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spring. Mr. Cliiircli bello\os thai beet pulp saves one-third of the 

 coarse fodder, while maintaining the stock in good condition and keep- 

 ing the dairy cows in full fiow. 



Mr. Byron Xevins, of Alma, lias carried twenty-five sheop through 

 the winter on fcRir bundles of fodder daily with twu bushels of pulp, and 

 had them do well. The lambs were strong and healthy. To his cows 

 he gave cornstalks, hay and grain as usual, and added daily a bushel 

 and a half of beet pulp each. He is sure that the pulp saved one-half of 

 the coarse fodder, and kept up the tlow of milk, 



Mr. P. C. Smith, of Bay Cit^-, has wintered young stock and fed dairy 

 cows on pulp. He is certain that the pulp not only saves rough fod- 

 der, but maintains the milk floAv, and keeps the young cattle in better 

 condition than they could be maintained without succulent food. 



The pulp at the Alma factory has been entirely consumed. At Bay 

 City but a very small proportion of the total output has been taken 

 away. At Rochester possibly a third of the pulp has been fed. At 

 the other factories the amount carried away is a very small proportion 

 of the total product. 



TESrS AT EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



At the Cornell University Experiment Station in X'ew York tests 

 were made with the feeding value of pulp in the winters of 18U8-09, and 

 1899-1900, 



In the first experiment the plan was to feed the beet pulp in alternat- 

 ing periods with corn silage, feeding the same amount of pulp daily as 

 of silage. Five cows were used in the experiment. 



In the second experiment the cows were fed all the beet pulp they 

 would readily consume, while the amount of hay offered them was the 

 same with beet pulp as with corn silage. The cows consumed from 

 seventy-five to ninety-five pounds per day of the pulp. They .were fed 

 eight pounds per day each of a grain mixture composed of two parts of 

 gluten feed, one part sugar corn feed, and one part of wheat bran. 

 The usual records were kept of milk and fat. 



A survey of the records show that the cows did quite as well on the 

 beet pulp as they did on the silage. They consumed about equal 

 amounts of dry matter per thousand pounds of live weight, and re- 

 quired nearly the same quantity of dry matter for a hundred pounds- 

 of milk and a pound of fat whether the food was silage or pulp. The 

 conclusions drawn from the experiment by the authors are as follows: 



*'The cows, as a rule, ate beet pulp readily and consumed from fifty to 

 one hundred 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 per 

 pound, with the dry matter in corn silage. 



"The milk producing value of beet pulp as it comes from the b^et 

 sugar factory is about 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." 



In the winter of 1898 an experiment was undertaken at the Michigan 

 Station with milk cows to test the value of beet pulp in comparison 



