206 Feeds and Feeding. 



of Denmark have shown that fresh blood will not putrefy when there 

 has been added to it the proper amount of beet molasses, containing 

 50 per et. sugar. By adding the blood-molasses mixture to corn meal 

 or other cereal products and drying, a palatable, highly nutritious 

 feed is obtained. Beet molasses may be directly fed in a limited way 

 with chopped straw, hay, or the various concentrates. (426, 544) 

 Much of the beet molasses is now utilized by combining it with beet 

 pulp and drying. Molasses-beet pulp is somewhat more palatable 

 than the dried pulp and has about the same feeding value. (646, 755) 



313. Beet leaves. — At harvest an acre of sugar beets will usually 

 yield about 4 tons of fresh leaves and 1 ton of the severed upper por- 

 tion of the beet roots. The leaves have about half the feeding value 

 of the roots. Ware^ reports that the German farmers ensile beet 

 leaves and the tops of the roots in pits about 6 feet deep with rounded 

 corners and slanting sides, 5 inches of leaves alternating with 4 inches 

 of straw. Seven lbs. of salt are used with each ton of leaves. The 

 mass, which extends 3 or 4 feet above the ground level, is covered 

 with straw and earth. As fresh or ensiled leaves tend to purge the 

 animals, they should always be fed in a limited way with such dried 

 roughages as corn stover, straw, or hay. 



314. Cane molasses. — Craig and Marshal of the Texas Station- de- 

 scribe cane molasses, or black strap, as follows: "It is a thick black 

 mass, having somewhat the color of coal tar, but a pleasant odor and 

 sweet taste." It averages about 50 gals., or 600 lbs., to a barrel and 

 runs on the average 12 lbs. to a gallon or 170 gals, to the ton. The 

 Texas factories produced in 1904 a crop of 32,500 bbls. of this mo- 

 lasses, of which amount 3,000 bbls. were sold to cattle feeders of the 

 state. 



The composition of cane and beet molasses is as follows, according 

 to Browne^ of the Louisiana Sugar Experiment Station : 



Louisiana 

 cane molasses Beet molasses 



Water --. 20.93 per cent 23.70 per cent 



Cane sugar 30.73 per cent 46.70 per cent 



Other sugars 29.67 per cent 0.60 per cent 



Ash (salts) 8.85 per cent 13.20 per cent 



Organic non-sugar 9.82 per cent 15.80 per cent 



Unlike beet molasses, that from the cane plant is bland, extremely 

 palatable, and much relished by farm animals. It may be rated 

 equal to the same w^eight of corn in feeding value. Cane-sugar mo- 



^ Cattle Feeding with Sugar Beets, Sugar and Molasses, etc. 



^Bul. 86. 



* Breeder 's Gazette, 47, p. 471. 



