anaheim-gazette 1905-08-03

A second feeding experiment on the farm of the Hon. A. M. Todd of Western Michigan, who had a large number of steers in poor condition. They were divided into two lots, as nearly equal as possible. The first lot received a poor quality of mixed hay, and in addition, wheat bran, oats and cornmeal. The second lot received the same ration, and, in addition, beet pulp. The results of the experiment were as follows: The first lot, receiving no pulp, made a daily gain of 1.84 pounds. The second lot, to which pulp was fed, made a daily gain of 2.25 pounds. In order to establish a ratio of comparative values between pulp and the other items of food which entered into the ration used, I will give below the results as determined by Director Smith: Making the computations as before to find the estimated value of a ton of pulp, we find that under existing conditions at Pearl (Todd's farm), a ton of pulp took the place of 244 pounds of mixed hay, 32.6 pounds of wheat bran, 296 pounds of cornmeal and 27.2 pounds of oats. A third experiment was conducted also on the farm of Mr. Todd, in which two lots of steers were fed Making the computations as before to find the estimated value of a ton of pulp, we find that under existing conditions at Pearl (Todd's farm), a ton of pulp took the place of 244 pounds of mixed hay, 32.6 pounds of wheat bran, 296 pounds of cornmeal and 27.2 pounds of oats. A third experiment was conducted also on the farm of Mr. Todd, in which two lots of steers were fed the same kind and amount of dry feed for six weeks. To the ration of the one lot pulp was added. The feeding of 13,375 pounds of pulp gave an aggregate increased gain to the steers so fed of 280 pounds. Counting the beef worth 5 cents per pound, it gave the pulp the value of $2.03 per ton. It was demonstrated that sugar beets and sugar-beet pulp were equally valuable for feeding pigs. Pulp may be very profitably fed to growing pigs in connection with a grain ration. Pulp served the same purpose in the hog ration as did sugar beets, and at less expense. Sugar beets were not as valuable as pulp for lambs. The experiment station at Cornell, New York, conducted an experiment in order to ascertain the nutritive value of the dry matter in pulp in comparison with the dry matter in corn silage. It was found that they equal. In pursuance of the claims made for pulp as a food for animals, I will introduce an estimate of the pulp product of the United States and the number of animals which might be fed thereon. In this estimate California would produce 928,-400 tons of beets or 464,200 pounds of pulp. This pulp would feed 50,-223 milch cows, or 100,466 steers or 1,000,000 sheep. The United States would produce 3,281,040 tons of beets, or 1,640,520 tons of pulp. This would feed 179,-798 milch cows, or 359,596 steers or 3,395,960 sheep. The Michigan Experiment Station demonstrated that a ton of pulp would produce 41 pounds of beef. of pulp. This pulp would feed 50,-223 milch cows, or 100,466 steers or 1,000,000 sheep. The United States would produce 3,281,040 tons of beets, or 1,640,520 tons of pulp. This would feed 179,-798 milch cows, or 359,596 steers or 3,395,960 sheep. The Michigan Experiment Station demonstrated that a ton of pulp would produce 41 pounds of beef, live weight. At this rate the total annual pulp product of the United States would produce 67,261,320 pounds of beef, worth at five cents per pound, $3,363,066. Not over ten per cent of this utility is realized at present. If as demonstrated in the Michigan experiment cited, the addition of pulp to the ration produced $2.03 worth of beef for every ton of pulp fed, the feeding of pulp costing $1.50 will yield a profit of 33½ per cent. I do not think it useful to attempt to give the value of pulp as compared with other food stuffs. This question is often asked in regard to oil-cale for instance, and it is not possible to answer it. At the present time it is the general belief that the principal value of pulp will be found in aiding digestion and maintaining sound health of animals. It has also unquestionably a food value. I do not make any attempt, however, to estimate the value of pulp in units, as compared with units of some other kind of food. I think no rule for the feeding of pulp is necessary. I do not think it is important whether a greater or less amount is fed in proportion to rough forage and grain fed with it. My idea would be, when on a full feed, to give less than a full grain ration, in order to be certain of securing some economy in the use of pulp. I should, therefore, feed cattle for instance anywhere from 40 sugar-beet pulp. For fattening we have been too much inclined to condensed ration, largely made up of cereals, hay, and water, too dry and too compact, requiring too much of the digestive organs. Sugar-beet pulp enters readily into any balanced ration designed for specific purposes. No single item makes a food ration. This statement is as true of corn as it is of pulp. Probably in no other country in the world has the feeding of beet-pulp been studied and tested more extensively, or scientifically than in Germany. The rations as reported by the Consul are as follows: To produce 22 pounds of milk daily, per 2200 pounds of live weight per day—Fresh pulp, 99; hay, 44; peanut cake, 5.5; palm-seed cake, 11. Food requirements per 2200 pounds of live weight per day—Fresh pulp, 110 pounds; hay, 40; moist beer grains, 44; bruised grain, 7; peanut cake, 2. The farmer is naturally of a practical turn of mind. When anything new is recommended he naturally asks what is its determined monetary value. All through this article of pulp feeding, I have aimed to show that there are values to fresh as be- value of a tender ex- (Todd's the place hay, 32.6 50 pounds of oats. Conducted Todd, in were fed of dry ration fed. The of pulp and gain to pounds. Incents per value of that sugar pulp were feeding pigs. By fed to with a the same can as did expense. Valuable as at Cor- an ex- certain the matter in the dry was found animals, I use of the Fed States which this esti-duce 928,-100 pounds feed 50,-steers or produce 1,640,520 feed 179,-steers or Station of pulp of beef. think no rule for the feeding or pulp is necessary. I do not think it is important whether a greater or less amount is fed in proportion to rough forage and grain fed with it. My idea would be, when on a full feed, to give less than a full grain ration, in order to be certain of securing some economy in the use of pulp. I should, therefore, feed cattle, for instance, anywhere from 40 to 60 pounds of pulp and let them have all the rough forage they wished. It must be borne in mind that my ultimate object in this discussion is to show the farmers of this country the benefits that may be secured by using sugar-beet pulp as food for stock. This effort will be well repaid if it attracts the attention of a few farmers to the fact that here is a useful article of food. For some time to come this valuable food product can be secured far below its actual value, measured by any scale of prices that yet obtains in this country. In feeding stock a farmer may have in view several things, as follows: 1. It is the scientist's province to study the changes in animal tissues and to inform the farmer as to the correct proportions of the different compounds of food required in building up the tissues. This food must be furnished to the animal in the proportion with which these various tissues are torn down, or in accordance with the purposes of the farmer in building up the various parts. This is called a balanced food ration. 2. In case of feeding animals for the meat market, it is the purpose to fatten and build up a carcass of meat filling the requirements of commerce. 3. It may be the purpose of the farmer simply to keep an animal in good healthful condition, without attempting to produce meat or dairy products. 4. It may be the purpose to give the animal a strong, healthful constitution and strong muscular tissue for performing work as is accomplished with draft pounds of five weight per day Fresh pulp, 110 pounds; hay, 40; moist beer grains, 44; bruised grain, 7; peanut cake, 2. The farmer is naturally of a practical turn of mind. When anything new is recommended he naturally asks what is its determined monetary value. All through this article of pulp feeding, I have aimed to show that there are values to fresh pulp that are undetermined. But I fully understand that the money value is the easiest understood. I will briefly state what I have shown with reference to the actual money value of pulp. 1. The Colorado experiment concluded after exhaustive experiments, that for certain purposes, pulp costing $1.50 per ton could be fed at a profit. 2. The Michigan experiment concluded that a ton of pulp produced 41 pounds, live weight, of beef. This at five cents, ordinary price, gave the pulp, without profit, a feeding value of $2.05 per ton. It is now pretty well known in this vicinity that there is another sugar factory by-product that also contains valuable food constituents, and which being in a more concentrated form than beet-pulp, it is especially adapted to be fed in connection therewith. This is molasses, said by experts to be equal in feeding value to corn, pound for pound. Last season, at Los Alamitos Sugar Factory yards, a most conclusive test was given in feeding it with pulp on a large scale. The Gazette of October 24, 1904, had the following on the subject: "The Bixby Land Company is now disposing of some first class stock, fed on pulp and molasses. H. A. Hammond, foreman in charge of the herd, states in regard to the use of molasses for fattening purposes: "I have now fed four times full, a four-barrel tank of molasses in the following manner: I first picked out of the whole herd twenty-eight head of poor, scrubby cattle. They had been here a month." build up a carcass of meat filling the requirements of commerce. 3. It may be the purpose of the farmer simply to keep an animal in good healthful condition, without attempting to produce meat or dairy products. 4. It may be the purpose to give the animal a strong, healthful constitution and strong muscular tissue for performing work, as is accomplished with draft animals and other beasts of burden. 5. It may be the purpose to feed for the milk product. 6. It may be the purpose to feed for the best results in breeding. Fortunate indeed is the farmer who is situated where he can secure stock, fed on pulp and molasses. H. A. Hammond, foreman in charge of the herd, states in regard to the use of molasses for fattening purposes: "I have now fed four times full, a four-barrel tank of molasses in the following manner: I first picked out of the whole herd twenty-eight head of poor, scrubby cattle. They had been here a month, feeding on pulp and hay, with very little grain. They have now been six weeks on molasses, fed morning and night on uncut baled hay with fresh pulp. For the first two weeks I fed them lightly, gradually increasing, until at the present time the ration is seventy quarts of molasses added." keeping we need to conclude up of to dry and so much of Sugar-beet my balanspecific purmakes a food as true of country in of beetrested more only than in is reported news: sizes of milk live weight hay, 44; dried cake, 11. per day— hay, 40; irised grain, of a pracanything naturally need monethis article aimed to to fresh morning and night to their rations of pulp and hay. I now consider they are very nearly up to the rest of the herd, which have had during the same time only hay and pulp, but were in much better condition to start with. As a matter of fact, the cattle love it, and I know of nothing that will so quickly put on flesh and fit cattle for market as such a ration. It seems to be just what they need to put them into condition, and being assimilated so readily, it produces flesh very rapidly. The molasses takes the place of the sweetness which is found in sorghum, while the hay furnishes the fibre, so that practically we have a sorghum fodder, than which nothing is better for stock. I have now made another selection of twenty head of scrubby ones from the herd, which it is my intention to feed in the same way, as the most economical method of putting flesh on their bones. Feed syrup, by all means, if you want to get rid of them quick." of a pracanything naturally ed monethis article aimed to to fresh ed. But I the money understood. 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