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<pre>Hi Peter,

As I mentioned once some time back, fuel, fertilizer and animal feed are
also the ways Turks deal with the residue. I think that's common in all
the Mid-East and Near-East countries. And as for nutrition, I'm told
there is little nutrition but it's filling. You probably know, there're
occasionly additives to cattle feed that are not nutritious - some folks
have even been know to use sawdust .. :-( Y'all keep smiling, Butch

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> Concerning the use of pomace as fertilizer and animal feed:
>
> During my ethnographic work in northern Jordan and Palestine/Israel, many
> of my contacts mentioned that solid pressing wastes were used for both
> applications.
>
> For animal feed, an experimental agricultural station near Irbid, Jordan,
> was exploring the use of olive pressing wastes as an animal (primarily
> sheep) feed additive. The pomace is mixed with grain and other feed
> mixtures. A number of contacts told me that the pomace by itself is not
> good for the animals. Several farmers mentioned that when they put the
> pomace in the orchards as fertilizer, the sheep would eat a little of it
> as they grazed.

> Peter Warnock
>
> Peter Warnock
> Dept. of Anthropology
> Swallow Hall
> University of Missouri
> Columbia, MO 65211
> (573) 443-4203
> (573) 884-5450 (fax)
> c581927@showme.missouri.edu
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