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ses, either of them being about equal to hominy meal. 
Comparing three pounds of molasses beet pulp with two 
pounds of wheat bran, it was found that the pulp pro- 
duced 12 per cent more milk than the bran! In other 
experiments ? these two feeds were determined, to be about 
equal. Molasses pulp is usually considered to be more 
laxative than the pulp without the molasses. 
In addition to cattle, thousands of sheep are fattened 
on siloed beet pulp and alfalfa hay near the sugar fac- 
tories of the West. Pulp has proved to be an excellent 
feed both for fattening and breeding animals. The meat 
is of excellent quality and much sought for in the larger 
markets. As in the case of steers, it is advisable grad- 
ually to increase the pulp ration until the finishing-off 
period, when the pulp is substituted by a less bulky feed. 
The addition of four-tenths of a pound of grain a day to 
a full pulp and alfalfa-hay ration was found to reduce 
the amount of pulp and hay, respectively, by about five 
and about two times the weight of the grain. It was not 
considered advisable to feed more than four-tenths of a 
pound of grain to sheep on pulp and alfalfa, and whether 
it should be fed at all or not depends on the prices of the 
feed. Colorado experiments‘ show that a ton of wet 
pulp has about the same feeding value as 200 pounds of 
corn for fattening lambs. Dried beet pulp has been 
found ® to produce larger gains with growing lambs on 
1 Wis. Exp. Sta. Ann. Ropt., 1905. 
2 Hills, J. L., Ver. Exp. Sta, Ann. Rpt., 1904, p. 484. 
3 Merrill, L. A., and Clark, R. W., Utah Exp. Sta., Bul. No. 90. 
4Griffin, H. H., Colo. Exp. Sta., Bul. No. 76. 
5Shaw, R.8., Mich. Exp. Sta., Bul, No. 220. 
