THE COMPOSITION, DIGESTIBILITY AND 

 FEEDING VALUE OF MOLASSINE MEAL, 

 COTTONSEED MEAL AND HULLS, COCOA 

 SHELLS, GRAIN SCREENINGS, FLAX 

 SHIVES, MELLEN'S FOOD REFUSE, AND 

 POSTUM CEREAL RESIDUE (CXX FEED). 



J. B. LiNDSEY AND P. H. SmITH. 



1. MOLASSINE MEAL. 



The Molassine meal offered in Massachusetts is an Enghsh product ^ 

 composed of substantially 70 to 75 per cent, of cane or beet molasses and 

 25 to 30 per cent, of sphagnum moss; the latter, as time passes^ 

 decays and forms peat. The moss used in Molassine meal, according to 

 the manufacturers, comes from the upper layers of large peat bogs in 

 Yorkshire, Eng., and is probably more or less humified. It is doubtful if 

 the moss has any particular nutritive properties; hence, the nutritive value 

 of the feed consists in the amount of molasses present. * 



Molassine meal is quite dark in color, rather bulky, somewhat moist 

 and shghtly sticky, but is in good merchantable condition and appears to 

 keep well. 



(1) Composition of Molassine Meal. 

 Analyses made at the experiment station show it to have the following 

 approximate composition : — 



' A product similar to Molassine meal was first made in Germany, where it was patented under 

 the number 79932; it is there known as Torf-Melasse. It is also made in France, and known as 

 Tourbe-Melassee. Its use in these countries is quite general, particularly as a partial feedfor 

 horse-s. 



- Kellner and Pfeiffer have shown that peat is without nutritive value. 



