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grain per day per bead is the largest allowance consistent 

 with profit at this period. 



Fourth The feeding of oats, bran, or oil meal (linseed 

 is doubtless referred to) mixed with corn meal, as used in 

 these tests, before and after weaning, did not exert any 

 influence upon the rate or cost of gain made during the three 

 months of Winter fattening when the lambs were feeding 

 for the early Spring market (except as we might add, in 

 regard to the earlier maturity mentioned). 



Fifth The continuous grain feeding from birth, until 

 the lambs were ten months old, did not produce any notable 

 difference in the carcasses in regard to the proportions of 

 fat and lean, or the distribution of the fat. 



Sixth The continuous grain feeding produced some- 

 what better fleshed carcasses, as was shown by the fact 

 that they made somewhat higher per cents of dressed weight 

 as compared with the lambs which received no grain before 

 the period of feeding for fattening. 



Seventh The continuously grain fed lambs from birth, 

 until ten months old, sheared a heavier fleece than those not 

 receiving any grain until fed for final fattening. 



Eighth This increased weight of fleece, however, was 

 due more to the large propc<rtion of yolk and oil, than in the 

 fleeces of those lambs not fed grain, until the third or fat- 

 tening period. 



Ninth The continuous grain feeding materially in- 

 fluenced the early maturity of the lambs to the extent of 

 seven weeks in three of the trials and four w r eeks in the 

 other two trials. 



Tenth The results show that it pays to feed grain to 

 lambs before weaning, when they are intended for sale at, 

 or soon after, weaning. 



Eleventh It pays to feed lambs intended to be sold when 

 seven months old in November, with grain bo-th before and 

 after weaning. 



Twelfth When lambs are to be sold at the age of ten 

 months, after two or three months fattening, during the 

 Winter, grain feeding, before feeding for fattening, does not 

 seem to have any sensible effect on the profit made (except 

 so far as maturity is hastened). 



Thirteenth Lambs fed continuously from birth with 



