TREATMENT OF STRAW
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Title: TREATMENT OF STRAW
Reference number: 10877
Date: 1940*
Sound: silent
Original format: 16mm
Colour: bw
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 6.08 mins
Description: Agricultural film demonstrating the method of treating straw with caustic soda for animal feed.
Shotlist: Title. If straw is treated with caustic soda its digestibility is increased and its energy value doubled. The daily routine is first to wash the material that has soaked overnight in the caustic solution Gvs same, fresh water is run into top of tank, effluent runs away beneath. The last water is drained away and the pulp is removed for feeding gvs same The second tank is then prepared by filling it to the proper level and adding soda gvs same, adding weighed quantity caustic The straw is chopped before being put in the solution gvs same, brief shot boy carrying hay sack. Man prepares straw to soak in caustic solution, weights on top. The pulp is fed to cattle gvs same.