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four pounds of hay a day in addition to their grain, while lambs will 
eat two and a half pounds. Careful tests were made at the College 
Farm last fall and it was found that during the mild weather in the 
fall, the large western wethers averaging 120 pounds live weight per 
head, ate 3.6 pounds of hay per day per head. Western lambs of 100 
pounds weight, ate 2.3 pounds of hay, while southern lambs weighing 65 
pounds ate only 1.3 pounds of hay per day. A few weeks later in cold 
weather, the withers increased to 5.0 pounds of hay per day, the west¬ 
ern lambs to 4.0, and the southern lambs to 2.2 pounds per day. At 
the end of the winter, when the sheep were eating a pound of grain and 
five pounds of sugar beets, apiece per day, the western wethers ate in 
addition 2.62 pounds of hay and the western lambs 3.0 pounds. By 
this time the wethers had grown to weigh 159 pounds and the lambs 
137 pounds per head. The southern lambs, weighing 87 pounds each, 
ate six-tenths of a pound of grain, three pounds of sugar beets, and 1.8 
pounds of hay. Beduced to digestible matter, all of these sheep w T ere 
eating close to twenty pounds of digestible matter daily for each 
:housand pounds of live weight. 
During the whole six months of feeding, the western wethers ate 
al2 pounds of hay in addition to 68 pounds of grain and 330 pounds 
ef beets; the western lambs ate 529 pounds of hay, and the same 
rniount of grain and beets. The southern lambs ate 296 pounds of 
lay, 58 pounds of grain, and 287 pounds of beets. 
All these weights of hay represent the amount eaten, plus the 
very small amount wasted, but do not include the amount of refuse 
;aken from the racks and fed to our horses and other stock. If this 
ivere added, it would bring the total for the southern lambs up to 350 
oounds, while the ordinary rule is 200 tons of hay for 1,000 lambs, 
or 400 pounds per lamb. 
The figures given above for western wethers and lambs are above 
he average per head, since these sheep were extra large. Probably 600 
Dounds per head, would be sufficient to include the hay eaten and 
vasted for sheep of average size. 
The grain consumed is largely at the option of the feeder. The 
general attempt is to feed lightly until about the first of February, 
md after that induce the sheep to eat as much as possible. Accord- 
ng as the feeding period is long or short and depending somewhat 
>n the size of the sheep, the amount of grain will vary from 70 
)Ounds per head to 150 pounds. The average is not far from 120 
>ounds. The tendency from year to year is to feed more and more 
a rgely of grain. 
The account of feeding southern lambs would stand as follows: 
Cost of lamb.$1.35 
400 pounds hay @ $4 per ton.80 
120 pounds grain @ $15 per ton.90 
Labor of feeding.35 
Interest and death loss.06 
Freight and expenses to Chicago.50 
Total.$3.96 
