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numbers in the lot. It so happens that there was only one lamb in two 

 of the crosses and these were heavy. There was relatively a greater 

 proportion of light than heavy lambs, and the heaviest lamb weighed 

 115 pounds. This was the Hampshire-Shropshire-Tunis-Native and 

 lambs from this group rank second in general weight. There were 

 some very light lambs among all of the crosses where large numbers 

 were available. It is significant that the cross-bred lambs were lighter 

 than the average in the flock and these did not seem to make more 

 rapid gains than those from any other cross. The heaviest lamb in this 

 group weighed 107 pounds, but there was a larger number of lambs 

 in the group under 70 pounds from the cross-bred bucks than from 

 any other, and the proportion of light lambs to heavy lambs was also 

 greater than in any other breed, except in the pure-bred Tunis. 



FEEDING TEPARY BEANS TO HOGS 



Little information is available regarding the feeding qualities of 

 Tepary beans, although they are sometimes fed to livestock in the 

 Southwest. On this account a feeding experiment was planned to serve 

 as a preliminary study of the feeding qualities of Tepary beans. Beans 

 were fed to hogs of different sizes to ascertain as many details as 

 possible regarding how best to feed them as well as the feeding quali- 

 ties. Two distinct trials were made : The first was to feed a young pig 

 on ground Tepary beans alone, anl the second to feed rolled barley in 

 comparison with a mixture of rolled barley and Tepary beans made up 

 in equal parts by weight. In estimating the cost of gains, rolled barley 

 was valued at 1^ cents per pound and Tepary beans at 3 cents per 

 pound. 



Feeding a young pig on cracked Tepary beans alone: A Duroc- 

 Jersey pig ten weeks old was placed in a pen 12 by 20 feet and given all 

 the water and cracked Tepary beans it would consume. The pig weighed 

 30 pounds at the beginning of the period, but it rapidly lost in weight. 

 The animal refused to eat the cracked Tepary beans and weighed 21^ 

 pounds or a loss of 8% pounds at the end of 35 days. It was apparent 

 the pig would die and the experiment was discontinued. 



No doubt the unpalatable nature of the food rather than its nutri- 

 tive qualities was the cause for the small consumption, for pigs fed 

 cooked Tepary beans consumed them in reasonable quantities. After 

 the pig was placed in an alfalfa lot, and given rolled barley and 

 skimmed milk, it soon made rapid gains and developed into a healthy 

 animal, but slightly smaller than its litter mates. 



Feeding rolled barley vs. Tepary beans and rolled barley to gro7Vii 

 shotes: Four Poland-China shotes from the same litter were divided 



