274 Feeds and Feeding. 



ration cost 19.4 cents and the wheat-bran and oil-meal ration 21.6 

 cents. A gardener living near the station, guided by its teachings, 

 successfully fed a ration similar to No. 1 to 8 animals with a saving 

 in his yearly feed bills of about $150 over previous cost. 



425. Cane molasses. — Walton^ reports the successful feeding of 

 over 1,000 horses on a sugar plantation in the Fiji Islands on a 

 ration of 15 lbs. cane molasses, 3 lbs. wheat bran, and 4 lbs. corn 

 (maize), with green cane tops for roughage. The health of the 

 horses was greatly improved by the molasses. Constipation caused 

 by the molasses was counteracted by the bran. There was no undue 

 fatness or softness of flesh and no injury to the wind. Dalrymple 

 of the Louisiana Station,- collecting data from 47 Louisiana sugar 

 plantations, found that an average of 10 lbs. of cane molasses was 

 fed daily to each horse, effecting a saving of from 10 to 50 per ct. 

 in the cost of the ration and reducing the number of digestive ail- 

 ments, Lindsey of the Massachusetts Station^ considers cane molasses 

 at 14 cents per gallon of 12 lbs. a cheap carbohydrate for horses. In 

 reasonable amount, cane molasses should prove particularly helpful 

 with horses at hard work, such as draft teams in cities. (314) 



426. Beet molasses. — Because of its alkaline purging properties 

 beet molasses must be fed with caution and in limited quantity. 

 Many of the molasses feeds now on the market are of low quality. 

 Only those known to be of good quality should be fed. Goldsmith* 

 reports that in Denmark 2.2 lbs. of a mixture of beet molasses and 

 dried swamp peat could advantageously replace an equal weight of 

 corn for street-car horses. (312) 



Lindsey of the ]\Iassachusetts Station^ holds that dried molasses 

 beet pulp should prove a valuable feed for horses. (311) Goldsmith® 

 found that blood-molasses feed can economically replace one-fourth 

 of the grain in rations for horses. (312) 



427. Miscellaneous. — At the Indiana Station' Plumb found dried 

 distillers' grains, when forming about one-third of the grain allow- 

 ance, fairly satisfactory with some horses, while unpalatable to others. 

 Lindsey of the Massachusetts Station^ reports that dried distillers' 

 grains gave excellent results with horses when forming one-fourth 

 of the concentrates in the ration. (317) 



» Agr. Gaz. New South Wales, 9, 1898, p. 169. = Bui. 99. 



=* Bui. 86. « Landmandsblade, 32, 1899, p. 349 ; 

 » Bui. 99. Exp. Sta. Eec. XI, p. 880. 



• Expt. Sta. Eec, 10, p. 778 ; Ugeskr. Landm., ' Bui. 97. 



43, 1898, pp. 306-309. ' Bui. 99. 



