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FEEDING WITH SUGAR BEETS, SUGAR, ETC. 



Ration of 40 kilos soured cossettes containing 35.85 kilos 

 water and 4.15 kilos dry substances, increase of weight per diem 

 1.58 kilos. 



Ration of 50 kilos soured cossettes containing 44.53 kilos 

 water and 5.47 kilos dry substances, increase of weight per 

 diem 1.23 kilos. 



Henneberg has made similar experiments with milch cows, 

 and has also come to the conclusion that there follows a de- 

 crease in the weight, with a slight increase, however, in the 

 quantity of milk obtained, as shown herewith: 



INFLUENCE OF WATER IN KATION ON MILK AND WEIGHT OF Cows. 



* Decrease. 



Dried cossettes If it is true in agriculture that it is not desirable to throw 

 more hygienic away all that has an unpleasant smell, it is, on the other hand, 

 than the siloed, durable to be able to transform a forage that has a bad odor, 

 such as soured cossettes, into an odorless forage, such as dried 

 cossettes. Outside of the direct disagreeable features of siloed 

 cossettes there follows an indirect unpleasantness. Some authors 

 claim that the products of a daily using soured cossettes have a 

 slight smell and always retain it, and their conservation is 

 also rendered more difficult. It does not necessarily follow 

 that these substances are communicated directly to the said pro- 

 duct by the passage through the organism, but the micro-organ- 

 isms with which the forage is supercharged, float in the air of the 

 stables, and consequently fall into the milk. Or, furthermore, 

 they may reach the milk from the hands of those employed in 

 doing the dairy work, who are, unfortunately, not over careful 

 in the use of antiseptics. These micro-organisms give a slight 



