Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-11-11
MOLASSES MAKES
VALUABLE FEED
Care Should Be Used in Feed
ing 1t To Get Best
Results

ii, This year, 1921. due TO business con
(, ditiOns in general and the sugar manu-
featuring business in short mOlasses
has been cheap feed and it's sale j.
being pushed rather hard by the differ
y cnt sugar and mOlasses companies
II Now. molasses is like every other feed,
oy il is a valuable feed, if it does not cost
F.. YOU very much and you should be posted
n as to its relative value. In this arti-
Nj that may help.
=. When buying mOlasses one should
utbuy it with careful attention to its com
Imposition and guarantee just as i'll buy
o,,ing any other feed. \ good cane mola*'
> SEES should have not over u to - per
,Eccnt water. not over 6 per cent ash ami
- not less than 53 to 30 per cent total
sugar.
The total digestive nutrients in mo-
'laSSeS of about this composition add IN
to 1854 pounds to the ton. This shows
THAT on the basis of digeStible material
thmolasses is worth just about three
hefOurths the value of corn meal, and the
cfprice one should pay for it might very
lowell be based OH this comparison Al
'Cother comparison would be with whea
whran. There are in one ton of wheat
inbran. 1918 pounds of total digestibie
rcnutricntS. Therefore, one could not at
ctord to pay more per ton for molassfS
Ethan good wheat bran. The wheat
:, Iran has the added value of consider
able protein and mineral matter. which
;, is not supplied in the molasses. the
,,,yalue of the molasses being wholly III
it's sugar content.
OF course there is a value in mo-
CLASSES in that it tones up the whole
digestive system and keeps the bow
te els Of the animal in a free and open
tn condition. Because of this physiOlOgi-
mn cal effect and the fact that molass"S
I helps to smooth up the hair and make
~ the skin more mellow, the first pound
- of mOlaSSeS that one feeds is more
u valuable than any other pound. There
fore. as a conditioner, little molasSeS
i in the ration may be very valuable
Il This is particularly true if one does
II not have corn Silage.
! MOIaSseS is very valuable in feet
ing COWS ON advanced registry tess
and no feeder of COW on fest either
for short or long period tries to feed
without mOlaSSes. 1t is not usually teG
To these tests cows in a large amount.
: hnt is used to the extent of two az
three pounds daily. The molasses is
usually diluted with water and the
water used to soak up beet pulp. y
customary dilutiOn is one quart OF can"
molaSSeS to ten quarts of warm WI
ter Used in this way. mOlasses IS
very valuable indeed, and is sought fo'
for this purpose, irrespective of cost
In ordinary every day feeding, mo
lasScS is little difficult to handle, uh-
less one has Il supply of hot water
available ut all times. ! think that It
is Il good practice to feed all animals
. u little mOlasSeS particularly at the
price that it can be bought at this
time (1921.
do not think much Of beet molaSN-
cs and | see no reason for feeding IT,.
The difference between beet mOlaSSHS
the former has a high content OF aka
line salts. These salts cause the mo-
H2SScs 10 have purgative action. ana
would not advise the feedinf of beet
mOlaSscS when cane mOlasseS can nc
obtained.