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Show Pine Cakes. The modern farmer touched various attractive cakes on the shelf, i "This is an oak cake," he said "That is a pine one. The row above are walnut. All these-cakes are actu-j actu-j ally made of wood. They are a new cattle food the Invention of Prof. ' Heinrich Reh that I have imported from Berlin. "Reh points out that the animals I like young shoots, roots of shrubs, ! bark hence his saw-dust food, n-, n-, riched with a mixture of potato peel-1 peel-1 ines, cornhnsk and the residue of the sugar beet after the extraction of the i sugar. "It is said that this food, the cheap est known, agrees with cattle. And ; why shouldn't it? It is rich in a:bu men, nitrogen and fats much richer than straw. I propose to give it a fair trial. If it does all that is claimed for it, the price of milk ought to comt-down comt-down 50 per cent." |