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parison with prairie and wild hays, and they have found 
that with the wild hays so much more grain was required 
for one hundred pounds gain that the cost of this grain 
was equal to the cost of both grain and hay where the 
alfalfa was used. It is evident, therefore, that it does not 
pay to use this kind of hay at all when alfalfa can be ob- 
tained at a reasonable price. 
Near the sugar-beet factories, considerable quantities 
of beet pulp are fed. This pulp is given in quantities 
somewhat less than the lambs will consume, together 
with hay and grain in the usual manner. Since beet pulp 
is largely water, it must be bought at a low price and 
must be fed in the vicinity of the sugar-beet factories. 
Dried beet pulp can be fed at a greater distance from the 
factory than the wet beet pulp, but has so far been but 
little used for lamb feeding. 
The standard daily ration for lambs weighing 60 pounds 
at the start would be about two-and-one-half to three 
pounds a head of good alfalfa hay. This would, of course, 
be all that they could be made to eat, with the stems and 
waste parts cleaned out and fed to other stock. After the 
lambs have been in the feed-lot for perhaps a week, and 
are thoroughly accustomed to their surroundings, a small 
amount of grain is given, usually about one-fifth to one- 
fourth pound a day a head. The grain is then slowly 
increased until they are receiving one to one-and-a-half 
pounds a day. 
A grain ration of one to one-and-a-half pounds of grain 
is called a full ration. In many cases this amount is not 
reached until practically the end of the feeding period, 
the ration being gradually increased through the entire 
time. The lambs still receive all the hay they will eat, 
but with a full ration of grain they will not usually eat over 
