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Show MAKING FEED FROM SAWDUST Wisconsin Cows Keeping Up Weight and Milk Yield and Show Ne III Effects From Diet. Ilydrollzed sawdust ns a part of a ration for cows Is apparently giving satisfactory results In Wisconsin. The forest service of the Unltrd States Department of Agriculture reports that cows at the agricultural college of that state are doing as well on a - ration consisting of one-third sawdust as they d;-j -vhen their feed was only one-fourth wmc real. That is to say, they tire keeping r their weight aud their mllli production and show no III aWects from the diet. The bureau of animal Industry Is considering the proposal of the forest service laboratory to start feeding trials with dairy animals In which the wood product will form a part of the ration and the tests will extend for an entire yar at I ast. The hyro-lized-wood feed ' for these cows will be made at the laboratory. So far all the stock feed lisbeen made from whlte-plue sawdust. Othet soft woods, particularly the western species, will be tried in the future. a |