LAMB FEEDING EXPERIMENTS. 
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accurately "emmer”), is a primitive sort of wheat which 
does not shell out of the hull when threshed. As the ker¬ 
nels remain in the chaff, the grain is lighter than wheat, 
weighing about the same per bushel as oats, but it produces 
large yields and is said to be a good drouth resistant vari¬ 
ety. In iqoi, a field of this spelt on the College farm 
yielded sixty-three bushels per acre. The grain is very 
hardy. The present season we have a field of emmer grow¬ 
ing on very poor land which is somewhat alkalized, parts of 
which would heretofore produce nothing but a crop of 
poverty weed. On this land we will get a very fair crop of 
grain. 
The third experiment given in this bulletin was plan¬ 
ned along the same line as the second one reported—a 
comparison of home grown grains with corn. Cold water 
was also compared with warm water in this same trial. A 
third comparison made in this experiment was the relative 
gain made by Shropshire crosses and native western lambs. 
These so-called Shropshire crosses were the first cross of 
pure bred Shropshire bucks on the native merino grade • 
ewes. They were raised at the College farm from some 
old native ewes which had been purchased for an experi¬ 
ment. 
Seven years ago the Station published Bulletin No. 32 
on “Sheep Feeding in Colorado,” prepared by Professor 
W. W. Cooke. That bulletin contains some information of 
general value and some interesting feeding experiments are 
reported. Those who are making a study of the lamb 
feeding problem will be interested enough to compare the 
results reported at that time and those given in the present 
bulletin, more especially, perhaps, the results from feeding 
sugar beets. The cost for each pound of gain where beets 
formed a portion of the ration was higher than the cost per 
pound of gain with grain rations, and the profit was not 
sufficiently large to make beet feeding remunerative. Pro¬ 
fessor Cooke reported a maximum return from feeding beets 
of*$2.77 P er ton and gives a low value of grain when added 
to a beet ration. The investigations reported in the pres¬ 
ent bulletin tend to substantiate that view. Because of the 
low cost of beet pulp, however, it forms a cheap substitute 
for the more expensive roots and the pulp seems to serve 
the purpose of adding a succulent food so well that there is 
considerable advantage to be gained from its proper use. 
The comparative value of wheat and corn for lamb 
feeding where the lambs are finished on either of these 
grains, as reported in Bulletin No. 32, shows wheat to be 
