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acre on the low land of the College Farm. It is now quite 

 generally grown as a grain crop and is highly spoken of 

 wherever fed to live stock. 



In Bulletin No. 71 results in feeding it to sheep as a fat- 

 tening ration are reported as follows: It required 5.09 

 pounds of barley as compared to 7.47 pounds of speltz to 

 produce a pound of gain. In Bulletin No. 80 results are re- 

 ported in feeding it to lambs as compared to eight other 

 different grain rations. In this experiment it required 7.2 

 pounds when fed whole and 8.3 pounds when ground as 

 compared to 5.3 pounds of corn to produce a pound of gain. 



Bulletin No. 81 contains results of feeding speltz to dairy 

 cows. It required two pounds more of speltz to produce a 

 pound of butterfat than it did barley or corn, other conditions 

 being equal. The cows made again in weight of 18 pounds 

 per head during the period. They consumed one-third more 

 of speltz per head daily than did the lots receiving barley or 

 corn. Speltz proved to be a good feed for the dairy cow. 



In Bulletin No. 86 results are reported in fattening range 

 lambs. There were ten different rations fed to as many dif- 

 ferent lots of 9 and 10 head each. Speltz was fed as a 

 single grain, and mixed with corn, barley and wheat, half 

 and half by weight to four different lots. From the summary 

 we quote the following: i. "The record of the lot fed on 

 speltz in this test confirms the results obtained by feeding 

 this grain in former experiments, that it requires from one 

 to two pounds more to produce a pound of gain than with 

 the other grains. 



4. u The lot fed a mixture of speltz and barley, half and 

 half by weight, made a larger gain for feed consumed than 

 the average of the gain made by the two lots fed on barley 

 and speltz. This was also true for lot nine where corn was 

 mixed with speltz in the same proportion as above, but with 

 both lots it required more pounds of the mixture to produce 

 a pound of gain than it did with either lots fed on barley or 

 corn, which indicates that speltz has a greater feeding value 



