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substituted for oats with success if economic conditions warranted.. 

 Half of the grain feed may consist of crushed or coarsely ground 

 barley, fed together with oats, corn and oats, or corn and wheat 

 bran. It is preferable not to feed barley exclusively until the animal 

 becomes accustomed to it, and the feeder is in position to note its 

 feeding effect. 



This material has been sold quite freely in New 



Red Albumen York state of late. The N. Y. Station reports some 



for Poultry, of it to consist almost exclusively of Venetian red,. 



(oxide of iron) and sand, worth from one to two 

 cents a pound. Another lot proved to be a nitrogenous by-product 

 containing 72 per cent of protein — retailing at fifty or sixty cents a 

 pound — and worth about three cents a pound. 



One sample of red albumen recently sent to this Station was found 

 to contain 45.72 per cent of protein. It was put out by a Boston 

 druggist and consisted of nitrogenous matter resembling ground bone 

 glue, mixed with red pepper. Good beef scrap, costing 2^ cents a 

 pound is preferable to such material for egg production. The com- 

 position and value of condimental stock and poultry foods have been 

 fully explained in Bulletin 71, to which the interested reader is 

 referred. 



Beet pulp is the residue from the sugar beet facto- 



Sugar Beet ries and consists of practically all of the beet 



Pulp. excepting the sugar. It contains 9 per cent of dry 



matter, and 91 per cent of water. It has been 

 recently offered to Massachusetts farmers at $10 a ton delivered at 

 their railroad station. Experiments have shown it to have one-half 

 the feeding value of corn silage. It would probably be equivalent 

 to silage if it contained as much dry matter as the latter. Its value 

 is about $2 per ton on the farm, and it can only be fed to advantage 

 by farmers in the immediate vicinity of the beet factories. 



I. ECONOMIC FEEDS AND RATIONS. 



In view of the present high prices of concentrates, inquiries are 

 constantly being received relative to the most economic grain rations 

 for dairy animals. The writer feels that he cannot do better in mak- 

 ing a general answer, than to repeat the suggestions offered a year 



ago- 



