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Show Bff "c ' Bv BEET PULP AS FEED. Baas' BBV-' Fanners here will no doubt be BBB interested in any exposition of BBS the value of sugar beet pulp as BBS. feed- for steers and sheep. lie- H" 1 cent experiment at the Montana BBB ; 1 experiment station give pulp BBB ,: credit for a great deal, a detail BBvf of which is furnished in an nr- tide fi n one of the bulletins put out by the station. The article ar-ticle reads as follows: "During tho winter of 1905 ond 1900, an experiment was carried car-ried on to determine the value of sugar-beets for making mutton when fed in connection with grain (2-tl bran 1-3 shorts) and ilfalfa. There, were nine two-j two-j ear old grade Shorthorn steers Tiid twenty-two grade Dorset unbs. The steers were divided nto "two lots, one of four steers ind the other of five and the sheep into lots of eleven each. There were several weeks of preliminary pre-liminary feeding and tho weights at the beginning and close of the experiment aro the average of several consecutive days. At the end of tho first period tho feed was reversed on tho sheep. The following is the result of this test: The steers on beets made a daily gain of 1.56 pounds while those that got no beets made a gain per day of 1.13 pounds. With the former, 1 pound of grain cost 9.G cents, and with the latter 7.3 cents. In the production produc-tion of 1 pound gain, 21.7 pounds of beets saved 1 pound of grain and G.8 pounds of alfalfa hay. According to these results if grain is worth $16 and alfalfa hay $5 per ton, meets would have a value of $2.36 per ton. With sheep as with ptecrs, market prices being used, cheaper gain . was mado with beets than without them. In the first feeding period, in tho production of one pound grain, 17.3 pounds of beets saved .8 pound of grain and 9.4 pounds of alfalfa hay. This give beets n vafcie of $3.45 a ton. In the second feeding period in tho production of one pound gain 21 pounds of beets saved .98 pounds grain and 11.1? pounds alfalfa hay, and beets would have a valuo of $3.38 per ton. Bulletin Montana Experiment Experi-ment Station. |