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a small flock if profits be the only point ill view. The 

 authors had other questions to solve with the Hock, so it 

 was not carried through the year as cheaply as the farmer 

 could have carried it through. If profits had been the only 

 point in view the animals would have been handled more 

 economically by feeding the ewes very little grain after the 

 iainbs were born. To secure the greatest returns the moth- 

 ers should have been turned out into the oat and vetch pas- 

 ture with the lambs and fed little, if any, concentrated 

 feeds. But owing to the fact that the Station at that time 

 owned no other flock, this same flock had to be used in the 

 spring experiment of 1907, when a study was made of the 

 amount of feed required to maintain a ewe after lambing. 



This, of course, ran the expense up very materially - 

 about 30 per cent, more than it should have been. But in 

 the following financial statement all of the expenses have 

 been counted against the flock. 



Table 5. Financial statement of old flock 1906-1907. 

 Expenses : 



Rent on pasture, 10 cts. per sheep per month $12.24- 



Lot 1. 1503- lbs. soy bean hay at $12.50 per ton 9.39 



T t 9 342 Ibs. cotton seed meal at $25.00 per ton . . 4.27 

 879 Ibs. cotton seeed hulls at $6.00 per ton . . 2.64 



530 Ibs. cotton seed meal at $25.00 per ton . . 6.62 

 T . o 1332 Ibs. cotton seed hulls at $6.00 per ton . . 3.99 



f^iKfe~\i98 lbs - cotton seed at $ 12 - 00 P er ton 1 - 19 



(after lambing) 1 ton green hay &t $2>00 per ton 2>00 



371 lbs. corn at 70 cents per bushel 4.63 



35 lbs. bran at $30.00 per ton 52 



Death one ewe 3.00 



Express charges to send lambs to Atlanta 7.00 



Express charges to send wool to Atlanta 60 



Total $58.09 



Receipts: 



To 14 lambs $53.56 



To 55 1-2 lbs. wool, 26 1-2 cts. per Ib. . . 14.64 



Total . ..$68.20 



