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silage. It is also seen that the lowest gain, and at the 

 highest cost per pound, was from ration No. 2, where all 

 succulent food was lacking, and most of the grain ration 

 consisted of corn and oats. 



TOPICS FOR INVESTIGATION 



1. Make a study of the sheep raising industry in your 

 vicinity, determining (1) how many sheep are kept, (2) 

 what breeds are most used, (3) whether mutton or wool is 

 depended on for the chief source of profit, and (4) what 

 method of feeding and housing is principally followed. 



2. Which would probably add more labor on your 

 farm, increasing your dairy herd by five cows, or keeping 

 a flock of thirty sheep? How would the profits probably 

 compare? What is the basis for your judgment? 



3. Suppose the cost of the nutrients making up the 

 fattening rations shown on page 342 was as follows : Hay, 

 ten dollars a ton ; silage, two dollars and fifty cents a ton ; 

 corn, sixty-five cents a bushel; oats, forty-five cents a 

 bushel ; distiller's grains, thirty dollars a ton ; gluten, 

 twenty-five dollars a ton. Figure what it cost to feed fifty 

 lambs w r ith each ration for one hundred and ten days. 



4. After judging one or more sheep under the direction 

 of the teacher, judge several animals independently, and 

 then have your markings criticized and corrected. 



5. Write an argument of three hundred words showing 

 why sheep raising should be extended as an industry in 

 your neighborhood and county. 



6. Show how to keep a record of labor costs, pasture 

 rent, feed and shearing of ten sheep. 



7. Indicate on the map of the United States the sheep 

 areas and the approximate number of sheep in each state ' 

 as shown by the last census report. 



8. Enumerate in your note-book the various products 

 supplied by sheep. 



4. Sheep Demonstrations 



1. Demonstrate the proper method of shearing sheep. 



2. Show how to make a balanced ration for sheep for 

 the month of January in your locality. 



