as compared to fifteen and thirty-seven hundredths (15.37) 

 pounds for Lot IV, receiving barley. The lambs in both Lots 

 III and IV for both years made larger and more uniform 

 gains than did the lambs in Lots I or II, showing that oats 

 and barley are better suited for rapid gains for lambs than 

 corn or no grain when on rape pasture. The difference in 

 gain in favor of the oat lot is so small that the value of these 

 two grains may be considered about equal pound for pound 

 for fattening lambs on rape. The average gain for the 

 twenty-four lambs fed rape and oats both years was fifteen 

 and forty-one hundredths (15.41) pounds, while the average 

 gain for twenty-four lambs fed rape and barley was fifteen 

 and thirty-seven hundredths (15.37) pounds per head.* 



TABLE NO. II 



1908 Experiment 



1909 Experiment 



Table No. II shows kind of feed, number of lambs, num- 

 ber of days fed, quantity of grain consumed, total gain and 

 average gain per head daily for each lot and for both years. 



The grain ration was the same for both years. For the 

 quantity of grain consumed, the lots receiving oats made the 

 best gains each year, although the two lots receiving barley 

 made practically the same gain for grain consumed. Barley 

 as a rule, is much higher in price than oats at this time of 



* At the Ontario Experiment Station, fifteen wethers were fed on an 

 acre of rape, with 0.5 pound of oats in addition. Besides eating almost 

 the whole of the crop from an acre in fifty-eight days, they also consumd 

 345 pounds of oats, and gained 23.67 pounds per head, or a weekly increase 

 of 2.8 pounds per head. 



