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 WEIGHTS 

 Weights were taken by lots on three consecutive days in 1910-11 

 t the beginning and end of the trials and every ten days during 

 le progress of the trials. The average of the three consecutive 

 weights at the beginning and end of the trial was used as the 

 initial and final weights. In the two trials of 1911-12 individual 

 veights in addition to lot weights were taken on three consecutive 

 ays at the beginning and end of the trials and the averages of the 

 hree weights used for initial and final weights. Individual and lot 

 eights were taken every thirty days, and lot -weights every ten 

 ys during the progress of the trials. The identity of each lamb 

 as known by a numbered tag fastened to the ear. Weights were 

 en in the morning after the lambs had finished eating. In 

 910-11 water was withheld on the morning the weights were taken, 

 til after the lambs were weighed, but in 1911-12 no attempt was 

 de to withhold water. 



Owing to a storm which wrecked the feeding plant and neces- 

 itated the closing of the experiment at the end of fifty days the 

 ndividual weights and three days weights were not taken at the 

 nd of the experiment in the second trial of the series. 



METHOD OF FEEDING 



The method of feeding was the same in all lots in the three 

 trials reported in this bulletin. Grain was fed at 6:00 a. m. and 

 4 130 p. in. under the shed in combination troughs and racks. The 

 grain was weighed and when more than corn was fed, mixed in 

 buckets before being scattered in the troughs. Grain was fed in 

 such quantities as would be eaten before the lambs left the troughs. 

 When starting on feed about one-fourth pound of oats per head 

 was fed twice daily. After the lambs had learned to eat oats, small 

 amounts of corn were added to the rations. Within eight or ten 

 days the lambs were eating shelled corn readily and the oats were 

 gradually dropped from the ration and cottonseed meal, where it 

 was fed, added. 



After the lambs had cleaned up the grain, roughage was fed. 

 Hay was fed twice daily to all lots, except Lots 5, 6, and 7, in such 

 quantities as would be eaten before time for the next feed. Lots 5 

 and 6 received clover hay in the morning and corn silage in the 

 evening. Lot 7 received corn silage twice daily and clover hay in 

 the morning during the first trial and both morning and evening 

 during the second and third trials. It was the intention to have all 

 silage consumed within an hour after it was fed. 



