EXPERIMENT 1.—SUGAR BEETS AND BEET PULP. 
KIND OF LAMBS FED. 
In the first and second experiments here reported, we 
used Mexican lambs which averaged 55 pounds per head 
March 5th, 1902. They were in very poor condition when 
we received them, a few days prior to the beginning of the 
experiment. They had trailed a long distance to Albu¬ 
querque, New Mexico, at which place they were held until 
they could be dipped twice. During the interval between 
the dippings they were kept on the sand hills where there 
was practically no food to be had. This class of lambs 
would represent the most unprofitable kind that could be 
had for feeding anywhere in the west. The resulting profit 
obtained, then, may be considered a minimum In April 
the lambs were shorn and the wool credited at ten cents 
per pound. 
OBJECT AND PLAN OF EXPERIMENT I. 
The object of this trial was to determine the compara¬ 
tive value of sugar beets and beet pulp when fed with al¬ 
falfa hay either alone or in combination with grain. Fifty 
lambs had been divided into ten lots of five each and five of 
these lots were to receive beet and pulp rations. Lots I. to 
IV. are regularly reported. Lot X. was given a ration of 
beets, grain and straw, in order to show the comparative 
return from feeding alfalfa and to determine whether the 
beets and straw could be made to take the place of alfalfa. 
Some of our farmers have thought that sugar beets had 
such a high feeding value that they could be made to take 
the place largely of both hay and grain. We failed to get 
the lambs in Lot X. fat enough to turn and considered the 
trial so much out of the ordinary that it would not be worth 
while to compare the results more than in a general way. 
So this lot does not appear in our tables. The following 
rations were fed to those in the sugar beet and pulp trial: 
Lot I.—Alfalfa and beet pulp. 
Lot II.—Alfalfa and beet pulp with grain consisting of 
equal parts of barley and wheat added during the last eight 
