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BULLETIN 75 . 
The nine Shropshire crosses in the experiment aver¬ 
aged 39.1 pounds gain. The seven native lambs averaged 
31 pounds gain, or 21.8 percent less than the Shropshire 
crosses. This shows the advantage of good blood, and of a 
mutton cross on the native sheep to produce profitable 
feeders. The Shropshire grades averaged 7.7 pounds of 
fleece, and the native lambs averaged nine pounds of fleece. 
The table indicates that the lambs made remarkably 
even gains. 
Table XIX. gives the pounds gain per week by each 
lot. There are some variations week by week, but the 
weeks which record losses are few. Except in the final 
week of the experiment, when the weights were taken after 
24 hours shrinkage with the lambs off feed, there are but 
two instances of recorded loss of weight, both of them in 
the corn fed lots. The gains for May 2d were from the 
final live weight of the lambs after they had been off feed 
and water for twenty-four hours. 
TABLE XIX. 
POUNDS GAIN PER WEEK. 
January 30. 
Lot I. 
. 7 
Lot II. 
2 
Lot III. 
6 
Lot 
5 
February 7. 
. 7 
10 
11 
20 
February 13. 
. 16 
4 
10 
5 
February 20. 
. 11 
10 
20 
15 
February 27. 
. 8 
13 
12 
16 
March 7. . 
. 15 
17 
15 
13 
March 14. 
. 11 
12 
14 
14 
March 21. 
. 21 
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i 
17 
10 
March 28. 
. 10 
16 
17 
16 
April 4. 
. 8 
10 
1 
-11 
Apri 1 11. 
. 14 
24 
22 
31 
April 18. 
. 18 
0 
9 
6 
April 25. 
. -3 
3 
-1 
3 
May 2. 
. -1 
-2 
7 
1 
Total Gain Flesh. 
.114 
91 
124 
110 
Fleece. 
. 28 
35 
32 
34 
Total Gain with Fleece. 
.142 
126 
156 
144 
Lot III. fed corn, alfalfa and given warm water to 
drink made the largest total gain. Lot IV., fed the same 
ration as Lot III., except that they were given cold water 
to drink, made the second largest gain. Then followed 
Lot I. and II. in order. The average total gain of Lots I. 
and II., the mixed grain lots, is 134 pounds; the average 
total gain of Lots III. and IV., the corn fed lots, is 151 
pounds, or an average of 17 pounds more of the four lambs 
in the corn fed lots than in the two mixed grain lots. As 
shown in Table XX., Lot I. given cold water, gained 16 
