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and Lot III. ate 33 cents worth more of food per lamb than 
Lot IV., both being fed corn. 
The cost of the food eaten by Lots I. and II. is higher 
than that eaten by Lots III. and IV., principally because the 
small grains were more valuable than corn at the time the 
experiment was carried on. The small grains fed Lots I. 
and II. were worth $1.00 per hundred pounds, which at that 
time was 20 cents more than the selling price of corn. The 
total profit from the eight lambs which*were fed wheat, oats 
and barley was $5.11, while the total profit from the eight 
lambs fed corn was $9.51. 
Attributing all the profit to the alfalfa eaten we find 
that the average of the small grain fed lot gives a return of 
$7.58 per ton for the alfalfa consumed, and the corn fed lots 
gave an average return of $13.03 per ton for the alfalfa con¬ 
sumed. 7 'aking into account the oats in this ration, which 
are of doubtful value for sheep feeding, and the fact that 
the lambs w r ere larger than those reported in Experiments I. 
and II. and were in much better condition at the beginning 
of the feeding period, the comparative values of the small 
grains and corn for lamb feeding correspond very closely in 
all of the experiments reported in this bulletin. 
