XIV CONTENTS. 



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Early feeding and mistakes made; Harvesting the crop of beet leaves and 



tops; Average crop to the acre 96 



Value of beet leaves and tops; Beet-leaf keeping 97 



Composition of beet leaves siloed in two ways; Methods of compressing 



the leaves in the silos 98 



Transformation in silos and losses; Analysis of siloed beet leaves, accord- 

 ing to Stutzer 99 



Efforts to hasten lactic acid fermentation; Faulty siloing; Leaves and 



other substances in silo 100 



Beet leaf siloing in Germany; Grouven's experiments in siloing leaves; 



Changes which take place in the tops 101 



Soft leaf fodder; Postelt's method; Beet-leaf washing; Lehmann and, 



Maercker's method for soured leaves 102 



Acidulated beet leaves; The Mehay method 103 



Beet-leaf drying, and its advantages 104 



The Crummer dryer; Buttner and Meyer dryer 105 



Vibrans' objections to this method 106 



Wusterhagen dryer; Various modes of beet-leaf keeping 107 



Proebent's experiments in beet-leaf drying 109 



Advantages and disadvantages of beet-sugar; Beet-leaf feeding 110 



Pri ester's experiments; Objections to beet-leaf feeding Ill 



Oxalic acid its influence ; 112 



Zuntz's experiments; Gaspari's conclusions and recommendation 113 



Conclusions respecting beet-leaf feeding; Results obtained in Germany.... 114 

 Relation of beet to leaf composition; Saline elements taken from the soil 

 and contained in beet leaves; Experiments in which cows were fed 



upon beet leaves 115 



Surprising results in feeding milch cows with beet leaves; Money value 

 of beet leaves and tops; Economical advantages of the utilization of beet 



leaves 116 



Feeding seed stalks and seed 117 



PART THIRD. 



CHAPTER I. 

 FEEDING FRESH AND SILOED SUGAR BEET RESIDUUM. 



Early appreciation of the value of sugar-beet residuum cossettes; Objec- 

 tion to its use 118 



Manner of using residuum; Diffusion cossettes; In what diffusion consists. 119 



The main object of the sugar manufacturer; Composition of diffusion 

 cossettes as they leave the diffusion battery 120 



Sugar left in the residuum; Excess of water; Desirability of eliminating 

 the water of diffusion pulps; Dripping and straining 121 



