THE DIGESTIBILITY OF CATTLE FOODS. 



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Dried Beet Pulp and Molasses Dried Beet Pulp. 

 Both of these products are the dried residue from the manu- 

 facture of sugar from the sugar beet. Molasses dried beet pulp 

 differs from the plain dried beet pulp in containing a con- 

 siderable proportion of the residual molasses, probably about 25 

 per cent. The first-named product is noticeably darker in 

 color. 



Summnnj of Coeficients, Dried Beet Pulp, Series XVI., Period III. 

 Serieff X] II., Period ]'. 



Summary of Coefficients, Molasses Dried Beet Pidp, Series XVI., Period II. 

 Series XVII., Period V. 



I., 

 II., 



IV., 



Average, 



The digestibility of the molasses pulp was about 8 per cent, 

 higher than that of the plain pulp, due to the molasses which 

 is, in all probability, entirely digestible. While beet pulp con- 

 tains 15 to 18 per cent, of fiber, its digestibility is much higher 

 than that of wheat bran or ground oats, due to its soft, un- 

 lignified character. For Sheep III. in the experiment with 

 plain beet pulp, the fiber digestibility is very high, with a 

 corresponding depression in the digestibility of the nitrogen- 

 free extract. It is believed that this condition is abnormal, and 

 that the average of the coefiicients for Sheep I. and II. would 



