:michigax bket sugar 



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Beet pulp... 

 Corn silage. 

 Turnip 



Fat. 



1.36 



3.82 

 2.00 



Beet pulp is practically equivalent to corn silage, therefore, diluted 

 Avitli half its normal weight of water. The silage contains normally 

 iwenty-one parts of dry matter per hundred pounds of weight, while 

 the pulp contains scarcely over ten. In both cases the nutritive ratio is 

 about one to seven. 



FEEDING EXPERIENCES. 



For twelve years in Germany and northern France beet pulp has 

 been used as a factor in the feeding of cattle and sheep. As far as 

 practical results are concerned it may be said that in the vicinity of 

 The sugar factories practically all of the pulp is consumed, one-third 

 approximately being dried, and the other two-thirds fed either fresh 

 or siloed. The experiments of Dr. Maercker in 1S90 were conducted 

 with cattk-, milk cows and sheep. He was able to show a profit from 

 the feeding of the pulp, much larger when the pulp was dried than 

 when fed either fresh or fermented. The losses of fermentation are 

 great, amounting to nearly twenty-five per cent of the protein and thirty- 

 seven per cent of the nitrogen free extract. To Michigan farmers this 

 fact has little significance because at present nearly all of the pulp is 

 wasted. 



In this country the making of sugar from sugar beets had been con- 

 tinued many years in California before the factories were opened in 

 Michigan. In California, rough forage is relatively expensive, and the 

 pulp has been fed to cattle and sheep with good results. In Utah, near 

 Lehigh, in ISDT, a lot of cattle and sheep were put on pulp with hay. 

 The cattle ate about fifteen pounds of hay per day and a hundred pounds 

 of pulp, and the sheep two pounds of ha}^ per day and three to four 

 pounds of pulp. Careful weights were not taken, but the stock gained 

 rapidly, and topped the market when sold in Chicago. At Grand Island 

 and Norfolk in Nebraska a small per cent of the pulp is fed, which gives 

 good satisfaction. Here other feeds are relatively cheap, and the de- 

 mand for pulp is not intense. 



Mr. R. M. Allen, the well-known manager of the Stanard Cattle Com- 

 I)any's farms at Ames, Nebraska, fed. in the winter of IDOO-lOOl. thirty 

 thousand sheei) on beet pulj). His results are worthy of careful con- 

 sideration. He reports that the heaviest wether sold, averaged 135 

 pounds, and the heaviest lambs a hundred pounds. Some individual 

 sheep killed at Ames dressed up^^;u■ds of 50.8 per rent. The average 

 maximum daily feed was ten pounds of pulp, and Mr. Allen thinks that 

 this is too large for grown sheep, and that seven or eight pounds is 

 rather more tlian should be fed to lambs. He thinks that next vear 

 they will feed (Men less ]»ul]>. not exceeding ten pounds for mature 

 sheej), and seven pounds fur lambs. In the next table, taken from the 

 Breeders' Gazette of June 19, 1001. page 1140. is given the results of 

 the work at Ames. 



