12 TEXAS AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 



three and one-half inches wide running the entire length of the trough. 

 This left a two and one-half-inch space through which to place the salt, 

 and the same amount of space from which to lick it. A strip of sheep 

 skin with the wool side out was tacked to the edge of this three and 

 one-half-inch piece of board and was smeared with tar every evening 

 just prior to bringing the sheep into the lots. This scheme seemed to 

 be effective as the flock did not appear to suffer from grubs, which de- 

 velop from the deposition of the small gad-fly eggs at the entrance of 

 the nasal cavities. 



THE FATTENING PERIOD. 



The lambs t were weaned during the early part of September and 

 placed on a field of headed milo stalks. The grain ration was at this 

 time increased to one-third of a pound per head daily, and the lambs 

 began to regain some of the flesh that had been sacrificed during the 

 latter part of the hot summer. 



The feeding period proper was begun October 12, 1915, at which 

 time the concentrated ration was increased and more liberal foraging 

 provided for the lambs. The lambs were grazed from October until 

 December 15 on the fields that had produced milo, feterita, and Sudan 

 crops, some splendid foraging being provided on the headed milo and 

 feterita stalks as well as on the Sudan grass and the limited tract of 

 winter wheat that was available. Had the lambs not been managed 

 as above stated practically all of the roughages consumed during these 

 two months would have been partial waste. 



The lambs were removed from the fields on December 15 and placed 

 in the dry lot, and in addition to the concentrated ration, received all 

 the roughage in the form of Sudan hay, sorghum fodder and feterita 

 stover that thev would consume. 



