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CANADIAN FARM YEAR BOOK. 



Commercial Concentrates : What They Are 



Supplementary concentrates for the 

 feeding of farm stock are becoming of 

 more common usage every winter 

 time. It is a question as to tiie aver- 

 age value of th§ factory bye-products. 

 Are they economical to feed, and what 

 are their diistinctive values? Judi- 

 ciously used, there is no doubt about 

 their value for fattening and milk pro- 

 duction, conditioning and finishing. 

 We deal fairly broadly with the as- 

 pects of the different known mill pro- 

 ducts. 



Molasses as a Feed. 



Molasses is the non-crystallized re- 

 sidue obtained in the evaporation of 

 the sweet juice of sugar cane and 

 sugar beet. The sugar beet molasses 

 contain 20 per cent, moisture, 9 per 

 cent, protein, and 60 per cent, almost 

 wholly sugar; 10 per cent, ash, con- 

 sisting of potash and soda. It forms 

 a thick, salty-sweetish liiquid, very 

 laxative, and thus it must be care- 

 fully used and is usually fed with 

 three or four times its proportion of 

 warm water and sprinkled on hay, cut 



straw, and other roughage. In some 

 cases it is also used in the manufac- 

 ture of molasses feeds with absorb- 

 ents, such as dried brewers' grains, 

 malt sprouts, alfalfa meal, ground 

 grain screenings, pea meal, wheat 

 bran. Value of these feeds varies ac- 

 cording to absorbent used. It may be 

 fed to all classes of farm animals with 

 the exception of pigs. 



Cane Molasses. 

 Our black-strap molasses differs 

 from the best variety mainly in its 

 flesh-forming elements. It lis sweeter 

 of taste and is greatly relished. In 

 the Southern States, horses are flesh- 

 ed for market on it, and in Canada it 

 is to a small extent used for the same 

 purpose. One gallon makes a good 

 carbohydrate feed for a horse, and a 

 similar amount may be fed to steers 

 as a maximum allowance. Cane mo- 

 lasses is especially valuable on ac- 

 count of lits high sugar content and 

 its palatability; it serves a useful pur- 

 pose as an appetizer and for prepar- 

 ing animals for show or sale, as it 



Hobsland's Masterpiece, champion Ayrshire bull at Canadian National and 



Ottawa, 1915. 



