30 
BARLEY 
Barley versus Barley and Beets. The steers on 
barley alone had 450 pounds more of hay, and the others 
1,646 pounds more of beets. To offset this thousand 
pounds of beets extra, the steers getting beets grew 
nearly twice as fast as those getting barley alone, gain- 
ing 141 pounds per head, while the barley-fed steers are 
gaining 76 pounds. The flesh made from beets is softer 
than that from grain. Those fed barley shrink 37 pounds 
in shipping; those having the beets in addition shrink 
66 pounds. On the market the steers having barley and 
beets weighed 75 pounds each above their weight in 
December; while the steers eating barley alone had 
gained only 36 pounds. This extra growth upon the 
addition of the beets made a return of about three dollars 
per ton for the beets fed. 
First Feeding Tests with Sheep. 
Winter of 1895-96. 
The tests with lambs during the winter of 1895-’96 
included barley, corn, wheat, beets, and a mixture of 
barley and corn. All the grains were fed ground. There 
were 220 lambs used in the experiments, divided into 
lots of about 35 head each. 
There will be given here only those tests that relate 
more particularly to barley. 
Feeding Record per Head — January 8 to April 13. 
Pen. 
Hay. 
Barley. ^ 
Corn. 
Wheat. 
Beets. 
Gain in Weight 
per Head. 
1 
300 
86 
27 
2 
294 
86 
28 
3 
321 
375 
22 
4 
227 
77 
218 
26 
5 
181 
32 
.56 
26 
6 
191 
32 
56 
26 
The gain in weight of the pen eating barley is one 
pound less, and the hay eaten six pounds more than the 
pen eating corn. In other words, the barley and corn are 
