WfcSTERN LAMB FEEDING. 2^1 



It is cheaper to ship to market the lambs 

 clipped, since many more can ride in a car and 

 the freight is no more. 



When the lambs are uneven in size it may be 

 that some will ripen before the rest. In this 

 case a carload may often be sent on and the 

 rest allowed to ripen further. i 



The writer has sometimes made lambs fed in 

 this manner gain nearly 100 per cent in weight. 

 It is a pleasant business and in the long run 

 profitable. Sometimes a year will come when 

 the price of feeders is too high in proportion 

 to the selling price of lambs and one must 

 figure on the value of the manure to find his 

 profit. 



In recent years the writer has varied the 

 treatment outlined by feeding com silage in 

 connection with ear com and alfalfa hay. This 

 silage is made from well matured com, so that 

 it makes a sweet silage, containing little acid 

 and having in it no mould. Lambs eat this 

 greedily and seem to grow much more rapidly 

 than when it is withheld. About 2% to 3 

 pounds of silage makes a ration for a day to a 

 lamb. The writer believes this cheapens the 

 ration materially and perhaps the mutton is 

 better; he thinks it is and has had no difficulty 

 in sectlring the top price for his alfalfa^silage- 

 com-fed lambs. When com is made into silage 

 after it is well matured there is of course a 

 very large proportion of grain thereon and it 

 is tender and succulent and much relished by 

 the lambs. The small amount of acid in the 

 silage is lactic acid, promotive of digestion. 



