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OHIO EXPERIMENT STATION: BULLETIN 270 



three times a day. All uneaten feed was removed from the troughs 

 at each feed and fed and charged to the ewes. The daily ration fed 

 to the ewes was given in two equal parts, morning and evening. 

 The silage and grain were mixed together and fed first, followed 

 by the hay. All uneaten feed was removed and weighed.. 



WEIGHTS AND GAINS 



In all of the experiments reported in this bulletin, the initial 

 weight was secured by taking the average of three weights, and 

 the final weight was secured by taking the average of tv/o weights 

 taken on successive days. 1 The ewes and lambs were also weighed 

 weekly during the experiment. All weights were taken in the morn- 

 ing before feed and water were given, the water having been with- 

 held during the night previous to weighing. Table II shows the 

 weekly weights and gains and the total gain made by the ewes and 

 lambs in each lot. The ewes in Lot 2, fed corn, oats, bran and oil- 

 meal made a slightly larger gain than did those in Lot 1, whose grain 

 ration consisted of corn and oilmeal, but the lambs in Lot 1 made 

 a larger gain than did those in Lot 2. This experiment does not 

 show any striking difference between the two rations, so far as rate 

 of gain is concerned, but since the gain on the lambs is more im- 

 portant and of more value than the gain on the ewes, what slight 

 difference there is between these two grain rations, as shown by 

 this experiment, is in favor of the one composed of corn and oilmeal. 



TABLE II. EXPERIMENT I: Weekly weights and gains, and total gains. 



*On February 5, 5 lambs were slaughtered from Lot 1 an-i their dams taken out of the lot. 



On February 5, 3 la.nbs were slaughtered from Lot 2 and their dams taken out of the lot. 

 **On F?bruary 12, 5 ewes and 5 lambs were added to Lot 1. 

 On February 12, 3 ewes and 3 lambs were added to Lot 2. 

 tOn February 17, 3 lambs were slaughtered from Lot 1. 



On February 17, 5 lambs were slaughtered from Lot 2. 



