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receiving sweet-clover hay, corn, and a small amount of oil meal made 

 an average gain of 30.7 pounds per head, as compared with 20.3 pounds 

 for those receiving native-grass hay, oats, and oil meal. Those re- 

 ceiving alfalfa hay and corn made a gain of more than 34 pounds 

 per -head. The results obtained with four pens of lambs in this 

 experiment are given in Table VI. 



TABLE VI. Results of feeding tests of lambs in Wyoming covering 14 weeks. 



The sweet-clover hay used in this experiment was described as 

 stemmy and more than a year old ; yet it was eaten up clean by the 

 lambs. 



The South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station conducted an 

 experiment in which steers were fed corn silage and various kinds 

 of hay, including sweet clover. The steers which were fed corn silage 

 and sweet-clover hay made an average daily gain of 2.45 pounds, at 

 a cost of $4.34 per hundred pounds of gain, whereas the steers which 

 were fed corn silage and red-clover hay made an average daily gain 

 of 2.29 pounds, at a cost of $4.55 per hundred. The steers that were 

 fed corn silage and alfalfa hay made an average daily gain of 2.49 

 pounds, at a cost of $4.30 per hundred. In computing the cost of 

 the gains, corn silage was valued at $3 per ton, alfalfa, red-clover, 

 and sweet-clover hay at $10 per ton, and prairie hay at $6 per ton. 

 The results of this experiment, as given in Table VII, show that 

 sweet-clover hay is practically equal to red-clover and alfalfa and 

 greatly superior to prairie hay for roughage for steers. 



TABLE VII. Feeding experiments with steers in South Dakota, showing the 

 value of sweet-clover hay as compared with some other kinds of hay. 



[Corn silage fed in all cases; kind of hay varies.] 



