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Prof. Wiley in this letter gives the composition of a 
beet pulp containing 6o per cent of water, as follows : 
Per Cent. 
Moisture, 60.00 
Ash, 3.21 
Crude protein, 2.98 
Fiber, 8.72 
Non-nitrogenous matter, 24.77 
Fats, 27 
Total, 99-95 
At the Lehi sugar factory the pulp is carefully stored in 
immense silos built in the ground, without any covering. 
About half a per cent in weight of salt is sprinkled on every 
layer of pulp as it goes into the silos. These two silos are 
built of heavy timber and are 10 feet deep 20 feet wide on 
the bottom, 24 feet wide on top and 800 feet long. Storage 
capacity of both, 14,000 tons of pulp. They are floored. 
Tracks are run into the center of these silos, which are 
open at one end. A water-way is built under the center of 
the tracks, to carry away the water draining from the wet 
pulp. The tracks run between the feed yards, and horses 
pull the small cars out of the silos. The pulp is fed in open 
troughs and the alfalfa hay from racks. The pulp is fed to 
both cattle and sheep. The stock have always access to 
plenty of hay, pulp and water. They 7 iever Jeed a pound of 
^rai 7 i in pattenmg the stock, unless the pulp gives out. In 
1895 they fed the pulp which had accumulated for three 
years. Both here and at Eddy the sheep seemed especially 
fond of the dry pulp from the top of the silos. 
The cattle at Lehi were put on this feed November 3, 
1897, and the sheep about two weeks later. The cattle get on 
full feed in about ten days, and the sheep at once. They 
were a rough lot of cattle but many were then (Dec. 20) 
ready for the butcher. The sheep were mostly May lambs, 
with about ‘200 Head of broken mouthed ewes. They were 
in splendid condition, not ten poor sheep in the lot. Supt. .- 
George Austin says that they feed about a hundred days; 
that cattle consume about 15 pounds of hay and 100 pounds 
of pulp per day, and the sheep two pounds of hay and three 
to four pounds of pulp per day. He said from the way the 
sheep were gaining they would reach the market averaging 
90 pounds per head. (They were weighed into the yard at 
60 pounds per head.) He also says that the pulp gives the 
best results after fermenting in the silos for thirty days, and 
should not be fed before then. He says that if there be any 
