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BULLETIN 74. 
period pulp could be used in a ration to put animals in a 
condition to fatten readily, then it might have a value even 
in excess of the $r.oo or $1.25 per ton. It has been clearly 
demonstrated that for fattening hogs the corn cob has a value 
when ground up with corn, because it lightens the meal in 
the stomach and thus makes it more digestible. It is not 
beyond the range of possibility that pulp may serve this 
same purpose in a region where ear corn is uncommon, and 
at the same time furnish some nutrients in the ration. 
KEEPING QUALITY OF PULP. 
There are various methods for the preservation of 
pulp. In some parts of Utah where rock salt is plentiful, large 
pits are dug in the ground and quantities of salt are thrown 
into the pulp when it is being put into this pit, which, it is 
claimed, makes a splendid silo. When the pulp is exposed 
to the weather the top layer dries out and the pulp further 
down forms a thick pasty layer five or six inches deep. 
This layer excludes the air and keeps the pulp fresh and 
sweet. During this experiment we had pulp in piles on the 
ground from the first of January until late in June. It was 
preserved in an unfermented, or only slightly fermented, 
condition until the early part of June, when warm weather 
came on. When it is desirable to keep pulp no longer in 
the season than this, it is just as well to pile it on the 
ground. If it is to be kept through the summer, most any 
form of silo is effiicent, and in deep piles it has been known 
to keep two or three years. 
SUGAR BEETS. 
A conservative estimate of the sugar beets grown in the 
state this year (1902) for the factories would be 35,000 acres. 
This will yield approximately 350,^00 tons of sugar beets 
which, if made into sugar, will give more than 150,000 tons 
of pulp. Besides this there is a large acreage being grown 
for feed. Numerous requests have been received by this 
department asking for information of the feeding value of 
sugar beets for all kinds of live stock. Reports have come 
in of feeders paying more for sugar beets than is paid by 
the factories. Large quantities have been fed the last two 
years with evidently good results, and in many places feed¬ 
ers have made special arrangements for sugar beets for 
their stock the coming season. 
There is no question about the feeding value of these 
beets for stock-cattle, sheep and hogs, to maintain health, 
