle and horses'. Untreated straw contains so much indigestible matter that only starving animals or animals with morbid appetites needing the attention of the veterinary surgeon have attempted to eat it. o The Imperial Chemical Industries have invented a process by which straw, treated with weak caustic soda, has this indigestible matter so thoroughly broken down as to leave an appetising and nutritious meal for the animals needing it. Equally skilful is the invention by other minds of plant for converting surplus potato crops into food suitable for animals and poultry, so avoiding glutted markets and keeping a non-perishing substance abundantly available for the purposes intended. It has always been said that we cannot invent to order, but here are two instances in which the bidding of necessity has been handsomely answered without so much as a season's delay.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 192, 29 July 1940, Page 7
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158EVEN A STRAW HELPS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 192, 29 July 1940, Page 7
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