226 STORRS AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 
TABLE 44.—Total weight of different feeding stuffs and of digestible nutrients 
in the datly rations fed to two hundred lambs of the third, lot. 
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DIGESTIBLE NUTRIENTS. 

Feeds used. Total Dry Nutritive | 




i : ratio. 
weight. matter eee ee ee hae 
Les Oe SE Ibs. lbs. lbs. lbs, lbs. 
Corn, ; ; : j 167 144.3 9.69 5.18 | 108.88 
Rea meals 7” ; ; 167 149.5 28.06 1.00 |. 86.51 
Clover rowen, . ; ; 148 131.4 |. 14.50 3,01 54.32 
SHaves | : 4 ‘ 325 80.0 226 2.25 | paeaes 
505.2] 55-50] 11.57.) 295.844) 01 oeem 
Period TI, 
Corn, : : : ; 181 156.4 | 10.50 5, OF jati6 ue 
Pea meal, ; : : 138 T2375 23.18 0.83 71.48 
Bran, : : : ; ORF Ob ay Aras) OF 0.25 3447 
Clover rowen, . : : 141 12h. cue ano 2.96 | 51.7527 
Silage, . : ; ; 316 Vwi) 3.16 2.21) '4nese 

490.7 61273 11.86 | 289.27 1 Gs 
Period III. (196 lambs.) 
Corn, : : : E32 II4.0 7.66 4.09 | 86.06 
Bran, ft : ; ; 100 88.1 11.90 2.80 | 38.50 
Pea meal, : A é 100 89.5 16.80 0.60 | 51.80 
Clover rowen, . : ; 146 129.6 14.31 3-07 | 53.58 
silage, <, A , : 301 74.0 3.01 A 42.44 
495.2 53.68 12.07 727 eea T:5.¢ 
Digestible nutrients (calculated 
for ten lambs, I day). 
Terwa i, 25.3 2.95 .58 | 14.78 
Perwod T1. Ras 2.59 -59 | 14.46 
Perwod IT, 254 274 65 14.00 

The third feeding period comprised the first 17 days of 
January. During this period it became necessary to butcher: 
two more lambs from the same cause as before, and by accident 
one died from rupture. The gains during this period were as 
follows: Weight of 196 lambs January 1, 1898, 16,255 pounds; 
weight of 196 lambs on January 18 (including two butchered 
and one died), 17,485 pounds; 196 lambs gained in 17 days - 
1,230 pounds. When reduced to a period of 1 5 days, this gives 
a gain of 1,085 pounds, or at the rate of 5.54 pounds per lamb. 
The experiment was not continued longer, as the lambs were 
as fat and as heavy as the market required. 





