222 OHIO EXPERIMENT STATION: BULLETIN 270 



DR. 



Cost of feed and pasture $26.52 



Express on 2 lambs shipped to Columbus 1.49 



Express on 4 lambs shipped to New York 3.00 



Commission on lambs shipped to New York 1.60 



$32.61 

 CR. 



December 24, 4 lambs at $8.00 $32.00 



24, 2 lambs, 58 pounds, at 35c 20.30 



54 pounds Delaine wool at 2 7 c per pound 12.42 



$64.72 

 Balance above cost of feed and marketing- : 



Total $32.11 



Per lamb 5. 35 



The foregoing- test shows something- of the economy of pro- 

 ducing- hothouse lambs on pasture. Table XVI, p. 218, shows that 

 the cost of feed required per pound of lamb produced was 5.2 cents 

 per pound when the lambs were produced in the barn, while Table 

 XVIII, p. 221 shows that when the lambs were raised on pasture the 

 greater part of their lives, the cost of feed was but 4 cents per 

 pound of lamb produced. This is a point deserving attention from 

 hothouse lamb producers, particularly in the southern part of the 

 state where pastures may be used late in the fall. In frequent cases 

 there are fields of aftermath to be plowed in the spring which will 

 furnish excellent pasture and produce cheap gains. New clover 

 seeding may be used for the same purpose if not pastured too closely 

 so as to injure the stand. Bluegrass pastures, if green and succu- 

 lent, may be used to good advantage, but frequently in the fall they 

 are either burned by dry weather or are pastured off closely and 

 should be supplemented with pasture of another nature. This may 

 be accomplished by using such crops as rape or rye. If these crops 

 are sown in silage corn they frequently will make a good growth 

 and furnish an abundance of pasture after the corn is removed. 

 The extra amount of labor and expense involved in sowing such 

 crops to furnish fall pasture is no greater than that required to feed 

 the ewes and lambs in the barn. 



