What are the differences between hay and molasses?
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Explanation:
In an experiment conducted by G. A. Branaman and G. K. Davis, Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station (1), it was concluded that “Alfalfa-clover silage made with beet molasses is a more desirable feed for fattening steers than hay made from a similar crop.”
A recent mimeographed report by the Pennsylvania Agricultural Experiment Station shows, among other things, that in a two-year comparison of alfalfa molasses silage and alfalfa hay, both lots being fed corn and cob meal, the silage fed steers gained 5.4 percent more than the lot receiving hay while consuming 4.9 percent less corn and cob meal and 34 percent less dry matter from their particular roughage.
Answer: Hay is grass or other herbaceous plants that have been cut and dried to be stored for use as animal fodder, particularly for large grazing animals raised as livestock, such as cattle, horses, goats, and sheep. Molasses or black treacle is a viscous product resulting from refining sugarcane or sugar beets into sugar.