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develop strong vital organs and good bone when 

 receiving milk in the ration. Young colts may be 

 profitably fed from five to ten pounds of separator 

 milk. 



Molasses has long been fed to horses, cattle and 

 other domestic animals and recently quite an 

 unusual interest has developed in the use of this 

 material. Apparently molasses hastens the pas- 

 sage of the food through the alimentary canal to 

 some extent. The feeding value and the place in 

 the horse ration is essentially the same in the case 

 of molasses, sugar, syrup and various mixed feeds 

 which contain molasses as a constituent. Sugar 

 does not appear to affect the digestibility of the 

 other parts of the ration. Molasses may be fed 

 in small quantities to replace a portion of the grain 

 or in larger quantities depending on the market 

 value of the different feeds and the convenience 

 with which molasses can be obtained. In some 

 instances one or two pounds of molasses is fed per 

 day, while in other cases the amount is much 

 greater, even up to thirty pounds. It has been 

 found that horses will keep in good condition with 

 a large amount of work when receiving seven 

 pounds of corn and nine pounds of a mixture of 

 straw and molasses in equal parts dried at a tem- 

 perature of 110 F. Molasses has the advantage 

 of rendering inferior hay more palatable and thus 

 increases the amount of available food material 

 on the farm. In some instances it has been rec- 

 ommended as useful in colds and in all cases 

 is effective in making horses fat at comparatively 

 small expense. Throughout the southern states, 

 molasses is widely used on the* plantations for 

 feeding horses and mules, the rations varying 

 from two to twenty-eight pounds per day. Molasses 



