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tive organs, which in some instances would terminate 

 fatally. Similar results would follow from feeding some 

 other grain foods alone, but perhaps not quite so quickly. 

 When rich concentrates are fed in self-feeders, they 

 should be diluted, so to speak, by mixing with them other 

 foods, such as wheat, bran, oats or wheat screenings. 

 When the excess of concentration for such feeding of 

 these foods alone is thus lowered sufficiently, it is possi- 

 ble to feed any kind of grain, however' rich, in self-feeders 

 with reasonable safety. 



Fattening sheep on sugar beet pulp — Sheep and 

 lambs are in some instances fattened in a large way in 

 proximity to sugar beet factories. The principal food fed 

 is sugar beet pulp ; but, of course, other adjuncts are fed 

 more or less in conjunction with the pulp. The sheep are 

 kept in yards. In mild areas, as, for instance the valleys 

 of Colorado and other mountain states of a similar or 

 lower latitude, sheds are not provided, but in areas with 

 colder winters and frequent precipitation, as Michigan, 

 sheds are necessary. In the middle areas referred to, the 

 pulp is usually drawn from the pit or inclosure into which 

 it is conveyed from the factory. It is drawn from day to 

 day. In some instances it is fed in troughs. In other 

 instances the feed of hay for the day is strewn along the 

 fence that surrounds the yard. The pulp is thrown onto 

 this hay from the wagons which convey it. The sheep 

 eat the pulp, and thus the hay, by putting their heads 

 through an opening between the fence boards that has 

 been made for such a use. There is some waste from such 

 feeding, but not so much as would be looked for by those 

 unaccustomed to seeing it. When feeding small lots on 

 the farm and more distant from the factories, it would be 

 necessary when the winter climate is severe, to draw the 

 pulp and put it in a silo before the season of hard freez- 

 ing. From this it may, of course, be fed at will as desired. 



The pulp may be fed ever so freely to the sheep. It 

 has been claimed that it is more valuable as a food than 



