MISCELLANEOUS FEEDS 211 
limited use for feeding farm animals in different parts of the 
world; a few of these will be briefly considered in the following. 
Leaves and twigs of brush and trees are a favorite feed for 
goats, and also’ used for feeding cattle and sheep in the northern 
part of the Scandinavian countries and Finland, bei 
tained in sufficient quantities to carry the a 
season. Birch, ash, and linden are commonly; 
and molasses is afterwards mixed with} the material. Enthusiastic 
f but their feeding 
value has not yet been determined by carefully-conducted 
Acorns and beachnuts are used as a swine feed on the Continent 
eing diven to the woods in the fall and 
hat ‘they pick/up from the ground. Ac- 
California, the anima. 
fattened upon 
cording to the \T 
slop make a eet 
fed per head da The tenflency of beechnuts to make soft pork of 
inferior quality may /bd paptially Avercome by feeding peas, horse 
beans, or grain for geve al jwesl prior to slaughtering time. The 
effect of acorns on the quality of the pork is similar to that of beech- 
nuts; hogs fed exclwm#vely acorns furnish pork of a very low 
grade and are generally discriminated against by buyers.? Both 
these nut and brush feeds contain considerable quantities of tannin 
which renders them bitter and less palatable to stock than ordinary 
feeding stuffs. 
Icelandic moss is another material that is sometimes used for 
feeding cattle in extreme northern countries. It may be inferred 
that this possesses considerable feeding value from the fact that it 
forms the main and often sole feed of the reindeer in these northern 
regions. Its digestibility and nutritive effects have been studied 
1 Wisconsin Circular 30, p. 94. 
4Bulletin 93. 
* Pott, “ Futtermittellehre,” ii, 1, p. 569. 
