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TOTAL COST OF FEED, AND COST OF FEED PER 

 POUND OF GAIN 



In determining 1 the cost of feed required to produce the lambs, 

 account was taken not only of the amount of feed fed to the ewes 

 and lambs while the ewes were raising 1 the lambs, but also of the 

 total amount of feed required to maintain the ewes from the time 

 they were turned out to pasture one year to the corresponding 1 time 

 the following year. Since there was not more than two weeks 

 difference in the time at which the ewes were turned out to pasture 

 each year, the time included by the dates mentioned is 

 practically a year. Table XIII shows the value of the total amount 

 of feed fed, at ordinary farm prices for feeds, and the cost of feed 

 fed per pound of live weight of lamb produced after deducting 1 the 

 value of the wool produced by the fourteen ewes. 



TABLE XIII. Total amount and value of feed fed to ewes and lambs, 1911-12. 



DR. 



1,631.6 pounds corn at S6c per bushel $16.32 



493.6 pounds cottonseed meal at $32.00 per ton 7.90 



1.432 ton alfalfa at $12.50 per ton 17.90 



3 tons silage at $3.50 per ton 10.50 



.01 ton mixed hay at $10.00 per ton 10 



*Pasture for 14 ewes at $1.00 per head ' 14.00 



$66.72 



|4b.5 pounds gain on ewes at 3)4 c per pound $ 1.63 



116 pounds wool at 23c per pound 26.68 



$28.31 



Net cost of feed required to produce 681.5 Ibs. o-f lamb 38.41 



Net cost of feed required to produce a pound of lamb, live weight .056 



*Estimated. 



tThe ewes weighed 46.5 pounds more on April 1, 1912, than on the same date a year previous. This 

 grain in live weight is valued at '6\4 cents per pound. 



Table XIII shows that the total cost of all the feed fed to the 

 lambs and of all the feed required to maintain the ewes for a year, 

 after deducting- the value of the gain in live weight and of the wool 

 produced by the ewes, was 5.6 cents per pound. It should be 



