of flesh-formers, 10 per cent. of fat-formers (chiefly
sugar), and 2 per cent. of mineral matter.

Distillery and brewery dregs (or wash) are chiefly used by dairymen.
According to Dr. Anderson, an imperial gallon (700,000 grains) of
distillery wash (from a distillery near Edinburgh) contained 4,130
grains of organic matter, and 276 grains of mineral substances.
He considers that 15 gallons of this stuff were equal in nutritive
materials to 100 pounds of turnips. The following is the centesimal
composition of brewery wash:--

Water 75.85
Albuminous matters 0.62
Gummy matters 1.06
Other organic matter (husks, &c.) 21.28
Mineral matters 1.19
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100.00

_Molasses_ constitute a very fattening food, sometimes, but not
often, given to stock. Treacle and molasses are composed of
non-crystallisable sugar, cane-sugar, water, and saline and other
impurities. The composition of average specimens of molasses, as
imported, is as follows:--

Cane-sugar 50
Non-crystallisable sugar and grape-sugar 25
Water, saline matter, and organic impurities 25
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100

If admitted duty free, molasses would be a much more economical food
than it now is, but at its present price it must be regarded as a mere
flavoring food.

Mr. T. Cooke Burroughs, a West Suffolk feeder, who used treacle in 1864,
gives the following mode of mixing it with other food:--

My plan has been (and is still carried on) to give to each
bullock per day (divided into three meals) one pint of treacle
dissolved in two gallons of water, and sprinkled, by means of
a garden water-pot, over four bushels of cut chaff (two-thirds
straw and one-third hay) amongst which a quarter of a peck of
meal (barley and wheat) is mixed, the animals also having free
access to water. The cost of the treacle and meal together
is about 3s. per bullock per week. My bullocks (two-year old
Shorthorns) have grown and thrived upo