FEEDING BEET PULP AND SUGAR BEETS TO COWS. 23 
Table XIII gives the cost of beets eaten, pulp eaten and 
total cost of all the food for each week, and the values of gain 
and products with the corresponding profit weekly for each of 
the five cows which were fed the longest. The cost of the 
beets eaten is computed from a value of $4.00 per ton on the 
farm, beet pulp $1.00 per ton, alfalfa $4.00 per ton, wheat 
chop $1.00 per hundred pounds, and corn chop $1.30 per 
hundred. The gain or loss in weight of the cows is valued 
at five cents per pound, and the butter made at 20 cents per 
pound to give the profit from butter. The amount of butter 
yield is computed from the amount of fat by increasing the 
total fat by 16.6 per cent. The profit from the milk produc¬ 
tion is also given and was computed in the same way, valu¬ 
ing the milk at one cent per pound. 
Dainty Noble, on beets, gave a profit of 43 cents per week 
from the butter, or 24 cents per week from the milk yield. 
On pulp she gave a profit of 99 cents per week on butter, or 
81 cents on milk. 
Gildana, when fed beets, gave a loss of 9 cents from but¬ 
ter yield, or of 49 cents from milk yield. On pulp she gave 
a loss of 3 cents per week from the butter yield, or 12 cents 
per week from the milk yield. 
Young Grannie, when fed beets, gave a loss of 19 cents 
per week from butter yield, or 38 cents per week from milk 
yield. On pulp she gave a profit of $1.15 per week from 
butter yield, which is the hignest profit from any of the cows. 
Her profit is 99 cents per week from milk yield. 
Mountain Beauty, when fed beets, gave a profit of 2 cents 
per week from butter yield, or 16 cents per week from yield 
of milk. When fed on pulp she gave a loss of 28 cents per 
week on butter yield, and 14 cents per week from yield of 
milk. 
Bessie Geneva 2d, when fed on beets, gave a profit of 98 
cents per week from butter yield, or 76 cents from her milk 
yield. On pulp she gave a profit of 71 cents in butter or 78 
cents in milk. 
The difference between the profit and losses made by all 
the cows while fed beets shows a total profit of 81 cents, against 
a total profit on pulp of $2.54. Accrediting all of the profit 
to the total pulp fed gives the pulp a value of $2.61 per ton, 
and in like manner attributing the profit made by cows on 
beet ration to the amount of beets which they consumed 
gives the beets a feeding value of $5.06 per ton. 
