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STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



think that the percentage improved after that. Some individual sheep killed at Anns 

 dressed upwards of 56.8 per cent. 



"'We have not, even to the largest sheep, fed to exceed eleven pounds of pulp per head 

 a day at any time, and our maximum average feed was ten pounds a day. We are 

 inclined to think that this is too large a feed of pulp to grown sheep, and that seven 

 or eight pounds is rather more than should be fed to lambs. At first the effect of a 

 heavy pulp feed is not perceptible, but after a while it is extremely diuretic in its effect, 

 and we thought produced a malady from which a number of sheep died. We regarded 

 seven pounds of pulp per day to lambs and ten pounds to sheep a maximum beyond 

 which it is not safe to go, and concluded that it would be better to feed rather less pulp 

 another year. Here are the figures: 



Numbers and weight of sheep sold. 



Wethers. 



Ewes 



Lambs... 



Totals 



Number. 



17,903 

 3,646 

 8,528 



30,077 



Weight. 

 Lbs. 



2,046,546 

 387,350 

 698,194 



3,132,090. 



Weight 

 of wool. 



Lbs. 



54,741 



574 



39,662 



94,977 



Total. 

 Lbs. 



2,101,287 



387,924 

 737,856 



3,227,^7 



Average weights received and sold and gain. 



Wethers 



Ewes 



Lambs 



All sheep 



Weight 

 received. 



Lbs. 



94 

 85 

 58 



82 



Weight 

 when sold. 



Lbs. 



117 

 106 

 86.5 



107 



Gain. 

 Lbs. 



23 

 21 



2S.5 



25 



"The wethers were fed 150 days, the lambs were on feed 158 days, the ewes were on 

 feed 126 days, so the average feeding period of all the sheep was 147 days. 



"Number of sheep received, 31,048; number shipped, 30,077; sold at Ames, 35; on 

 hand, 44; died, 892; total, 31,048. Per cent of deaths was 2.87. Total grain fed was 

 4,775,084 pounds; hay fed, 7,871,000 pounds; grain per head, 155 pounds; hay per head. 

 255.5 pounds. The total pulp fed was 11,971 tons. Average grain per head per day was 

 1.054 pounds; average hay per head per day, 1.73 pounds; average cost per head was 

 $1.7728; cost per pound of gain, 7.9 cents." 



At the Cornell Experiment Station an experiment was conducted with two lots of 

 milch cows to study the value of beet pulp, in 1898, and repeated in 1899. The conclu- 

 sions from the experiments are thus stated by the authors of the bulletin, Prof. H. H. 

 Wing and Leroy Anderson : 



"CONCLUSIONS. 



"The cows, as a rule, ate beet pulp readily and consumed from 50 to 100 pounds per 

 day, according to size, in addition to the usual feed of eight pounds of grain and six 

 to twelve pounds of hay. 



"The dry matter in beet pulp proved to be of equal value, pound for pound, with the 

 dry matter in com silage. 



"The milk producing value of beet pulp as it comes from the beet sugar factory is 

 abcut one-half that of corn silage. 



"Beet pulp is especially valuable as a succulent food, and where no other such food 

 is obtainable it may prove of greater comparative value than is given above." 



