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able influence when considered from a hygienic standpoint, the 

 cattle to which it is fed will frequently refuse it. The dried 

 cossettes, furthermore, have the advantage over the soured pro- 

 duct of facilitating the compounding of a ration, for the simple 

 reason that its composition is almost constant, whereas soured 

 cossettes leave much to be desired on this point. 



Conservation of The dried cossettes have, as regards their keeping powers, a 

 dried cossettes. g reat advantage over the siloed product. They require, how- 

 ever, a covered building protecting them against rain, etc., for 

 their preservation and storage. It is not necessary to bestow 

 more care upon them than is given to any other dry forage. 

 Helbrigel placed cossettes in a moist environment for three 

 months, and the residuum did not absorb more than 15 per 

 cent, of moisture, showing that it has little hygroscopic 

 power. 



Change during Other experiments have been made by placing the dried cos- 

 keeping, settes in a very damp cellar for six months, when they be- 

 came moist and mildewed. These experiments, however, were 

 made under exceptional conditions, which are not found in 

 practice. 



Cossettes that are dried at a low temperature would, however, 

 absorb a little more water, but when they are placed in a moist 

 storehouse at a low temperature they will take up 20 per cent, 

 water and remain in this condition for a long period of months. 

 They will not mildew any more than does hay during its keep- 

 ing. Under normal conditions it has been noticed that when 

 giving this dried residuum the usual care the loss of dry sub- 

 stances, after months of keeping, is less than it would be with 

 most of the standard fodders, and even less than it is with oil 

 cake. 



As is the case with all dry fodders, the cossettes increase in 

 weight during the first year of their keeping, after which there 

 follows a slight loss of dry substances. The increase is found 

 mainly in the cellulose, the nitrogenous substances and the 

 ash, while the gaseous extracts and fatty substances diminish. 

 As a general thing the mass, after being kept some time, be- 

 comes possessed of a certain butyric odor, which is the out- 

 come of the gradual oxidation of the carbohydrates and the fatty 



