New York AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 
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The total length of the alimentary canal was practically the 
same for both, or about 104 feet. 
The separation of parts and of fat and lean meat was wholly 
mechanical, and, 
ile 
as: comparable eee purpose. 
not strictly correct, yet the results are just 
There remained adhering to the 
lean meat bits of fat which could not be separated mechanically, 
and traces of lean were to be found in the fat meat. Especially 
is this last true in the case of the cottonseed meal fed lamb, for 
ramifying all through the body fat were fibers of lean, giving the 
whole a reddish appearance. 
In the following table are presented the proportion of fat and 
lean meat, together with the percentage relations: 









Pen 6, Pen 7, 
grams. grams. 
NE VAULT nT meee tote tic at tie cic oketars Mate afcrsiarsic, pavehera cota biacch aaa aha ts 38646 .6 41447 .7 
CAPE ee ea EN eC Nag acta Pd mie aaa es Saals ce dnb ap Rk neasies | 16696.1 | 19501.2 
eNTR TERENCE GS ete a he icy aie Suh eS nisiae ciel Ow Sah esyien aS cis od ea.c8 9732.0 6463.8 
eee TELM MEO eM an cc lanton baie diana eb eins acy dat seis bog a aire 3 | 2041.2 3855.6 
PCR aL LIAM UI LOD cogeice slot asia dans Malas adie! s ewe ae Veress.c | hay es 59.6 
Per cent of fat meat to live weight.............cc.ccceceeeseees 5.2 92 
Merce or tab Meal CO CATCHES ce. aaa -iniecus secacsasene ces 12.2 | 19.8 
Per cent of lean meat to live weight.............-...esseeeees | 95.2. | 15.3 
Percent Of JOAN MOGAt TO CATCASS.. 00. wisi e sect eceecstacusees 58.3 | 33.1 




From the tables already presented we find that while lamb No. 
1, in pen 7, fed on corn meal, made a better gain than lamb 1, 
in pen 6, fed on cottonseed meal (although the total gain for each 
pen was the same — 21 pounds), yet the proportion of lean to fat 
was decidedly changed by the two methods of feeding. Whether 
with mature animals we should be able to so largely influence the 
nature of the gain in favor of the lean meat under economical 
feeding is an undetermined question. I am of the opinion from 
my observations on previous experiments that feeders who would 
secure the greatest possible proportion of lean meat to the fat 
should begin with the growing animals, and not with those of 
mature growth. | 
