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Feeds and Feeding. 



In the first Dakota trial broine hay was fed for roughage, and in the 

 second mixed prairie and brome hay. Over 700 lbs. of emmer and 

 500 lbs. of hay were required on the average for 100 lbs. of gain. 

 The Colorado lambs fed emmer and good alfalfa hay gained 0.32 lb. 

 daily and consumed only 300 lbs. of emmer and 625 of hay for 100 

 lbs. gain — an unusually economical gain. We learn that with brome 

 and prairie hay for roughage emmer is much less valuable than corn, 

 while with a legume hay it has a satisfactory feeding value. (178) 



Fattening lambs on whole emmer and hay. 



*Bul.7L tBul. 86. JBul.75. ||Bul. 8L 



750. Various grains compared. — At the "Wisconsin Station^ Hum- 

 phrey and Kleinheinz fed 4 lots, each of 4 thrifty 140-lb. yearling 

 wethers, the following grain allowances during each of two winters. 

 Each wether was given a daily average of 1.0 lb. of native hay and 

 2.1 lbs. of roots or cabbage. The results of the trials, which lasted 

 98 and 105 days, are averaged below: 



Various grains for fattening wethers. 



The wethers getting whole oats made the poorest gains, but their 

 allowance of concentrates was also the smallest. As the returns were 

 so nearly alike in all cases, we may conclude that corn, peas, barley, 

 and oats, when fed with the roughages named, have practically the 

 same value for fattening mature sheep. The daily gains made by 

 these yearlings were no greater than those which lambs make, and, 

 » Rpt. 1905. 



