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roots), lambs weighing 54.7 Ibs. in November weighed 83.59 

 Ibs. in April. 



Another interesting fact is, that the cost of grain per 100 Ibs. 

 with roots was $6.03 to 86.36, while without roots it was $7.82. 

 In the former cases the digestible nutrients were 363.9 Ibs. and 

 383.2 Ibs., while without roots only 351.4 Ibs. were digested; 

 the object was to feed all that would be readily eaten. A fact 

 that we wish to emphasize especially is, that roots assist the 

 digestion of other fodders, and force consumption, which is of 

 considerable moment. The two lots fed with mangolds in their 

 ration gave an increase of wool of 72 and 56 Ibs. respectively, 

 while without roots the wool weighed 46 Ibs. As the protein 

 in the last two cases was nearly the same, this result shows an 

 increase of 10 Ibs. wool in favor of mangolds. 



Another experiment station of the country, with a view to 

 determining within what limits siloed cossettes compare with for- 

 age beets when fed to milk cows, conducted a series of experi- 

 ments, the result of which was that cows fed on forage beets 

 gave 1137 quarts of milk containing 79 Ibs. fat, while the re- 

 siduum fed cows resulted in 1105 quarts of milk containing 75 

 Ibs. fat. The difference is so slight that the results may be con- 

 sidered identical. The forage beet ration consisted of 72 Ibs. beets, 

 8 Ibs. clover hay, 6 Ibs. chopped straw and 5 Ibs. oil cake for 

 1000 Ibs. live weight. The other ration consisted of 80 Ibs. re- 

 siduum cossettes, to which were added 9 Ibs. chopped straw, 

 8 Ibs. clover hay and 4 Ibs. oil cake per 1000 Ibs. live weight. 

 Later experiments upon a very extended scale have demon- 

 strated that the cossette feeding is more economical. 



Feeding Sugar Beet Leaves and Tops. 



The cultivation of sugar beets to be furnished to the factory for Preliminary 

 the extraction of sugar is not the only question to be considered remarks, 

 by the farmer, for the simple reason that the resulting pulp or 

 residue has an enormous value to the agricultural community. 

 Besides the roots proper, one may harvest a large quantity of 

 leaves and tops which without being of any commercial value 

 are of great importance to the tiller. However, there are many 

 farmers sufficiently blind to overlook the precious qualities of 



