16G Agricultural Exterimext Station^ Ithaca, N. Y. 



It has been found that these lambs will consume more grain food if 

 a change is frequently made so that a varietly is offered them. In 

 chano-ino: this food, it has been observed that the lambs will eat a 

 certain kind of grain with considerable relish for a day or two and 

 then seem to tire of it and consequently consume less ; as soon or 

 even before this stage has been reached, if a change in the grain 

 ration is made, it has been found that the lambs will consume a 

 large amount of grain without loss of appetite. 



A little sugar sprinkled on ground feed will help materially to 

 teach the lambs to eat, and in order to still further facilitate this 

 the grain should be so placed that it is within easy reach of the 

 lambs at all times and where it can not be disturbed by the ewes. 

 It will not take the feeder long to ascertain what kinds of grain are 

 relished best. Different kinds of ground feed are readily eaten but 

 particularly are those relished where com and oats form a consider- 

 able j)ortion of the mixture. Whole wheat and whole oats are 

 readily eaten. 



Tables I and II, give in detail the growth of thoroughbred 

 Shrojishire and Dorset lambs in the experiment of 1891-2. The 

 weights are given in pounds. 



