POSSIBLE GAIN IN A YEAR'S GROWTH. 175 



Lot. 3. Put by side of lot 2, and were shut up at night. 

 Fed half a pound of mixed linseed oil-meal and peas, daily, 

 ate in addition 20 1 /L> Ibs. of turnips. Gain 33% Ibs. each. 



Lot 4. Put on grass and fed one pound of mixed oats, 

 barley, and beans daily. In ten weeks ate 20 Ibs. of turnips 

 daily, and gained 2ti 1 /> Ibs. average. 



Lot 5. Put in a sheltered paddock (a small grass lot) 

 and shut up in a shed 18 hours in the 24. Fed I 1 /! Ibs. 

 of the mixed grain a day, with 18% Ibs. of turnips daily. 

 Gain in ten weeks, 33% Ibs. each. 



Lot 6. The same number of lambs were put in an open 

 grass lot, fed one pound of the mixed grain daily, with 24 

 Ibs. of Swede turnips. (Tain in eight weeks. 21% Ibs. each. 



Lot 8. The same number of lambs put in a similar pad- 

 dock, witli an open shed in it, and were shut up at night. 

 Fed the same feed of grain with lot 7, ate 20% Ibs. of 

 turnips. Gain in eight weeks, 24 Ibs. each. 



The principal item of interest in these tests i~ the 

 effect of shelter on the lambs. This goes to prove the state- 

 ment made in a ^previous chapter, to the effect that warmth 

 saves food, or its equivalent that the same food, or even less, 

 will make more gain in weight. 



POSSIBLE GAIN IN A YEAR'S GROWTH. 



An essay contributed to the volume of the proceedings 

 of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, gives the fol- 

 lowing statement of the growth of lambs during a series of 

 years in the months of a whole year from the w^eaning of 

 the lambs. 



AVERAGE GROWTH FOR EACH LAMB. 



April 9 pounds. 



May 16 



June 18 



July 15 



August 12 



September 12 



October 12 



November 8 



December 6 



January 5 



February 7 



March 10 



Total gain for the year 130 Ibs. live weight, for the aver- 

 age of the flock. 



It is a fact that lambs in confinement, and restless under 

 the restraint, never make as much growth as those that are 



