252 FEEDING WITH SUGAR BEETS, SUGAR, ETC. 



allowed at will, and during the first days they were permitted 

 to run around the stable for a quarter of an hour. All these 

 rations are calculated upon a basis of 1,000 kilos live weight. 

 The increase in weight per individual during the ten days with 

 different combinations varied from to 0. 7 kilos. 



The preparations experimented with were accepted by the 

 animals fed with one exception, and this was possibly due to 

 the fact that it contained cacao wastes, which are bitter. 

 Another ration resulted in a violent diarrhoea. It contained 

 4.8 kilos of molasses for 1,000 kilos live weight, while the 

 others, of which the effects \vere not unfavorable, contained 

 only 4 kilos of molasses. With this molasses forage sheep were 

 in a most excited condition, which is contrary to the obser- 

 vations of Ramm, who has never been able to notice an unfavor- 

 able influence upon the animal or its wool from molasses feeding. 



The increase of weight caused by a kilo of sugar consumed 

 represents in value 54 pfennigs (about 5 cents per Ib. ), but 

 sugar in the molasses is only worth 14 pfennigs (about 1 \ cents). 

 Consequently the feeding with molasses may be considered very 

 lucrative, while feeding with sugar is supposed to be quite the 

 contrary. 



Desirable limits The quantity of molasses it is possible to feed depends partly 

 in molasses upon the suguar it contains. The salt constituents of such 

 feeding. molasses do not all possess the same action, and are not con- 

 tained in all molasses in the same proportion. Hoppe has 

 noticed that acid molasses gives far better results in feeding 

 steers than when the residuum is alkaline. The forage added 

 to the molasses during feeding also has an important influence 

 and brings about very varied results. The general nature of the 

 animal fed is also a factor to be taken into consideration. 



Herewith are the quantities recommended by some authori- 

 ties: 



