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Lot II, consisting of twenty-three lambs, and receiving what corn 

 they would eat both morning and evening while on rape pasture, did 

 not gain as many pounds as the twenty-three head receiving rape pasture 

 without grain. 



The individual gains for Lot II either year are not so uniform as for 

 Lot I, showing that while the lambs consumed the corn, it interfered with 

 the fattening process. The average gain of the twenty-three head of lambs 

 on rape pasture without grain for the two years was 13.65 pounds, while 

 the average gain for lots receiving rape and corn for two years was 12.91 

 pounds per head.* 



*At the Wisconsin Station sixteen wethers were fed on 0.7 of an acre of rape 

 for twenty-five days, and also ate 153.5 pounds of oats and 97.5 pounds of whole 

 corn. The.v gained a total of 149 pounds, or a weekly average of 2.6 pounds. Valu- 

 ing' the foods and the wethers at cost, and the selling price of the latter at 4 cents 

 per pound, the rape would be worth $14.48 per acre. 



TABLE OF WEIGHTS AND GAINS. 

 LOT III— RAPE AND OATS. 



