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Minnesota Experiment Station. » Texas Experiment Station. * 



Wheat so'eenings and timothy hay. Cottonseed meal and cottonseed 

 Lbs. hulls. Lba. 



Av. wt of lambs fed 74 Av, wt. of lambs fed 62 



Daily gain 29 Daily gain 28 



Wheat screenings 211 Cotton-seed meal 97 



Timothy hay 72 Cotton-seed hulls 97 



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Barley, oil meal and iimothy hay. Cracked com and alfalfa hay. 



Lbs. Lbs. 



Av. wt of lambs fed 76 Av. wt. of lambs fed 89 



Daily gain 33 DaOy gain 29 



Barley 170 Alfalfa hay 290 



Oil meal 19 Corn 67 



riraothy hay 72 



III. Winter or " Christmas Lamb " Raising. 



817. Requirements of the market. — In our large cities there is 

 a demand for ''Christmas " or winter lambs. There are several 

 obstacles to be met in raising lambs satisfactory for this market, 

 the most difficult of which is breeding the ewes at the right 

 season, and the proper nurture of the young lambs to develop 

 carcasses which will meet the fastidious requirements of the 

 gourmand. A leader in this high-art branch of sheep farming 

 is Mr. J. S. Woodward, of Lockport, N. Y., who has been in the 

 business twenty-five years. The facts given below are condensed 

 from an essay by Mr. Woodward in the Wisconsin Farmers' In- 

 stitute Bulletin No. 7. 



''Christmas lambs," as they are frequently called, should 

 present a well-developed leg of mutton with plenty of lean meat, 

 tender and juicy, with a good thick caul to spread over the car- 

 cass when on exhibition. A dressed lamb weighing twenty-five 

 pounds, fulfilling the requirements, is superior to one weighing 

 twice that which is lean and bony. 



818. Mating. — Mr. Woodward prefers grade Merinos not less 

 than two years old coming three, because they are the best 

 mothers. He mates short-legged, heavy-bodied, stocky ewes 



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