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the hay crops ordinarily raised on the farm, will be 

 supplied to some extent with silage, and fattened on 

 rape, cowpeas, soy beans, corn, oil meal and cotton- 

 seed meal and the ordinary roughage materials cus- 

 tomarily grown on each farm. 



Feeding Lambs for Market. For most markets 

 the feeding process begins late in the fall or the early 

 winter. In addition to late fall pasture, such as rye, 

 rape, new growth of blue grass, young clover or al- 



READY FOR MARKET 

 Their ration consisted of clover hay, oil meal, ground oats, and corn. 



falfa, lambs will have been using in many instances 

 leguminous hays or other dry fodder, so that by the 

 time they are actually confined in close feeding pens 

 and placed upon a fattening ration their digestive 

 systems will have become accustomed to dry feed. 

 So handled they will be in condition to use econom- 

 ically large amounts of forage and grain, and should 

 gain from the first week after being placed in con- 

 finement. 



