22 SHEEP FEEDING 



forth the findings of a feeding experiment with Western 

 lambs which was conducted on the farm of a practical Ohio 

 sheep feeder during the season 1905-1906. One hundred 

 and sixty lambs were divided into four lots of forty head 

 each and fed in the barn in pens, allowing seven square 

 feet per animal. Each lot received the same hay ration, 

 which consisted of one and one-half pounds of hay per 

 head per day, and Lot 1 received a grain ration of shelled 

 corn, Lot 2 corn and cottonseed meal, Lot 3 corn and lin- 

 seed meal, and Lot 4 corn and Dr. Hess's Stock Food. 



Gains at five cents per pound. The gains made by the 

 different lots were remarkably similar, but as the results 

 from the shelled-corn lot have the widest application, they 

 alone will be quoted. The experiment lasted 103 days, and 

 the lambs made a daily gain of .298 pound per head. With 

 corn at #0.48 per bushel, and hay f 5.50 and $6.00 per ton, 

 a pound of gain cost $0.049. Each lamb ate 2.21 bushels 

 of corn and 155 pounds of hay, consuming 402.44 pounds 

 of corn and 504.06 pounds of roughness per 100 pounds of 

 gain. They shrank 4.1 pounds per hundredweight in ship- 

 ping to Cleveland and dressed 53 per cent. Lot 1 produced 

 11,525 pounds of manure, which was worth $29.67, or $5.15 

 per ton, when figured on a commercial fertilizer basis. Of 

 course, manure must be handled in the best possible way to 

 possess this apparently excessive value. It was figured that 

 the total cost of feed and bedding for Lot 1 was $67.97; 

 the manure value was $29.67, leaving a difference of $38.30. 

 Counting grain, roughage, and bedding, it took 2251.62 

 pounds to produce one ton of manure. 



From Ohio Bulletin No. 179. Quoting one of the most in- 

 teresting phases of the bulletin, we read : " Table XV, which 

 follows, dealing only with Lot 1 and calculated on the basis 



