>—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
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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-
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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 <ll tides m«ikc it i Ctidily appAicnt lh*it the potential
implications foi fanning of waste icuse aie veiy gieat.
the cost of beef pi eduction well as to improte the environ
tlnough use of inexpensue ment by finding new uses for
feeds" and feed substitutes as waste matenals
ATTENTION!
Lancaster Union Stock Yards
Sales Pavilion
AM Sales Friday at 1:00 P.M.
and 25 Oct.
Nov. 6 and 20
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Door Prizes to be given away at eoch sale
The Waste Reuse Issue
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