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PART II 



CORN SILAGE ALONE VS. CORN SILAGE AND DRY 

 ROUGHAGE FOR FATTENING LAMBS 



Table II shows a comparison of rations in which all lots re- 

 jived a full feed of corn silage twice daily in addition to the grain 

 ition consisting of seven parts by weight of shelled corn and one 

 irt of cottonseed meal. Lot I received no cured roughage. Lot 5 

 ;ived oat straw twice daily and Lot 7 received clover hay twice 

 lily. Corn silage was fed in such quantities as would be consumed 

 an hour to an hour and a half while oat straw and clover hay 

 -ere fed in such quantities as would be cleaned up before time for 

 ic next feed. All lots were started on grain rations of oats in 

 ;hich corn was introduced at the end of four days and cottonseed 

 leal at the end of seven days. Lot i received a small quantity of 

 >ver hay for the first five days on feed while silage was being 

 icreased to such quantities as the lambs would consume. At the 

 id of eleven days the ration fed twice daily was 10.5 pounds of 

 >rn, 1.5 pounds of cottonseed meal and 30 pounds of 

 >rn silage in Lot i, the same quantity of corn, cottonseed meal, 

 id corn silage in Lot 5 plus five pounds of oat straw, while in Lot 

 it consisted of 10.5 pounds of corn, 1.5 pounds of cottonseed 

 leal, 18 pounds of corn silage, and 15 pounds of clover hay. At 

 ic end of twenty-five days on feed the silage was raised to 35 

 mnds per feed in Lots i and 5 but was decreased again within 

 Mght days in Lot i and three days in Lot 5 when the normal silage 

 msumption became practically stationery at 32 pounds per feed in 

 )t i and 25 pounds per feed in Lot 5 and the oat straw consumed 

 Lot 5 was increased from five to eight pounds per feed where 

 remained until the last month on feed. At the end of twenty- 

 re days the silage consumed in Lot 7 became practically stationary 

 it 20 pounds twice daily or 40 pounds for the twenty-five lambs 

 each day. The grain was increased as the appetites of the lambs 

 would justify. 



