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Show I I SUGftR BEETS I SOME RECENT EXPERIMENTS I IN MODASSES AND PULP I i n, . FEEDING. I Bulletin 127 of the Agricultural Ex- I periment Station of the Rhode Island I ; .College of Agriculture and Mechanic I Arts gives a summary of Sonic recent I feeding experiments in which the cf- I feet of 'molasses upon the digestibility I of other food products was studied, I '! and in which a comparison of dried I (a&..plp, mIasscs beet pulp, and I ' iifan was made. We quote: I i'A study of the effect of molasses "upon the digestibility of hay and of I mixed grains fed to steers is published I in Bulletin 117 from the Maryland I Station. The general effect of the I molasses was to increase the digcsli-I digcsli-I J'y o( the hay and grains. The H most marked beneficial effect seemed B 40 be upon the ingredients other than H fat and protein. The protein was sometimes not so digestible in the H presence of molasses. No special cf-H cf-H ffcct upon the secretion of urine was H attributable to the molasses. About H 12 per cent of the total dry matter of H the feed was supplied by the molasses. H The above results with steers indicate a more beneficial effect of molasses upon digestion than has been the case with experiments carried on elsewhere with other animals. A' comparison of dried beet pulp molasses beet pulp, and brain was made at the Wisconsin Station, Annual An-nual Report 22 (1905), with five milch cows in each lot in the first, and two in the second experiment. During the first two and the seventh and eighth weeks the following daily ration in pounds was fed to all mixed hay, 5; silage, 35 to 40; and grain mixture, 8 (bran, 2; distillers' graiins, 2; cotton- seed meal, 1.) During the intermediate interme-diate four weeks the two parts of wheat ibran were replaced in one lot of animals by three parts of dried beet pulp, and in a third lot by three parts of molasses beet pulp. When substituted sub-stituted for two. parts of bran, no appreciable ap-preciable difference was noted in the ' case of the three parts of dried beet .pulp, but there was 12 per cent more milk and 8 per cent more butter-fat when dried molasses beet pulp was substituted. When bran can be purchased pur-chased for $18 per ton, it was decided that beet pulp would be worth about $12 and molasses ibect pulp about $13. |