272 FEEDING WITH SUGAR BEETS, SUGAR, ETC. 



After this, cover the mass for an hour or two, to allow the 

 fodder combination time to completely absorb the molasses. 

 Then knead energetically, adding by degrees 150 kilos of 

 crushed maize, 100 kilos of crushed barley and 100 kilos of 

 crushed oats, which results in a consistent pasty product. The 

 latter is now left for 2 or 3 hours and is then cut into pieces, 

 which are run through rollers to be made into cakes 10 to 15 

 mm. thick, and subsequently dried. The mass is then ready 

 to be used as a fodder. 



The inventor claims that these ground cakes, prepared with 

 the ingredients and in the proportions indicated, form a com- 

 plete fodder on which an animal, if need be, could be exclus- 

 ively fed. As the fodder already contains chopped straw, there 

 is no necessity for additional constituents. It is important to 

 follow the operations in the indicated order, and it is also essen- 

 tial that the different substances be thoroughly mixed. 



Glucose and rice The Delattre molasses combination, while it was introduced 

 flour molasses severa i years since, has not met with the success that was 

 hoped, notwithstanding the fact that it has many very valuable 

 characteristics. Up to the time that it was introduced the main 

 use of molasses in cattle feeding was simply for sprinkling 

 hay and forages, but the residuum was never considered as 

 an actual mainstay in feeding. In this Delattre method, it was 

 claimed that molasses was the mainstay, the basis upon which 

 the feeding depended. The composition consisted of 100 parts 

 glucose and 50 parts rice flour combined with molasses. These 

 combinations undergo certain variations, but in all cases the 

 ingredients introduced are such as to keep the general propor- 

 tions of the constituents about the same, viz.: Proteids 26.7 

 percent., fatty substances 5.40 per cent., carbohydrates 21.16 

 per cent, sugar 20.82 per cent., water 12.45 per cent., ash and 

 cellulose 13.44 per cent. 



Feeds sprinkled Not long since A. Guttmann addressed a German agricultural 



with molasses mee ting on molasses feeding, and as he has given the product a 



der ^ssure"" P ractical trial during a period of ten years what he says is of more 



than usual interest. Five hundred to 600 working oxen and 300 



horses are used on his farm. For several years past 5 kilos of 



molasses have been fed per diem to each animal of 550 to 600 



