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of the lamb. He will not leave his fellows to 

 go for feed when he is hungry, and when he 

 does reach the feeder he is apt to gorge him- 

 self, thereafter declining to eat at all. 



PSE OF SELF-FEEDEKS. 



The writer has used self-feeders in past years 

 in his feeding bams and discarded them en- 

 tirely. Various tests have shown that not only 

 is the death loss much heavier where self-feed- 

 ers are used for com but the cost of gains is 

 also much greater. If bran is fed it may be fed 

 in a self-feeder, though of course this requires 

 the use of considerable bran, and screenings 

 are well enough fed in that manner, but for 

 com, barley or wheat the troughs and regular 

 allowance are safer and better. 



FEEDING BEET PULP. 



Nearness to sugar factories gives oppor- 

 tunity to utilize the waste product called beet 

 pulp. The pulp is an excellent food but con- 

 tains 90 per cent of water. Therefore, like 

 silage, it is not well to feed it without dry 

 grain being added to the ration, as well as dry 

 forage. A ton of pulp contains about the same 

 feeding value as 200 lbs. of com. This would 

 indicate what the farraer can afford to pay 

 for pulp, a very small amount indeed when he 

 must count the cost of hauling and feeding. 

 It is doubtless a healthful addition to the ration 

 but experiments show that pulp alone with 

 alfalfa hay does not make as good lambs as 

 com and alfalfa. 



