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wheat meal readily ate three-fourths of a pound of whole wheat. 

 Accordingly, during the remainder of the first and the two fol- 

 lowing trials, whole wheat was fed. The following table summar- 

 izes the results of the last two trials: 



Feeding whole icheat to sheep Woburn (England) Station. 



These gains are satisfactory considering the length of the trials. 

 Voelcker concludes from three seasons' experiments with wheat> 

 oil meal, and cotton -seed meal, that whole wheat produced the 

 cheapest gain at current prices for stock foods in England. 



761. Oats. At the Michigan Station, l Mumford compared oats 

 with corn in a feeding trial lasting 119 days with ten lambs in 

 each lot, averaging 83 pounds, with results presented in the table: 

 Feeding oats in opposition to corn Michigan Station. 



In this trial the oats did not give .as large daily gains as did 

 the corn; further, it required 100 pounds or 25 per cent, more 

 oats than corn for a given gain. Since 500 pounds of corn is 

 shown to be the usual grain requirement for 100 pounds of gain 

 with lambs, it is probable that further trials will show oats not 

 far below corn in value, though they can hardly equal it. 



762. Bran. At the Michigan Station, 2 Mumford fed corn in 

 opposition to bran during a period of 119 days, to two lots of ten 



1 Bui. 107. 2 Bui. 107. 



