CHAPTER II. 

 Dried Residuum Cossettes. 



UPON general principles fresh or siloed cossettes, considered as 

 a forage, entail certain complications in connection with their 

 feeding, keeping, handling, etc., hence there must necessarily 

 be some advantages in their drying. 



The first really serious experiments made in this direction Early efforts, 

 were those of 1878, by Blossfeld, who at that period had con- 

 ducted quite a propaganda for the encouragement of the idea 

 of cossette-drying that he had been expounding, and the neces- 

 sity of discovering some practical means for overcoming the 

 many difficulties involved. This idea was not well under- 

 stood by the German farmers and sugar manufacturers until 

 1883, when a prize of fifteen thousand marks ($3,750) f or Prjze f or a ,j r y er 

 some practical solution of this question was proposed. In 

 order to make the question thoroughly clear in the eyes of those 

 interested in the subject certain conditions were stipulated, viz. : 

 The dried pulp should contain only 14 per cent, water, about 

 the same as hay it should be without any perceptible odor, 

 and not burnt during drying; the loss of nutritive elements 

 should not be more than 8 per cent.; the expense must not be 

 more than about 2^ cents per 100 Ibs. of pressed cossettes used. 



Buttner and Meyer were awarded this prize, and their 

 apparatus, w r hich has actually a great practical value, w r as the 

 starting point for the realization of an idea that has since been 

 of considerable importance to the would-be feeders of this beet- 

 cossette residuum the w r orld over. 



Since then numerous installations of this plant have been Objections to 

 made, and these continue to increase in number. It must be using dried 

 said that from the start when this dry product was introduced cossettes - 

 upon the market, it met with much opposition from those who 

 had occasion to avail themselves of this valuable forage, and it 



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