368 Annual Report for 1911 of the Considting Chemist. 



The following analyses give llie comparative results of 

 samples of sugar-beets and sugar mangolds grown in Bedford- 

 shire in 1911 : — 



100-00 100-00 



The sugar-mangolds, it will be seen, contained a very high 

 percentage of water and a low amount of sugar. Ordinary 

 feeding mangolds have, as a rule, less water than this, and 

 from 6 to 7 per cent, of sugar. 



11. Acorns. 



The season of 1911 was one marked by a very plentiful 

 supply of acorns, and attention was naturally turned to the 

 utilisation of this material as food for stock, especially in view 

 of the short supply of green-stuff on the farm and the high 

 price of purchased foods. 



It has been pretty clearly established that acorns, if given 

 in moderation, will form a useful food. The danger attached 

 to their use arises mainly from the too free feeding with them, 

 and from the inclusion of acorns that have not fully ripened 

 and have been blown down in storms. 



Pigs, sheep, and deer would appear to eat acorns with 

 comparative impunitj', but for cattle their use is undoul)tedly 

 accompanied with risk, and acorns must be given to such in 

 moderate quantities only. 



Acorns have been collected in large quantities, ground into 

 meal, dried, and used in conjunction with other foods. The 

 following is an analysis of Buch a sample of dried acorn 

 meal : — 



Containing nitrogen . . . . . . 1"17 



12. Bastol. 

 "Within recent times there has been put on the market a 

 material known as " Bastol," and composed of treated wood 

 fibre mixed with molasses. In addition to the above, sold as 



