The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-29

arrangements for feeding a big bunch
of cattle on the pulp. Only a. little Of
the pulp from the factory at Eddy,
N. NJ, is fed as yet. Probably all the
pulp produced at the new factory at
Rome. N. H., this season. will be taken
by the farmers for feeding. purposes.
The feeding value of beet pemace
depends mainly upon the quantities of
protein heterogeneous natter, sugar,
starch. fiber and fat it contains, and
upon the proportion of these ingredients
that is digestible.
The protein contains 16 per cent of
actual nitrogen, and the ash is rich
in potash and phosphoric acid. as also
lime and magnesia. These ingredients
are got back in the solid and LIQUID
manure OF the stock that consumes tina
pulp, so that it has an important man.
urial value. Indeed, in this way, one
can return to the soil much that theA
crop took from It,
It appears that beet pomace that is
nine-tenths water is yet worth for
stock feed fully half as much as corn
silage only 20 per cent water. If the
water was dried cut Of the pulp so it
contains only as much as the corn sill
age, it would be OF about equal feeding
value, pound for pound. But cattle eat
OAiiJ ~ " ~ DON4AAAn uGliy pei HEdQ VI
silage, whereas they will consume
fully twice as many pounds VI beet
pulp. and thus get much more actual
nutriment out of the pomace than they
do from silage, as both are commonly
fed.
For milk cows, beet pulp is excel ,
lent, though it should not be fed tc
excess. Careful tests at the Iowa ex-
pertinent station snow that the sugar
beet is very palatable and contains no
volatile acid injurious to butter. But
whether milk IS sold or butter made,
we would not advise feeding beet po-
mace alone any more than silage alone;
feed also hay or some dry fodder, with
cottonseed or linseed meal pea meal, or
bran. Always begin feeding the pulp
to milk COWS in small Quantities, say
five or ten pounds az a meal, gradual
ly increasing it as the COW gets used
to it.
Another advantage of beet pulp as
feed is that it can be kept for months
without loss of quality by storing in
silos. Says Professor Jaffa of the Cali
fornia experiment station: Sugar beet
pulp is one Of the most adaptable ma
terials for silage that the feeder can
procure. One of the difficulties en-
cOuntered in SLIDING is the exclusion of
air from the mass during the curing
process. With corn, clover or any OF
tie 1OQQSI6 UStI 1OT LA1S purpose,
trouble is at times experienced in prop
erly firming the different layers as they
are placed in the silo, In order to leaves
no air spaces in the mass. The reason}
for this is, that if much air Is present, 3
fermentation will he carried on TO such I
an extent as to spell 6. considerable
portion Of the food. In the case Of beet
pulp, We do not have to contend with
any of the inc0nVeniences Just noted.
The pulp as it comes from the diffuser 4
in the sugar factory is in the best pos
sible condition for SLIDING. 1t is wet,
the pieces are exceedingly small and
the mass is quite homogeneous. Hence,
when placed in the silo, it packs itself
and fills UP every available space with
out any Intervention on the part of the
tillers-a behavior that is very differ
ent from that of any other food For
this feedstuff, then, a shallow, rectan-
gular or square silO would answer the
purpose equally as well as a deep,
round one-the style found to yield the
best results when corn or clover is
sliced. The deeper the silo the greater
the pressure. and. therefore. the less air
remaining in the silo; the circular
shape is adopted so as to do away with
corners 1t is thus obvious that the
expense attending the construction of
the silo for beet pulp would be much
less than where other folders are used
III regard TO the covering OF the ma
terial while SLIDING, the beet pulp has
the advantage over corn and clover in
that it covers itself, forming a seal
which thoroughly excludes the air An
other point which must not be lost
sight of it. that when the beet pulp
silage is fed, the portions can be re-
moved much easier and with more IA
cility than is the case where we are
dealing with corn, etc. Wherever beet
pulp silage has been tried it has met
with the best success, as the animals
greatly relish it
The beet tops and waste beets COM
prise g. considerable tonnage where
several acres of beets are raised This
material is also excellent for all stocks
imparting a rare favor and color to
beef or pork, besides making rapid
gains in live weight. Feeders about
jacksonville are especially enthusiastic
over the feeding value of this beet top
waste for hogs as well as cattle and
milk cows Similar reports come from
Utah and Nebraska, thus finally con-
firming European experience. These
tops will not keep so long as the pulE
will, and the sooner they are consumed
the better. The tops (leaves), with the
neck or upper part of beet that is cut
off, constitute about Is or 20 per cent
at least of the gross weight of the
crops, so that a yield of 10 gross tons
per acre would give about IL tons OF
dressed beets and three tons of tops.
Many European feeders consider this
fodder worth as much as the best hay.
pound for pound. There it is packed in
silos or pits in the ground.