94 AGllICULTUKAL EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



GENERAL SUMMARY OF FEEDING EXPERIMENTS 

 WITH GROWING LAMBS. 



1890-93. 



A series of winter feeding experiments has been carried 

 on at the station during the past four years, 1890-93, with 

 lambs born the previous spring. 



Many spring lambs are not far enough advanced to be 

 sold during the late summer at good prices, and are there- 

 fore fed during the fall and winter and placed in the market 

 in the early spring. 



These experiments have sought, among other things, to 

 ascertain : — 



I. (1) The average cost of feed to produce a pound of 

 live weight. 



(2) The average daily gain in live weight. 



(3) The loss of weight in dressing. 



(4) The dry matter required to produce a pound of live 

 weight. 



II. The effect of wide vs. narrow fodder rations on the 

 gain in weight. 



III. The coml^inations of grains and coarse fodder arti- 

 cles best suited to the economical production of lambs for 

 the market. 



Eighteen sheep were used in the three experiments pre- 

 sented. The experiment conducted in 1892 is excluded, from 

 the fact that the results are so different from those of the 

 other three years. The time occupied by the different ex- 

 periments varied from 120 to 200 days. 



The object here is simply to present a very brief 7'd^sum('. 

 of the results, referring the reader to the respective annual 

 reports for details. 



