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Much care should be exercised in getting the lambs on full 
feed. The lambs may be fed hay liberally, but the grain must 
be fed sparingly, beginning with one-fourth pound to the head 
daily, and gradually increasing the ration to one pound by the 
time the sheep have been on feed three weeks, and continuing 
until they are getting all they will consume. The lambs should 
not be fed more grain than they will clean up at each feeding. As 
the grain is increased, less hay will be required. Lambs thus 
cared for should make a gain of 25 to 30 pounds in 100 days, 
when they should be fat and ready for the market. If de- 
sired, two droves of lambs may be fed each winter, purchasing 
the first drove in November, and fattening by the last of Janu- 
ary; immediately purchasing a second, and fattening by the 
first of May. 
393. Feeding in the East. — During the recent high price of 
mutton, many lambs have been fed in the eastern part of the United 
States, and the methods are peculiar to the East. 
The feeding pens are usually rectangular in shape, with hay- 
racks and grain-troughs the entire length of either side. These 
grain-troughs are protected with vertical slats, so arranged that 
there is just room for one lamb to feed in each opening, and there 
are just as many of these openings as lambs, and not one more. 
When the lambs are feeding, they are packed solid along either 
side of the pen. The space allowed each pen is approximately 
twice the room on which a sheep stands while feeding. Water 
and salt are supplied in this pen, and the lambs do not leave it 
from the time they are put in until they are finished and ready 
for the market. The lambs are put on full feed in about three 
weeks and forced until fat. 
394. Sample rations for fattening sheep. — The following ra- 
tions are collected from various sources, to furnish a guide in de- 
termining the kind and amount of feed that should be allowed 
fattening lambs. In all cases the rations are calculated for 100 
head: — 
