LAMB FEEDING EXPERIMENTS. 
By B. C. BUFFUM AND C. J. GRIFFITH.* 
The value of the by-products from the beet sugar fac¬ 
tories is a prominent subject among lamb feeders. With 
the remarkable growth of the beet industry within the 
state there will be a corresponding increase in the tonnage 
of pulp available to feeders. The pulp sells at a low price 
per ton, so low indeed that if it has any virtue at all either 
for fattening or for preparing the lambs to make more 
profitable gains when put on full feed, it will be a valuable 
addition to our supply of stock food in Colorado. 
• T ° com P are value of pulp when fed with alfalfa, or 
with alfalfa and grain, and the value of sugar beets when 
fed in the same manner, we carried out an experiment at 
the College during the past spring. The pulp was furnish¬ 
ed gratis for this purpose by the Great Western Sugar 
Company at Loveland, through the courtesy of Mr. A. V. 
Officer. Early in February a car load of pulp was received 
and hauled to the College barn where it was placed in con¬ 
venient piles on the ground near the feeding pens. 
Much has been written and said during the past year 
about the value of beet pulp, and many of the statements 
nave been extravagant, or were without any basis of fact. 
It is not our intention to put any account of the feeding of 
pulp which has been complied from other sources in the body 
of this bulletin, but will state simply our own results. In 
our bulletin No. 73 of this Station, on the “Feeding Value 
ot Beet Pulp and Feeding Sugar Beets and Pulp to Cows,” 
has been published a brief resume of such data as we con¬ 
sider authentic, compiled from all sources to which we have 
had access. Our tests of sugar beet pulp for fattening hogs 
are reported in Bulletin No. 74 on “Swine heeding in Colo- 
r-°L Thus last bulletin gives the only information with 
wruch we are acquainted on feeding beet pulp to swine. 
Instructor iu Animal Husbandry. 
