216 FEEDING WITH SUGAR BEETS, SUGAR, ETC. 



either crude as it comes from the factory or after it is siloed, 

 is the best sheep feed I have ever used. With a very small 

 amount of whole straw or hay with the beet pulp, the sheep 

 fatten surprisingly soon, and their meat is very fine. Six 

 weeks are sufficient to make a sheep as fat as needful, and 

 as profitable and agreeable to use as mutton can be, and the 

 trouble of feeding them is but little. As to dairy cows, only 60 

 pounds of siloed pulp are fed per diem." 



"Although in the fall of the year the cows are by no means 

 fresh, still they are doing as well as they would in the spring 

 season on the best of green grass; the butter is of a fine quality, 

 naturally hard and not in the least oily, as is the case with 

 butter from alfalfa-fed cows; in fact, the butter is of a superior 

 quality to any I have made from other classes of feed," 



Mr. Gird further says: " I have about 1,000 cattle in the pens, 

 and am feeding as above stated. They are doing finely and take 

 to the feed in the course of about a week, when they seem to 

 eat it with more relish than anything that can be placed before 

 them. I think it important to chop the hay, and intimately 

 mix it with the pulp. I am using cornstalks, and by mixing 

 with the pulp in this manner they eat every particle, and 

 nothing is wasted." 



"My silo is 500 feet long, 60 wide and 10 deep; the pulp 

 is delivered into it from cars run on a trestle and taken out 

 on two racks laid on the bottom of the silo on each side of the 

 trestle, w.hich I find a very convenient plan. I have from 10,000 

 to 12,000 tons of pulp in the silo now in magnificent condition; 

 the cossettes (after having been freed from most of the moisture 

 by drains and other appliances) have about the consistence of 

 old cheese." 



In a speech before the Dairymen's Association of Southern 

 California, Mr. Gird expressed himself as follows: "My ex- 

 perience has been, that the dairy cattle will produce about the 

 the same amount of butter, and of even better quality, when 

 fed upon beet pulp than upon the best grass of pasture land. 

 Late in the winter of last year, when grass was exceedingly 

 good, after having fed pulp up to the time when it gave out, my 

 dairy foreman informed me that the amount of butter was 



