OHIO EXPERIMENT STATION: BULLETIN 179. 



From the above it will be seen that fat lambs may, under some 

 market conditions, that is, when feeding- lambs cost more per pound 

 than it costs to produce one pound of gain, be sold for less per 

 pound than they cost as feeder lambs; and that the higher priced 

 the feeder lambs, the smaller the margin required or the greater the 

 decline in price per pound that may occur without causing an actual 

 loss, providing the cost of producing gains remains the same. In 

 the table all instances in which the selling price per pound may, 

 without loss, be lower than the price paid per pound for feeder 

 lambs, are indicated by heavy lines beneath such selling prices. 



SUMMARY. 



The following is a summary of what seem to be the most im- 

 portant results of this test. All lots received the same amount of 

 clover and alfalfa for roughage daily per lamb. Further work 

 along this line is in progress and will be reported later. 



Lot 1, fed a grain ration of corn, made lower gains in live weight 

 than did any of the other lots. When shipped to market they 

 shrank less in weight than did any of the o'ther lots. This lot led in 

 dressed percentage. Lot 1 required more pounds of food to pro- 

 duce a pound of gain than did any of the other lots, buf produced 

 gains at less cost per pound than did any of the other lots, save lot 4. 



Lot 2, fed a grain ration of corn, 5 parts, cottonseed meal, 1 

 part, made higher gains than did any of the other lot's, save lot 4, 

 shrank most during shipment to market, and yielded the lowest 

 total dressed weight and the lowest dressed percentage. The cost 

 of gain was higher for lot 2 than for any other lot, save lot 3. 



Lot 3, fed a grain ration of corn, 5 parts, linseed oilmeal, 1 part, 

 made lo\ver gains than did any of the other lots, save lot 1. This 

 lot shrank more during shipment and yielded a lower dressed per- 

 centage than did any of the other lots, save lot 2. The cost per 

 pound gain was higher with lot 3 than with any of the other lots. 



Lot 4, fed a grain ration of corn and Dr. Hess' stock food, made 

 slightly greater gains and cheaper gains than die any of the other 

 lots. They shrank less in shipping and yielded a higher percentage 

 of dressed weight than did any of the other lots, save lot 1. One 

 lamb died in this lot during the experiment. 



The feeding of cottonseed meal and of linseed oilmeal to lots 2 

 and 3, respectively, increased the value of the manure produced by 

 these lots. The extra' cost of the rations, however, more than 

 equaled the increased value of the manure. 



Lots 3, 2, and 4, in the order mentioned, refused less roughage 

 than did lot 1, indicating that the feeding of nitrogenous concen- 

 trates or of Dr. Hess' stock food has a tendency to increase the 

 consumption of roughage. 



