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calculation of the cost of production, perhaps it is no more than fair 

 to credit the weight of this lamb v particularly since it had reached a 

 marketable weight, 49 pounds. If this weight is added to the total 

 weight of lambs produced, it reduces the cost of feed per pound of 

 gain to 3.54 cents. 



TABLE XVIII. Total amount and vulue of feed given to 

 ewes and lambs, 1912-13. 



353.4 pounds corn at 56c per bushel $ 3.53 



181.8 pounds oilmeal at $32.00 per ton 2.91 



.174 ton soybean hay at $10.00 per ton 1.74 



.168 ton alfalfa hay at $12.50 per ton 2.10 



.21 ton clover hay at $10.00 per ton 2.10 



.054 ton mixed hay at $10.00 per ton 54 



1.386 ton silage at $3.50 per ton 4.85 



*Pasture for 7 ewes and lambs at $1.25 per ewe 8.75 



$26.52 

 54 pounds wool at 23c per pound 12.42 



Net cost of feed required to produce 349 pounds of lamb $14.10 



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



live weight 04 



*Estimated. 



SALE OF LAMBS: FINANCIAL STATEMENT 



Four lambs were dressed and shipped to a commission firm in 

 New York City. The remaining two were shipped to a Columbus 

 butcher and slaughtered and sold to a hotel for 35c per pound 

 dressed. The butcher received the pelts as pay for dressing the 

 lambs and delivering them to the hotel. The following financial 

 statement shows the amount remaining after deducting the cost of 

 the feed eaten by the lambs and the cost of the feed required to 

 keep the ewes a } T ear, from the receipts from sale of lambs and wool. 

 Since there is no waj^ of determining the amount of gain or loss in 

 live weight b} T the ewes during the j-ear when they were raising the 

 lambs, no account is taken of this item. 



