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straw has given good results, and can be prepared 

 by the feeder himself, whilst molasses bread made 

 with bran, coarse flour, or feeding meal and mo- 

 lasses, and then baked, has also been successful. 

 The cheapest and most desirable way of using 

 molasses still remains to dilute it with hot water, 

 and mix it with the food before feeding. 



Unfortunately, the manufacture of molasses 

 feeds did not stop with those substances named, 

 but a whole host of the most varied waste products, 

 digestible and indigestible, mouldy or unsale- 

 able, have been employed as a basis. Thus there 

 reappear in these foods all those adulterants 

 which have been mentioned under brans and oil 

 cakes, and in addition such rubbish as leather, 

 which, although it raises the percentage of protein, 

 is quite indigestible. 



Peat is also a worthless substance which no 

 animal will touch unless it is sweetened with mo- 

 lasses, but when made into peat molasses it is 

 eaten just as other mixtures of rubbish and mo- 

 lasses are. The buyer of molasses feeds should 

 reject those preparations which are sold under a 

 proprietary name, or are known to contain worth- 

 less materials, and buy only those which have 

 some good food material as the basis. Indefinite 

 names ought to be a sufficient warning that if the 

 true description were given there would probably 

 be little chance of a sale being effected. 



