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centrates but greatly increased the consumption of silage. The feeding 

 of a proprietary molasses feed instead of cotton-seed meal had very little 

 effect on the appetites of the cattle. The addition of molasses to the ration 

 increased the rate of gain; the use of the molasses feed instead of cotton-seed 

 meal resulted in a smaller rate of gain. Cattle fed a ration of shelled corn, 

 cotton-seed meal, corn silago, and clover hay returned a loss of $7.46 per 

 steer, including pork ; cattle fed a similar ration with a part of the corn 

 replaced by feeding molasses returned a loss of $6.19 per head ; cattle fed a 

 ration of shelled corn, proprietary molasses feed, corn silage, and clover hay 

 returned a loss, including pork, of $12.91 per steer. 



Dual purpose cattle, K. J. J. Mackenzie (Jour. Bath and West and South. 

 Counties Soc., 5. set:, 10 (1915-16), pp. 71-77). — A general discussion of the 

 economical advantages of dual purpose cattle, with data on feeding trials show- 

 ing the gains and profits made by this type of steer. 



Sheep feeding. — V, Fattening western lambs, 1914—15, J. H. Skinner 

 and P. G. King {Indiana Sta. Bui. 184 (1915), pp. 89S-912, fig. 1; pop. ed., pp. 

 7, fig. 1). — In these experiments nine lots of 25 choice Idaho lambs each were 

 fed 90 days as follows, the first eight lots being fed in an open shed and the 

 ninth lot in a barn : Lot 1, shelled corn and cotton-seed meal, 7 : 1, and corn 

 silage ; lot 2, shelled corn and oats, 2 : 1, and clover hay and corn silage ; lot 3, 

 shelled corn and clover hay ; lot 4, shelled corn and alfalfa hay ; lot 5, shelled 

 corn and cotton-seed meal, 7 : 1, and oat straw and corn silage ; lot 6, shelled 

 corn, clover hay, and corn silage; lot 7, shelled corn and cotton-seed meal, 7: 1, 

 and clover hay and corn silage ; lot 8, shelled corn and cotton-seed meal, 4 : 1, 

 and clover hay and corn silage; and lot 9, shelled corn, clover hay, and corn 

 silage. The work was in continuation of that previously noted (E. S. R., 33, 

 p. 374). 



Part 1 is a comparison of corn silage and clover hay as roughage for fatten- 

 ing lambs, involving lots 3 and 6. The addition of corn silage to the ration of 

 shelled corn and clover hay did not affect the grain consumption, but 1.38 lbs. of 

 silage replaced 0.09 lb. of clover hay in the daily ration per lamb. Lambs fed 

 the ration of shelled corn and clover hay gained 27.4 lbs. per head in 90 days, 

 as compared with 29.4 lbs. per lamb when corn silage was added. The addition 

 of corn silage to the ration reduced the cost of gain 1.21 cts. per pound, slightly 

 increasing the selling value of the lambs, and increased the profit 40 cts. per 

 head. 



Part 2 is a comparison of corn silage alone v. corn silage and dry roughage 

 for fattening lambs, involving lots 1, 5, and 7. Lambs receiving no dry 

 roughage did not consume so large quantities of grain as those fed some dry 

 roughage. There was no difference in grain consumption between lambs fed 

 silage and oat straw for roughage and those fed silage and clover hay for 

 loughage. The silage consumption was somewhat in proportion to dry rough- 

 age consumed, the largest quantity being eaten when no dry roughage was 

 fed and the smallest quantity when clover hay was fed. Gains made by lambs 

 fed silage alone for roughage were 23 lbs. per head in 90 days at a cost of 6.74 

 cts. per pound ; 27 lbs. at a cost of 6.21 cts. per pound when silage and oat straw 

 were fed ; and 30.1 lbs. at a cost of 7.37 cts. per pound when silage and clover 

 hay were fed. The lambs in lot 1 were valued at 8.4 cts. per pound and returned 

 u profit of 92 cts. per head ; in lot 5, at 8.5 cts, per pound and returned a profit 

 of $1.21 per head ; and in lot 7, at 8.75 cts. per pound and returned a profit of 

 $1.15 per head. 



Part 3 is a comparison of clover hay v. alfalfa hay as roughage for fattening 

 lambs, involving lots 3 and 4. The lambs of the two lots ate exactly the same 

 quantities of both grain and hay, but the lambs fed shelled corn and clover 



