Show BEET PRODUCT BYPRODUCT BY HELP FOR LAMBS has several attributes in its bulky nature wet beet pulp and corn silage mate excellent supplements to the lamb fattening ration because they are bulky succulent and palatable and because of their partial grain equivalent value bays E J maynard as socrate animal husbandman at the colorado agricultural college in adding variety to the ration and in reducing the amount of grain necessary for the lambs aliese feeds often show a value greiter glnn their actual grain replacement etl mate it Is emphasized dried molasses beet pulp in recent years has come into rather wide ube as whole or partial for grain where lambs have gone off feed maynard adds As this bee by product concentrate has seven natural attributes in its bulky nature its and fattening value it Is often wise to include it as part of the grain mixture fed in the dry ration for lambs when wet pulp or other succulent feed Is not available an average of four tests conducted at the agricultural college indicates that the substitution of dried molasses beet pulp for one half the corn fed will slightly decrease hay consumption decrease cist of gains at present prices and slightly increase gains it Is a well recognized fact that lambs once oft feed on account of too heavy a grain ration can rarely be brought back to a full feed of barley or corn since no two bundles of lambs can be expected to take the same amount of grain on a full feed it Is often a delicate matter to raise lambs to a full feed of straight grain and hold them there when cambs iambs go off feed the cost of fattening them of course increases because time Is lost and digestive dia naturally cut down the call clency with which they handle ration then too there may be some death loss experienced in connection with the disturbance with these facts in mind the am of lambs on feed Is evident and any feed that can be used in the fattening ration to safeguard them against going off feed should haave additional merit in connection with its actual fattening value right mineral mixture in swine feeding lot the keterin experimental feeder at the awa experiment station john M has the following to siy about a simple mineral mixture for pigs it ui surprising how well a simple mixture will usually respond in the feeding lot it Is sur tint even common salt may give results that are greatly superior to those obtained where no salt Is fed A simple mixture of salt and wood ashes often yields wonderfully good results of course when we use salt and wood ashes we have a mixture that carries a number of essen elal nutritional elements chief among which are calcium potassium sodium phosphorus and magnesium A very good simple backbone mixture which carries the ing and main deficiency elements such as are needed to balance up our erdl nafy feeds may be made up per hun d ed pounds as follows hard wood ashes GO pounds spent bone black or lone charcoal char coil 25 pounds common calt 15 pounds potassium iodide pounds two one hundredths or one fiftieth of one pound composition of wheat and rye very similar the chemical composition and the general characteristics of wheat and rye are very similar BO that they might be expected to give about alie same results when fed in the same stations however indicate that rye of being more valuable than wheat Is in reality about 5 per cent less valuable this difference in feed ing value of wheat and rye Is thought in a leisure at least to be due to the fact that rye Is less palatable the minnesota station has recent ly been working on the problem in an attempt to find out what factors cause to be an unsatisfactory feed when it Is fed as the areiter part of the ration over a period of several weeks or months efforts to discover some feed combinations that will be efficient for ry lot conditions have been par successful while quite tory results have been obtained by re combined with other grains upon pasture hay for horses an allowance of about one and a halt pounds of hay for each pounds of live weight Is the usual recommendation for idle horses many farmers increase this allowance to exio pounds per pounds live weight this quantity should be divided into two or three parts and fed morning and night with a noon feed if needed some horses will eat much more hay than this even when idle bat the tend PEC Is to develop what Is often called hay belly 1 |