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pressure to press out most of the water. The residue, which is then 

 in the form of a cake about three inches thick and containing about 

 50 per cent of moisture is put into a mechanical dryer, which is heated 

 by steam radiation, from which it comes, containing about 6 per cent 

 of moisture. It is then ready for the mill where it is ground and put 

 into sacks ready for the market. In the preparation of blood for 

 feeding purposes it must be handled very quickly and not allowed to 

 decompose between the different stages of manufacture. Some samples 

 of blood have a frightful odor, caused by decomposition in the 

 process of manufacture. (Iowa B. 66.) 



Dried Beet Pulp. The beets are thoroughly washed, shredded, 

 and placed in a large cylinder ; water is admitted and sugar extracted 

 by the diffusion method. After the liquor is withdrawn, the beet 

 pulp is run through a press to remove excess of water. Molasses 

 residues from the sugar factory are thoroughly mixed with beet pulp 

 and the whole kiln dried by direct heat. The resulting dry product 

 is placed on the market as a feeding stuff. 



Molasses Grains. These residues are added to some dry and 

 bulky material, such as brewer's grains, malt sprouts, oat hulls, or 

 light oats, in such amounts that they are all absorbed. This mixture 

 after drying is known to the trade as "molasses grains." 



Propnetary Feeds. These are derived from numerous and 

 varied sources, but very often they serve as the outlet for industrial 

 by-products, such as are obtained in the manufacture of breakfast 

 foods. 



Poultry Foods. These are composed principally of several 

 cereals, either whole or coarsely ground. Some poultry foods con- 

 tain also charcoal and ground oyster shells. Other foods of this class 

 are fortified with dried blood, meat scraps, cottonseed or linseed 

 meals. Wheat screenings, containing the small and shriveled wheat 

 and weed seeds, are very often among the chief ingredients. (Dep. 

 Agr. Bu. Chem. B. 108.) 



MOLASSES FOR FATTENING CATTLE. 



Methods of Feeding Molasses. The most common method of 

 using barrel molasses is to carry it out in buckets and mix it by hand 

 with feed in the bunk. In all our experiments the molasses was 

 mixed with an equal volume of water and poured over the mixed 

 grain and hulls, the whole then being thoroughly stirred. This, 

 however, entails too much labor to be profitable when feeding on a 

 large scale. A common practice is to take a spraying outfit, the barrel 

 being filled with equal parts of water and molasses, and drive through 

 the feed lot, spraying on the mixed feed in bunks such amount of the 

 mixture as is to be fed. This practice in some degree prevents the 

 loss occasioned by the feed being blown from the bunks. Feeders 

 who mix meal and hulls in the mill, buy their molasses in tank cars, 

 empty it into storage tanks in proximity to the mixing room and mix 

 it with the meal and hulls before loading it into the feeding wagon. 

 Others recommend allowing steers constant access to molasses. 



Amount of Molasses to Feed. Those feeders who have been 

 using molasses as a cattle food, have in most instances restricted its 



