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steers the 30th of each mouth. They mode an average gain of seventy pounds a month 

 until the pulp was all gone, which was the last of February. The next month we 

 increased the meal a quarter, and they only gained 49 pounds on the average. 



Last winter I fed it all winter, and up to May. I fed 20 cows and 10 steers, feeding 

 all the pulp they would eat, with meal. My steers did well, but I did not weigh them to 

 see how much they gained. I did not grain very heavy, one basket of broken corn going 

 to 10 head twice a day. I believe the pulp to be splendid for cows, as it keeps them in 

 a thriving condition. When I started to feed it in November I was milking twelve cowb 

 and the third day they had gained 76 pounds in their milk. I fed nearly or quite 260 

 tons last winter, and never had my cattle do as well. 



Yours truly, 



W. R. SOUTHWORTH. 



Alma, Mich., August 6, 1901. 

 Mr. C. D. Smith: 



Dear Sir — Yours at hand. In regard to pulp I feed from one to two bushels to a cow 

 at a feed, with no grain. I get a good flow of milk. I think it is all right. In com- 

 mencing to feed it it is sometimes necessary to mix it with bran, as some cows do not 

 take to it readily. 



Yours respectfully, 



P. N. GRANGER. 



Director C. D. Smith: 



Dear Sir — To forty- five steers which I was carrying through the winter last winter I 

 fed three cubic yards daily of beet pulp. The steers were fed during December, January 

 and February. They were fed fodder corn, stalks and all, that would go about thirty- 

 five bushels of ears to the acre. While no weights were taken, the steers showed by 

 their general appearance that they were growing rapidly and doing finely. I noted in 

 the spring, however, that when the pulp was removed the steers did not look as well as 

 they had been doing, nor did they do as well on the grass as if confined to dry fodder 

 during the winter. 



Our cows certainly gave at least three to five quarts of milk daily more when fed pulp 

 than they did when we could not get it. Moreover, they did not consume anywhere nearly 

 as much other coarse fodder. 



To one hundred ewes I gave nothing but pulp through November and December, while 

 the ewes were running on a meadow. After the holidays I fed drilled corn, but I am 

 sure they did as well on the pulp alone as they did on the corn. I have a hundred and 

 thirty lambs from the hundred ewes. The lambs are strong and vigorous, and are 

 growing finely. 



Yours truly, 



THOMAS FITZGERALD. 



EXPERIMENTS ELSEWHERE. 



In the Breeders' Gazette, Chicago, Ills., issue of June 19, 1901, there is given a report 

 of an experiment carried on by R. M. Allen, of the Standard Cattle Company, Ames, 

 Neb., with beet pulp as a food for fattening sheep. The experiment was on so large a 

 scale and was carried on with so much care that the essential facts are here given to 

 show what, has been done with pulp by the practical feeder in Nebraska. The report is 

 taken from the journal mentioned, pages 1139 and 1140. 



Mr. Allen writes: "The past winter, we fed on pulp 30,000 sheep, which were fed 

 regularly from the beginning to the end. This is the only thorough experiment we have 

 made in pulp feeding, and I send you herewith some figures showing actual results. 

 These are figures of averages and include all classes of sheep. The heaviest wethers sold 

 averaged 135 pounds, the heaviest lambs 100 pounds, at market. Some of the sheep sold 

 on the Omaha market killed out 52 per cent of dressed mutton, and I am inclined to 



