In a note it is told about fodder value of fruits of a chestnut and about their preparation for a skarmlivaniye to cattle.
UDC 634
Chestnut fruits (wild or horse) on the nutritious properties, in the content of protein, fats surpasses wheat and corn. They are well eaten by cattle, pigs, birds, goats, etc.
Collected chestnuts are necessary for drying, clearing of a peel and then to crush, to use in a forage in the form of a flour, sechka or in a mix with drobleny grain.
Animals eat such forage with hunting. Feed it to them before slaughter in pure form and in big doses. For usual feeding of goats, hens it is possible to do a mix of chestnuts with drobleny grain in the raw or to cook porridge, zaparivat boiled water.
In places where these trees grow are a cheap and useful forage.
(On magazine materials Priusadebnoye an economy).