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Best of all though are the cattle, especially when they are fed on those oilcakes.
Ulysses 2003
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Let us see the amount of protein that is supplied by 1 kg of alfalfa meal and different oilcakes.
Chapter 6 1995
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Soybean meal, cottonseed meal, groundnut meal, coconut meal and palmkernel meal are some examples of oilcakes.
Chapter 4 1995
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Therefore you can include cassava leaf meal instead of some oilcakes in chicken rations.
Chapter 6 1995
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Handbooks on animal husbandry will provide detailed information on how a proper animal feed can be prepared with oilcakes as ingredients.
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High protein containing oilcakes are much too rich to be fed directly to animals.
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In Table 7, some examples are given of the composition of locally produced oilcakes of important oil seeds.
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Recent Agricultural Returns show the total imports of oilcakes at 256,296 tons; that of linseed at 370,000 tons; that of rape-seed at 80,000 tons; and that of cotton-seed at 289,413 tons.
Manures and the principles of manuring Charles Morton Aikman
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There still remains a very important source of nitrogen which has not yet been mentioned, in the shape of oil-seeds and oilcakes, used for feeding purposes.
Manures and the principles of manuring Charles Morton Aikman
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Best of all though are the cattle, especially when they are fed on those oilcakes.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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