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Per cent. 



Moisture 80.1 



Ash 6.47 



Fatty substances 0.40 



Nitrogenous substances 8.77 



Cellulose 17.61 



Non-nitrogenous 60.31 



Molasses and dried cossettes have a more favorable action 

 upon the organism when considered from a general point of view 

 than has molasses when fed separately; furthermore, owing to 

 the more or less resisting texture of the residuum in question, 

 the substances that fill the digestive canal have greater consist- 

 ency, which is certainly an advantage, as it obviates all possi- 

 bility of diarrhoea that molasses in a certain degree always 

 creates. It would thus appear that molasses increases in cer- 

 tain cases the assimilation of the nitrogenous substances of the 

 cossettes, and one may notice, with this forage, an important 

 augmentation in the weight of the animals to which it is fed. 



Xatanson has attempted to prepare molasses cossettes in an Molasses 

 entirely different way. While this method has never been cossette prtpar- 

 practically accepted, it is, nevertheless, interesting to give it a at . ion in 

 passing notice. Into the diffusors proper, containing the 

 exhausted cossettes, molasses is introduced in a more or less 

 diluted form. The sugar that it contains passes, by osmosis, 

 into the interior of the cells of the cossettes and accumulates in 

 increasing quantities. The operation is stopped when the 

 excess of molasses in the cossettes is such that the compound 

 contains 63.47 per cent, of carbohydrates, of which 41 per cent, 

 is sacchaiose. According to Petermann these cossettes will 

 keep for a period of six months without undergoing the slightest 

 change. 



Strohmer says that a good mixture may be obtained with 2 Molasses end 

 per cent, dried cossettes, 10 per cent, water, and one per cent, dried cossettes 

 molasses heated to 40 C. After cooling and having remained in combinatl n- 

 for several days in a cold environment, the product can be put 

 in bags, or it may be pressed into cakes, the form in which 

 many of the staple oil meals used in cattle feeding are often 

 found on the market. In some cases it is found desirable to 



