IOO STORRS AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 
constructed as to combine feed troughs and rack for hay. With 
good ensilage, that which is made from well-ripened corn, 
one pound of the mixed grain to one pound of ensilage is 
about the right proportion. This, with what hay they will eat 
once.a day, should keep lambs thriving four or five months at 
any rate. How much longer they would thrive with this feed- 
ing we do not know.. This we do know, however, that we 
have had them make as large a gain the fifth month of feeding 
as they did the first. 
We consider it important that lambs should have plenty of 
salt, and water at all times; so each pen of lambs is provided 
with a tub into which fresh spring water is at all times flowing. 
They also have access to lumps of rock salt which are kept 
before them in their feeding racks. 
As stated above we give mixed feed twice a day. It is fed 
in the following manner: The men with their baskets of feed 
begin at one end of the barn, and at first give the lambs about 
half what they know they will eat. By the time the lambs in 
the last pens are fed, the first are ready for more. It is often 
necessary to feed them three times, especially if the pens are 
crowded, and if all the lambs cannot get access to the troughs 
at the same time. With this method of feeding we never lose 
lambs from overeating, as would be sure to be the case if the 
grain was fed unmixed with coarse fodder. 
MARKETING. 
We sell our lambs to one firm of wholesale butchers, who 
have established a trade for them. We get a price quite a 
little in advance of the price paid for Western stock of the same 
stamp. ‘They claim that our lambs are superior in having 
more lean meat in proportion to the fat, that the meat contains 
more of the natural juices, besides being more tender, This — 
being the case, we are led to believe that our methods of feed- 
ing are superior to those usually practiced in the West. 
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