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Show PEANUTS USED AS FOOD FOR CATTLE Special Cable to The Tribune. LON'DON", Sept. 25. Peanuts, locally known as monkev nuts are recommended recommend-ed as cattle fooJ by the imperial institute insti-tute after a series "of experiments with a view of finding a substitute for the higher-priced foods. Before the war these nuts were imported im-ported in great quantities both by Germany Ger-many an.l France. Thev were crushed and pressed for oil, and the residue pressed into cakes for cattle. But England Eng-land used but a small quantity, as the people, when they eat tbem at all, eat them raw. being ignorant of the fact that thev are improved by roasting. India. 'China and Africa are the great-est great-est produccm of peanuts, although they are being introduced into British tropical tropi-cal dependencies. |