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Farming with animal power

Better Farming Series, no. 14 (1977)












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    This illustrated booklet teaches the farmer how to use cassava as animal feed for pigs, chickens, rabbits and ruminants. The roots, peels, and leaves all have value as animal food. Sweet potatoes and the sweet potato vine, are also animal food.
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    This illustrated booklet on the cassava plant covers all the main points of crop yield, feed value of cassava roots, the problem of cyanide in cassava, harvesting and spoilage of cassava, processing of cassava into dried chips, and the preservation of the roots as silage. It also presents some information on the sweet potato and the crop yields to be expected as well as some materials on curing and storage of tubers in genera.

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