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ses, either of them being about equal to hominy meal. 

 Comparing three pounds of molasses beet pulp with two 

 pounds of wheat bran, it was found that the pulp pro- 

 duced 12 per cent more milk than the bran.^ In other 

 experiments ^ these two feeds were determined to be about 

 equal. Molasses pulp is usually considered to be more 

 laxative than the pulp without the molasses. 



In addition to cattle, thousands of sheep are fattened 

 on siloed beet pulp and alfalfa hay near the sugar fac- 

 tories of the West. Pulp has proved to be an excellent 

 feed both for fattening and breeding animals. The meat 

 is of excellent quality and much sought for in the larger 

 markets. As in the case of steers, it is advisable grad- 

 ually to increase the pulp ration until the finishing-off 

 period, when the pulp is substituted by a less bulky feed. 

 The addition of four-tenths of a pound of grain a day to 

 a full pulp and alfalfa-hay ration was found to reduce 

 the amount of pulp and hay, respectively, by about five 

 and about two times the weight of the grain. It was not 

 considered advisable to feed more than four-tenths of a 

 pound of grain to sheep on pulp and alfalfa, and whether 

 it should be fed at all or not depends on the prices of the 

 feed.' Colorado experiments ^ show that a ton of wet 

 pulp has about the same feeding value as 200 pounds of 

 corn for fattening lambs. Dried beet pulp has been 

 found ^ to produce larger gains with growing lambs on 



1 Wis. Exp. Sta. Ann. Rpt., 1905. 



2 Hills, J. L., Ver. Exp. Sta. Ann. Rpt., 1904, p. 484. 



' Merrill, L. A., and Clark, R. W., Utah Exp. Sta., Bui. No. 90. 

 * Griffin, H. H., Colo. Exp. Sta., Bui. No. 76. 

 6 Shaw, R. S., Mich. Exp. Sta., Bui. No. 220. 



