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full feed, the gains have never before been so large for grain 

 consumed. This shows that alfalfa hay with a grain mixture 

 and a little linseed meal was markedly superior to any other 

 grain or forage ration. 



3. It required only three and eight hundredths (3.08) 

 pounds of grain and three and ninety-five hundredths (3.95) 

 pounds of alfalfa hay to make a pound of gain, as compared 

 to four and twelve hundredths (4.12) pounds of grain and 

 four and one hundredth (4.01) pounds of upland prairie hay 

 to make a pound of gain with lambs during same length of 

 feeding period and with the lambs practically of the same 

 weight. 



4. Larger and more uniform gains were made with lot 

 receiving alfalfa hay than with lot receiving prairie hay. 

 ( See table of weights and gains. ) 



5. Figuring the price of alfalfa hay and prairie hay the 

 same, it cost one and one-tenth of a cent more per pound to 

 make a pound of gain with the lot receiving upland prairie 

 hay than it did with the lot receiving alfalfa hay. 



6. Lambs fed a grain ration of South Dakota oats while 

 on rape pasture made a larger gain than did lambs fed a 

 grain ration of corn while on rape pasture or a grain ration 

 of barley while on rape pasture. 



7. With all the experiments at this Station in feeding 

 lambs on rape the loss has not been greater than it is under 

 ordinary feeding operations. 



