THE FEEDING VALUE OF BEET PULP AND FEEDING 
BEET PULP AND SUGAR BEETS TO COWS. 
BY B. C. BUFFUM AND C. J. GRIFFITH. 
PART I. INTRODUCTION. 
The natural conditions in arid America where a compar¬ 
atively small part of the land is reclaimed by irrigation and 
the rest will always be used as range for live stock, make 
the stock industry one of the most important features of our 
Agriculture. With the development of our irrigated farms 
has come smaller holdings of better classes of stock than 
those originally pastured on the ranges, and the farmer has 
become desirous of finishing his stock for market at home 
instead of selling feeders to be fattened in the corn growing 
states east of us. 
The growing of alfalfa on our farms to supply a rotation 
which will keep up the fertility of the soil has become an in- 
dispensible practice and this surplus hay is an important item 
of profit if it can be fed at home. 
Establishing the beet sugar industry has brought to our 
farmers another source of stock foods in the by products of 
the sugar factories, the most important of which is the beet 
pulp which is left after the sugar has been extracted. The 
coming winter we estimate that the factories now established 
in the state will produce over 150,000 tons of this pulp which 
will be available for feeding stock. Our farmers are custom¬ 
ers for large quantities of corn shipped in from Kansas, Ne¬ 
braska and Iowa, for which they pay large prices in order to 
enable them to profitably use their alfalfa in fitting stock, 
more especially lambs, for market. Anything which will 
make our own people more independent by producing their 
own feeds instead of purchasing from abroad is of inestimable 
value to the state. The Experiment Station is continually 
trying to solve this problem and furnish the information it 
may gain to those who can make use of it. The feeding 
value of sugar beets and of beet pulp, the comparative value 
of our home grown grains, and corn and of such new grains 
or new stock foods of whatever nature, and the combinations 
of these foods which will give the largest returns, are import¬ 
ant questions which have been receiving marked at- 
