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Dried Beet Pulp as Roughage. 



As high as eight pounds of the dried pulp can be well moist- 

 ened with water and fed to each animal as a partial source of 

 roughage in place of corn silage, together with what hay the ani- 

 mal will eat clean (10 to 16 pounds daily). If thus fed, it natur- 

 ally should be omitted from the grain ration. 



The Place of Dried Beet Pulp in the Farm Economy. 



Fanners who are in position to produce their own feed cannot 

 afford, as a rule, to purchase starchy feedstufifs, of which dried 

 beet pulp is a type. Such material should be produced upon the 

 farm in the form of corn, oats and barley. 



For milk production it is more desirable for the fanner to pur- 

 chase materials rich in protein, such as cottonseed and linseed 

 meals, distillers' and brewers' dried grains, gluten feed, malt 

 sprouts, fine middlings and wheat bran. These feedstufifs are not 

 only very helpful in milk production, but likewise supply increased 

 amounts of nitrogen in the manure. Only when the supply of 

 home-grown corn is exhausted or limited would it be considered 

 economical to substitute dried beet pulp either as a ]3ortion of the 

 grain ration or as a part of the roughage. 



Milk producers who purchase all of their feed will find the dried 

 pulp a satisfactory component of the daily ration, providing it can 

 be secured at a relatively reasonable price. 



