BEET-PULP FOR FEEDING. 399 



but one-fourth of the price of the press-cake from the first 

 described mode of securing the juice from the pulp. In case 

 of well-pressed refuse beet-root pulp (containing twenty-five 

 per cent of dry matter), the following mode of feeding to 

 stock is customary : — 



For Fattening Cattle and for Milch Cows. 



Pounds. 



Beet-pulp 100 



Hay 50 



Chopped straw ........ 100 



Bran or oil -cake 20 



For Horses. 



Pounds. 



Beet-pulp 100 



Hay 50 



Oats 50 



Bran 20 



For Sheep. 



Pounds. 



Beet-pulp 100 



Hay 50 



Bran 20 



Twenty tons of beet-roots furnish four tons of well pressed 

 refuse pulp, which, at five dollars per ton, amounts to twenty 

 dollars per acre of sugar-beets. One hundred pounds of 

 common press-cakes contain twenty-five per cent of dry 

 substance ; and, as the dry substance of any article of 

 vegetable food is known to furnish one and three-fourth 

 times its weight in common stable-manure, thirty-five hun- 

 dred pounds of manure will be obtained from one acre of 

 sugar-beets. 



The fodder value of press-cakes resulting from the opera- 

 tion with the hydraulic press without subsequent maceration 

 is equal to the same weight of sugar-beet roots. They are 

 even preferred to the latter, since they become more digesti- 

 ble, and acquire, after being buried in pits, in consequence 

 of slow fermentation, a slightly acidulated taste. Cattle 

 then eat them greedily, and thrive upon them, particularly 

 in case they are fed in connection with a proper quantity of 

 oil-cake, bran, hay, or barley-straw, &c, to replace the po- 



