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FEEDING WITH SUGAR BEETS, SUGAR, ETC. 



At one time it was admitted that if the percentage of nitrogen 

 in fresh cossettes is one, that of the dried product is 8.16. 

 Cossettes com- The composition of the dried residuum compares favorably 

 pared with hay. with meadow ha y. 



COMPARATIVE ANALYSES OF DRIED COSSETTES AND HAY. 



According to Pott the minimum and maximum variations in 

 the composition of the product are as follows: Dried substances 

 84.2 to 94.7, nitrogenous substances 6.3 to 8*5, fatty substances 

 0.4 to 1.5, cellulose 13.5 to 20.7 



The introduction and rapidly increasing popularity of desic- 

 cated cossettes may be explained by the important nutritive 

 losses that cossettes undergo during siloing, which is evidently 

 to their disadvantage. 



In certain cases sugar factories lose through neglect 20 per 

 cent, of their cossettes [this in Europe is excessive] ; this fact 

 alone allows any one to approximate the advantages that will 

 necessarily be derived from cossette drying. The saving thus 

 effected, provided the product is utilized, constitutes an impor- 

 tant margin towards the cost of the drying operation. Upon 

 general principles dry forage of this kind has considerably 

 increased in popularity of late owing to its healthy appearance, 

 Comparison be- and also to its excessive digestibility. Maercker and Morgen 

 tween siloed and declare that no product of fermentation is more digestible and 

 more nourishing from any standpoint than are the fresh sub- 

 stances from which the dried residuum has been obtained. It 

 is much to be regretted that no appliance has so far been devised 



dried cossettes. 



