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Bulletin 76. 
TABLE IV. 
Date. 
Weather. 
Water Drank 
Pen II—Lbs. 
Water Consumed 
as Pulp,Pen II. lbs 
Total Water Con¬ 
sumed, Pen II, lbs 
Water Drank 
Pen I—Lbs. 
January 1... 
Cold 
100 
390 
490 
300 
January 15.. 
Mild 
115 
441 
556 
315 
February 1.. 
Cold 
100 
461 
561 
300 
February 8.. 
Cool 
0 
900 
900 
300 
March 1. 
Very Warm 
i . •• 
100 
750 
850 
575 
March 15.... 
325 
375 
700 
675 
April 1. 
Stormy 
50 
360 
410 
200 
Total. 
790 
3.677 
4,467 
2,665 
Feeding experiments nearly always show a lack of uniformity 
in gains, though the weather and kind and amount of food may be 
constant. 
Comparing the gain with the amount of food eaten, the pulp 
lot compares quite favorably with the corn-fed lot. Were the test 
to stop here, favorable claims could be made for the pulp. The 
crucial test came in the shipping. The lambs were forty hours on 
the way from Rockyford to Kansas City without feed. The ship¬ 
ping showed that the pulp lot were weak-boned and had but little 
stamina; that the flesh was soft and shrank immensely, giving a 
much worse appearance than the corn-fed ones. 
On the cars four sheep died and one was crippled in the pulp- 
fed lot; one was crippled in the corn-fed lot. The lambs sold for 
$4.80 per cwt.,the market being from $4.60 to $5.00 that day. The 
pulp lot in Kansas City had an average weight of 75.8 pounds. 
The corn lot had an average weight in Kansas City of 77.3 pounds. 
In shipment the corn lot lost 9.4 pounds per head, and the pulp lot 
9.2 pounds. The amount each lot shrank is practically the same. 
The four dead sheep were, of course, a total loss, which with three 
crippled (one corn-fed) ones indicates the lack of strength as com¬ 
pared with the other sheep. The attendant stated that the pulp lot 
sold higher than they would have had not they been on the market 
in small numbers with corn-fed lambs. Thus while the average 
weights are about the same, the deaths in pen II and the general 
appearance of the lot plainly evidenced that they did not ship 
nearly so well as the corn-fed lot. 
The financial account based on the Kansas City returns stands 
as follows: 
117 lambs (fed on pulp), 8,880 lbs., at $4.80.$426.24. Per head, $3.64 
120 lambs (fed on corn), 9,280 lbs., at 4.80. 445.44. Per head, 3.71 
Balance in favor of the corn. 19.20. Per head, .07 
If the lambs had been fed pulp exclusively until the time of 
shipment, I have every reason to believe that the per cent, of loss 
would have been much greater. Salt was given both lots twice per 
week, the pulp lot getting one-third more than the others. Evi¬ 
dently lambs fed on pulp should be given plenty of salt because of 
the absence of bone-forming material in the food. 
March 20th one lamb from each lot was sold to local butchers 
