The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-04-28
MOILssEs IS FEED FOR STOCK
ITS VALUE As A FEEDING STUFF
Is VERY GREAT
A New Feed Recently Patented in
inienf3 Showing HighIy Satisfactory
Results Where Live Stock Has Reen
Fed With MoEasses-A Great Indus.
try May be Developed.
Government Crop Report-)

III reSlonS where z Is nanufac-
tured it seems to be a common prac-
t;ce to feed molasses to sock. and its
value as a feeding stuff has been stud
led at several of the agricultural ex-
pertinent stations Of this department.
In feeding it is usual mixed with
some other material which absorbs it
and thus allows it to be readily ham
died Cane-sugar molasses has been
mixed for feeding with corn
meal. cotton seed meal. cotton seed
hulls. hay. g straw. etc. and beet
sucor molasses with bran palm-nut
cake. dried blood. eat extracted beet
pulp. cut coarse fodder. and maize.
An article IN the Louisiana Planter
II Sugar Manufacturer describes a
new feed patented recently in England
II made from molasses and bagasse
(the dried refuse of the SUGAR cane
after the Juice has been exDressedl.
which has been called moIascuit. The
cellular matter of the bagasse having
the Juice expressed from it by the
ordinary mill process springs back
into a sDOngy mass and in condition
TO absorb LIQUIDS up to nearly it's orig
li!di CAPACITY. HI OTueF. however. 10
utilize this capacity. it is found de-
sirable to e the bagasse to drive off
superiiuous moisture. and also to heat
the InOlasses to a comparatively high
temperature thus reducing it to prop
Ell i~lauefaction. SO that the bagassa
may absorb it. In this way molascuit
is made as a comparatively dry.
granular mass. readily capable of
shipment and already an article Of
export to the extent of thousands Of
@ from the tropics to the cattle.
feeding countries of Juror
The article further states tina in
De1narara It takes about 80 imperial
gallons of molasses to make a long ton
|2.240 pounds) Of molascuit. and ex-
presses the opinion that this would
indicate h use in the United States
Of about 40 American gallons Of
heavy mOlaSScS to make one short
toC (c.00O pounds) of molascuit. Or
1,1!O pounds Of heavy mOlasses and
25E pounds of dried ground bagasse
to absorb the mClasses. On the face
G.: these figures it seems hardly pos
sihle that this limited amount of ba-
gasse would absorb 7 times it's weight
in mOlasses but the article further
states that the cane fiber holds .
times it's weight in cane Juice. and
that in the manufacture of molascuit
the hagasse is dried to the extent Of
tltIlDSt CuIIlDlele eva DOTdllOH IFOHl IL
of ali moisture. and that the mOlasses
IS heated TO such a temperature as to
promote it's rapid absorption by the
bacasse.
It is stated in the article tina ex-
p%erience in the tropics has shown hat
Inolascuit carries with it an accepta-
BILE flavor and. while extremely valu-
able as O stock feed. has the addi-
tional value of improving the flavor
of any other feed with which it may,
be mixed.
The article also expresses the belief
that tie sugar-cane world will find
IN Misunderstanding to live stock al
adjunct to sugar manufacture as es-
sentiai to it's success as is the feeding
Of cattle and horses to the
turing distilleries il; the great West.
that those who do not desire to feed
live stock at the sugar factories will
find by the molascuit process a meth
cd of cheaply producing q marketa-
ole live stock feed which will at once
give to their molasses 4 possible value
of about a cent a pound.
In his connection. h publication
above noted quotes IN article from
the New York Sun relative to the
feeding of mclasses to the truck
horses used by a large sugar refining
firm in Brooklyn. The molasses is
mixed with their feed. and the cost
Ci ISSulI.S IS SdlO W NC Jul OF CcittS q
day for each Of these fine horses.
ranging from 100 to 1900 pounds i'll
weight. a reduction of 90 to % per
cent. in cost from the old system of
maintaining them on oats and hay
exclusively. An experiment tried by
this firm on two run down horses
which had been kept on ordinary ra-
tions is IA to prove the hygienic
value Of the molasses feed Their
weights were $50 pounds when Du
.lpon the molasses system. n 4
great Improvement was made IN
weight and health. At the end Of
six weeks feeding the smaller had
gained 900 pounds and the 1sl
pounds.
II several articles written by DR..
c. F. Langworthy of the Office of En-
pertinent Stations Of this department.
it is stated that studies have been
made in Canada and SuroDe on beet
sloa~ molasSeS feed for pigs. steers.
sheep, cows. and horses, and that rapid
gains in live weight are reported; that
when molasses was fed to mich cows
the total milk yield and the amount OF
fat and milk sugar in the milk was in
creased: that steers developed a great
liking for it and that to all appear
ances it gave good results, and that 1t
was regarded as an excellent food for
horses, who readily ate it and whose
vigor and health were maintained
thereby. He also states that cane sugar
molasses, which differs from beet mo-
lasses in that it contains a glucose IL
addition to cane sugar and has a much
smaller per centage of salts, has seepl-
ed to produce good results in expert
ments made. He cites the feeding OF
cane molasSes to over 400 work horses
at Il sugar plantation in the Fiji Is
lands. where the rations finally adopted
consisted of 10 pounds of molasses, )
pounds of bran, and 4 pounds of maize.
In addition green sugar cane tops were
fed. The health of these horses re-
manned excellent and it produced no
undue ~fattening. softening, nor injury
| to wind.
| He also quotes from Director w. =.