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crop ready Avhen the preceding one is finished. All the crops used in 
1919 stimulated a good flow of milk in the ewes, produced good 
growth in the lambs, and, after weaning, put the ewes in good condi- 
tion for fall breeding. 
The ewes and lambs were all purebred Southdowns. Some of the 
ewes raising lambs received a half pound of grain each daily until 
May 10, and 22 head of ewes in a fall breeding experiment received a 
light feed of grain during September and October. All the lambs 
were kept for breeding purposes and were fed some grain throughout 
the summer. In calculating how far the feed actually produced 
would go for grown slieep it was considered that a lamb ate one- 
Fig. 1. — Wheat is a very satisfactory spring forage. Yearling ewes on wlieat at Belts- 
ville, Md., March 16, 1917. 
fourth as much as a sheep until July 1, and after that one-half as 
much. Putting in the crops used in 1919 required 60 acres of plowing 
and seeding, a total of 520 hours' work for a man and a team. 
Under the conditions of this experiment fall-sown wheat and 
spring seedings of oats and peas ^ have been most satisfactory for 
grazing in spring and early summer. Soy beans are ready for 
grazing about the middle of July and furnish most of the feed until 
October. In November fall-sown wheat and rye have been used 
most, though late seedings of corn and velvet beans were used in 
1919. The land is still too poor for rape, a good stand haA^ng been 
Oats and field peas, sown together at the rate of IJ bushels of each, per acre. 
