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lambs to use the shelled peas which are left on 

 the ground. Pasture-feeding peas is one of the 

 best methods of improving the fertility of the 

 soil. 



There are other forms of pasture fattening 

 and combinations of pasturing and feeding that 

 are useful in the West. The pasturing of root 

 crops, mustard, kohlrabi and rape for sheep and 

 swine, and of artichokes by swine or of alfalfa 

 by pigs on feed, or of beet tops by cattle or sheep, 

 which are being fattened with grain, is profitable 

 and important. With all these pasture crops it 

 is important not to let stock gorge themselves at 

 first by giving them too much when hungry, as 

 all will cause loss from bloat. Sugar beets or 

 tops must be fed carefully to cows in milk as 

 they have a tendency, when fed in excess, to dry 

 up the milk flow and sometimes they cause indi- 

 gestion or paralysis. Measured by results, beet 

 tops have a high feeding value in the first period 

 of fattening, and feeding them results in much 

 saving of hay and grain. 



BY-PRODUCTS There are two important feeding products to 

 PACT^OBJES k obtained from beet-sugar factories. One is 

 beet molasses, which is becoming a much-sought 

 stock food to mix with ground alfalfa or other 

 roughage, or is fed in combination with other 

 feeds. This seems to be an important substance 

 to help balance up western rations. Another by- 

 product is the beet pulp. This is a succulent 



