649 

 TABLE NO. I 



The above table shows the number of lambs, pounds of 

 grain consumed, pounds of hay consumed, total gain, pounds 

 or grain for pound of gain, pounds of hay for pound of gain, 

 and the cost of producing a pound of gain with each lot. 



The mixture, consisting of corn, oats and linseed meal, is 

 figured at one cent per pound, the hays at three cents per 

 pound, and the finished product at seven cents (70) per 

 pound. These records show that by feeding all the hay each 

 lot would consume and the same daily allowance of grain, the 

 extra two hundred and ninety-eight- pounds of alfalfa hay 

 produced an additional gain of seventy-nine pounds. By feed- 

 ing alfalfa hay it required one and four hundredths (1.04) 

 pounds less of grain to produce a pound of gain than it did 

 with upland prairie hay. 



The reason for this marked increase in gain no doubt was 

 due to the succulency and the large per cent of protein contained 

 in the alfalfa hay, rendering the ration more suitable as the 

 ideal balanced ration for lambs. 



EXPERIMENT NO. 2 



FATTENING LAMBS ON GRAINS AND RAPE PASTURE 



Rape has been used as a forage plant in the Northwest for 

 several years, and many claims have been made as to its value 

 for fattening lambs. The practice in some sections is to sow 

 rape with the small grain in the spring and also in the corn 



