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seventy-four pounds. In fifty-three days they were in St. 

 Louis weighing eighty-seven pounds, selling on a margin 

 of one dollar and seventy-five cents. They ate the corn 

 out of a thirty-acre field, which yielded fifty bushels per 

 acre, and had rape sown in ten acres of it ; they also 



The Head of a Yeakling Ram 



Showing type, strength, and masculinity, — important characteristics for a, 



successful sire. (Photograph by J. V. Henley) 



had access to a small meadow." From this we can see 

 that these sheep made thirteen pounds of gain on one 

 bushel of corn and the roughness in a small meadow and 

 ten acres of rape in the corn. These examples show the 

 value of furnishing roughness to cornfield-fed sheep in 

 the form of rape. 



