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increase in live weight. They ate, however, 1.98 or nearly 2 

 pounds of roots. Thus it would appear that this small amount of 

 roots made a saving of about 4^ pounds of hay. Compared with 

 the wethers which had the full grain ration, lot I, the stronger 

 sheep cost 7.3 cents for each pound of gain, which was exactty the 

 cost for each pound of gain for the wethers fed- the maximum grain 

 ration. Lot 2, the lighter sheep, which had the most roots, cost but 

 6.4 cents for each pound of gain, which was practically the same as 

 the wethers fed the lighter grain ration. Coming, next, to the 

 "locoed" sheep we have to consider that we are dealing with small 

 animals, weighing only about one-half as much as those in the "poi- 

 son-plant" lot or only about one-third the weight at the beginning* 

 of the test. These small sheep would naturally be small feeders. 

 They ate an average of 1.36 Ibs. of hay per day, which was 2 pounds 

 less than the wethers ate and i pound less than the "poison plant" 

 sheep ate. They ate slightly more grain per day and about .6 of a 

 pound of roots. 



FOOD EATEN FOR EACH POUND GAIN. 



Considering, next, the food eaten for each pound of gain it will 

 be noticed that lot 3, the heavier sheep, ate 6.8 pounds of hay, 3.92 

 pounds of grain and 2.93 pounds of roots for each pound of gain, 

 while the lighter sheep required but 4.72 pounds of hay, 2.69 pounds 

 of grain and 2.02 pounds of roots for each pound of gain. This 

 shows a saving of 2.08 pounds of hay, .2 pounds of grain and .9 

 pounds of roots, as compared with the "poison plant" sheep and the 

 wethers. It will be noticed that the "locoed sheep required very 

 much less hay for each pound of gain than did the wethers, bxit on the 

 average they required slightly more grain. Considering the prices 

 of the feed, the lightest lot (4) of the "locoed" sheep made the cheap- 

 est gains, namely, 4.4 cents for each pound of gain. Lot 3, the 

 heavier sheep, cost 6.2 cents for each pound of gain, which was about 

 the same as the cost on the light weight "poison plant" sheep. Each 

 pound of gain put upon the wether or "poison plant" sheep cost 6.9 

 cents, while for the "locoed" sheep this cost was 5.3 cents, or 1.6 cents 

 less, which seems to show that the locoed sheep will gain as econo- 

 mically as the stronger and better sheep if properly fed and treated. 



