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3. How Beet Residues should be fed. 



Dried beet pulp absorbs a great deal of water, and in ease it 

 is fed dry, tins absorption will take Y)]ace in the month and 

 stomach, and is likely to cause choking, indigestion and stomach 

 irritation. It should be first moistened with two to three times 

 its weight of water, and the dry grain mixed with it. 



Dally Grain Rations containing Dried Beet Residues. 



(a) Dairy Cows. 



I. 



3 pounds distillers' grains. 



4 pounds dried i^lain or molasses 



pulp. 



III. 

 2 pounds gluten feed. 



2 pounds flour middlings. 



3 pounds dried beet pulp. 



II. 



1.5 pounds gluten feed. 

 1.5 pounds cotton-seed meal. 

 4.0 pounds dried beet in\\p. 



IV. 



2 pounds wheat bran. 



2 pounds cotton-seed meal. 



4.05 j)Ounds dried beet pulp. 



(5) To supplement Pasturage. — By weight one-half of 

 dried beet pulp and one-half gluten feed-; or one-third dried 

 beet pulp, one-third gluten feed and one-third wheat "bran; or 

 two-thirds beet pulp and one-third distillers' grains would prove 

 desirable combinations (feed from 3 to 7 pounds daily depend- 

 ing upon requirements). 



(c) For fattening Stoch. — It should prove satisfactory for 

 fattening beef animals, in the j^roportion, by weight, of two- 

 thirds beet pulp and one-third cotton-seed meal. The material 

 is hardly to be recommended for swine and horses. 



Tlie Place of Dried Beet Residues in the Farm Economy. 

 Earmers who are in position to ])rodnce their own feed cannot 

 afford, as a rule, to purchase starchy feed stuffs ; they should be 

 produced upon the farm, in the form of corn, oats and barley. 

 Eor milk production it is much more desirable to purchase 

 materials rich in protein, such as cotton-seed and linseed meals, 

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

 fine middlings and even l)ran. These feed stuffs ai-o not only 

 very helpful in milk production, but likewise snpply large 

 amounts of nitrogen in the resulting manure. When the supply 



