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containing little acid and having in it no mold. 

 Lambs eat this greedily and seem to grow much 

 more rapidly than when it is withheld. About 1^2 

 to 2 pounds of silage makes a day's ration for a 

 lamb. The writer believes this cheapens the ration 

 materially and perhaps the mutton is better; he 

 thinks it is and has had no difficulty in securing the 



SHEEP WAGONS. 

 Photo from Wilcox, Annual Report B. A. 1. 1902, U. S. Dept. of Agr. 



top price for his alfalfa-silage-corn-fed lambs. When 

 corn is made into silage after it is well matured 

 there is of course a very large proportion of grain 

 thereon and it is tender and succulent and much 

 relished by the lambs. The small amount of acid 

 in the silage is lactic acid, promotive of digestion. 

 Silage has been fed to breeding ewes with excel- 



