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Owing to market conditions current at tlie time, these feeding operations 

 were conducted witliout margin. Tlie selling price assigned the check lot was 

 .$17 per hundred pounds. The low average gains of the clipped lambs resulted 

 directly from decreased consumption of silage following shearing ; they were 

 greatly discriminated against in selling. 



In spite of the fact that corn was charged at 2 cts. and hominy feed at 3 cts. 

 a pound, the lambs fed the latter showed greater profit due to more economical 

 gains and an increased selling price of 10 cts. a hundred. Part-time grain 

 feeding resulted in a feed cost lower than the check lot by about 12 cts. a 

 head, but the smaller gains and a 15-ct. decrease per hundred in selling price 

 produced less profit. 



Linseed meal and ground soy beans were each charged at $60 per ton as 

 against $53.50, the purchase price of cottonseed meal. Soy beans were iden- 

 tical with the latter in feeding value, and the selling prices of the two lots 

 were the same. The difference in profits reflects the difference in cost of feeds. 

 The increased profit from the linseed meal lot was due partly to an added 

 selling price of 25 cts. per hundred and partly to more economical gains. 



Clover hay was valued at $25 and corn silage at $7.50 per ton, but neither 

 the feeding of hay every fifth day only, thereby cutting the consumption in 

 half, nor the complete elimination of hay after the animals were on full 

 feed was profitable, becaui-e of reduced gains. 



Feeding western lambs {Kansas Sta. Rpt. 1918, pp. Jt2, >}3). — Five lots of 60 

 lambs each were fed for 60 days during January and February, 1918. Com- 

 parisons were made between shelled corn and whole Kafir corn, alfalfa hay 

 and sweet clover hay, silage and no silage. One lot was crowded. Results 

 from the others are summarized as follows : 



Results of a 60-day lamb feeding experiment. 



The following prices were charged for feeds : Corn 3 cts. and Kafir corn 3.5 

 cts. per pound, hay $25 and silage $8 per ton. It is computed that the value 

 of Kafir corn as feed for lambs was only 2.0 cts. per pound, while corn in 

 lot 16 was worth nearly 3.5 cts. 



Production of goats on far western ranges, W. R. Chapline {U. S. Dept. 

 Agr. Bui. 749 {1919), pp. 35, pis. 12, figs. 2). — -A number of problems associated 

 with range goats are considered in some detail, particularly with reference to 

 (1) character of the range, (2) methods of management that will insure 

 profits from goats without interference with sheep and cattle raising, timber 

 reproduction, watershed protection, or other uses of the range, and (3) increas- 

 ing the amount of mohair and goat meat by reducing death losses and by exer- 

 cising greater care in the selection and management of the herd. The publi- 

 cation constitutes a general treati.se on the management of goats on the range. 

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