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Alma, Mich., 1901. 

 Director C. D. Smith, Agricultural College, Michigan: 



Dear Sir — I have fed beet pulp two winters. In the first campaign I fed it to 22 

 head of cattle, some of them dairy cows. These cows, most of them, came in milk in late 

 January. We kept somewhat careful account of our butter sales, and I am justified in 

 reporting that our cows did as well through the months of February and March as they 

 did when on grass in June. With the pulp I fed cornstalks, and corn, but no hay. We 

 led about as much of the rough fodder as we would have fed without pulp, and added 

 the latter to the regular ration. 



I had fourteen yearlings, to which I gave pulp three times daily without grain, but 

 using cornstalks as a roughage. In March I added some corn for the grain ration. This 

 young stock did splendidly through the winter, and were turned off in June. 



Late in the spring I fed some pulp that was sour, but noticed that when the water 

 was well drained from it the cattle liked it, and it did not act badly upon their bowels. 



Again, in the second winter, 1 fed our milk cows cornstalks and pulp, with the very 

 best of results. Again the cows did as well in the winter as they did in the summer. I 

 fed four calves three bushels of pulp daily, and three bundles of cornstalks with no grain 

 and no hay. These calves were a year old in April, except one, which was a year old Ln 

 February. They grew right along so well that I sold the two steer calves in April for 

 forty dollars. They were all very sleek and fat. I believe that beet pulp saves one-third 

 of the coarse fodder, and keeps the stock in good growing condition or maintains the 

 milk flow from the cows. 



Yours respectfully, 



FRED CHURCH. 



Kalamazoo, Sept. 16, 1901. 

 Mr. C. D. Smith, Agricultural College, Michigan: 



Dear Sir — The first year our sugar beet factory operated, I commenced to feed pulp 

 as soon as I could get it, following it up the whole winter or as late in the spring as 

 the pulp continued to be good, using from the waste pile we accumulated at the factory, 

 cutting through the cap and frozen pulp which acted as a silo. We had most excellent 

 results, finding it equal to cut green corn and roots. Of course we fed simultaneously 

 bran and other milk making foods, with hay. We saved our ensilage that year until the 

 pulp got bad and to feed during the dry spell which we usually have in August. The 

 experiment was eminently satisfactory and I consider the pulp equal in every way to 

 the very best ensilage. Last winter, we fed again in the same manner, as soon as the 

 factory was in operation and did not store any away, expecting to continue feeding out 

 of the waste pile as we did the year before, but discovered that the spent lime had been 

 run into the waste pile and we were afraid to use the pulp and it was a very great dis- 

 appointment to us, so much so, that I have taken such steps as will keep the spent lime 

 from being run into the pulp this year. 



My recollection is that we commenced to feed one-half a bushel of pulp a day and 

 increased it gradually until my cows were eating one bushel a day, but at that point 

 they seemed to get tired of it and the effect on their bowels was bad, and we dropped 

 back to about a half a bushel a day and there we remained all winter. We fed the usual 

 amount of grain ration, about eight pounds of bran and gluten meal, but got an increased 

 flow of milk over our previous winter when we were feeding the same grain ration and 

 ensilage. 



1 thought from the results the beet pulp assisted to assimilate the food to an unusual 

 degree. My cows are Jerseys. 



Yours very truly, 



D. D. STREETER. 



Bay City, Mich., August 2, 1901. 

 C. D. Smith, Esq., Agricultural College, Michigan: 



Dear Sir — We used pulp as feed during the winter of 1900 and 1901, and consider it 

 good feed for young cattle, milch cows and sheep, and expect to winter one hundred head 

 of cattle on pulp this coming winter. 



The only disadvantage we find in using it in cold weather is in its freezing which makes 



