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Show DRIED BEET PULP IS 'GOOD AS STOCK FEED Almost Equal to Corn in Feeding Value and Much Cheaper, Says Colorado Expert. (By CHARLES t BRAT, Colorado Agrl-cuiuntii Agrl-cuiuntii College, Fun Collins.) Cattle feeders Should make considerable consider-able use of dried beet pulp for dairy cows and fat stock, Eastern dairymen ship large quantities of dried beet pulp for the use of their dairy cows, paying uiudi higher prices than need to be paid in the West. The dry pulp when goalie, I with water swells up to three or four times Its dry bulk, and Is then as good a succulent feed as silage or roots. Many of the high-record cows In eastern herds have this dry bet I pulp ns part of their dally ration. For feeding steers, the dried pulp 1h almost, if not quite, equal lu feed lag value to corn, though it is DO) quite as palatable and cattle may noi eat quite BS niii'h of It. The sugar factory at Brighton, Colo., is belnj l equipped with B drier this year, Blnce beet pulp is being priei d at S-"i B ton, It should prove a very economical feed, bi barley and coin will probably bo around sis and :?oO. |