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The same methods give for these four weeks, beets as worth $2.77 
per ton when compared with grain both alone; as worth $2.17 per ton 
when added to the grain, and the grain as worth $10.10 per ton 
when added to the beets. 
The lesults show that, as compared with grain, beets are better 
adapted to light feeding than heavy; that when the amount of grain 
fed per day rises above one-half pound per head, or the amount 
of beets above four pounds per day per head, the return for 
the beets is too small to pay for raising them. 
In every case, beets alone have given a less growth than 
beets and grain, and, on the basis of the comparative market values 
assumed in these tests, there has been a larger return for the beets 
when fed alone than when in combination. It is probable, however, 
that the better and plumper condition of the sheep fed on both grain 
and beets would have made them still enough better to offset the appar¬ 
ent advantage of the beets alone. 
The tests seem to show that if beets are to be fed, not more than 
three pounds per day per head should be given, and, in addition, the 
sheep should be given a grain feed gradually increasing, the same as 
would be done if no beets were fed. 
COMPARATIVE VALUE OF WHEAT AND CORN. 
From first to last the pen receiving wheat made a little more rapid 
growth than the corresponding one that received corn. They ate the 
same amount of grain and considerable more hay, but they gained 
enough faster so that they required less digestible matter for each 
pound of growth and produced the growth at less cost per pound. The 
wheat pen ate 6,139 pounds of hay, and 1,315 pounds of wheat to 
make a growth of 640 pounds, at a cost of 3.4 cents per pound; while 
the corn pen ate 5,682 pounds of hay with 1,315 pounds of corn and 
made a growth of 575 pounds, at a cost of 3.9 cents per pound. The 
result is, therefore, 15 per cent, in favor of the wheat over the corn. 
Had the experiment stopped here, the evidence would seem to be 
strongly in favor of wheat, but on March 20, all the sheep were put on 
to a mixed ration of grain and beets, and so fed for three weeks. Those 
that had corn immediately began to grow faster than those that had 
previously been on wheat. At the end of the three weeks, the two bunches 
were just even as the result of 119 days of feeding. In fact, the total 
record shows a little more in favor of corn than wheat, since there 
was the same growth made on a little less hay. 
On April 10th the western sheep were sold. The Mexican sheep 
were then equally divided, and for the next four weeks one-half were 
fed corn and hay, the other half wheat and hay. The amounts of 
grain fed were equal, 21 1-2 pounds per head, while those on corn 
ate in all two pounds more of hay per head than those on wheat. The 
weather was hot and the gains small, but the corn-fed sheep gained 
one pound more per head. Both bunches were then shipped together 
