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handling, but is most available for consumption near the 

 factories. It may be preserved in pits or silos. 



Dried beet pulp is now on the market. Its protein- 

 content is low, and the carbohydrate-content high. The 

 rate of digestibility is fairly high. Cattle-feeders should 

 bear in mind that the use of this material only intensifies 

 the already high carbohydrate-content of the home-raised 

 feeds. 



The molasses is generally four-fifths or more dry 

 substance and contains from 40 to 50 per cent of sugar, 

 which is all digestible and which gives to this product 

 its only value for feeding purposes. 



This material has been fed successfully to bovines 

 and swine. When given as an addition to coarse foods 

 and home-raised grains it obviously should be combined 

 with some nitrogenous feeding-stuff like gluten meal 

 or the oil meals. 



347. The oil meals in general. Materials of this class 

 may properly be regarded as among the standard feed- 

 ing-stuffs. Because of their uniformity in quality and 

 composition, their general usefulness in compounding 

 rations and their value in maintaining soil fertility, 

 their use has had the sanction of scientific men and of 

 successful practice. The oil meals are so called because 

 they are the residues left after the extraction of the oil 

 from certain seeds and nuts, among which are cotton- 

 seed, flaxseed, hemp and poppy seed, rape seed, sesame 

 seed, sunflower seed, coconuts, palm nuts, peanuts, and 

 walnuts. Of the residues from these sources, those from 

 cottonseed and flaxseed are most common in the United 

 States; in fact, no other oil meals have become greatly 

 important in our cattle-feeding. A description, therefore, 

 of the production of cottonseed meal and linseed meal 



