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of corn and oats, 5.1 pounds of corn and peas, and 5.6 

 pounds of corn, oats, and peas. 



Wheat. — Wheat has been used extensively. 

 Montana experiments show returns at the rate of 

 100 pounds grain from 300 pounds of sound 

 wheat and 800 pounds clover hay when the daily 

 ration was .8 pound wheat and 2 pounds hay. In 

 feeding 1.5 pounds wheat and 1.3 pounds brome and 

 prairie hay, the South Dakota Station secured 100 

 pounds gain from 534 pounds wheat and 470 pounds 

 hay. So far as the results of various experiments are 

 comparable, they show that from ten to fifteen per 

 cent more wheat than corn is necessary for a 100 

 pounds increase in weight. 



Barley. — Barley is only slightly inferior to corn 

 for fattening purposes, though, as in feeding of corn, 

 the results are much better when a nitrogenous hay 

 or roughage is used. ' 



Soy beans. — On account of their high price, soy 

 beans have not been widely used in fattening sheep. 

 Such results as have been obtained indicate for them 

 a very high value, and when leguminous hay cannot 

 be used, beans should be especially valuable. 



Roughages for fattening sheep. — The following 

 tables of results from experiments at the Ohio Station^ 

 gives a very fair idea of the relative of four of the 

 commoner roughages : — 



* Ohio Experiment Station Bulletin No. 245. 



