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been in excellent health, and the combination has resulted in 

 considerable profit to the company. 



On certain French farms where diffusion pulps had been 

 combined with wheat straw and 2 kilos of oil cake, 3 kilos of 

 molasses were substituted for the latter. The steers con- 

 tinued to fatten, and were in much better condition than in 

 former years. In the case of working oxen, 2 kilos of molasses 

 were used instead of 1.250 grams oil cake, while horses received 

 1.500 kilos of molasses per diem. 



Suitable receptacles for raw molasses and its transportation 

 form difficult problems for the farmer, whereas molasses-forage 

 combinations may be shipped in bags. The first efforts in 

 this direction were those made with palm-oil cake, for the 

 simple reason that it was possible to obtain a combination con- 

 sisting of 60 per cent, molasses and 40 per cent, oil cake, which 

 was mainly used for milch cow feeding. 



Blood molasses There is another forage to which a great deal of attention has 

 combinations, been given of late, and that is a mixture of animal blood with 

 molasses. For many years molasses has been mixed with fresh 

 blood to form a forage for pigs and also for horses and lambs. 

 Blood has a very considerable nutritive value, which has been 

 long since demonstrated by Sanborn. Its principal function 

 consists in forming muscular tissue, and this is made evident 

 by examining its composition, which is, according to Bunge, 

 about as follows: 



Globules, Serum, 



31.87 per cent. 68.13 per cent. 



Per cent. Per cent. 



Water 19.12 62.22 



Heine-globulin and albumin . 12.36 4.99 



Unknown organic substances . 0.24 0.38 



Ash 0.15 0.54 



According to Misl and Strohmer, the average composition for 

 ten analyses of blood-molasses combinations as now used was: 

 Water, 77.93 per cent.; protein, 20.88 per cent.; unknown 

 organic substances, 0.96 per cent.; ash, 0.82 per cent. 



