In New England, cane molasses brought in tank steamers from 

 Porto Rico, has been freely offered at some 13 to 14 cents a gallon 

 of 12 pounds, in barrel lots. In the southern part of the country 

 (especially in Louisiana) cane molasses is used quite freely as a 

 food for horses and mules in quantities varying from 5 to 15 pounds 

 or more daily. There are likewise many cattle foods made and 

 sold in the northern United States which contain considerable quan- 

 tities of molasses ; they are known as Sucrene dairy and Sucrene 

 horse feeds, Green Diamond, Holstein and Molac sugar feeds, Ham- 

 mond dairy feed, dried molasses-beet pulp and Mueller's molasses 

 grains. 



In view of the prominence now given to molasses and to molasses 

 feeds as a food for farm stock, the station has conducted a variety 

 of experiments with them, and in the present bulletin submits a 

 somewhat concise outline of the investigations and a statement of 

 the results secured, as well as various suggestions relative to the 

 feeding and economic value of these feed stuffs. 



COMPOSITION OF MOLASSES.^ 



Molasses may be defined as the residue resulting from the extract- 

 ion of sugar from the juice of the sugar cane or sugar beet. The 

 following analyses represent the composition of several samples of 

 Porto Rico (cane) molasses. 



1904 Samples. 190; Samples 



Water, ------ 



Ash. ------- 



Crude ( Albuminoids, 



Protein ( Aniids, - - - 



■r- . J. I Cane suo;ar, - 

 Extract \ ^ ^ '^ 

 A/r *,. \ Invert sugars, 



M^"^"" ) UndeternTined, 



I I 24 ( 

 , 1.93 ( 

 29.72 ) 



,2503^ 

 10.55 ' 



24.40 

 7-13 

 3-17 



65.30 



0.96 / 



1.86 ( 



36.26 ) 



19-38 



7.00 ) 



28.50 

 6.04 



2.82 



62.64 



1906 Samples. 



24.98 



5-57 



Z I 2.19 



37-86 ) 

 20.48 > 67.26 

 8.92 ) 



Beet 

 Molasses.' 

 (Average.) 



21.90 



7.20 



10.50 

 60.40 



Molasses is shown to consist of about one-fourth water, consider- 



2 For a very full description of the manufacture, composition, digestibility and feeding 

 value of beet molasses see Ann. Sci. Agron. 2e Serie Tome I 1904 — pages 213-271, 358-375 

 and Tome II pages 9S-209, par MM. J. .Alquier et Dr. A. Drouineau; also Presslinge, Diffu- 

 sionschnitzel, Melasse, von M. Schmoeger, Landw. Versuchsstationen Bd. LIX. p. 145. 



3 German origin. 



