FOOD FOR STOCK.

Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 305, 12 September 1929, Page 6

FOOD FOR STOCK.

The low price of sugar, the scarcit and consequent dearness of ordinary forms of fodder, and the desirabih. of maintaining the cultivation. of sugar beet because of its agricultural advantages are combined causes leading to the serious consideration of the use of sugar for stock-feeding pur poses in Czecho-Slovakia

While the consumption tax makes it impossible to divert sugar subject to this tax for consumption by farm animals, it is believed that if this charge can be eliminated it will be possible o use considerable quantities of a low-grade product in lieu of other varieties of feeding stuff that are at present unusually expensive. That the proposal is regarded seriously is indi cated by the fact that the Minister of Finance has signed a decree by who-: sugar factories arc allowed to deliver to farmers the after-ruanings of tin refining process, with the sole provision that (hey be de-natured so as to 1 prevent their use in competition with tax-paying products. Dc-naturing, it appears, is accomplished by the admixture of salt, norit, and waste charcoal, up to per cent, of the total quantity of the product. Not only the low price of the raw sugar, but the high pricer of other feeding stuffs, make the proposal for the uso of sugar as a cattle food appear to be a feasible undertaking at the present time. The prices of corn, bran, oilcake and other customary feeding stuffs have been advancing lately, while that of sugar has been declining. This is not an entirely now idea in Czeeho-Slovakia, as not loss than 100,000 tons of raw sugar were used as fodder in Austria-Hun-gary during 1914-10, under the exigencies of eondi ions produced by the Great War.