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criticism on this feed, it is that the stock ^et too fat, but that 
the sheep top the Chicago market and find ready sale also 
in foreign markets. They have not nearly enough pulp to 
supply the local demand. 
At the Eddy, N. M. factory stock yards they are feeding 
only sheep this season. The sheep there are said to use 
per day eight pounds of pulp and one pound of hay per 
head per day. 
PTom the Grand Island factory pulp is furnished to feed 
sheep at Shelton, Nebraska. Ed Graham, (manager for 
E. E. Swift) and Matthews and Stockwell are feeding there. 
The latter wrote Jan. i, 1898, that they are feeding 25,000 
head of lambs on the pulp; that they consume about three 
pounds per head per day, and that the freight on pulp is 30 
cents per ton from Grand Island. 
John Reimers has fed pulp to cattle for three years 
at Grand Island. He uses about 50 pounds of 
pulp, 20 pounds corn meal, a little bran, and oil cake, and 
the usual amount of hay per head per day, as a full ration. 
Hake Bros., of Grand Island, Neb., fed 200 head of 
cattle and 20,000 head of lambs on beet pulp, at the factory 
feed yards this season. They have fed cattle on beet pulp, 
both there and at Norfolk for several years. They feed 
about 80 pounds of pulp and 12 to 20 pounds of corn meal 
per head per day. They say that the cattle coming to the 
feed yards from the ranges, find the moist pulp a great help 
in making the change from grass feed to hay; say the sheep 
get on a full feed of pulp within 24 hours, and that the 
lambs use about 4 pounds of pulp and i to i >4 pounds of 
corn meal per head per day, mixed, beside the hay. 
W. H. Butterfield fed 1,000 head of cattle on pulp at 
the Norfolk, Neb., sugar factory yards this season. Has 
fed there several years. He feeds about 70 pounds pulp 
mixed with 15 pounds corn meal per head per day; also all 
the hay they will eat. Says the steers on this feed use 
only about a ton of hay per head during the entire feeding 
season; says beet pulp is an especially fine feed for sheep. 
CONCLUSIONS. 
That the beet sugar industry is still in its infancy, or in 
the experimental stage, both as to the factory operations and 
the growing of sugar beets by the farmers. American in- 
yentive genius has not yet found enough demand for this 
special factory and farm machinery to fairly grasp the prob- 
lems and solve them, namely: How to simplify the mechani- 
cal and chemical methods and save the necessity of the pres- 
