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Cossettes as food for game; General remarks; What residuum cossettes 

 feeding means in Germany; Siloing residuum cossettes; Silos for 

 reducing cossettes 156 



Size of silos recommended by Pellet and Lelavandier 157 



Characteristic odors of butter made from rnilk of pulp-fed cows; Bottom 

 paving of silos 158 



Filling silos with beet cossettes 159 



Coverings for the top of silos; Advisability of obtaining the best results in 

 cossette keeping; Transformation during siloing 160 



Sacrifice by organic transformation or putrefaction; Percentage of organic 

 acid cossettes may contain; Temperature which the cossettes should 

 reach ' 161 



Transformation of the nitrogenous substances; Nutritive value of the 

 amides; Percentage of anhydrous carbonic acid in the gases 162 



Principal centers for change in silos; Early chemical changes during 

 siloing (Maercker) 163 



Chemical changes during prolonged siloing (Petermann) 164 



Decrease in the number of cattle in Germany during the Franco-Prussian 

 war in 1870; Digestibility of nitrogenous substances for soured and for 

 fresh cossettes 165 



Liebscher's observations on the reduction of losses; Mixing chopped straw 

 with the cossettes 166 



Mixing the pulp with molasses; Mixing the residuum with some anti- 

 septic; Surface siloing; Simple surface siloing illustrated and described. 167 



Surface siloing using lumber, illustrated and described; Silo formed by 

 excavating hillside, illustrated and described 168 



Wood-built silo, illustrated and described 169 



Dug-out type of silo, illustrated and described 170 



Underground type of silo, illustrated and described 172 



CHAPTER II. 



DRIED RESIDUUM COSSETTES. 



Early efforts in drying cossettes; Prize offered for a dryer; Objections to 



using dried cossettes 173 



The principal promoters of dried cossettes; Limit of pressing 174 



Liming before drying; Hot diffusion facilitates pressing 175 



The Pfeiffer compressed-air mode for employing the diffusors; W T aste 



gases for drying 176 



Utilization of lost heat for drying; Rational appliances led to poor results. 177 



The Mackensen dryer, illustrated and described 179 



The Petry -Kecking dryer, illustrated and described 180 



The Buttner and Meyer dryer, illustrated and described 181 



Temperature of cossettes being dried 184 



Complete drying unnecessary; Regulating the dryer 186 



