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TABLE XV. Live and dressed weights and shrink in dressing 

 of 36 hothouse lambs, 1912-13. 



TOTAL COST OF FEED, AND COST OF FEED PER 

 POUND OF GAIN 



Table XVI shows the amount of feed fed to the lambs, the total 

 amount of feed required to maintain the forty ewes one : year, the 

 cost of this feed at ordinary farm prices, and the cost of feed per 

 pound of live weight of lamb produced, after deducting- the value of 

 the wool produced by the forty ewes and after making allowance for 

 their loss in live weight during the year. 



TABLE XVI. 



Total amount and value of feed given to ewes 

 and lambs, 1912-13. 



DR. 



5,774 pounds of corn at 663 per bushel $57.74 



59 \6 pounds oilmeal at $32.CO per ton 9.59 



216.9 pounds oats at 40c per bushel 2.71 



250.2 pounds bran at $24.00 per ton 3.00 



2.815 tons alfalfa at $12.50 per ton 1 ... 35.19 



.466 ton soybean hay at $10.00 per ton 4.C6 



.583 ton clover hay at $'O.CO per ton 5.83 



6.893 tons silag-e at $3.50 per ton 24.13 



*Pasture for 40 ewes at $1.00 per head 40.00 



f69.5 pounds loss in live weight by ewes at 3^c per Ib. 2.43 



$185.28 



CR. 

 317 pounds wool at 23c per pound . . .' $72 91 



$ 72.91 



Net cost of feed required to produce 2,171.5 Ibs of lamb $112.37 



Net cost of feed required to produce a pound of lamb, 



live weight 052 



*E?timated. 



tThe forty ewes weigrhed 69.5 pounds i eFS on April 1, 1913, than on the same date the year prerknw- 

 This loss in live weight is valued at bJi cents per pound. 



