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rollers of the mill and caused a heating of the machinery. To secure 

 the full feeding value of the pod grinding in some manner was neces- 

 sary. Experiments were continued until the successful grinding of 

 the pods was accomplished by two methods : 



(1) By kiln drying the pods and grinding in the mills used for mak- 

 ing alfalfa meal. 



(2) By using a machine, devised by C. W. Renear, of Honolulu, in 

 which a small spray of water is used to keep the rolls clear of the 

 gummy substance. 



The finished product obtained by the first method is fine, while 

 the product of the second is coarse. As to the difference in feeding 

 value, nothing is known. In both methods, however, the seed is 

 crushed and more of the full value should be obtained. 



While to the dairyman, liveryman, contractor, plantation manager, 

 or to others who feed their animals in barns or yards the grinding of 

 feed will result in saving, yet to the ranchman this saving is not pos- 

 sible, since his stock pick up the beans and consume them on the spot. 



Women, children, and aged or infirm men of various nationalities 

 pick up the beans along the roadsides, in yards, or in unused fields 

 and sell them to consumers and to the feed mills at 10 and 15 cents 

 per barley bag. 



The algaroba is a great help to ranchmen in carrying their stock 

 through the dry season. In years of drought there is some loss of 

 the cattle for want of feed, and this time of scarcity has been bridged 

 over by the algaroba in a satisfactory manner. The pods fall from 

 June until November, but the heaviest fall is during July and August, 

 or just when most needed. 



Exclusive feeding on algaroba beans is not dangerous, but because 

 of the richness of the feed it is better to feed some roughage with the 

 beans. After being in the algaroba belt for some time, the cattle 

 become ravenous for other feed and will eat leaves, twigs, and bark of 

 shrubs and trees which are not touched at other times. Even the marsh 

 plant (akulikuli) is eaten. On some of the ranches the watering 

 troughs are placed so as to compel the animals to come out of the 

 algaroba for water. In so doing they feed more or less on other 

 plants. Ranch managers think that they are benefited by so doing. 

 When milk cows are fed on algaroba, milk consumers complain of a 

 bad flavor in the milk. In some cases, bowel troubles in children 

 have been attributed to the feeding of the algaroba by dairymen. 



One of the great problems of the ranches is to provide other forage 

 to supplement the algaroba. Corn stover when shredded and baled 

 partly solves the problem, but the quantity of such feed is too meager. 

 Dry-land grasses and plants of the poorer kinds, grown just above the 

 algaroba belt, must be relied upon to help in the solution of the prob- 

 lem, while saltbushes may aid upon salty lands near the coast. Sand 



