LAMB FEEDING EXPERIMENTS. 25 
Table XIV. gives the amount of each kind of food 
eaten for each pound of gain produced and the per cent of 
dressed weight, with the cost of each pound of gain. There 
is a marked variation in the per cent of dressed weight. 
Lot IX. dressed 59 per cent and Lot VII. 48.8 per cent, a 
difference of over 10 per cent. This condition would have 
much to do with their value on the market and those with 
the low per cent of dressed weight would give less profit. 
The best general result was obtained with the spelt and 
alfalfa ration fed to Lot VI. These lambs consumed 6.26 
pounds of alfalfa and 3.30 pounds of spelt at a cost of 4.28 
cents for.each pound of gain. This is very close to the 
amount of hay and corn for each pound of gain, but because 
of the high price of corn, which cost us $1.30 per hundred 
pounds, the cost of each pound of gain was nearly one cent 
higher than in the spelt ration. If corn was obtained for 
$1.00, which was the price allowed for the spelt, the cost of 
each pound of gain would be 4.32 cents, or within .04 cents 
of the cost of each pound of gain with the spelt ration. 
This difference is very small and the corn ration lambs 
dressed almost three percent better than the spelt ration 
lambs. 
The next best result was obtained with Lot VIII. fed 
wheat, barley and alfalfa. These lambs ate 6.5 pounds of 
alfalfa and 3.38 pounds of grain composed of equal parts of 
wheat and barley, for each pound of gain, making the gain 
cost 4.68 cents per pound. At the same price the corn ra¬ 
tion would have produced a little cheaper gain than this, 
but the farmer could not afford to sell his wheat and barley 
TABLE XV. 
COST AND PROFIT. 
Feed. 
Cost 
of 
Feed. 
Cost 
1 lb. 
brain. 
Value 
Gain 
@ 6 cts. 
Value 
Wool 
@ 10 cts. 
Total 
Value 
of Gain. 
Profit. 
Lot V. 
Corn, Alfalfa, 
$ 
6.83 
cts. 
5.25 
$ 
6.78 
$ 
1.70 
$ 
8.48 
$ 
1.65 
Lot VI. 
Spelt, Alfalfa, 
6.08 
4.28 
7.62 
1.50 
9.12 
3.04 
Lot VII.... 
Barley, Alfalfa, 
5.80 
4.95 
5.82 
2.00 
7.82 
2.02 
Lot VIII... 
Wheat, Barley, 
Alfalfa, 
6.12 
4.68 
7.02 
1.40 
8.42 . 
2.30 
Lot IX. 
Wheat, Spelt, Alfalfa 
6.13 
5.93 
5.25 
1.40 
6.65 
.52 
