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the amount of lean meat is much less than in the animal fed on 

 ;i iiilro^onous ration. 



In this experiment the addition of the small amount of meat 

 scrap and scrap tallow to the ration of lot I seemed to have thei 

 desii-ed eft'ect of increasing the consumption of grain of that lot, 

 for on (me or t\\'o occasions when the animals of this lot were fed 



Fjg 2. — Nos 1 and 2 Nitrogenous; Nos. 3 and 4 Carbonaceous. 



their usual amount of corn meal without the meat scrap and! 

 scrap tallow the meal was not all consumed, but when the same 

 quantity of corn meal was fed with the meat scrap and scrap 

 tallow the food was greedily consumed. 



The painstaking work of Clinton D. Smith and James E. Rice 

 contributed largely to the success of these experiments. 



SUMMABY. 



1. Ensilage fed with hay to lamb^ gave equally as good results 

 as where all hay had been fed, and the ensilage had the advan- 

 tage of being the cheaper food. Four pounds of ensilage being 

 equivalent to one pound of hay. 



