246 FEEDING WITH SUGAR BEETS, SUGAR, ETC. 



weighing 320 to 350 kilos was 10 kilos wheat middlings, 3 kilos 

 molasses, 3 kilos crushed barley and 1 kilo oil cake. After fifty 

 days' feeding the steers were in an excellent condition. There 

 can be no doubt as to the possibility of substituting oil cake for 

 residuum cossettes. but it must be done gradually. 



Pig feeding Very little data has been published respecting experiments in 

 with molasses, pjg f ee( jj n g } DU t those that are known may, upon general 

 principles, be considered favorable. For example, Jorss 

 records that after seven days feeding of two pigs with 2 kilos of 

 molasses per diem there followed an increase of weight corre- 

 sponding to 835 grams per diem on an average. This authority 

 is an advocate of liquid molasses, and recommends it in this 

 form for pigs. It must be diluted with two to three times its 

 volume of hot water, to which is added some cereal waste, the 

 whole being left in a heap in that steeping condition for 24 hours. 



Experience shows that it is not desirable to feed pigs with 

 molasses until they weigh at least 50 kilos. When this weight 

 is reached one may feed 1 per cent, of their weight of this pro- 

 duct. Sows, on the other hand, should not be allowed more 

 than 0.5 per cent. Molasses produces an excellent meat when 

 fed at the same time as corn, and under no circumstances should 

 it ever be lacking in a pig-feeding establishment. However, 

 certain precautions are necessary so as not to push this quantity 

 to an excess, as in reaching a limit of 3 per cent, there are dan- 

 gers of intestinal complications, which means an impossibility 

 of sausage-making. 



According to Miesol and Bersch, the non-sugar of molasses 

 takes a great part in the phenomenon of assimilation, as experi- 

 ments with 1 kilo of molasses upon pigs showed when com- 

 pared with sugar and starch fed under like circumstances. 

 Both the meat and the fat were of excellent quality. 



Fay and Frederikson have fed pigs with skimmed milk and 

 beaten milk, and likewise milk waste. As soon as the animals 

 reach 25 kilos in weight the forage consisted of barley, corn, 

 pollen, oil meal, one-third flour, and two-thirds molasses. 

 The amount of forage molasses fed was increased so as to con- 

 stitute one-third, one-half, or even two-thirds of the ration, but 

 experience showed that the increase of weight was not propor- 

 tional to the increase of the amount of molasses fed. 



