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Am. Soc. Anim. Prod. 1923:73-74
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Beet By-Products For Steers and Lambs

E. J. Maynard

Colorado Agricultural College

Abstract

Sugar beet by-products continue to play an important part in the cattle and lamb feeding industry of Utah, Wyoming, western Nebraska, and Colorado. The by-products at present in use are beet tops, wet beet pulp, beet molasses, and dried molasses beet pulp.

Beet Tops are pastured in the field during November and December or ensiled in trench silos to furnish a succulent feed to last through the winter. When weather conditions during the fall and early winter have been mild and dry, it has proved most practicable to pasture the tops. In tests carried on at the Colorado station under such conditions an acre of tops pastured with alfalfa replaced or was equal to 3,984 pounds of alfalfa hay. Compared with corn silage and alfalfa, an acre of pastured tops replaced 2,706 pounds of silage and 427 pounds of alfalfa.

In order to get the highest utilization from the pastured tops, they should be gathered into small piles after being topped.






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