Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-06-05
! SUGAR BEET PULP.
One of tbe Features Which Recon-.
mend the Sugar Beet Jpaustry

One of the Features Which Recom.
mend the Sugar Beet Industry.
Among points about feeding beet
pulp which Nebraska cattle man de-
termined by experiment were:
FirSt.-That the cattle would eat as
much as 100 pounds of pulp day.
| Second.-That they eat pulp with
evident satisfaction and great relish.
Third.-That they consume very little
or 40 water at all while eating pulp.
! Other points of which he feels salts
fed in his own mind but has not clear
| ly demonstrated are that the use Of
| pulp will effect a valuable saving Of
other foods, both hay and grain.
In years of drought, when foodstuffs
are very high, the saving will be a very
| valuable one. Pulp is bulky and costly
to transport and expensive to handle.
The charges, however, cut no figure
| with farmers delivering beets to fac
tory, who can as well as not take back
| load Of pulp to their farm.
Pulp, he further says, can be kept
very easily indeed, as it becomes ex-
tremely compact and sours or ferments
slightly. A large pile can even be left
| out of doors in very cold weather, and
while a crust eight or ten inches will
freeze on the outside the inside will re-
main in good condition. ".s
All pulp should properly be fed in
barn where it cannot freeze and with
other foods. During the earlier part Of
the feeding period, for instance, for
al Of cix
be fed largely with a comparatively
small feed of grain, although hay
should always be fed with it. Toward
the end Of the feeding period the pro-
portion of grain should be gradually in
creased and that of the pulp diminish
ed for finishing the cattle for market.
He attaches the greatest possible i'm
portance in value to the use of beet
pulp in beef production and does not
doubt it will prove equally valuable in
the dairy industry. Its value in feed
ing animals is one of the reasons why
the production Of sugar itself may
find firlner and more profitable loca-
ton where dairy OF beef animals are
fed than in other sections where there
are not so many animals to feed.
Another Nebraska stockman gives
his experience thus:
I fed 300 8 and year old western
steers in 1891, the first year our facto-
ry opened. Of course had no expert
ence in feeding pulp, but soon found
that cattle We're very fond of it. think
they will leave any other food known
and eat it. AS to the fattening quality.
Of course when fed alone it is almost
valueless, though believe stock would
winter on it. Mixed with a cut feed of
hay or straw or cornstafks on which
cornmeal, bran or some other grain
food is placed, it makes a ration which
fattens very rapidly. BY feeding the
usual amount Of meal with 75. to 100
pounds of this pulp per day per steer
the fattening period will be shortened
at least SO days. In other words, you
can get as good results in four months
with pulp as you could in five without
it. .
I think steers will eat as much grain
food per day or more with the pulp
than they viii without it, It is a great &
conditioner and appetizer. and we
ind the older it is the better the re-
suits. It will keep a number Of years
in the silo or piled up on top of the
ground, twill turn black and spoil as
far as the air goes through, which is
from eight to ten inches. 1T win re-
duce in bulk fully one-half and grow
as much richer There are a number
OF big sheep and cattle feeders here, all
Of whom use it more or less. If any
thing, it is better for sheep than cattle.