Show feed crops being grown in hurry by tray plan the picturesque labor of haymaking hay bay making may soon be seen only in rural landscapes in our picture galleries if tests being made at the national datry dairy institute near reading prove successful says london tit bits two metal cabinets each fitted with trays have been installed at the institutes farm these are the trial grounds A solution of mineral salts above each tray sprays a thickly spread seedbed of maize or oats under the treatment growth which would normally take ten weeks takes ten days the shoots some 12 or 14 inches tall are then ready to feed dairy cows or fatten bullocks and this process is repeated the year round it is claimed that 36 crops can be raised in a year and 40 of these cabinets in a barn will yield about tons of fodder enough to feed 1200 head of cattle the crops it Is said are free from contamination and as the fresh green shoots have a high vitamin content cattle benefit considerably it is proposed to set up a chain of depots in the principal agricultural areas of the country |