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cows gives silage slightly more than twice the feeding value pound 

 for pound that is shown for beet pulp. In other words, if silage be 

 worth two dollars per ton, which is an average price, then beet pulp 

 would be wortli about one dollar per ton. 



If one desired to feed Ijeet pulp during a whole season or during 

 several months and were obliged to get it all at one time, some 

 means of storage must be provided. Where not in contact with the 

 atmosphere the pulp keeps well. But portions which are exposed 

 for some time, as the top of the pile, decay to the depth of four or 

 live inches. It would be best then to furnish air-tight storage as a 

 silo, and to take the daily feeds from the top in the same way as is 

 done with silage. The storage place should also be built so as to 

 prevent freezing in the winter season. 



It is probable, however, that most of the beet pulp will be fed out 

 in the neighborhood of the beet sugar factories, either by dairymen 

 who haul it in their own w^agons or by those who may conveniently 

 secure it in car lots, since the cost of long hauls by rail will not be 

 compensated by returns from feeding. Accordingly, the problem 

 of storas-e mav not be so difficult of solution. 



Since the beet sugar factories are in operation from about the 

 first of October to January the pulp may be obtained fresh at a 

 season of the year when pasturage is very short and green food 

 scarce. It is therefore of considerable value in keeping up the flow 

 of milk which is apt to decline rapidly in sunnner dairies, and in 

 winter dairies it helps to start the cows on a full flow of milk. The 

 dairyman may therefore save his silage for winter and spring feed- 

 ing, by feeding beet pulp until winter sets in, and be assured that 

 his cows will do quite as well as though the silo were opened earlier. 

 Some hay or other coarse, dry fodder should be fed with beet pulp. 



The effect of feeding beet pulp on the per cent of fat in the milk 

 may be seen from the records not to be of definite importance. 

 With some cows the milk was richer when they were fed silage 

 than when fed beet pulp. With other cows there was no differ- 

 ence whether the feed was pulp or silage. Thus there seems to 

 be no definite relation between the quality of milk and the food. 

 There was no noticeable foreign odor or flavor in the milk from 

 cows eating beet pulp. 



