CHAPTER XXV 



POTATOES AND POTATO PRODUCTS AS STOCK FEED 



ON A basis of strict economy as regards the 

 use of the world's supply of foodstuffs, it 

 would probably never be right to feed po- 

 tatoes fit for human food to livestock. 



Granting this, the potato has yet a place of some 

 importance as a stock food. There are thousands 

 of tons of small, cut, bruised and diseased potatoes 

 produced annually in potato districts that should 

 be converted into high-class animal products. In 

 addition to this, there are the by-products of the 

 various manufacturing processes in which the po- 

 tato is used 



The feeding of potatoes and potato products has 

 been practised more in Europe than in America, 

 because the American farmer has had, since the 

 beginning of agriculture in this country, an abund- 

 ance of cheap grains for stock feeding. 



We have undoubtedly seen the last of ex- 

 tremely low-priced grains so that the heavy 

 cropping, succulent potato, should have a place 

 of increasing importance as one part of stock feed 

 rations. 



In "Farmers' Bulletin 79 " of the United States 

 Department of Agriculture is the following in- 

 teresting information: 



"A number of French agriculturists have re- 

 cently studied the desirability of ensiling potatoes. 



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