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BARLEY 
Pen No. 3. Same quantities and dates as pen No. 1, 
using whole bald barley, changing April 27 to whole corn. 
Pen No. 4. Beginning January 5 on ground bald 
barley, changing February 16 to half ground bald barley 
and half ground corn, on March 30 to all ground corn, 
and on April 72 to whole corn. Quantities the same as 
in Pen No. 1. 
Pen No. 5. From November 19 to March 14, 4 
pounds per head per day of corn ensilage. Beginning 
March 6, ground corn added, reaching one pound per 
head per day March 16, raised to IJ pounds by April 15, 
and changed April 27 to IJ pounds whole corn. 
P«n No. 6. Began November 19 with whole corn, 
two ounces per day per head; raised gradually reaching 
one pound on March 3, to IJ pounds April 17, and con- 
tinued at this amount to May 17. 
Pen No. 7. Same as pen No. 6, using ground corn 
and changing April 27 to whole corn. 
Pen No. 8. Same as pen No. 6, using whole common 
barley, changing April 27 to whole corn. 
Pen No. 9. Same as pen No. 6, using ground com- 
mon barley, changing April 27 to whole corn. 
Pen No. 10. Same as pen No. 6, using ground bald 
barley, but scarcely going above one pound per day per 
head, and changing April 27 to one pound whole corn. 
The experiment progressed nicely until March 31, 
when the grain fed began to be raised above one pound 
per day per head. Pens Nos. 2 and 10, on ground barley, 
soon lost their appetite and got badly off-fed. Several 
lambs were taken sick and two died, apparently from in- 
digestion. The grain fed was at once lowered, and, in 
the course of two weeks, their appetite returned; but 
they would never take more than the pound of grain per 
head per day. Pen No. 9, on ground common barley, got 
off-fed when the quantity was raised, but after a few days 
came back all right and took their IJ pounds to the end 
of the test. The lambs on whole bald barley, whole 
common barley, and both whole corn and ground corn, 
came up easily to the IJ pounds and continued this to 
the end of the test. The explanation of these results 
seems to be that the bald barley contains so large an 
amount of gluten that, when ground, it gathered into a 
sticky mass; but, when fed whole, much of the grain 
