NUTRIMENT IN POTATO TOPS
GERMAN EXPERIMENTS.
For some time past experiments and tests have been conducted by the Nutriment Department of the Institute for Zymo-technical Industry at Berlin ■ with the object of ascertaining the nutritive value of potato-tops. The result is that dried tops of potatoes have been found to possess value as fodder equal to that of good meadow hay. The prevailing idea that po!ato-tops disagree with animals proves, it is stated, to be prejudice, which may now be regarded as removed. Owing to the thickness of its stalk, the potatotop must be dried by special procedure, but it is considered possible that the •means employed, to dry the roots, potatoes,: or grain may be available in tmscase, too. In view of the fact, nowever, that some two and a half to three million tons of potato-tops, worth-irom 10 -to 12i million pounds sterling, can thus be' utilised in Germany as fodder, it is; believed that the requisite new plant will soon be supplied by the agricultural machine industry.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1554, 25 September 1912, Page 10
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170NUTRIMENT IN POTATO TOPS Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1554, 25 September 1912, Page 10
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