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Beet-root Distillery. 
No. III. — Extract from Professor Baudemenfs Report respecting Expm'i- 
mental Feeding of Sheep with Pulp, Visit to Messrs. Wartelle and 
Dehupre's Farms, 
Your Committee would consider they had but imperfectly fulfilled 
their tank had they not visited some of the farms which supply the 
Lieusaint Distillery with roots. In those belonging to Messrs. Wartelle 
and Deloupre we have gathered most interesting information. 
The former of these two intelligent agriculturists had made, during 
the winter season, a comparative experiment upon the feeding of two 
lots of sheep, each of ten animals ; the one fed upon dry fodder accord- 
ing to the custom of the country, the other upon pulp. 
The final result of this experiment, which lasted forty days, is as 
follows : — 
For an expenditure of II. I3s. 9d. in feeding one lot upon pulp, and 
of 1/. 14s. 7d. in feeding the other lot with dry fodder, the following 
difference in the returns was ascertained. 
The first lot fed upon pulp produced more than the other : — 
45 lbs. meat (net). 
6 lbs. 5 oz. t.allow. 
1030 lbs. manure. 
The return in mutton was 39 "457 per cent, of the live- weight for the 
lot of sheep fed with pulp; it was only 38 '073 per cent, for those fed 
with dry fodder. 
Mr. Wartelle concludes with us, from these results, that his pulp, 
which he had reckoned at Is. 4d, a ton, in his expenditure of 1/. I3s. 9d., 
has a far superior value. 
Mr. Deloupre sends every day to the Lieusaint Distillery a waggon- 
load of mangolds, together with three saci<s or three sacks and a half of 
cliafF, to be mixed up with tlie pulp from a ton of roots. Eacli sack 
weighs about 17 lbs.: this gives them a proportion of about 60 lbs. of 
chaff to 15 cwt. of pulp. 
The same waggon brings back to tlie farm the pulp of the previous 
day's distilling, ready mixed up with chaft' and fermented. Sometimes 
on its arrival at the farm a further quantity of chaff is added, in the 
proportion of 56 lbs. per hundred sheep. 
The rations are from 7 to 9 lbs. a-iiead for store sheep, and 22^ lbs. 
for fattening stock. A trial of 27 lbs. for ewes with suckling lambs 
succeeded well. 
We have never seen sheep-manure richer nor more abundant. 
Mr. Deloupre, before his contract with the owner of tlie Lieusaint 
Distillery, obtained his pulp from a neighbouring distillery, where the 
roots are soaked in water instead of the vinasse as used in Mr. Cham- 
ponnois' process. He told us there was a great difference between the 
two, and we have been enabled to test the accuracy of his remarks. 
The pulp produced by the water-process, on being mixed with chaff, 
does not enter into fermentation ; tiie sheep refuse to eat it, and the 
only means the farmer could think of to induce his Hock to consume 
tlie quantity which his contract still compelled him to fake from the 
water-.system distillery, was to mix it up with that which he received 
