224 FEEDING WITH SUGAR BEETS, SUGAR, ETC. 



after a while it is extremely diuretic in its effects and, we 

 thought, produced a malady from which a number of sheep 

 died. 



" We regard seven pounds of pulp per day to lambs and ten 

 pounds to sheep a maximum beyond which it is not safe to go. 

 The total pulp fed was 11,971 tons." 



In a recent correspondence with Mr. Allen upon the subject, 

 he says: "There is no extended information respecting feeding 

 pulp to cattle, as this is the first winter in which we are using 

 it in any volume, and the feeding season is not yet half through; 

 therefore, the only figures I can show you are those of sheep 

 feeding. It will take years before there is any valued recorded 

 experience in pulp feeding. I send you figures regarding our 

 cattle feeding in order that you may see what a variety of pro- 

 ducts are fed to cattle and where the pulp will come in. No 

 doubt we are this winter making a valuable saving of food pro- 

 ducts by the use of pulp, but we cannot demonstrate it in figures. 

 I send you also some of our tables which may aid you a little. 



"We are this year feeding 4,000 cattle and 31,500 sheep, 

 which are being fed on pulp with other products. And we 

 have also been able to make very good use of the beet tops left 

 in the fields, having grazed our cattle altogether through a period 

 of more than 60 days on as many as 1500 acres of beet fields 

 after harvesting, getting therefrom possibly as much as $10,- 

 000.00 in food. 



"In this part of the country where corn has been the only 

 food product understood and appreciated by farmers, pulp has 

 been little appreciated, and probably some experiments of feed- 

 ing in midwinter have not been successful. It is gaining ground, 

 however, in public opinion. W T here it can be fed without freez- 

 ing, its value is no doubt great enough to be well worth consid- 

 ering in a sugar proposition. I have been very careful about 

 what I have said about pulp, but we feel now that it has greater 

 value than w r e have ever yet felt free to claim for it. I append 

 hereto our superintendent's opinion as to the value of beet pulp. 



" In feeding 300 steers in one yard, we fed from one and one 

 half to two loads of cut fodder per day with all the pulp they 

 would clean up. The fodder weighs about 3,000 Ibs. to the 



