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coagulation is attributed to the contamination of the milk with 

 the micro-organisms with which the cossettes become saturated 

 when brought into contact with the air of the stable. 



Phosphoric acid Phosphoric acid may be supplied by mixing with the resid- 

 to be added. uum pressed cossettes any forage containing this acid in a reason- 

 able proportion. For this purpose one may use oil cake resid- 

 uum of various origins. These are very valuable from another 

 standpoint; they give the requisite quantity of fatty substances, 

 which are entirely absent in diffusion and pressed cossettes. 

 When these fatty constituents are absent in the forage fed to 

 milk cows there follow certain difficulties in the production of 

 butter. 

 Beet cossettes in The growth of our population and the increased value of 



cattle feeding, lands, render the problem of cattle feeding much more com- 

 plicated than formerly. Stall feeding is now more general than 

 it used to be, but the custom in the United States is practiced 

 only to a limited extent, as compared with Europe. The idea 

 in view, however, in both cases remains the same, i. e., to pur- 

 chase cattle at the lowest price and sell with the greatest profit. 

 That the selling price per pound increases with an increase in 

 total weight of the animal is a well-known fact. 



The fattening should cease when the conditions do not appear 

 favorable for its continuance; that is, when interest of money 

 and cost of fodder used are more than the money value of the 

 daily gain in weight. The question of beet pulps for milch 

 cows is of far greater importance than the average reader can at 

 first realize; for, if the cost of production of a quart of milk can 

 be made less than at present, there would necessarily follow a 

 decrease in the selling price of that necessity of life, which 

 would benefit the laboring class in general. 



The fattening of sheep with beet cossettes has of late been 

 conducted on a very extended scale in the United States, not 

 only in California but also in Nebraska, etc., and it may cer- 

 tainly be made profitable in the Eastern States. Wool in abun- 

 dance on American soil means cheaper clothing. Without at- 

 tempting any other economic argument, suffice it to say, that 

 beet-cossette residuum utilization is destined to take a most im- 

 portant part in the general prosperity of our country. 



