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more milk and butter was obtained than when 

 pumpkins were omitted. Sugar beets and sugar 

 beet pulp, especially the latter, have recently come 

 to occupy an extremely important place in the 

 dietary of the milch cow. This material has been 

 fed throughout the sugar beet belt and in many 

 instances the pulp has been shipped long distances 

 and has still been fed with profit. It is sold at all 

 sugar factories at from fifty cents to $2.50 per 

 ton and in many instances has proved to have a 

 feeding value considerably higher than its market 

 price. Sugar beet pulp may be fed in an almost 

 unlimited ration, for example from twenty to 

 one hundred pounds per day, but as a rule about 

 twenty-five or thirty pounds give the best results. 

 Sugar beets should be fed in smaller quantities, 

 about ten to twenty pounds per day. Recently 

 it has been found that dried beet pulp and dried 

 molasses beet pulp may be advantageously used 

 as food for milch cows in localities where the fresh 

 beet pulp cannot be easily obtained. As is well 

 known, sugar beet pulp undergoes injurious fer- 

 mentation easily, and therefore, especially in 

 summer, cannot be kept in good condition except- 

 ing for a short time. The use of dried pulp in 

 New Jersey has given excellent results. 



COARSE FODDERS 



Alfalfa. As may be gathered from the above 

 discussion, leguminous forage plants are the most 

 valuable of all coarse fodders for milk production. 

 At the head of the list in this respect stands alfalfa, 

 which is the chief leguminous crop throughout 

 the arid and semi-arid West and is rapidly coming 

 into more and more prominence in the eastern 



