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THE present position and prospects of home–produced feeding–stuffs in Great Britain have already been reviewed in NATURE (146, 251, 362, 712; 1941). Supplementing the papers by Dr. Norman Wright, the Imperial Chemical Industries Research Station at Jealott's Hill has published a bulletin (No. 3) on the same subject, which, as it is written largely in non–technical language, will be especially valuable to farmers, and to others who wish to know the facts before they express opinions on Government policy. Much of the bulletin is devoted to the various ways in which concentrated feeding–stuffs hitherto imported can be replaced by home–grown fodders, and the authors set out to show how the entire present deficiencies can be made good by greatly increased cultivation of oats, barley, peas and beans, by better manuring of grass and fodder crops., by making some six million tons of silage, and treating two million tons of straw with caustic soda to make it into a palatable and digestible carbohydrate feed. Incidentally, they remark that a large proportion of the four million acres of grassland ploughed up in the last two years was land in poor condition and low in fertility, and that without the aid of fertilizers the sanguine expectations of many are likely to be disappointed.
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Feeding–stuffs in War–time. Nature 148, 161 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148161a0
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