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importance in beef, mutton or wool-growing much greater 

 than heretofore. These waste products are also becoming 

 quite numerous, and the location of these manufacturing 

 establishments widely distributed. 



CORN-STARCH FEED. Grape-sugar is now manufactured 

 in very large quantities from the starch of Indian corn, 

 and this leaves an immense quantity of refuse sugar or 

 starch-meal, which must be utilized as food for animals. It 

 thus becomes important to know its value, and how to com- 

 bine it in the cattle ration. Some establishments run 2,000 

 bushels corn per day; and the whole amount manufactured 

 does not probably fall much below ten millions of bushels 

 per year. This gives a large amount of refuse about 

 600,000 tons, including water, or about 200,000 tons of 

 dry matter. If this were relieved of its water, it would 

 bear transportation. Some manufacturers have adopted 

 the plan of subjecting it to pressure to expel a large part 

 of the water. The sample given in the analysis contained 

 72 per cent, of water ; and it will be observed that the pro- 

 portion of albuminoids is rather larger than in whole corn. 

 The corn-sugar waste is what is left of corn after extract- 

 ing all the starch that can be done by the present process 

 used, which is converted into grape-sugar ; but about ten 

 per cent, of the starch remains in the waste, together with 

 all the albuminoids not soluble in cold infusion. This 

 food, if taken before too much fermentation has set in, is 

 quite wholesome for cattle ; but it should not be fed alone. 

 We shall give rations including this food. 



BREWERS' GRAINS. This waste product has been longer 

 used, and is generally better known than corn-sugar meal; 

 but it has also been greatly abused by allowing it to attain 

 a high state of fermentation before feeding. This has 

 been one cause of bad milk resulting from its use, and 

 another that it has been fed almost without other food, it 

 being but a partial food in itself. This waste is more 



