RATIONS FOR FATTENING WESTERN SHEEP 



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Lot I which received timothy hay did not eat their hay 

 well. They mussed over and wasted more of it than did Lot II. 

 'his was especially true towards the latter part of the experiment. 

 it required more care and attention to keep the timothy hay lot 

 From going "off feed" than it did with the lot receiving clover hay; 

 lowever, by careful feeding, neither lot were "off feed" at any 

 ;ime during this experiment. 



Clover hay proved to be a superior roughness to the timothy hay 

 every way during this trial. Lot II required less grain though 

 little more hay was consumed per hundred pounds gain. The 

 >st of one hundred pounds gain is in favor of the lots receiving the 

 lover hay. The yearlings in Lot II were in better condition and 

 >ld for fifteen cents per hundred pounds more than did the year- 

 lings which received timothy hay. 



The difference in the condition of flesh was especially noticeable 

 in the carcasses. The backs and ribs of the carcasses of Lot I which 

 :eived the timothy hay lacked a shading of fat which the butchers 

 like to see. The caul and kidney fat was very light and the car- 

 isses of the timothy hay lot were graded medium. They ranked 

 >t of all the seven lots. The carcasses of Lot II were graded good, 

 'hey had sufficient kidney and caul fat, and the backs and ribs 

 ere well shaded with fat. 



SHELLED CORN AND CLOVER HAY 

 VS. 



;HELLED CORN, CORN SILAGE AND CLOVER HAY. 



The high price of hay and the lack of an efficient means of 

 itilizing cornstalks has led to the more general use of corn silage 

 is a feed for meat producing animals. The results of experimental 

 feeding and the opinion of practical feeders agree that corn silage 

 fed alone as a roughness is not as satisfactory as when fed in con- 

 lection w r ith hay. In order to obtain some accurate data as to the 



dative value of corn silage and clover hay as compared with clover 

 lay alone, as a roughness for fattening yearlings, the Missouri 



Experiment Station fed two lots of yearlings on the above named 

 roughnesses. The results are recorded in Table V. 



