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▼heat meal readily ate three-fonrtlis of a pound of whole wheat 

 Accordingly, during the remainder of the first and the two fol- 

 lowing trials, whole wheat was fed. The following table summar- 

 izes the results of the last two trials: 



Feeding whole wheat to sheep — Woburn (Fhigland) Station. 



These gains are satisfactory considering the length of the trials, 

 ^oelcker concludes from three seasons' experiments with wheat, 

 jU meal, and cotton -seed meal, that whole wheat produced the 

 Bheapest gain at current prices for stock foods in England. 



761. Oats. — At the Michigan Station, > Mumford compared oats 

 with com in a feeding trial lasting 119 days with ten lambs in 

 each lot, averaging 83 pounds, with results presented in the table: 



Feeding oats in opposition to com — Michigan Station. 



In this trial the oats did not give as large daily gains as did 

 the com; farther, it required 122 pounds or 31 per cent, more 

 oats than corn for a given gain. Since 500 pounds of com is 

 shown to be the usual grain requirement for 100 pounds of gain 

 with lambs, it is probable that further trials will show oats not 

 far below com in value, though they can hardly equal it. 



762. Bran. — At the Michigan Station, ^ Mumford fed com in 

 opposition to bran during a period of 119 days, to two lots of ten 



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