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factories after most of the sugar was extracted and it was, in a 

 measure, rendered worthless for feeding purposes. 



In 1885 the sugar crisis demanded that certain measures be 

 taken to find some means of increasing the sugar consumption 

 in continental Europe, and therefore molasses was proposed as 

 a forage. 



The cost of this residuum upon the market decreased, thus 

 rendering its utilization feasible, and as a result numerous in- 

 vestigations were made and taken up by the community in gen- 

 eral. As matters now stand, the combinations may be consid- 

 ered a staple commodity on the usual markets, so much so that 

 in Germany, in 1895, of 220 beet-sugar factories replying to General use of 

 questions put to them by a well-known authority, 130 declared molasses * or 



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that they sold their molasses for feeding purposes in the propor- ^ 



tion of 10 to 100 per cent, of their production. Twelve of these 

 establishments got rid of all their molasses. 



The amount of molasses used for feeding purposes in Ger- 

 many represented 27.6 per cent, of the total production during 

 the campaign of 1901, and this fact alone shows to what extent 

 the subject has been taken up in that country, it being not only 

 the agricultural community that has become interested, but also 

 the army at large. 



The advantages for horses are self-evident. Stift says it is Increasing pop- 

 much to be regretted that, in Austria, there still exists a certain ularity of 

 prejudice against molasses combinations, mainly due to the bad jn jn ^ [JQ 

 management of the middle-man. The army of the country is Hungary, 

 the sufferer. 



In Austro-Hungary, during 1900 and 1901, 6 per cent, of the 

 total molasses production was used as a forage. In this same 

 country 127 of the sugar factories got rid of their molasses in 

 this way. It was fed directly to cattle, or in a diluted form, 

 mixed with chopped straw, cereal waste, concentrates, peat, etc. 

 Certain factories manufacture this feeding stuff, made up of 

 molasses and peat, dried cossettes, brewers' grains, palm-oil 

 cake, etc. 



In Bohemia, two establishments prepare this fodder and col- 

 lect the raw material at the factory proper. As an industry it 

 would have attained an even greater extension in that country 



