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TABLE VI. EXPERIMENT II: Feed given to ewes and lambs; gains 

 produced; cost of gains 



*The lambs in both lots were fed a small amount of bran when they first began to eat grain. 



EXPERIMENT III 

 OBJECT 



The object of this experiment was to compare corn alone with 

 a mixture of corn, oats, bran and oilmeal as grain rations for winter 

 lambs. 



PLAN OF EXPERIMENT 



In Experiments I and II, the lambs in both lots in each experi- 

 ment were fed alike and the ewes fed different rations, but in Experi- 

 ment III both lots of ewes were fed alike and the lambs fed different 

 rations. 



Two lots, eacji composed of 38 ewes and their lambs were used 

 in Experiment III, which lasted from December 24, 1912, to March 

 28, 1913, inclusive, a period of 95 days. On February 12, four ewes 

 and their lambs were removed from each lot and put with the lambs 

 in Experiment I, to fatten them more rapidly. On February 19, 

 four more ewes and lambs were removed from each lot for the same 

 purpose. At the time the experiment was begun, only about two- 

 thirds of the ewes had lambed. The ewes in this experiment 

 lambed later than those in Experiment I and earlier than those in 

 Experiment II. The ewes used in this experiment were similar in 

 every respect to those used in Experiments I and II (see p. 201) and 

 were bred to the same rams. The same feeds were used and the 

 same method of feeding was followed in Experiment III as in Experi- 

 ment II, but the lambs were not intended for hothouse lambs and 

 were not forced as rapidly as were the lambs in Experiment I. 



