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MEXICAN YEARLINGS. 
First cost, 69 pounds @ |2.82 cwt.11.95 
Freight to Chicago and expenses.50 
Labor of feeding.35 
Cost of feed. 2.24 
Total expense.15.04 
Sold in Chicago, 95 pounds @ 15.25 cwt. 4.99 
Net loss per head..| .05 
MEXICAN LAMBS. 
First cost, 60 pounds @ |2.82 cwt. $1.69 
Freight to Chicago and expenses.50 
Labor of feeding.35 
Cost of feed,. 1.90 
Total expense.$4.44 
Sold in Chicago, 91 pounds @ $5.85 cwt. 5.32 
Net profit per head. $.88 
The Mexican lambs have made the most profit, whether figured 
per head or per dollar invested or per ton of hay fed. But it should 
be noted that in the items of cost of feed given above in estimating 
the total expenses of the sheep, hay has been figured at $4 per ton, 
wheat and corn at $15, and beets at $4; so that when as in the case 
of the Mexican yearlings, the debtor and creditor sides balance, the 
feeder has still marketed his crops on his farm at full value and has 
also received full pay for his labor. As a farmer doing his own feed¬ 
ing, he has put in a profitable winter. As an outside party, buying 
all his supplies and hiring the work done, he has lost money. 
RETURN FOR ALFALFA. 
A common way in Colorado is to figure the returns as so much per 
ton for the alfalfa fed, and make no account of the labor. 
The western yearling ate 612 pounds of hay per head, the western 
lambs 529, Mexican yearlings 509, and the Mexican lambs 359 pounds 
of hay. Making no account of the labor, the western yearlings have 
returned $4.57 per ton for the alfalfa eaten; the western lambs $ 8 ; 
the Mexican yearlings $5.22; and the Mexican lambs $10.94. These 
figures are not far from the proportions in which returns have been 
received by other feeders on a larger scale. The above figures are 
the averages for all the kinds of feed given. Some foods proved more 
profitable than others. The Mexican lambs that were fed on alfalfa 
