FISH AS CATTLE FOOD
The' use of iish as food for cattle is an idea more novel than agreeable. According to "Nature," however, it is a common practice, in various parts of the world. in Shetland and Iceland, the farmers feed dry salt fish to cattle, sheep, and even to horses. Mr. Cecil Wood, describing experiments of this nature, mentions that certain special cattle, kept for display at the village festivals in Nandynl, in India, arc fed with mutton, and adds that it is a fairly common practice to make use ol bandicoots by pounding them in a mor*, tar. and feed them to cattlo. In Mr. Wood's experiments two lots of heifers were fed on dried fish diets and normal diet respectively. The animals took n littlo time to get used to tho fish, but they ate it readily enough. At the end of six months the fish-fed heifers showed an average increase in weight of 541b., as against 701b. for tho normally-fed animals.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2727, 23 March 1916, Page 8
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165FISH AS CATTLE FOOD Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2727, 23 March 1916, Page 8
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