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WINTER RATIONS FOR FATTENING SHEEP AND LAMBS. 



From Table I on page 371, it will be seen that sheep require 

 more roughage in proportion to the grain consumed than do cattle. 

 The successful fattening of sheep will be more certain to result in 

 profit if a nitrogenous roughness is available. Either clover, al- 

 falfa, cowpea or soybean hay with shelled corn is an ideal ration 

 for fattening lambs, yearlings, or wethers. A large number of 

 experiments conducted at many different experiment stations in 

 the United States where such a ration has been fed have shown 

 this to be one of the most efficient and profitable combinations 

 available in the corn belt. 



CORN AND CLOVER HAY. 



No one ration has given such uniformly satisfactory results 

 for fattening lambs as a ration of corn and clover hay. The fol- 

 lowing table gives the results from feeding this ration at a num- 

 ber of different experiment stations: 



TABLE IV. 



CORN FOR FATTENING SHEEP AND LAMBS. 



The figures show that corn and clover hay without the addi- 

 tion of any other supplementary feed is a very satisfactory ration 

 for fattening lambs. It is, however, true that rations may be 

 compounded which will produce larger gains and somewhat better 

 results than corn and clover hay, but these results are often se- 

 cured at a higher cost and are, therefore, not as profitable as are 

 the gains made from corn and clover hay. 



