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food, aud may be fed to advantage in quantities from 

 seventy-five to one hundred pounds daily to full -grown 

 animals, provided it can be purchased at a price pro- 

 portional to its value. 



The pulp is not adapted to transportation for long 

 distances because of the heavy expense of freight and 

 handling, but is most available for consumption near 

 the factories. It may be preserved in pits or silos. 



The molasses is generally four-fifths or more dry 

 substance and contains from 40 to 50 per cent of sugar, 

 which is all digestible and which gives to this product 

 its only value for feeding purposes. 



This material has been fed successfully to bovines 

 and swine. When given as an addition to coarse foods 

 and home -raised grains it obviously should be combined 

 with some nitrogenous feeding stuff like gluten meal 

 or the oil meals. 



The oil meals in general. — Materials of this class 

 may properly be regarded as among the standard feed- 

 ing stuffs. Because of their uniformity in quality aud 

 composition, their general usefulness in compounding 

 rations and their value in maintaining soil fertility, 

 their use has had the sanction of scientific men and of 

 successful practice. The oil meals are so called be- 

 cause they are the residues left after the extraction 

 of the oil from certain seeds and nuts, among which 

 are cottonseed, flaxseed, hemp and poppy seed, rape 

 seed, sesame seed, sunflower seed, cocoanuts, palm 

 nuts, peanuts, and walnuts. Of the residues from 

 these sources, those from cottonseed and flaxseed 

 are most common in the United States: in fact, no 



