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beets with most of the sugar removed. No pre- 

 cautions are necessary in feeding it, provided 

 it is clean when received. In Wyoming it has 

 been fed in rations of fourteen pounds with al- 

 falfa hay, while in France rations of sugar beet 

 pulp as high as one hundred and twenty-six 

 pounds daily have been used. Reports thus far 

 received from farmers and feeders are quite fa- 

 vorable to an extensive use of sugar beet pulp and, 

 as already indicated, it is becoming a more and 

 more important feed. The Colorado Experi- 

 ment Station advises absolute cleanliness in han- 

 dling and feeding it, and calls attention to the fact 

 that it may readily freeze in winter and, therefore, 

 become uneatable. Apparently, cattle prefer a 

 well-cured sugar beet pulp from the silo, and 

 where the conveniences are not to be found for 

 keeping it in a suitable condition it may be well 

 to ensile it in a fresh condition from the factories. 

 It has been found in feeding experiments that 

 when alfalfa hay is worth $5 per ton, sugar 

 beet pulp is worth $1.50 per ton for feeding pur- 

 poses. It requires nine pounds of sugar beet 

 pulp to equal one pound of corn or two and one- 

 half pounds of alfalfa hay for steers. In Cali- 

 fornia a number of steers fed on sugar beet pulp 

 and alfalfa hay returned a considerably larger 

 profit than when corn, barley, and oats were 

 added to this basal ration. It may be estimated 

 that one ton of pulp is equal to four hundred and 

 twenty-one pounds of corn stover or two hundred 

 and forty-seven pounds of mixed hay or sixty- 

 nine pounds of mixed grain for fattening steers. 

 In another set of tests undertaken in Michigan 

 the feeding value of sugar beet pulp was some- 

 what higher. In Utah steers made a pound of gain 



