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considered as a whole reaching seven millions of marks for their 

 sugar campaign, which is a sum not to be ignored by any one. 



The experiments made upon pigs at Gottingen, with the Feeding seed 

 stalks of beet seed, showed that they were composed of only a stalks and seed, 

 very indefinite nutritious value. The experiments made at 

 Halle-sur-Saale experimental station demonstrated that this re- 

 siduum was possessed of only a moderate nourishing value and 

 had a coefficiency of digestibility of only 64.02 per cent., viz., 

 about equal to the straw of cereals in general and of rye in par- 

 ticular. Old beet seed, which for special reasons cannot be 

 utilized, may be ground to a powder and advantageously used 

 for fodder. 



