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together with the supplementary feeds, if any is used, 

 will finish one steer for the market. About forty-one 

 pounds of beef is produced from a ton of pulp under 

 average conditions. The daily amount fed is about 6 to 

 10 per cent of the weight of the animal. Figure 27 shows a 

 method of transporting sugar-beet pulp. Other methods 

 are illustrated in Plate XIX. 



For wintering steers, the amount of pulp fed is often 

 greater and the roughage may be straw instead of hay. 

 Cattle will come out of the winter in fair condition on 

 pulp and oat straw ; but they are not so thrifty and do not 

 make the growth they should without a little nitrogenous 

 food such as alfalfa hay or grain. Dried pulp is gen- 

 erally considered too expensive to feed to steers, although 

 at some periods it has been found to be about equal to corn- 

 meal for fattening them and is somewhat cheaper.^ At 

 Michigan it was ascertained that dried pulp tended to 

 produce growth rather than fat; hence, it is recom- 

 mended that it be fed during the early part of the feed- 

 ing period and dropped from the ration later. From three 

 to five pounds of the dried pulp a day is a common amount, 

 although some feeders allow as much as ten to fifteen 

 pounds to the animal. 



Used in moderate quantities, pulp is desirable for dairy 

 cattle. INIilch cows need considerable nourishing feed, 

 but they will not eat enough to brmg best results when 

 they receive only dry feed. The stimulating effect of a 

 succulent feed such as corn silage is well recognized. Tlie 

 dry matter in wet beet pulp is equal to that in corn silage 



1 Shaw, R. S., and Norton, H. W., Jr., Mich. Exp. Sta., Buls. 

 No8. 220 and 247. 



