feeding steers beet puep, aeEaefa and grains. 5 
fectly. Any surplus water is drawn off through the drains pro¬ 
vided and the pulp instead of deteriorating in palatability and 
feeding value, is actually improved in these respects after being 
siloed for several months. At the close of this experiment, the 
freshly uncovered pulp was sweet and pleasant to the taste and 
presented an odor almost identical with freshly pulped beets. At 
this time it appeared much drier than earlier in the season and 
the cattle appeared to be fonder of it, though they would not 
consume it in such large quantities. In some of the factories the 
pulp is carried from the building by flushing with water through 
elevated sluice boxes. From the past season’s experience, it is 
apparent that this is a very objectionable practice on the part of 
the sugar companies and should not be followed when the pulp is 
desired for feeding purposes. From the six sugar factories operat¬ 
ing in Northern Colorado during the season of 1903, there was 
produced at least two hundred and twenty-five thousand tons of 
beet pulp, all of which was available for stock feeding purposes. 
The area from which the beets were grown is all contained in 
three adjoining counties, and there were at least three hundred 
thousand tons of alfalfa grown in these same counties last year. 
These figures give some idea of the possibilities there are for suc¬ 
cessful meat production in this region. 
THE OBJECT OF THE EXPERIMENT. 
This experiment was undertaken for the purpose of determin¬ 
ing: . 
First .—If beet pulp in combination with alfalfa hay is a suit¬ 
able food for fattening steers. 
Second .—If under ordinary conditions it would be profitable 
to feed grain in addition to the pulp and alfalfa hay. 
Third .—Which grains can be fed to the greater advantage, 
corn or the home grown grains, barley and oats combined. 
In addition to the above, it was desired to learn what effect, 
if any, the various rations fed would have upon the meat pro¬ 
duced, as it was considered by many that an exclusive ration of 
pulp and alfalfa hay would not produce a good quality of edible 
meat. 
PDAN OF EXPERIMENT. 
In planning the experiment, it was decided that all the con¬ 
ditions surrounding it should be as nearly similar as possible to 
the practices of the cattle feeders in this section. The cattle 
selected for the experiment were purchased on the open market at 
Denver in October, and consisted of 150 head of two year old 
grade Shorthorn and Hereford steers. They had all been bred by 
one man and had been given the same care and feed from birth 
