6 Wyoming Experiment Station. 



LOTS 2 TO 14. 



Three lots were fed oats, corn, and barley, respectively, with 

 native hay, and three others were fed the same with the addition 

 of oilmeal. In only one instance did the oilmeal produce enough 

 gain to pay for itself, and that was when added to the corn and 

 native hay ration. Here four pounds additional gain were 

 produced by the feeding of 16 pounds of oilmeal. Valuing the 

 gain at 7 cents and the meal at 2 cents, the gain almost balances 

 the cost of the meal. The rest of the carcass is made more 

 valuable by the four-pound gain, but this in turn is partly offset 

 by extra trouble in feeding. The results, therefore, do not in- 

 dicate a proift by adding oilmeal to the various rations ; but it 

 may be added to a corn and native hay ration with safety, and 

 probably with a chance of profit. 



Comparing the gains produced by oats, corn, and barley, 

 fed with native hay, we find that oats produced 15 pounds 

 -gain, barley 15.8 pounds gain, and corn only 12.8 pounds gain. 

 Alfalfa and corn, Lot 14, produced a gain of 28.6 pounds, while 

 the best gain produced by a native hay ration was 17.4 pounds, 

 made by the lot fed native hay, oats, and oilmeal. The alfalfa 

 and corn lot ate two-thirds more hay than native hay lots, and 

 one-fifth to one-fourth more grain, with the exception of the 

 two lots fed oats, and oats and oilmeal, which ate about the 

 same amount of grain. 



LOTS I AND 1 6. 



The alfalfa hay used was first cutting, grown on the Sta- 

 tion Farm. The peas also were grown on the Station Farm and 

 were the White Canadian field variety. One hundred lambs were 

 fed for 14 weeks on 12^2 acres of peas, an average of one- 

 eighth acre per head. The corn and alfalfa lot made a gain of 

 31 pounds per head, while the pea lot made only 20 pounds 

 gain. The only means of a close comparison of the two lots is 

 through a financial statement such as is found in the following 

 table : 



