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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



I desire to give some statements, obtained from reliable 

 feeders and honest men, as to the increase in weight of lambs 

 « in a specified time. 



I will give the statement of a farmer who believes in what 

 is called the " Strap-leaf Turnip (a specimen of which is 

 on exhibition) for fattening sheep, based upon his personal 

 experience. He says, — 



"In November, 1877, I had a spring lamb that weighed, when I put 

 it up to feed, on or about the middle of the month, ninety pounds. I fed 

 it all the rowen it wanted, and on full feed. It eat one quart of corn-cob 

 meal, with two quarts of turnips, per day, never more than that amount; 

 aud on the eleventh day of March, 1878, it was taken to market, and, 

 after being carried five miles in a wagon, it weighed one hundred and 

 forty-one (141) pounds, a gain of fifty one (51) pounds in one hundred 

 and sixteen (116) days." 



The same farmer is feeding a lot of lambs at the present 

 time, and in the same manner, and I dare say with the same 

 results. 



I will also give you a minute statement of the gain of 

 eighteen lambs, fed by Mr. C. T. Alvord of Wilmington, Vt. 



WEIGHT OF EIGHTEEN LAMBS NOV. 

 26, 1878, SIX DAY8 AFTER THEY 

 WERE PUT INTO THE BARN. 



LBS. 

 95 

 99 



87 

 84 

 72 

 64 

 74 

 66 

 68 

 76 

 72 

 75 

 105 

 66 

 85 

 78 

 76 

 92 



1,434 



1 

 2 

 3 

 4 

 5 

 6 

 7 

 8 

 9 



No. 

 No. 

 No. 

 No. 

 No. 

 No. 

 No. 

 No. 

 No. 

 No. 10 . 

 N T o. 11 . 

 No. 12 . 

 No. 13 . 

 No. 14 . 

 No. 15 . 

 No. 16 . 

 No. 17 . 

 No. 18 . 



WEIGHT OF THE SAME EIGHTEEN 

 LAMBS, SOLD MAY 13, 1879. 



2,274 



