Feeding Experiments With Lambs 
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Scotch Barley, California Feed Barley, and Corn Compared 
California feed barley was included in this trial because it is 
a heavy yielding barley, and is extensively grown in this state. It is a 
six-row barley, and the kernels are much lighter and have more hull 
than a good, Scotch brewing barley, California feed barley can be 
brewed, but is not taken for that purpose in this state unless there is 
a scarcity of barley. As a result there is little competition between 
brewer and feeder for this variety. 
Comparing Lots II and III, we find that the California feed bar¬ 
ley lot made an average gain of 30.1 pounds per head while the Scotch 
barley lot made a gain of 33.5 pounds per head. The feed barley lot 
required 24 pounds more of alfalfa hay and 28 pounds more of grain 
for each hundred pounds gain in live weight. This throws the cost of 
100 pounds gain to $545 for the feed barley lot and $5.01 for the 
Scotch barley lot.—a material difference in favor of the Scotch bar- 
lev. 
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Comparing lots III and IV, we find that the Scotch barley lot 
made an average gain per head of 1.6 pounds more than the 
corn lot, and required 68 pounds more hay and eighteen pounds less 
grain than the corn lot, resulting in a cost of $5.01 for each hundred 
pounds gain in live weight made by the Scotch barley lot, and $5.02 
for the corn lot,—an immaterial difference. Figuring hay at $7.00 
per ton, it makes a difference of only 5 cents in cost of gain against 
the barley fed lot. 
Fine Alfalfa Meal Compared With Cut Hay 
FEED FOR GAIN AND COST OF GAIN. 1910-11. 
(100 lambs in lot) 
Cost of feed 
for 
Average Gain Lbs. feed for 100 lbs. gain. 100 lbs. gain. 
per 
head 10 weeks 
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Ration 
Lbs. 
Alfalfa 
Alfalfa 
Corn 
A 
B 
Meal 
Cut 
Lot V 
Alfalfa 
Meal 
and 
Corn 
28.54 
406 
300 
$5.03 
$5.44 
Lot VI 
Alfalfa, 
cut, 
and 
Corn 
23.93 
552 
358 
5.24 
5.79 
A. —Corn at lc per pound; Alfalfa Hay, cut, at $6.00 per ton; Alfalfa Meal $10.00 per ton. 
B. —Corn at lc per pound; Alfalfa Hay, cut, at $8.00 per ton; Alfalfa Meal $12.00 per ton. 
The cost of reducing alfalfa hay to a fine meal is rather heavy 
and the prices taken in the above table are none too high. 
We find here a marked saving in the amount of hay used per 
hundred pounds gain in live weight, the fine meal lot using 46 pounds 
less hay than the cut hay lot. The fine meal lot also used 12 pounds 
less corn per hundred pounds gain in live weight. 
The meal used was as fine as a finely ground corn meal. Its 
cost was high because the capacity of the machine producing it was 
