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Concentrated Feeding-stuffs. [July, 



the oils of oil-cakes. Practical experience with rice meal 

 shows it to be best suited for pigs. It is one of the commonest 

 ingredients of compound cakes, owing to its cheapness and 

 richness in oil. 



Treacle, or Molasses.— This is a substance which can 

 often be very profitably employed. When of good quality it 

 contains about 50 to 60 per cent, of sugar, and consequently 

 has considerable feeding value, whilst it is much relished by 

 cattle. When mixed with water, and used at the rate of a 

 pound per head per day to moisten chaff, treacle is a very 

 useful addition to a diet, especially when roots are scarce. 



Molasses is now largely employed as a cattle food when 

 absorbed by dried peat (moss litter) or by the pith of the 

 sugar-cane. In this form the food is more convenient to 

 handle than when in a liquid state. Care should be exercised, 

 however, to avoid purchasing the convenience too dearly, 

 where the absorbent material is highly indigestible. 



A section of the Revenue Act, 1903, provides that molasses 

 imported into Great Britain and Ireland shall not be liable to 

 duty if intended solely for the purpose of food for stock. 



Cod-Liver Oil. — Although cod-liver oil has not yet taken 

 a place amongst the staple foods of the farm, the attention of 

 farmers may be drawn to the fact that several practical experi- 

 ments have been conducted, showing considerable success 

 from the use of this substance as a food for calves. The 

 function of the oil is to supply the place of cream when rearing 

 calves on separated or skim milk. It is given to the calves 

 after they are about six weeks old, and in quantities up to 

 2 oz. per head per day. Calves reared on separated milk and 

 cod-liver oil do not gain in weight so rapidly as those fed on 

 whole milk ; but they will, if proper care be exercised, remain 

 perfectly healthy, and they are reared at less than half the 

 cost. It is a great advantage to continue to give the oil for 

 some time after the milk has been stopped. The beef from 

 animals fed in the early stages of their existence on cod-liver 

 oil is in no sense inferior in quality to that from animals 

 reared on whole milk. (See also Leaflet No. 142, Calf 

 Rearing.) 



Note. — In order to obtain an analysis of a feeding stuff 



which would serve as evidence under the Fertilisers and 



