224 Feeds and Feeding. 



ing the farm in high fertility, assuring large crops from the beet 

 fields and ample forage from other lands, used in rotation, for the 

 maintenance of live stock. A farming community which will 

 intelligently grow beets and utilize the pulp resulting from them 

 in the feeding of cattle will be able to grow as large crops, in addi- 

 tion to the beets, as were produced before adding that industry, 

 and to maintain many more cattle than was possible before beet 

 farming was inaugurated. This statement is warranted by the 

 conditions prevailing in the beet districts of Europe. Beet culture 

 means more cattle and larger crops generally, rather than less, 

 provided always that the pulp from the beets is properly utilized. 



344. Molasses from the beet factory. Beet molasses, the residue 

 in the manufacture of sugar, is a bitter substance having purging 

 properties. In Europe much of this material has heretofore been 

 wasted, but through continued study by the investigators more 

 and more of it is being utilized. It has been found that a stock 

 food can be prepared by combining beet molasses and dried peat 

 from bogs. The acid in the peat is said to neutralize the alkali 

 of the molasses. 



In Sweden, Insulander 1 fed as much as 3.3 pounds of molasses 

 daily to dairy cows by diluting with twice its weight of water 

 and pouring it over the feed. Work -horses were fed 2.2 pounds 

 daily, and pigs were successfully fed molasses with skim milk. 



Clausen and Friderichsen 2 have shown that beet molasses con- 

 taining fifty per cent, of sugar, when mixed with fresh blood, may 

 stand exposed to the air for a long time without putrefaction. 

 By adding this mixture of molasses and blood to corn meal or 

 other cereal products and drying, a very nutritious compound is 

 obtained which is palatable with all kinds of farm stock. 



345. Quantities of molasses to be fed. According to Hollrung 3 

 the following quantities of beet molasses may be fed with good 

 results to farm animals, daily, per thousand pounds live weight: 

 Draft oxen, 4.4 pounds; fattening steers, 8.8 pounds; milch cows, 

 2.75 pounds; fattening sheep, 5.5 pounds and ewes .3 pounds. 



1 Expt. Sta. Rec.. Vol. 7. 



2 A New Rational Method for the Utilization of Blood Copenhagen, 

 1896. 



3 Jahresb. Agr. Chem., 1895, p. 446. 



