>—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. September 5.1070 Ohio Research Favorable, May Compete With Hay Can Garbage Become One possibh sol it on to tin icsiilts of feeding pioeessed i .itioii ' mouiKitu pinhleiiis ttnh said lh.il .in Ohio j.arbane dtspo»a. ma\ tu to pio eiistincei iiik fnm has dev doped us>. the y.iib.iitc .uid foul it lo a mol hod ol iemovin« metal, udtle .nul shcip class and plastic m.itci nils Pioccssid u.uli.uc has pioun fiom household «.nba«e both palatable and dues-ihli m The lem.nninß «.n b.ij-e is studies with heel sUeis and t ien pioeessed and marketed as lambs at the Ohio iiuiiliu.il a soil oijtainc humus builder Reseaith and lie \i lopnu nt Cm- Since the product contains ter Wooslei considciablo amounts of cello- Kenneth E McClu e assistant lose, pi olein, and other com profc'so ol animal sconce at ponents noimalls found m OARDC. lepomiK pielimmaiv feeds. Ohio scientists felt it Ever Consider Feeding Over 80% Straw Ration? Stiaw, although pioduced in_is added to neutralize the tieat largc quantities in most aieasßed stiaw piioi to animal feed of the woild. is geneially nothing well utilized as a feedstuff be-' A lation containing o\ei 80 cause of its low nutntive value pel cent treated stiaw. the ic- Euiopean scientists staited mainder consisting of molasses at the beginning of this cen- and piotein supplements, was tury to develop chemical full-fed to eailyweaned lambs methods of Heating stiaw in and weight gam compaied to order to iclease its potential animals fed a lation based on energy foi animal feeding use dehvdiated alfalfa Lambs fed In iccent times theie has the alfalfa lation gained 0 4 been icnewed mtei est in fur- pound pei day which was ae ther developing such methods coiding to National Reseaich because of the need to find new Council standards The lambs and cheapei souices of animat fed the stiaw lations gained feed less. aveiaging 0 3 pound pei \ H Javed and E Donefei w oi king at the Macdonald Cam pus of McGill Umveisitv in Canada hav e i epoi led a method wheie a sodium Inch oxide (he) solution is used to tieat stiaw m an oidmaiy horizontal feed mixer The sodium hv dioxide, a relatively inexpensive alkali reacts with the enciusting and '.indigestible lignin contained in the stiaw, leleasing the plant cellulose as an eneigv somce tor the miciooiganisms of the rumen After the initial reaction acid ph foi piodudion lations Farmway TUms /ns, / rJl\ Jl \ When Talking About LOS CHAINS This chain will out pull and out wear any other gutter chain on the market. i h ih v iiJ e! allm e! v 1 n tv a nii.Dmuni ’ri ' a ’ (il ; I Odd 1m Twice the ut am > h 1 Ci eel \'n ii c ni,■'an i, ijuah,\ and pi icc it ha-> >iu i <"ial dim chiim wdl lit r ‘v> ,imi 1 ck and on (he ma u< 1 it m'ii li'i’P in (>n a time ncht Talk lo \ oni I at imi a\ man. \ oil'll ice. ft*? ef* -"v s*, i - 7 a ’v* S M 1 % &Ai£'A W2-‘i Lte, day but still achieving what would be icgai ded as satisfac toiv peifoimance considering the tvpe of lation used Theie vveie only slight diffei ences in feed consumption be tween the two gi cups, with an aveiage dailj consumption of 3 6 pounds of sti aw and 3 8 pounds of alfalfa ia(ion The McGill woikeis conclude that continuing implements in the stiaw tieatment pioce duie should help in utilizing this laigeK untapped feed sup- □3^ fiefs might have some polonti.il •t'* a food for ruminant animals In tho Ohio siudv. pi.limin ;ny dials showed that pi cross ed gai base was i eadilv o.iton bv both cattle and sheep in meal foim mixed with si omul shelled com However, the pal.itahilily and digestibility tnals weie con ducted using pi crossed gaibage m complete pelleted uilions Both cattle and sheep ate the piocesscd gaibage in quantities smnlai to those expected with moie conventional lations The piocesscd gaibage iat ions weie digested bv the mminant ani mals with no difficulty McCluic stiessed that the Ohio stuck is piel’iniian n cheating onlv that mminant am mals will eat and digest piocess eel gaibage Feeding iccom mendations must await fuithei testing and evaluation of feed efficiency At cm i eni mai ket pi ices pi o cessed gaibage can be pioduccd 8% Newsprint Feed, Anyone? Giound newspnnt and mo lasses as an ine\pensne ie placement foi eight pei cent ot the giound timothy ha\ in a wintenng tation toi steei s did not matenalh ieduce weight gains in studies leooited by a USD A animal nututionist Di Da\id A Dmius ot USDA s Agiicultuial Reseaich Sen ice said that leplacmg 16 and 24 pei cent of the hay with newspnnt and molasses, how evei. pioduced piogiessnely smaller weight gams. All diets contained piotein and mineral supplements and weie fed as complete feeds to gipups of 12 steei s each for 14 weeks at Beltsville. Md The basic diet contained nine pei cent molasses, and an addition al fi\e pei cent molasses was added for each eight pei cent newspnnt A\ ei age daily gains wei e 1 92 pounds foi the all-hay lation 1 80 pounds with eight pei cent newspnnt 119 pounds with 16 pei cent newspnnt, and 056 pound with 24 pei cent new's punt Di Dunns said He found that substituting giound new’spnnt foi hay did not affect iimunal volatile fatty acid concentiations and did not altei the population of uimen piotozoa the most sensitive of the uimen mieiofloia The studies aie pait of an ARS leseaich effoit to leduce Sent. Valuable THE LANCASTER LIVESTOCK EXCHANGE Animal Feed? . . i -n. ...ii-i.s sinter or glower rations for and matkeled m < II J •'<• »"' f J. cl , ei t ..,ule or lambs Tho Ohio jompet'live will I '* *’ C scientist also hopes to evaluate believes tha he . oduct ma ~ of pioccB »ed gar r'iSil "'" .. b,«. P ln fim-hmg mtions tor ewe maintenance i.Kions oi mboth cattle and lambs. \s the population glows and as people become more atllucnt the question of what to do with incicastngly huge a.mmits of waste becomes mol c acute .... Tins question of waste pioducts is closely tied to the issue of pollution eontiol actually, stopping pollution is hugely a mallei ol conli oiling the wastes oi effluents of * U,,l Tlie accompanying thice ai tides fiom Penn State Uni veisitv summaii/c icseaieh undciway on this question of waste eontiol The icseaieh findings weie picsentcd at the t;>nd annual meeting of the Amcncan .\ssociation of Ani mal Science at Umvoisily P.u kin caily August MI tlnee icseaieh pioiccts dealt with lecychng or re use of items now consideicd waste ... , . While leuse is not new it has often happened in \mcilean mclustiv that whole new mdustiies have sprung up fiom the bv pioducts of wastes of othei mdustiies thcisC