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. 



Summary of Coefficients, Dried Beet Pulp, Series XVI., Period III.; 

 Series XVII., Period V. 



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 coefficients for Sheep I. and II. would 



