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OHIO EXPERIMENT STATION: BULLETIN 187 



TABLE XV Feed consumed and bedding used per ton of manure produced. 



*Bedding includes straw and refuse hay. 



Table XV shows the amount of feed and bedding- required by 

 each of the lots to produce one ton of manure. As will be seen, the 

 amount of feed and bedding- for one ton of manure varied consider- 

 ably. It is probable that the chief cause of this variation was the 

 difference in water content of the manure. 



As was stated in Bulletin 179, experiments at this Station in- 

 dicate that a given number of pounds of fertilizing constituents of 

 manure which has been reinforced with phosphorus and has not 

 been exposed to the weather or allowed to heat will produce at least 

 as great an increase of crop as will the same amount and combination 

 of fertilizing- elements in the form of the commercial fertilizers 

 mentioned in the note below Table XIII. It is believed that from 

 25 to 35 cents extra per ton of manure will, under ordinary circum- 

 stances, pay well for the extra work involved in applying- the manure, 

 above the work required to apply the same fertilizing constituents 

 in the form of commercial fertilizers. With this the case, feeders 

 can well afford to exercise great care in handling the manure from 

 fattening lambs. 



The financial statement, Table XVI, is given not so much for its 

 practical value as for the purpose of answering the query, ''Did it 

 pay?" which so often arises when a feeding experiment is discussed. 

 Under the conditions of the experiment and with the market prices 

 which prevailed, the feeding operations yielded a good profit. It 

 must be remembered, however, that the financial statement does 

 not apply to any market conditions other than those which prevailed 

 during this experiment. Tables VII and XVII, dealing with various 

 prices for feeds and for feeder lambs and the various costs of gain are 

 of more importance than a statement of the mere financial re 1 suits of 

 this experiment. 



INFLUENCE OF VARYING MARKET CONDITIONS. 



Table XVII is prepared on the basis of the results obtained from 

 Lot 3, the lot that made the greatest net profit under the conditions 

 of this experiment. In the calculations for this table, as well as for 

 all tables previously given in this bulletin, the amount of feed 

 actually consumed is used, rather than the amount fed. The hay 

 refused by the various lots was not of good quality the better 

 parts naturally being eaten first. In Bulletin 179 the amount of 



