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similar in age, type and breeding and were bred to the same rams. 

 In Experiment I, the ewes had all lambed before the experiment 

 began, while in Experiment II they did not begin to lamb until the 

 second week of the experiment. (See Table V, p. 207). The ewes 

 and lambs were confined in pens similar in size and location to those 

 used in Experiment I. There were 11 ewes and their lambs in 

 each lot in this experiment, which lasted from December 24, 1912, to 

 March 28, 1913, inclusive, a period of 95 days. One lamb in Lot 1 

 died at birth, February 19, and the ewe was removed from the 

 experiment. 



Rations: The rations fed to the ewes were as follows: 



Lot 1. Corn, 4 parts; oilmeal, 1 part; alfalfa, clover and silage. 

 Lot 2. Corn, 5 parts; oats, 2 parts; bran, 2 parts; oilmeal, 1 part; 

 alfalfa, clover and silage. 



The lambs in both lots were fed the same rations, corn and 

 alfalfa, and were fed apart from the ewes. 



Both ewes and lambs were fed in the same manner as in Experi- 

 ment I, except that the lambs in Experiment II were not intended 

 for hothouse lambs and were not forced as rapidly as were those in 

 Experiment I. Table IV shows the average daily ration consumed 

 by both ewes and lambs by weekly periods, and the average for the 

 entire experiment. 



TABLE IV. EXPERIMENT II: Average daily ration consumed by ewes 

 and by lambs, by weekly periods 



*Med5um red clover hay was substituted for alfalfa during- the last five weeks of the experiment. 



