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would be $20,000,000 by beet-pulp feeding. The beet-tops and 

 leaves are estimated to be worth S2 per acre for feeding pur- 

 poses. By the proper utilization of these, combined with the 

 residuum pulp from factories, there would follow a valuable 

 saving over the average cost of to-day. 



Prof. Nicholson at the time stated, that the Standard Cattle 

 Co. at Ames, Nebraska, fed pulp in three rations: First, ten 

 pounds of oil cake and corn meal to from seventy to ninety 

 pounds of pulp; second, six pounds of oil cake and meal to one 

 hundred pounds of pulp; third, twenty-three pounds of ensilage 

 to seventy pounds of pulp. 



Mr. Allen some time since addressed to a government official 

 the following remarks on silos which would hardly be acceptable 

 in Europe: "The surplus that accumulates beyond requirements 

 is thrown from the cars near the factory into a large pile awaiting 

 use after the campaign is over and the fresh supply from the 

 factory is cut off. From our experience I judge it is not neces- 

 sary to take pains to preserve the pulp. At some sugar factories 

 more or less expensive silos have been made, one, for instance, 

 at Ogden, Utah, and similar ones at Lehi. I have no doubt 

 there is a saving of pulp by the use of these silos, but I should 

 judge the interest on the cost of these silos and the additional 

 labor required in getting the pulp out would exceed the value 

 of the pulp lost." 



The experiments of the Standard Cattle Co. continue to be a 

 pronounced success. The resident of the company wrote to a 

 trade journal two years since as follows: " The past winter we 

 fed on pulp 30,000 sheep which were fed regularly the figures 

 herewith are averages and include all classes of sheep. The 

 heaviest wethers sold averaged 135 Ibs. and heaviest lambs 100 

 Ibs. at market. Some of the sheep sold on the Omaha market 

 killed out 52 per cent, of dressed mutton. 



" We have not, even to the largest sheep, fed to exceed eleven 

 pounds per head a day at any time and our maximum average 

 feed was ten pounds a day. We are inclined to think that this 

 is too large a feed of pulp for grown sheep, and that seven or 

 eight pounds is rather more than should be fed to lambs. 



' At first the effect of heavy pulp feed is not perceptible, but 



