EXPERIMENTS IN WINTER LAMB PRODUCTION 219 



Table XVI shows that after crediting- the ewes with the value 

 of the wool produced and after deducting the value of the loss in 

 live weight du 'ng the year, the total cost of the feed required to 

 produce the lambs was 5.2 cents per pound. 



SALE OF LAMBS: FINANCIAL STATEMENT 



This lot of lambs was consigned to a commission firm in New 

 York City, in five separate consignments, as they reached a desirable 

 weight and proper degree of finish. The following financial state- 

 ment shows that after crediting the ewes with the value of the wool 

 produced during the year, the lambs returned, on an average, $4.08 

 after paying the expenses of marketing them and the cost of all the 

 feed required to produce them. 



DR. 



Feed and pasture for 40 ewes and lambs $182.85 



Express on lambs shipped to New York 27.38 



Commission 14.91 



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



$227.57 

 CR. 



February 11, 2 lambs at $9.00 $18.00 



" 11, 3 lambs at $3.50 25.50 



11, 3 lambs at $8.00 24.00 



" 21, 8 lambs at $9.00 72.00 



March 7, 4 lambs at $7.50 3000 



11 14, 8 lambs at $7. 75 .". 62.00 



" 21, 5 lambs at $8.50 '. 42.50 



" 21, 3 lambs at $8.00 24.00 



" 21, 4 lambs at $5.00* 20.00 



317 pounds Delaine wool at 23c per pound 72.91 



$390.91 

 Balance above cost of feed and marketing 1 : 



Total $163.34 



Per lamb 4.C8 



*The four lambs which were not sold on account of demoralized shipping- facilities, when they weft 

 ivady for market, were worth, at a conservative estimate, $5.00 apiece, -on the farm. 



LAMBS RAISED DURING THE AUTUMN OF 1912-13 



If ewes can be induced to breed sufficiently early to have the 

 lambs born in the late summer or early fall, the lambs may be 

 nearly, if not quite, matured on pasture. This will materially 

 reduce the feed bill, and will have the lambs ready for market at a 

 time when good prices usually prevail. The following pages show 

 the cost of feed required to raise 7 hothouse lambs in this manner 

 during the summer and fall of 1912. 



