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660.- CATTLE FEEDING AS A SUGAR FACTORY 



ADJUNCT. 



G 

 HE common belief in the western states of the Union is thai 



the distillation of spirits from corn cannot !)'■ carried on 

 profitably without the utilization of the by-products of the 



distilleries in cattle and hog feeding. 'This conclusion of 

 the owners of distilleries has been commonly accepted for more than 

 half a century and within another half a century we believe thai 

 throughout the world, wherever sugar is made from cane or beets, 

 that in a like manner stock feeding with the by-products oi the sugar 

 industry will be considered an essential accessory of the industry. 



The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, in its issue of 

 September 2, has gone into an elaborate consideration of the whole 

 subject matter of the relation of the sugar beet to stock feeding and 

 examined into the methods in this country and in Europe and finds 

 that the value of beet pulp as stock feed is really one of the leading 

 foundations of the present beet sugar industry in Europe and is 

 rapidly becoming so in America. New South Wales produces more 

 or less sugar from cane, but has been experimenting in the production 

 of the sugar beet because of its somewhat rigorous climate, which fre- 

 quently injures sugar cane and from such climatic injury the sugar 

 beet would be comparatively exempt. Vast areas of land suitable to 

 beet culture can readily be had in Australia and as it is a great stock 

 growing country anyway, the leading agriculturists are looking to 

 the combination of these two industries as probably working out in 

 that distant land a quiet, but momentous industrial revolution. 



We, here in Louisiana, with our great natural resources, have 

 been wasteful of many of them, concentrating our attention only on 

 the central products and letting by-products go their way, by aban- 

 donment, by gift or for sale at some slight price. Within a quarter 

 of a century rice bran in some of our country mills Avas an unsaleable 

 product and had to be given away in order to get it out of the mills. 

 The common belief was that it was practically worthless as stock food 

 and only after the organization of our own sugar experiment station 

 and the careful analysis of rice bran by Dr. Stubbs and his able assist- 

 ants and the determination of its great value as a feed stuff, did it 

 begin to acquire that high status that it has since maintained and 

 which is now recognized in this country and abroad, creating a demand 

 for it greater than the supply. 



It is about forty-five years ago that the elder Maginnis began the 

 extraction of oil from cotton seed in New Orleans. At about the same 

 time the Union Oil Company, of Providence, R. I., experimented on 

 some cotton seed sent to them. This was the beginning of the great 

 cotton seed oil industry, which has given a value of from one-half to 

 three-fourths of a cent per pound to the cotton seed of the United 

 States, and the quantity of such seed in weight is 2 1-3 times greater 

 than the weight of the cotton crop. 



In like maimer, the value of molasses as a food stuff has only 

 come to our full knowledge recently. Twenty -two years ago the editor 



