Experiments in Fattening Sheep. 



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\rbeat and pigeon-grass seed, respectively, with the results pre- 

 sented in the table below: 



Feeding cracked com, smaU wJieat, wild buckwheat aiid pigeon-grass 



- Minnesota Station. 



The table shows that corn gave normal results, 523 pounds o€ 

 that grain and 402 pounds of hay making 100 pounds of gain. 

 Of the other mill and elevator by-products there were required for 

 100 pounds gain with lambs the following amounts: small wheat, 

 745 pounds; wild buckwheat, 816; pigeon-grass seed, 874 pounds. 



765. Corn siiage versus roots. — At the Michigan Station, ^ 

 Mumford compared corn silage with roots for fattening lambs, 

 with eight in each lot in the first trial and twenty in each lot in 

 the second. In the first trial, lasting 84 days, sugar beets and 

 com silage were used, and in the second, lasting 119 days, ruta- 

 baga turnips and corn silage were fed. In the first trial the 

 lambs weighed 87 pounds, and in the second 73 pounds each, at 

 the beginning. The grain fed consisted of two parts oats and 

 one part bran in the first trial, and equal parts of oats and bran 

 in the second. The table shows the results: 



Feeding corn silage in opposition to roots — Michigan Station. 



' Buls. 84, 107. 



