558 FEEDS AND FEEDING 



the Texas Station 24 by Jones, Brewer, and Dickson, lambs fed ground 

 threshed milo, with alfalfa hay and a small allowance of cottonseed 

 meal, made just as large and economical gains as others fed ground corn. 

 To equal 100 Ibs. of ground corn in feeding value, there were required 

 103 Ibs. of ground threshed kafir, or 107 Ibs. of ground threshed feterita. 

 Often grain sorghum is fed in the head, either ground or unground. 

 In these trials it required 107 Ibs. of ground milo heads or 116 Ibs. of 

 ground feterita heads to equal 100 Ibs. ground corn in value. In 3 

 trials at the Kansas Station, 25 in which whole kafir was compared with 

 shelled corn, the lambs fed kafir made satisfactory gains, tho slightly 

 smaller ones than lambs fed corn. 



854. Miscellaneous carbonaceous concentrates. Dried beet pulp pro- 

 duced as large and as economical gains as corn in a trial by Shaw at the 

 Michigan Station 26 in which mixtures of either 4 parts dried beet 

 pulp or 4 of corn, together with 2 parts wheat bran and 1 part linseed 

 meal, were fed with clover hay to western lambs. Humphrey and Klein- 

 heinz of the Wisconsin Station 27 found dried beet pulp equal to corn 

 for producing growth in ewe lambs when oats were fed with both. (276) 



Molasses-beet pulp showed no marked superiority over ordinary dried 

 beet pulp in a trial by Shaw when 3 parts of either was fed with 1 

 part of linseed meal, clover hay forming the roughage. Maynard at 

 the Colorado Station 28 found molasses-beet pulp about equal to shelled 

 corn when used as a partial substitute for this grain, in a ration of corn 

 and alfalfa hay. (278) 



Beet molasses is often fed to sheep and lambs in the vicinity of beet 

 sugar factories in the West. (277) To avoid " smearing " the wool, the 

 molasses is preferably mixed thoroly with cut hay or straw. In some 

 cases no other concentrate is fed, and in others wet beet pulp and a 

 little cottonseed cake are added to the ration, or grain is fed in addi- 

 tion to the beet molasses. Maynard found beet molasses to be worth 

 slightly more than corn, pound for pound, when fed to fattening lambs 

 at the rate of 0.3 Ib. per head daily, along with corn and alfalfa hay, 

 while in a trial by Hackedorn of the Washington Station 28a it was worth 

 slightly less per ton than grain. 



Cane molasses was found in a trial by Skinner and King at the Indiana 

 Station 29 to be worth no more than an equal weight of shelled corn, when 

 0.15 Ib. per head daily was fed as an "appetizer" along with shelled 

 corn, clover hay, and corn silage, with enough cottonseed meal to bal- 

 ance the ration. Where a small amount of molasses is used to get lambs 

 to clean up rather inferior hay or other dry roughage better than they 

 otherwise would, it would doubtless have a higher value than corn per 

 pound. (280) 



2 *Tex. Bui. 269; Am. Soc. Anim. Production, Proceedings 1921, pp. 16-21. 



^Breeder's Gazette, 51, 1907, p. 960; information to the authors. 



^Mich. Bui. 220. ^Information to the authors. 



27 Wis. Rpt. 1906. ^Ind. Bui. 192. 



'"Colo. Bui. 266. 



