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Show Peat Litter for Barns Is Very Satisfactory Peat has proved very satisfactory as an absorbent and deodorizer In the dairy barn at the North Central experiment station at Grand Haplds, Minn., where. It has been used for several sev-eral years. It has been found very effective In conserving bedding and saving the liquid manure, which contains con-tains about GO per cent of the nitrogen and 70 per cent of the potash excreted from the animal body. Now peat Is being tried out In the station's swine and poultry departments, depart-ments, several Inches of dry peat being be-ing placed in the sleeping quarters for the swine and the poultry pens and then covered with straw. Thus far. the results have been fully as satisfactory satis-factory as in the dairy barn. The pens and sleeping quarters are exceptionally exception-ally free from moisture and cold floor drafts, the station reports. |