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(8) By-products from the manufacture of sugar. 



In the preparation of sugar from beets two im- 

 portant foods, beet slices and molasses, are ob- 

 tained. 



The beet slices, or diffusion slices, as they are 

 sometimes called, are the material which is left 

 after the extraction of the sugar by soaking the 

 sliced beets in water. They contain only a small 

 amount of sugar, and can be fed either pressed or 

 unpressed in the fresh state, or else made into 

 sour fodder or dried. According to the recent 

 method of Steffen, the limited extraction of the 

 beets yields a product called sugar slices, which 

 in the wet state still contains 9% of sugar, and is 

 generally dried before being used as food. In the 

 drying of both sorts of slices furnace gases are 

 chiefly used, although during the past few years 

 steam has been introduced for the purpose. There 

 is no difference in the feeding value of the products 

 dried by either method, but the slices dried by 

 steam have a better appearance, and are in smaller 

 pieces. Further, they are never charred, and they 

 swell considerably in water. 



Beet slices, either fresh or made into sour fodder, 

 have given very good results with fattening bullocks 

 and dairy stock ; the quantities fed are 60-80 Ibs. 

 per 1000 Ibs. live weight for the former class of 



