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PART V 

 MOLASSES FOR FATTENING LAMBS 



Part V is a report of the first trial of a series to determine the 

 value of molasses as an appetizer for fattening lambs. The only 

 difference in the ration between Lots 2 and 7 lies in the fact that 

 four pounds of cane feeding molasses replaced an equal quantity of 

 corn in the daily ration for twenty-five lambs. While the lambs 

 were being started on oats, no molasses was fed. On the sixteenth 

 day on trial, oats were dropped and molasses substituted ; from this 

 time forward four pounds of molasses daily per lot were given in 

 Lot 2. 



TABLE: V. Effect of Adding Molasses (Cane) to Rations for Fat- 

 tening Lambs, October 28, 1915 to February 5, 1916 



Table V shows that there was very little difference in the ap- 

 petites of the lambs in the two lots under discussion. When mo- 

 lasses was fed, however, the lambs seemed to be a little more eager 

 for their feed than when it was not fed. The rate of gain was 

 slightly faster when molasses was used. The cost of the molasses 

 was so high, however, that 100 pounds of gain cost $8.49 

 when molasses was added as compared with $8.26 per 

 hundred pounds when no molasses was used. This was due to the 

 price of molasses and not to the quantity of feed consumed for each 

 pound of gain, because the feed required to make a pound of gain 



