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that may exceed their own actual food value. The potato is largely 

 water, and in the feeding of thousands of bushels to horses, cattle 

 and sheep, we have been led to believe that a bushel of corn at forty- 

 cents is as cheap feed as potatoes at ten cents, excepting such small 

 amount as may be needed to aid digestion. Experience and Station 

 experiments indicate that potatoes should be cooked for hogs and 

 poultry, but that tlK-y may be fed raw with profit to horses, f-^'ttle 

 and sheep. 



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