FEEDING AND ITS RESULTS. 209 



Time of feeding 168 days. 



Whole gain 840 pounds. 



Greatest gain per head 79 pounds 



Smallest gain per head 15 pounds. 



The average live-weight at commencement of feeding ' . . 79§ pounds. 



The greatest gain of any single lamb per day .... 7^ ounces. 



The average gain per head 46§ pounds. 



The daily gain per head 4-| ounces. 



The average weight at time of sale 12GJ pounds. 



" These lambs were taken to the Boston market, having been driven 

 thirty miles, and then carred a hundred miles; and their shrinkage in 

 weight at Boston, as compared with their weight in their pen, was an 

 average of only ten pounds, and they were sold for eight cents and a 

 half per pound, live-weight. 



" These lambs were fed with rowen hay three times each day, with 

 rutabagas once a day, and corn once a day. The turnips were fed in 

 the morning, after they were fed with hay, and the corn at night, before 

 the hay was fed. They were fed only what they would eat up clean 

 every time ; and I think that they would have eaten more turnips and 

 corn than they did, if I had given them more. When they first came 

 to the barn, I began to feed them turnips, and, after they would eat 

 them well, then commenced feeding a little corn. After that, the quan- 

 tity of turnips and corn was gradually increased from week to week. 

 For the last two months they were fed one bushel of cut turnips each 

 day, and the last three weeks a half-bushel of corn per day. The whole 

 amount of corn fed to them was thirty-six bushels. 



" The amount of turnips fed to them I cannot give, as no account 

 was kept of them. They had access to water every day, and were fed 

 salt once each week. 



" They were fed with the different kinds of feed every day, and as 

 near as could be at the same hour of the day." 



I will now give you the statement of a farmer in the 

 town of Coleraine, as to the product of a single sheep in 

 eleven years : — 



This sheep is a cross between the French Merino and South- 

 down. She has dropped ten lambs, all of which have been 

 sold at an average price of seven dollars and eleven cents 

 per head. Total amount received for lambs, all of which 

 were grass lambs ......... $71 10 



The first five years she sheared an average of seven pounds 

 of washed wool per year, and the remaining six years she 

 sheared an average of five pounds of washed wool per year. 

 All the wool has been sold at an average price of thirty-five 

 cents per pound, making total amount received for wool (65 

 pounds at $.35) . 22 75 



Total amount received for wool and lambs • . . . $93 85 



