256 FARM ANIMALS 
Alfalfa is beyond question the best forage, but in its absence 
clover, cowpeas or other leguminous forage is a good substitute 
and practically indispensable. If such forage is not at hand, then 
sugar cane, kahr corn, millet or mixed hay cut at the proper period 
and carefully cured, will give good gains, although more grain will 
be necessary. The grain ration will consist largely of corn. Cracked 
corn is usually preferred to whole corn. Small amounts of oil 
meal, ground oats, or both, may be introduced into the ration with 
good effect; if a leguminous hay is not used, one of them should 
certainly be added. Lambs should weigh about 60 pounds when 
placed in the feed lot. After a feeding period of 60 to 90 days they 
should weigh from 90 to 95 pounds. 
15. Fattening grown sheep.—The feeding of wethers 
or grown ewes for market does not differ much from the 
method employed in fattening lambs. On some farms 
lambs are held over a season to utilize plentiful pasture 
and to secure one or two wool clips. Such sheep also 
weigh more at market time, although they bring a smaller 
price per pound. These older sheep on good pasture in 
summer, in the feed lot in winter, will usually make. ex- 
cellent use of grain and hay. They may be marketed dur- 
ing late winter or early spring. 
Concentrated feeds should be used in connection with bright, 
clean leguminous hays and so mixed with the hay as to give a well- 
balanced ration. Corn, bran, ground oats, oil meal and cottonseed 
meal, are all excellent. During early winter, corn silage and alfalta 
or clover hay may be fed exclusively. In other cases fodder corn 
and mixed hay may be used for roughage, with wheat bran and 
corn for grain, about one-half pound of a mixture of corn and 
bran being given daily to each animal. As they plump up, the grain 
may be increased gradually, until it reaches as much as two or even 
three pounds a day. 
Where alfalfa or clover is used, a pound of corn daily will be 
satisfactory. If alfalfa or clover is freely used and corn is rela- 
tively low in price and hay high, then cut down the allotment of 
hay and feed one or two pounds of corn daily. Where some grass, 
hay or corn stover, shredded or unshredded, is the only source of 
roughage, bran and one of the oil meals should be used in addi- 
tion to the corn. If fed throughout the winter in this manner, a 
heavy wool clip may be secured the following spring before the ani- 
mals are marketed. 
