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scs feeding is not considered substantial, and this sub- 

 stance is said to be deleterious to breeding animals, lead- 

 ing to sterility, especially with males." 



Miss Mary Best of Barber county, Kansas, who has had 

 considerable experience in the manufacture of sorghum 

 molasses and in swine raising, reports the satisfactory 

 feeding of sorghum molasses to hogs. She says (Eleventh 

 Biennial Report of the Kansas State Board of Agricul- 

 ture, p. 275) : "We have had on hand a good many bar- 

 rels of sorghum molasses, and have fed it to the hogs, a 

 few gallons at a time, all winter. They like it im- 

 mensely." 



For other live stock mixtures of molasses with dried 

 brewers' and distillers' grains, malt sprouts, hulls and 

 other grain offal, ground cornstalks, waste from flour- 

 ing mills, and like material have found more or less 

 favor, and it is not improbable that they may in future 

 be adapted for a wider use with swine, profitably utiliz- 

 mg in this way much by-product not popular before. In 

 all of these preparations, as with packers' residues, a high 

 degree of heat is used in drying, to prevent fermentation 

 likely to occur in warm weather. The proportion of 

 molasses used is generally about lo per cent. 



DREAMERS' AXD DISTILLERS' GRAINS 



Around a brewery or distillery the by-products known 

 as brewers' or distillers' grains or slop are available, and 

 sometimes in a limited way are fed to hogs, but not 

 ordinarily with much satisfaction. 



Professor Henry says : "^^'et, fresh brewers' grains 

 are useful mainly as a feed for milch cows, and in this 



