

SUGAR RATIONS FOR BULLS AND HEIFERS. 313 



Now that there are excellent prospects of the United States 

 manufacturing all the sugar consumed, beet-sugar manufact- 

 urers of France and Germany are asking themselves to what 

 new use can sugar be put? The cheapness of sugar on the 

 British market has been the starting point of a new jam and 

 other allied industries, and efforts have been made to feed cattle 

 with sugar that sold for two cents a pound. On certain farms 

 coming under the writer's notice satisfactory results have been 

 obtained. In some experimental stations of France the question 

 has been seriously discussed, and the experiments made by 

 M. Malpeaux, professor of an influential agricultural school of 

 the country are of interest. The importance of sugar in the 

 development of muscle was above referred to, but it is interest- 

 ing to add that sugar, which is a carbohydrate, also fattens and 

 nourishes man or animal when it is eaten with certain modera- 

 tion. During the entire century the authorities have never 

 exactly agreed as to the origin of fat in the animal frame, but 

 of late the question has been settled, and the experiments at 

 Rothamsted, England, have demonstrated beyond cavil that 

 sugar could be transformed into fat. 



The practical experiments recently made in France upon Experimental 



bulls and heifers are of more than ordinary interest. The suflar rations 



for bulls and 

 daily rations consisted of 4.4 Ibs. clover hay, 11 Ibs. oat straw, . ., 



06 Ibs. special corn fodder, 2.2 Ibs. cotton oil cake, 2.2 Ibs. 

 grindings of rye and beans, to which was added one pound of 

 sugar. The experiments lasted fifty days; during the first 

 twenty-five days only one bull received sugar, the other animal 

 being used as a standard of comparison; the result was a gain 

 in weight of 6.6 Ibs. in favor of sugar. The roles were reversed 

 during the next twenty-five days with an increase of 8.8 Ibs. in 

 favor of sugar. The increase of live weight for the bulls with 

 sugar rations was 79.2 Ibs., while without sugar it was 63.8 Ibs., 

 or a gain of 15.4 Ibs. With sugar the first bull had a daily 

 increase of 1.5 Ibs., and without sugar the increase was 1.3 Ibs.; 

 with sugar the increase per diem of the second bull was 1.7 Ibs.. 

 and without sugar, 1.3 Ibs. With the heifers the increase was 

 even more evident; the first heifer with sugar had a daily 

 increase of 1.7 Ibs., and without sugar, 1.5 Ib. ; with sugar the 



