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3; Objection to excessive pressure 122 



Losses during pressing; Diversity of data; Experiments of Stammer and 



of Classen 123 



Results obtained by Friihling and Schultz; Analysis of beet residuum 

 before and after preparation; The Klusemann press, illustrated and de- 

 scribed l'J4 



Selwig and Lange cone pulp press, illustrated and described 127 



Advantages claimed for the conical cossette press 130 



Daily delivery of 3-cone cossette presses of varying dimensions; The Ber- 



green press, illustrated and described 131 



Lallouette press, illustrated and described 134 



Care needed during pressing; Pressing facilitated by heat; Modes for 



facilitating pressing 136 



Maercker's mode of working; Siekel's process; Muller's proposition; 



Theory of the Manoury method 137 



Mixing of lime with the cossettes; Scheermesser 5 s method; Pulp or cos- 

 sette contracts 138 



Value of sugar-beet cossettes 139 



Conveyance of cossettes to farms; Importance of keeping the residuum 



clean 140 



Changes when exposed to the air; Not to be fed alone to live stock; Feed- 

 ing value of cossettes; Importance of adding lime 141 



Phosphoric acid to be added; Beet cossettes in cattle feeding; Fattening 



of sheep with beet cossettes in the United States 142 



How to feed beet pulps; Dangers of feeding beet pulps 143 



Advantage of the saturation of pulps with alcoholic vapors; Beet pulp - 



disease; Most objectionable pulps . 144 



Maladies due to decomposed or mildewed cossettes; Use of soured cos- 

 settes; Conclusions as to dangers of cossette feeding 145 



Pulp malady a comparatively new fad among scientists; Osteomalacia and 



its causes 146 



Feeding with the view to production of milk and butter; Synopsis of ex- 

 periments made bearing on this question 147 



Continued feeding with cossettes; Klein's observations 148 



Excessive feeding; Water in beet pulp 149 



Mistake to feed frozen cossettes; Eations for working oxen; Mode of stall- 

 feeding oxen for the market on Austrian farms 150 



Eation for bulls on an Austrian farm; Eations for live stock in general, 

 as used in France; Eations for sheep; Eations for mules and horses; 



Eation for pigs 151 



Simon Legrand's ninety-four day experiment in feeding diffusion pulp to 



cattle; Mixing cossettes with other fodders 152 



Eations for milch cows recommended by Eisben 153 



Increase in the milk production when soured cossettes are used 154 



Digestibility of residuum cossettes; Cossettes as food for man 155 



