CHAPTER IV 



DRY LOT OR BARN FEEDING 



Green vs. Matured Feeds 



IT is the contention of the man who feeds exclusively in the barn or 

 dry lot, that if he lets all his feed ripen and mature, he gets much 

 better results when he is fattening and finishing stock, for the market 

 than if he feeds the same feeds green in the field. A successful cattle 

 feeder said to me, in response to a query put to him in the month of 

 June, as to whether he was letting his cattle that he was preparing 



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Sheep Being Finished in the Dry Lot for Market 



for market run on the grass: "Indeed I am not; and if I feed until 

 September they won't be put on grass. I can haul feed to them, and I 

 don't want them out in a field walking ofl" flesh, for it costs too much 

 to put it on." Of course there are lots of good feeds, such as stubble 

 fields, forage crops and the like that can be utilized by running sheep 

 on them in the field, but the results obtained by the farmer in the past 

 plainly show that the practise of trying to fatten sheep and lambs in 

 the field for the market has not proven satisfactory. 



