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and a certain portion of sugar is the result ; the residuum 

 is used for many purposes, and is especially useful for cat- 

 tie. 



CHAPTER VI. 



USE OP THE BEET PULP FOR FEEDING CATTLE. 



It has been long since known, that the beet is an excel- 

 lent food for cattle, and consequently wherever agriculture 

 is properly understood, this precious root is cultivated ; it 

 improves the soil, occupies it but a short time, and furnish- 

 es them abundant nutriment. The manufacture of sugar 

 from this root, besides its other great advantages, offers 

 this additional one, that it requires but a portion of its nu- 

 trative matter, and furnishes for 3 or 4 winter months, a 

 moist food, equally valuable for the purpose of fattening 

 cattle, or for milch cows, which are apt on dry food to lose 

 their milk partly or entirely. 



An ox will eat daily from 60 to 70lbs. of the pulp ; and 

 a sheep from 10 to 12lbs. to this it is well to add for the ox 

 when intended for the butcher ; from 2 to 3lbs. of oil cake 

 the residuum of oil mills, this addition renders the pulp 

 more nutritive. 



Estimating the amount of the juice from the beet at 70 

 per cent., 30 per cent, will remain in the form of pulp ; 

 so that a manufactory working up daily 36 tons of roots, 

 would supply 21,600lbs. of pulp in the same time, more 

 than sufficient to feed 300 head of cattle, or 2000 sheep. 

 Hogs are also exceedingly fond of the pulp, and fatten well 

 on it. The time to which the manufacturing season is 



