AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 



Summary of Results. 



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Lot 1. 

 Liberal 

 Ration. 



Lot 2. 



Moderate 



Ration. 





lbs. 

 2990 

 900 

 534 



lbs. 

 3010 





450 









967 



59 

 804 

 KI4 

 122 

 545 

 423 



10.2 



45.4 



95 



65 



984 

 60 



Loss in weight of sheep after deducting fleece 



768 

 156 

 126 





364 





238 





10.5 





30.3 



Largest w't of lambs from any single sheep in 3 mos. 

 Largest weight of any single lamb in 3 months • - . 



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The second table summarizes the figures of the first. The 

 results of this experiment are quite striking and would have been 

 more so had the sheep been the very best quality of Shropshire 

 grades, for instance. As it is, the object sought of illustrating 

 the profits of high feeding of early lambs is attained. It seems 

 that each lot of sheep lost between one and two hundred pounds 

 in weight during the time the lambs were with them, after deduct- 

 ing the weights of the fleeces, Lot 2 losing 52 pounds more than 

 Lot 1. The twelve lambs of Lot 1 weighed, at the end of three 

 months, 545 pounds, and of Lot 2, 364 pounds, a difference of 

 181 pounds. As the weights of the lambs when born was, for 

 Lots 1 and 2, 122 and 126 pounds, respectively, the actual growth 

 made after birth was 423 pounds and 238 pounds, or a difference 

 of 185 pounds. Now, to offset this greater loss of weight of 52 

 pounds on the part of the sheep and greater growth of lambs of 

 185 pounds, we have the cost of 984 pounds of mixed grain, this 

 being the extra amount which was eaten by the sheep and lambs 

 of Lot 1. We must also take into account the fact that the lambs 

 of Lot 1 were ready for the market during the month of May, 

 when high prices were ruling, while the lambs of Lot 2 must be 

 grown for some time longer in the pasture and be put upon the 

 market at very much lower prices. 



A statement of the financial results of an experiment is always a 

 difficult matter. Whatever may be the prices taken to represent the 

 values of any product, these will be found to differ from the prices 



