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FIGURE 7. LAMBS SIRED BY THE INFERIOR MUTTON RAM AT THE AGE 



OF EIGHT WEEKS. 



This lot of lambs at four months of age did not weigh as much or make as great a total 

 gain as did the lambs of lot II at the age of three months. 



4. Both lots of lambs consumed about the same amount of 

 grain at the same ages, the advantage being slightly in favor of 

 the lambs of the better mutton type. 



5. At 3 months of age the lambs sired by the ram of mut- 

 ton type were 9.39 pounds heavier and made a total gain of 

 8.43 pounds greater than the lambs sired by the inferior ram. 

 The lambs from the scrub sire required 2.8 per cent more grain 

 per 100 pounds gain than did the other lot. 



FIGURE 8. LAMBS SIRED BY AN AVERAGE MUTTON TYPE RAM AT THE 



AGE OF FOUR WEEKS. 



This lot of lambs at three months of age weighed 3.5 pounds more per head than the 

 lambs of lot I at four months of age. 



