FARMERS RUSH NEW FOOD FOR WINTERING COWS

Chronicle (Levin), 2 July 1949, Page 4

FARMERS RUSH NEW FOOD FOR WINTERING COWS

Dairy fariners all oyer the North Is'and/have not lost.much. time.in 'redlisin'g'" the value of Mother Liquor Tritrate for spreading on hay — for the low protein content of most hay (which is not made sood by molasses) is probably a prime reaso-n for the winter malnutfition of cows:' And this factor has some of itb worst effects in grass'staggers and- milk fever when the • flush of spring arrives. At 33s per 44 gallon' drum, Mother Liquor Tritrate is of course easily the- -eheapest stock food obtainahle — even including the 15s 6*d drum charge which mqst be addefl. And when .it is realised that this new product coritains the starch equivalent of a hundred\yeight of barley meal, plus the Rrotein of a hundredweight of meat-meal in every drum, it will be spen clearly just why Mother Liquor Tritrate is being ordered fast, and in large quantities. In "addition to providing the eheapest and most palatable of all supplem.entary fpods fpr wintering cpws (indeed, for all stoGk) , Mother Liquor Tritrate has an extremely hiigh Vitamin B an'd miineral content: each drum co'ntains the equivalent, in these factors,""of over a ton .of barley. Small wonder that t|iose farmers who were lucky epough to secure stpcks last winter are laying in suppfles now. Seven to eight drums per month prbvide

1 a, 2 lb. daily ration for §0 co?ys. I Qrders, thrQughi yqur jdaifycpmpany, product merchant, or dir'ept to Patea Freezing Co., Ltd,, wiii 'be dealt with strictly in order of re-> ceipt. The above prices are f.p;r. . Patea. Write to W. and R.' Hetcher , (N.Z.) Ltd., Box 663, Wellington, . . fdr feeding directions leaflet. — , Advt.