Ration K.vpcriments ll'itfi Lambs, 1905-06. II 



None of the native hay rations were as satisfactory as 

 corn and alfalfa. 



Hulled barley and native hay proved to be the most eco- 

 nomical of the native hay rations. 



Oil meal, feel with native hay and grain, increases the 

 cost of gain, although it produces slightly greater gains than 

 native hay and grain without oil meal. When fed with corn 

 and native hay, it produces enough greater gains to make the 

 ration practically equal in cost to the native hay and corn 

 ration, and the extra degree of fatness in the lambs brings a 

 better price in the market. 



Xative hay and corn is shown by this test, and by another 

 test published in Bulletin Xo. 68, to be unsatisfactory as a 

 lamb feeding ration. 



Lot i Alfalfa, corn. 

 Lot 1 6 Peas in field. 



Field peas, grazed off, showed returns approximately 

 equaling the returns from feeding alfalfa and corn, with the 

 pease valued at $8 per acre, alfalfa at $5 per ton, and corn 

 at $i per cwt. ; although the alfalfa and corn lambs gained 

 abQUt one-half more than the pea lambs. 



The corn and alfalfa lambs, which were n pounds per 

 head heavier than the pea lambs when shipped, shrank 4.2 

 pounds more than the pea lambs in a railroad run of 538 miles. 



The law requiring the unloading of live stock at the end 

 of 28 or 36 hours works a hardship in many cases, because 

 the stock is unloaded at stock yards where there are not proper 

 facilities for the care of the stock. This could be remedied 

 by the placing of well equipped fee'ding yards at more fre- 

 quent intervals. 



