316 FEEDING WITH SUGAR BEETS, SUGAR, ETC. 



This data shows that of all the feeds used for working horses, 

 hay is the least desirable for keeping the animal in a normal 

 condition. The maximum work was accomplished with a 

 ration containing the smallest percentage of nitrogenous ele- 

 ments (243 grams ration corn and sugar), and the richest in 

 hydrocarbons, mainly sugar (5.422 kilos, or nearly 12 Ibs. ). 

 The work increased with the caloric value of the ration, and the 

 sugar ration in every respect was the most desirable. An inter- 

 esting paradox in these experiments, and to many it will be a 

 source of astonishment, was that the thirst of the animal did 

 not increase with the quantity of sugar consumed. The most 

 work was accomplished when the nutritive ratio was only 1:22. 3, 

 and the horse receiving the largest amount of nitrogenous feed, 

 accomplished the least. 



Difficulties to A great obstacle found in the use of sugar as a forage in 

 contend with in Europe, up to the present time at least, has been the fiscal ques- 

 tion, as both in Germany and France the home taxation of the 

 i ceding. 



product is such that its expense is too great for its general in- 

 troduction for feeding. On the part of these Governments, 

 there has always been a certain apprehension of the possibility 

 of frauds arising from the withdrawal of the existing modes of 

 taxation. It has been suggested that sugar be mixed with ver- 

 mouth powder, also lamp soot and salt, so as to render its 

 use for human consumption impossible. Gonnermann has 

 lately proposed the denaturation of sugar by the means of peat. 

 The German government in 1891 made some changes in the 

 existing law and determined that the denaturated sugar should 

 not be taxed provided it was made under the control of the 

 state. 



