SUMMARY OF THIRD TRIAL, DECEMBER n, 1911, TO FEBRUARY 

 19, 1912. In this trial, the original cost of the lambs was com- 

 paratively low. The lambs were purchased early in November at 

 5 cents per pound in Chicago and were turned on grass. Several 

 lambs died, however, and the actual cost at time of going on experi- 

 ment was considerably above market price of feeding lambs at the 

 time the trial began. It has, for the sake of uniformity, been the 

 rule in the lamb feeding trials, to value all feeding lambs at the 

 Chicago price for such lambs plus 30 cents per cwt. to cover cost 

 of shipping. Since, choice feeding lambs were selling in Chicago 

 for $5.00 per cwt. when this trial began, the initial value of these 

 lambs was placed at $5.30 per cwt. 



Based on the Chicago price for best feeding lambs plus 30 cents 

 for shipping, the cost of gains was so high that only the lots fed 

 corn, cottonseed meal, clover hay and ensilage sold high enough to 

 return any profit. When silage was fed twice daily there was a 

 profit of 54 cents per cwt. and when silage was fed once daily, the 

 profit was 21 cents per cwt. The ration of corn, clover hay and 

 silage resulted in a loss of 7 cents per cwt. of lamb. The rations 

 of corn, cottonseed meal and clover hay resulted in a loss of 12^2 

 cents per cwt. while the same ration without cottonseed meal resulted 

 in a loss of 43 cents per cwt. The rations of corn and timothy hay 

 with and without cottonseed meal returned losses of 92 cents per 

 cwt. and $1.32% per cwt. respectively. The best ration in this trial 

 consisted of shelled corn, cottonseed meal, corn silage, and clover 

 hay, and the poorest of shelled corn and timothy hay. 



