Feeding Farm Sheep 213 



Peas. 



Cracked peas or pea meal are highly nitrogenous, 

 and because of this are rarely fed alone, but rather in 

 conjunction with other feeds. There is no feed quite 

 equal to peas to put on the extra finish required for show 

 sheep. They give firmness and character to the flesh 

 that no other feed will do. Peas are usually rather expen- 

 sive and for that reason do not enter into the usual farm 

 rations. 



Cotton-Seed Products. 



Cotton-seed cake and cotton-seed meal are used as 

 supplementary feeds. They are not usually fed alone 

 but mixed with the grain at the rate of about 10 per cent 

 of the meal or cake. Fed in this manner they are very 

 good in rations that would otherwise be low in protein. 



Linseed Products. 



These feeds, like cotton-seed meal and cotton-seed cakes, 

 are very high in protein matter and they are of course fed 

 in the same manner. They are usually preferred to the 

 cotton-seed products. In the feeding of any of these 

 nitrogenous feeds, the pea-sized cake is best. The meal 

 is rather fine and has a tendency toward gumming or 

 forming an undesirable paste in the sheep's mouth. 



Bran. 



Bran is a superior concentrate for sheep when fed in 

 connection with various grains, and can usually be sub- 

 stituted advantageously for one-fourth to one-half of the 

 grain ration. It is especially good for breeding stock 

 and growing animals. There is no other concentrate 

 better than bran for ewes about to lamb or that have just 

 lambed. Being of a laxative nature, it has a tendency 



