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will finish fairly well on such rations, though at 

 considerably greater cost than when alfalfa is 

 fed. 



Prof. E. A. Burnett of the Nebraska Experi- 

 ment Station has shown that, comparing alfalfa 

 hay and prairie hay with corn, the alfalfa-fed 

 lambs made 52 per cent greater gains than the 

 prairie hay-fed lambs. The addition of 16 per 



RACKS FOE FEEDING GRAIN. 

 Photo from WlJcox, 19U3 Year Book, Bureau Animal Indus.. U. S. Dept. Agr, 



cent of oilmeal to the grain ration of the prai- 

 rie hay-fed lambs increased their gain 26 per 

 cent. 



The writer has often demonstrated in his own 

 practice that lambs can not be fed with much 

 I^rofit without a large amount of protein in the 



