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my live stock. My cows have increased their flow of milk one-third 

 through feeding the wet pulp. Young live stock will get fat on it." 



No. 2. — " I am very much satisfied with wet beet pulp as a cattle food. 

 My cows gave an increase in the flow of milk when fed with the pulp. To 

 the best of my knowledge I think it is worth about £^\ per ton." 



No. 3. — •' Sugar-beet pulp is another good feed for milch cows. I am 

 sorry that I cannot get another carload at the present time. With the pre- 

 sent prices of feed, I think sugar-beet pulp is worth about sixteen shillings 

 per ton. It made a difference of from fifty to sixty pounds of milk in 

 one day when I quit feeding it. I earnestly recommend the feeding of 

 beet pulp to dairy cows." 



Some Experiences with Beet Pulp in the Maffra District. 



" I am feeding my cows solely on beet pulp. I cart it out in the 

 paddock, and distribute it in small heaps on the grass, allowing about 

 a heap of 80 lbs. per day to each cow, and find they waste very little. I 

 am milking 65 cows, and since I have been using pulp the milk supply has 

 increased from 113 gallons to 140 gallons a day, or slightly under half 

 a gallon pier cow. I consider beet pulp is equal to green oats for winter 

 feeding — in fact I proved it so when the factory was working last May, 

 and I have also proved it to be as good as millet for this time of the year 

 (Summer), and consider these two crops to be the best milking fodder in 

 their respective seasons. I have never used lucerne or bran to any extent 

 and therefore cannot compare them, but I consider it far ahead of green 

 maize. I think that pulp would give even better results by the use of oaten 

 hay or chaff with it." W. J. Dwyer, Maffra. 



" Re the value of beet pulp as fodder for milch cows, I have been 

 feeding mv cows on the pulp alone, and the quantity of milk has increased 

 about half a gallon per day for each cow. I think beet pulp is equally 

 as good as any other fodder grown. "^ A. A. Martin, Maffra. 



" I have been feeding beet pulp to my rows, the pulp being fed alone, 

 being placed in the paddock in small heaps. It has resulted in an 

 Increase in the daily milk yield equal to about half a gallon per cow. In 

 my opinion there is no better fodder, and at the present price is cheapei 

 than chafT or bran, and cows will yield more milk on the pulp." /. 

 Robertson, Maffra. 



"I have been feeding my cows on pulp from the factory, and am 

 desirous of informing you that it is an excellent food for producing milk. 

 Since I have been using the pulp my cows have just given one-third more 

 milk than before I used it. I am feeding my cows on pulp alone, twice 

 a day, and I consider cows fed on pulp will produce more milk than those 

 fed on lucerne or green oats. My cows eat the pulp greedilv and will lick 

 it off the ground, and I can safely say that any one who can get pulp 

 need never worry about growing anything else. I have poddy calves 

 fed on beet pulp, and they are all vealers and could be sent to market 

 I would thoroughlv recommend it to anybody with cows."' Jo Jin A. 

 Mitclielmore, Maffra. 



KiLMANY Park Estate. 



This property abuts on the main Gippsland Railway line, about 120 

 miles from Melbourne and 6 miles fiom Sale, and the Nambrok and Ful- 

 ham railway stations are practically on the estate. The whole of the blocks 

 lie between the railway line on the north and the Latrobe River on the 

 south, the latter being one of the finest rivers in Gippsland. 



The soil ranges from light grazing and cultivation land on the north- 

 east, thence slopes southwards and westwards to mixed farming and 



