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Show Potatoes Particularly Valuable for Fattening "Potatoes are particularly valuable for fattening pigs," says Austin A. Dowell, live-stock extension specialist with the University of Minnesota. "They should be cooked, the water discarded, then mixed with grain at the rate of three parts potatoes to one part of the concentrates. Prepared In this way they may be fed liberally to fatten pigs or sows with litters. Raw potatoes may be fed In limited quantities quanti-ties to mature and Idle brood sows. If fed to pregnant sows, they should be cooked and fed In relatively small quantities." Mr. Dowell says that raw potatoes are often readily eaten by cattle, horses and sheep. Fed In large quantities quan-tities to dairy cattle they are likely to taint the milk and produce a white salve-like butter. Another reason why potatoes should not be fed too freely, says Sir. Dowell, Is because they contain con-tain a poisonous material called solan-ine. solan-ine. The sprouts carry this substance In relatively large quantities and should be removed before feeding. |