" I am a great advocate for the use of salt when storing hay for winter use" explained a Hiwinui farmerto a Paiinerston"Standard" reporter. "I don't stack my hay, but store it in a shed, and with each load I distribute some ten or fifteen pounds of coarse salt, and it would astonish you to see how the cows relish it. They don't leave a blade of the hay behind. My cows also have access to rock salt in their paddocks, and I can testify to its value as regards their health and condition. Perhaps you may have seen cows chewing bones. Well, I believe that is to get something similar to salt that the animals crave for. I have had to make some of my cows drop a bone they have been chewing for an hour or so, which they would swallow if they could. I make it a rule never to leave any bones lying about where the cows can get them."
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Waipa Post, Volume I, Issue 45, 19 September 1911, Page 3
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