276 FEEDING WITH SUGAR BEETS, SUGAR, ETC. 



series of experiments upon 60 cows this percentage rose from 

 2.89 to 3.3 per cent., the quantity of milk in this case increas- 

 ing by 10 quarts per diern. In another series of the early 

 experiments made with 12 cows in Austria, the quantity of 

 molasses fed was daily increased from one pound to 2J pounds. 

 The total molasses fed was about 100 Ibs., and as a consequence 

 the volume of milk increased by 35 quarts during the last five 

 days of the experiment. Mention may be made of Ramm'? 

 experiments, in which the standard ration of the cows was 10 

 Ibs. hay, 3 Ibs. chopped straw, 50 Ibs. forage beets, 4 Ibs. of 

 flour per 1000 Ibs. live weight. Here again the quality and 

 quantity of milk was considerably increased. In Vibrans' ex- 

 periments the hay and chopped straw fed were sprinkled with 

 molasses and subsequently thoroughly combined; then sprinkled 

 with cotton-seed flour and again mixed. The results obtained 

 were far more satisfactory than had hitherto been realized. The 

 first mentioned experimenter gave to sheep 36 Ibs. per 1000 Ibs. 

 live weight. With pigs only 4 Ibs. per 1000 Ibs. live weight 

 could be advantageously fed. 



Vibrans has been able to make an excellent fodder, which is 

 very compact and dry, by combining 3 per cent, residuum 

 molasses with 1 per cent, pulverized straw. The straw has an 

 important advantage over peat, as in itself it contains important 

 nourishing properties. The use of beet molesses for cattle-feed- 

 ing is not new, and in France, as early as 1829, M. J. J. Ber- 

 nard diluted molasses to 20 B. and combined it with chopped 

 straw and fed it to cattle, horses and sheep. 



Molasses and Molasses and straw combinations were at one time very much 

 straw combine- j n VO gue. In order to make the mixture the straw had to be 

 reduced to a powder, and it was claimed that it would have all 

 the advantages and none of the disadvantages of the peat- 

 molasses compounds. The apparatus needed is most simple 

 and may be managed by any farmer. 



Seidel mixes diluted molasses with chopped straw for grow- 

 ing steers, which have been fed during the first month with 1^ 

 kilos of molasses per head and per diem; then 2 kilos per head 

 and per diem, which means about 4 per cent, of the animal's 

 weight, and he thereby obtained excellent results, the meat 



