232 



1:6.99 to 1:7.3. From February 4 to March 18 lot 2 was fed rations 

 haviug a nutritive ratio of 1 : 5.7. 



The quantity of food, details regarding which will be stated in the 

 next annual report of the station, was regulated by the appetite of each 

 animal. The dressed mutton was sold at 11 cents per pound, the wool 

 at 22 cents per pound, and the pelts at 12i cents each. A tabulated 

 statement of the live weight and wool produced by each lot during the 

 experiment, and the financial results follows : 



Lot I, 152 days . 

 Lot 2, 194 days . 



Total weight of lot 

 at— 



Begin- 

 ning of 

 experi- 

 uieiit. 



Pounds. 

 215. 75 

 212. 50 



End of 

 experi- 

 ment. 



Pounds. 

 323. 25 

 298. 50 



Gain in 

 live 



weiglit 

 during 

 experi- 

 ment, 

 including 

 wool, per 

 lot. 



Pounds. 

 107. 50 

 86.25 



Average 

 loss by 

 dreLSsing, 

 exclusive 

 of wool. 



Per cent. 

 44.3 

 46.3 



Total 



amount 



of wool 



produced 



per lot. 



Lb. oz. 

 12 5 

 12 4 



Financial state- 

 ment. 



Receipts 

 First cost'/"'' '"'^S" 



of iambs I«°V^u'' 

 and and pelts, 



^°^- value of 

 manure. 



$22. 85 

 22.09 



128. 55 

 25. 17 



The cost of feeding is based on rowen at $15, corn silage at $2.75, 

 corn meal at $19, wheat bran at $17, and gluten meal at $23 per ton. 

 In estimating the value of the manure it was assumed that 80 per cent 

 of the valuable fertilizing ingredients of the food would be recovered 

 in the manure, and these ingredients were reckoned at prices paid for 

 them in commercial fertilizers. " Sheep are known to produce one of 

 the best home-made manures." 



The figures show that lot 2 on the wider ration did so poorly for one 

 hundred and fifty-two days that even with a narrower ration during 

 about forty days more their total increase in live weight was less, the 

 per cent of shrinkage in slaughtering was larger, and the amount of 

 wool produced practically the same, as compared with lot 1 in one 

 hundred and fifty-two days of feeding on the richer ration. 



Auiong the conclusions drawu by the author from the exjieriment are : 

 (1) that for the fattening of lambs a ration rich in digestible nitrogen- 

 ous constituents was clearly superior ; (2) that " corn silage as a sub- 

 stitute in part for rowen gave very satisfactory results"; (3) that the 

 j)rofit was derived from the value of the manure, which is calculated to 

 be for lot 1, $5.07 (profit $5,70), and for lot 2, $1.49 (profit $3.08). 



Analyses of feeding stuffs and fertilizers, C. A. Goess- 

 MANN, Ph. D. (pp. 9, 10). — This includes analyses of wheat middlings, 

 oat feed, and gluten meal, with determinations of fertilizing ingredients, 

 and analyses of wood ashes, dry ground fish, ground bones, muriate of. 

 potash, sulphate of potash, saltpeter waste, jute waste, hen manure, an. 

 animal fertilizer, and twenty-two conunercial fertilizers, the last having 

 been made in connection with the Massachusetts fertilizer inspection. 



