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one a ram and the other a wether, raised at the 

 Wisconsin Station. When three months old the 

 ram lamb weighed 83 pounds and the wether 67. 



The little extra grain, hay, and other feed con- 

 sumed by young lambs is well repaid, and feed- 

 ing young lambs grain has many advantages. 

 Lambs born in March may be pushed ahead so that 

 they can be sold in May or early June, when 

 they will bring as much, or more, than they would 

 bring in the fall. There is then a scarcity of nice, 

 fat, plump spring lambs on the market, and they 

 sell all the way from nine to fourteen cents per 

 pound live weight. 



On April 29 in the spring of 1910 at the Wiscon- 

 sin Station we sold a grade Dorset lamb to a local 

 butcher for fourteen cents per pound live weight. 

 The lamb was forty-five days old and weighed 

 forty-five pounds, bringing the sum of $6.30. A 

 Hampshire was sold May 6, weighing forty pounds 

 at forty-one days old, and bringing $5.60. Still 

 another Hampshire was sold May 11, weighing 

 fifty pounds at fifty-one days old, and brought 

 $6.50 at thirteen cents per pound. If these same 

 lambs had been sold at Chicago or New York a 

 much higher price would have been received for 

 them. 



When lambs are fed extra grain and hay they 

 do not suck their mothers down so in condition. 



