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reduced nearly one-third in the week after stopping the feeding 

 of beet pulp." * * * 



" On December 16, 1893, I put 20 steers in a corral by them- 

 selves, and fed them each about 70 pounds pulp per day, with 

 about five or six pounds rough hay or straw. * * * They 

 weighed the day they were put in the corral 40,465 Ibs., and 

 were fed on pulp for 48 days. On February 2, 1894, they 

 were taken out and weighed, their total being 43,125 Ibs., or a 

 gain in 48 days of 2,660 Ibs.; this was 133 Ibs. each, which is 

 very good. * * * 



"I have a silo calculated to hold 18,000 or 20,000 tons of 

 pulp, being merely an immense trench dug in the ground, 60 

 feet wide, 10 feet deep and about 500 feet long. * * * I add a 

 very small amount of salt to the pulp while being siloed. * * * 

 The ease with which this pulp can be siloed and kept, is the 

 great point in its favor, as it not only practically siloes itself, 

 but becomes better as it gets older." * * * 



Xo better evidence could be given of the increasing demand Experiments at 

 for the residuum beet cossettes than the description given of the Oxnard. 

 Oxnard stock yards as described in the Courier. They were 

 built in 1900, and there are four, the two larger ones being 

 on an average 275 feet long, 45 feet wide and 9 feet deep, and 

 the two smaller ones 250 feet long, 35 feet wide and 9 feet deep. 

 The sides are sloping and the pulp is filled in to a level with the 

 surface of the ground. The two smaller ones were the only ones 

 filled in 1900, and contained 224 cars of pulp with an average 

 weight of 35 tons to the car, making the amount of pulp stored 

 approximately 6000 tons; this means the weight when first put 

 into the excavations it shrinks about one- third by the time 

 it is fed to stock. The yards are north of the silos, and are 

 divided into four rows of large corrals, between which the 

 cars run. There are twenty-three of these corrals, and ten 

 mangers of pulp troughs in each one just inside the fence by 

 the car track. Nine of them are filled with pulp and the last 

 one with salt. At the side of each corral opposite the places 

 where the pulp is fed, hay and straw are placed. The cars which 

 contain 8 tons of pulp are drawn up the track between the 

 corrals and the pulp is unloaded into the troughs with forks. In 



