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a esiiuill Hock if profits be the ouly poiut iu view. The 

 authoifci hud other questions to solve with the fiock, so it 

 was not carried through the ^ear as cheaply- as the farmer 

 could have carried it through. If profits had been the only 

 point in view the animals would have been handled more 

 economically by feeding the ewes very little grain after the 

 iambs were born. To secure the greatest returns the moth- 

 ers should have been turned out into the oat and vetch pas- 

 ture with the lambs and fed little, if any, concentrated 

 feeds. But owing to the fact that the Station at that time 

 owned no other fiock, this same flock had to be used in the 

 spring experiment of 1907, when a study was made of the 

 amount of feed required to maintain a ewe after lambing. 



This, of course, ran the expense up very materially — • 

 about 30 per cent, more than it should have been. But in 

 the following financial statement all of the expenses have 

 been counted against the flock. 



Table -5. Financial statement of old floch — 1906-1907. 



Expenses : 



Rent on pasture, 10 cts. per sheep per month $12.24 



Lot 1. 1503 lbs. soy bean hay at $12.50 per ton 9.39 



T ^ c) 342 lbs. cotton seed meal at $25.00 per ton . . 4.27 

 i.ot I. g^g j^g_ cotton seeed hulls at $6.00 per ton . . 2.64 



530 lbs. cotton seed meal at $25.00 per ton . . 6.62 



T . o 1332 lbs. cotton seed hulls at $6.00 per ton . . 3.99 



/ ft. 1 u- ^ 198 lbs. cotton seed at $12.00 per ton . . . . 1.19 



(after lambing) ^ ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^2.00 per ton 2.00 



371 lbs. corn at 70 cents per bushel 4.63 



35 lbs. bran at $30.00 per ton 52 



Death one ewe 3.00 



Express charges to send lambs to Atlanta 7.00 



Express charges to send wool to Atlanta 60 



Total $58.09 



Receipts : 



To 14 lambs $53.56 



To 55 1-2 lbs. wool, 26 1-2 cts. per lb. . . 14.64 



Lambs 



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Total $68.20 



