p. 9 | New Process for Fattening Animals

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 13, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 33.

New Process for Fattening Animals

A NEW process of feeding and fattening all kinds of domestic animals has been discovered by a Chicagoan. A box lined on all sides with a thick layer of wood moss is fitted with a number of drawers into which any kind of grain can be placed to the depth of two or three inches. The moss is then saturated with water, which so dampens the atmosphere of the box that the grain becomes soft and sprouts in two or three days. It is then fed to the cattle or fowls and is easily masticated, or ground, and is much more readily assimilated than the hard kernels would be. It is claimed that by this process the feeding of cattle, horses, and fowls is cheapened one-half.