DESCRIPTION OF FEED STUFFS 



beet molasses but is too high priced in most sections for 

 use in feeding except as a conditioner. Most of the mo- 

 lasses available for feeding is used up in commercial mo- 

 lasses feeds in which the molasses is usually combined 

 with a wide variety of feed products. Molasses combined 

 with good by-products makes a very good and highly 

 palatable feed. It is easy to use molasses to cover up 

 feeds either very high in fibre or of poor quality and low 

 food value so that it is very necessary that such mixed 

 feeds be secured only from reliable dealers and on the 

 basis of a definite guaranteed composition. Molasses ab- 

 sorbed by sphagnum moss or peat is called molassine 

 meal and is of value as a feed. It is usually too high in 

 price, considering its molasses content to be an economical 

 feed. Molasses and molasses feeds are not so well 

 adapted for poultry feeding as for feeding livestock, be- 

 cause with animals, feeds high in fiber can be made more 

 palatable by the addition of molasses. Feeds high in 

 fiber, however, are not adapted for poultry even though 

 they are made palatable by such substances as molasses, 

 since poultry are tmable to utilize fiber efficiently. It 

 would appear that any molasses feeds which are very 

 low in fiber content would be of considerable value and 

 highly palatable to poultry. 



DRIED distillers' GRAINS 



These are the by-products secured in the manufacture 

 of alcohol and other liquors, where corn, rye, and other 

 cereals are ground and treated with a solution of malt to 



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