The Delta independent., 1898-04-15
At the Lehi sugar factory the pulp is


carefully stored in immense silos built
in the ground, without any covering
About halt per cent in weight OF salt is
sprinkled on every layer OF pulp as 1t
goes into the silos. These two silos are
built OF heavy timber and are 10 feet
deep. 20 feet wide on the bottom, "a feet
wide on top and 800 feet long. Storage
capacity of both. l4.OOO tons OF pulp.
They are fioored.
Tracks are run into the center OF these
siloe, which a. e open at one end. \ water
way is built under the center OF the
tracks to carry away the water draining
from the wet pulp. The tracks run be-
tween the feed yards, and horses pull
the small cars out Of the silos. The pulp
lie fed in open troughs and the alfalfa
hay from racks. The pulp is fed to both
cattle and sheep. The stock have al
ways access to plenty OF hay. pulp and
water. They never feed pound Of grain
in fattening the stock. unless the pulp
gives out. In 1896 they fed the pulp
which had accumulated for three years.
Both here and at Eddy the sheep seemed
especially fond Of the dry pulp from the
top Of the silos.
The cattle at Lehi were put on this
feed November 3, 1897. and the sheep
about two weeks later. The cattle get
on full feed in about ten days and the
sheep at once. They were a rough lot
OF cattle. but many were then dec. 9l
ready for the butcher. The sheep were
mostly Nay lambs, with sbont 100 head
splendid condition. not ten poor sheep in
the lot. Supt. George Austin says that
they feed about q hundred days; that
cattle consume about 10 pounds OF hay
and 100 pounds OF pulp per day. and the
sheep pounds OF hay and to pounds
OF pulp per day. He said from the way
the sheep were gaining they would reach
the market averaging Opounds per head.
(They we're weighed into the yard at 60
pounds per head.l He also says that
the pulp gives the best results after
fsrmenting in the silos for 30 days and
should not be fed before then. He says
that IL there be any criticism on this
escd. it 10 that the stock get too fat. but
shss the sheep top the Chicago market
ials and ready sais also in foreign mar
ksts. They have not nearly enough
pulp to supply the local demand.
Al the Eddy n. NJ. factory stock yards
they srs feeding only sheep this season.
The sheep there are said to use per day
pounds OF pulp and pound OF hay per
head per day.
From the Grand Island factory pulp
is furnished TO feed sheep at Shelton,
Nebraska. Ed Graham, manager for
E. +. Swift, and Matthews aud Stock
veil arc feeding there. The latter wrote
Jan. l. 1898, that they are feeding 5000
head os lambs on the pulp; that they
consume about } pounds per head per
day, and that the freight on pulp is %
cents per ton from Grand Island.
John Reimers has fed pulp to cattle
for three years at Grand Island. He
uses about 80 pounds OF pulp. - pounds
corn meal. = little bran and oil cake and
the usual amount Of hay per head per
day. - full ration.
Hake Bros. OF Grand Island, Neb.. fed
5Os head Of cattle and 2oooo head OF
lambs on beet pulp at the factory feed
yards this season. They have fed cattle
on beet pulp. both there and at Norfolk
for several years. They feed about 50
pounds Of pulp and l. TO 20 pounds OF
corn meal per head per day. mixed. be-
side the hay.
w. H. Butterfield fed 1000 head Of
cattle on pulp at the Norfolk, Neb. sugar
factory yards this season. Has fed there
several years. He feeds about 'opounds
ruln mixed with L. rnunds corn meal