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cents per hundred less than was obtained for the wethers. The 

 gross return, therefore, was $471.01. The cost of shipping, with 

 commission, was $88.15, or 73^/2 cents each, which was about the 

 same as for the previous year. The net return for the lambs, there- 

 fore, was $382.86, which gave a profit of $25.49, or 21 cents profit 

 on each lamb . This brings us to consider a very interesting ques- 

 tion, namely : Why the lambs, which were the most economical 

 feeders, returned the least profit on the feeding. In the previous 

 vear's test the wethers had sold in Chicago for $6.00 per hundred 



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