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disagreeable taste to butter and milk products. It is moreover 

 well to add that soured cossettes may in certain cases develop 

 disease, such as epizootic and catarrh of the stomach and in- 

 testines. 



It is furthermore to be regretted that siloed cossettes are fre- 

 quently handled with great carelessness. Maercker and Meyer 

 mention one case where the cossettes remained in silos in con- 

 tact with dead animals and became infected with disease. 

 Under such conditions siloed cossettes naturally cannot be con- 

 sidered a desirable forage, as such products are not only detri- 

 mental to the health of the animals fed, but also to their 

 descendants. 



Among the indirect advantages possessed by dried cossettes is Dried cossettes 

 the fact that the work of oxen is lessened in the fall of the year. more readi| y 

 The weight of dry cossettes is $- of that of pressed, fresh or handled than 

 soured cossettes. In most instances the beet wagons may return sj(oe( j 

 empty, and in this way one avoids the loss of time occasioned 

 by the long period of waiting in the yards of the factories for 

 the return loads of fresh cossettes. Again it may be pointed 

 out that these long waits are hurtful to the general health of 

 the animals. Thus the economy obtained by the use of dried 

 cossettes in the matter of the transportation from the factories 

 to the silos and then to the stable is considerable. Heine 

 states that this cost is 10 pfennigs per 100 kilos for a distance 

 of three kilometres. The carriage for longer distances by rail- 

 road is often greater. Under all circumstances there necessarily 

 follows a considerably economy in the amount of wear and tear 

 that the draft-animals are called upon to undergo. 



It is to be noticed that the cossettes contain considerable Mineral sub- 

 mineral substances. This is one of the objections to cossette stances in the 

 drying by means of direct fire. The ash carried forward by the dried cossettes - 

 circulating hot gases adheres to the cossettes that are yet moist. 

 It would be possible to decrease this action by forcing the gases 

 through metallic gauze with a very close mesh, which would re- 

 tain the suspended cinders. If, for the purpose of drying, one 

 uses coke on the grate, and this coke contains sulphur, the 

 resulting product will necessarily have a bad odor when moist- 

 ened. While this may not have any complicated or objection- 



