IRISH SEAWEED
GOOD FEED FOR PIGS SUBSTITUTE FOR POTATOES From Belfast comes news that the Irish have found a use for the seaweed cluttering their coast for all these years—they've found it to be a good hog feed in place of potatoes. After feeding the seaweed ration to a pen of pigs during a trial peribd. the Royal Dublin Society reported somewhat lyrically: “It product's a gloss coat and bloom of skin which was associated with good health.” Ground and dried, seaweed was found to have two and a hall’ limes the nutritive value of potatoes.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 32315, 17 September 1943, Page 6
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96IRISH SEAWEED Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 32315, 17 September 1943, Page 6
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