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upon the supposition that pulp contains 90 per cent, water, which is 
about right for the pulp we fed. One ton of pulp, therefore, con¬ 
tains 200 pounds of feeding material. For comparison we will con¬ 
sider corn worth, at the cars, 75 cents per cwt. A ton of pulp may 
be said to be worth $1.50, could it be fed without any outlay for 
transportation. 
The great consideration in estimating the value of the pulp is 
the matter of transnortation. For convenience we will estimate the 
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feeder is such a distance from a factory that it costs him $1.00 per 
ton to deliver corn to his vards. The corn at above rates costs him, 
then, 80 cents gross per cwt. It will take practically the same time 
to deliver a ton of pulp as it does a ton of com. It has cost, then, to 
get the pulp $1.00 per ton. This would leave 50 cents for the value 
of a ton at the factory. If the pulp is shipped then the freight 
charges must also be deducted to obtain the price which the feeder 
so situated may afford to pay for the pulp at the factory. 
Let us inquire for a moment as to the amount of labor required 
to transport the same amount of feeding material in pulp as there 
is contained in ten tons of corn. We will suppose that the feeder 
is such a distance from the station that he can haul the above 
amount of corn in 15 hours, or at the rate of one ton in one and 
one-half hours. The trip can be made with pulp in about the same 
time, but two and one-half tons of pulp can be hauled at each load 
because it is of the same bulk as two tons of com. To haul a ton, 
which contains 200 pounds of feeding material, the cost then is 
$1.50. To get a ton of feeding material in the pulp it will take 12 
hours; to get the ten tons of feeding matter it will require 120 
hours. The cost at 30 cents per hour for man and team will be 
$4.50 for the delivery of the corn, and $36.00 for the delivery of 
the pulp. 
It may be said that the farmer has the pulp as a by-product of 
the beet business, and that it will be a waste unless he utilizes it for 
feed. 
Under similar conditions for which the above estimate is made, 
let us see what it may be considered worth to such a farmer for lamb 
feeding. The com will cost him 77 cents per hundred weight (ap¬ 
proximately) at the feeding yards. The pulp has cost him only 
the delivery, or $36.00, which equals 36 cents per ton, or 18 cents 
per hundred weight dry matter; 77 cents minus 18 cents equals 
59 cents, the value per hundred weight of the dry pulp. As there 
are 200 pounds in each ton, then 59 cents X 2 cents, or $1.18. 
From this must be deducted the expense of delivering the pulp 
(labor of handling), together with the labor necessary to get the 
pulp from the silo to the sheep - a total of not less than 20 cents 
per ton. Deduct this from the $1.18 will leave 98 cents per ton as 
the value that may be attached to it by a farmer so situated. 
