Report on Ckcshire Dairy-Farmincj. 
IGo 
In Belgium fattening beasts are sometimes fed upon notliing 
else but the refuse pulp of sugar manufactories. Considerinti, 
the state in which stock is usually sold to the butcher in that 
country, it may answer the purpose of the manufacturer, who 
frequently keeps a number of fattening beasts, to dispose of his 
refuse pulp in this way ; but for the requirements of the English 
meat market I believe it would not be possible to get fattening 
beasts in a sufficiently good condition by feeding them exclusively 
upon pulp. 
Beet-root pulp is rather deficient in flesh-forming compounds, 
and hence the atlmixture of some meal or cake to pulp suggests 
itself as appropriate for supplying this deficiency. Cotton-cake 
in particular can be strongly recommended as an additional food 
for beasts fed upon pulp, for it not only makes up for the deficiency 
of flesh-forming matters in the pulp, but its binding properties 
are particularly useful in counteracting the tendency of the pulp 
to scour. 
Milch-cows may also be fed with advantage upon pulp and bean- 
meal, or pulp and cotton-cake. Indeed, a fair allowance of bean- 
meal or cotton-cake, and as much pulp as the cows will eat, 
produces both abundance of milk and milk of good quality. 
Pigs are fond of old pulp, and they do well upon it if they 
receive at the same time barley or pea-meal, or a mixture of both 
meals. 
Beet-root pulp, selling at 125. a ton, unquestionably is a cheap 
and valuable food, which may be used as a good substitute for roots. 
At that price, and even at a somewhat higher figure, I doubt 
not the refuse pulp of sugar manufactories will always command a 
ready sale in England. 
Laboratory, 11, Salisbury Square, Fleet-street, B.C., 
January, 1870. 
IX. — Report on Cheshire Dairy- Farming* 
By H. M. Jenkins, F.G.S. 
Twenty-five years have elapsed since Mr. Palin's Prize-essay 
on the Farming of Cheshire was published in the fifth volume of 
this Journal (pp. 57-111) ; and in the interval it does not appear 
* This Eeport was unavoidably omitted from the series to which it belongs, 
published in the last Number of the Journal. Mr. Statter, of Stand Hall, Wliite- 
iiekl, Manchester, accompanied me m the visit of inspection paid to the] farms 
described. 
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