THE FEEDING VALUE OF BEET PULP. 
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what but did not add to the yield of butter fat. This report 
states that owners of growing and fattening cattle declare 
that pulp saves one-third of the coarse fodder. 
NEW YORK. 
The Cornell Station reports experiments in feeding beet 
pulp to cows. Their conclusions are as follows: 
“The cows, as a rule, ate beet pulp readily and consumed 
from 50 to 100 pounds per day, according to size, in addition 
to the usual feed of 8 pounds of grain and 6 to 12 pounds 
of hay.” 
“The dry matter in beet pulp proved to be of equal 
value, pound for pound, with the dry matter in corn silage.” 
“The milk producing value of beet pulp as it comes from 
the beet sugar factory is about one-half that of corn silage.” 
“Beet pulp is especially valuable as a succulent food, and 
when no other such food is obtainable it may prove of great¬ 
er comparative value than is given above.” 
In the dairy districts of New York and other states 
where factories have been established, beet pulp is coming 
into great demand for cows. 
NEBRASKA AND OTHER PLACES. 
In New Mexico, sheep, and in Utah, cattle, have been 
successfully fattened and put on the market with no other 
food than pulp and alfalfa hay. 
In Nebraska some valuable data has been obtained with 
both sheep and cattle. . Experience there indicates that a 
maximum amount of 40 or 50 pounds pulp per day for each 
steer gives better results than larger amounts. Mr. John 
Reimers, whose report on pulp feeding has been often quot¬ 
ed, states that cattle eat the same amount of hay and grain . 
when given only moderate amounts of the pulp, but that they 
lay on flesh more rapidly, shortening the feeding season, and 
that the pulp gives extra gains of from 50 to 75 pounds in 
three-fourths of the usual time, which results in a great 
saving of grain and roughness. His pulp-fed cattle dressed 
and shipped as well as any other, even for export. Many 
general reports have been made by those who have fed this 
important by-product of the sugar factories and all testify to 
its value both for fattening and the production of milk. 
In Colorado some extensive feeding has been done with 
with pulp. Several feeders in the Arkansas Valley have fed 
large quantities to both sheep and cattle during the past two 
years. Col. J. A. Lockhart at Rockyford fed 3,700 head of 
