138 BEET-ROOT SUGAR AND 



beet by rasping and pressing, and there still remains 

 from four and a half to six and a half per cent, 

 of sugar in the residuum, besides other nutritious 

 matter. 



Dombasle recommends it, especially for sheep, and 

 also for milch cows, stating that the quantity, as well 

 as the quality, of the milk, and the color of the butter, 

 are much improved by its use. 



M. Cail, the wealthy and enterprising owner of 

 " La Briche," a splendid farm in the department of 

 Indre et Loire, mixes his pulp with chopped straw, 

 in the proportion of five sixths of the former to one 

 sixth of the latter. To the oxen, for fattening, he gives 

 150 pounds of this mixture in the winter months ; to 

 milch cows, no pounds; and to working-cattle, from 

 loo to 150 pounds daily. 



A liberal daily allowance for an ox is 75 pounds, 

 for a cow 60 pounds, and for a sheep 6 pounds, with 

 chopped straw, and a little oil-cake, or meal. Conse- 

 quently, if a farmer raises 100 tons of beets, and takes 

 back from the manufacturer 20 tons of pulp, he has 

 the means of feeding, during the five months from the 

 first of November to the first of April, 4 oxen, or 5 

 cows, or 50 sheep. The manufactory that consumes 

 24,000 tons of beets provides 4,800 tons of pulp, with 

 which may be fed, for the five most costly months of 

 the year, when there is no pasturage, 960 oxen, or 

 1,200 cows, or 12,000 sheep. 



