_ EXPERIMENTS ON WINTER FATTENING OF LAMBS. 227 
In estimating the cost of the rations, hay has been valued at 
$10 per ton, corn silage at $3 per ton, corn at 384c. per bushel 
(56 pounds), bran at $15, and pea meal at $13 per ton. The 
| cost of producing 100 pounds of gain in live weight for the 
| whole period was $7.91, while in the third period the cost was 
: $4.85. In the first period the gain was made at the rate of 5.70 
pounds, in the second period 3.24 pounds, and in the third 
| period 5.54 pounds per lamb for uniform periods of 15 days. 
The details of this experiment with the third lot of lambs are 
summarized in the following table: 

TABLE 45.— Pecuniary economy of different rations fed lot three. 







| 
DAILY RATION. | Prop. Total Asc 
| Total | weight of] Gain | Cost of| o¢ pro- 
No ofertas at for ration ducing 
lambs. | | beginning] period. | Pe | x00 Ibs. 
r | : and end day. gain live 
_Kinds and amounts of each. bea | No. | Duration. | of period. weight. 
| 
\ | To) at | oe ene | eee 
lbs. | | 1897-8. lbs. lbs. 
Corn, 167: pea meal, 167,. 334 | § | Dec. 1 to |14,700 
5 I,I ; ; 
Clover rowen, 148; silage, 325,| 473 faa : {| Dec. 16. |15,840 40 /$3.48 | $4.58 
Corn, 181; pea meal, 138; | 
bran, 9, . : , 328 { |Dec. 16 to/15,840 6 
: | O}| 3.41 .gI 
Clover rowen, 141; silage, 316,| 457 cel at Jan. I. |16,530 2 eed ig 
Corn, 132; pea meal, 100; | | 
bran, 100, : ; 332 Jan. 1 to |16,255 | 
’ 1,230.) 3.8 Taedac 
Clover rowen, 146; silage, 301,| 447 Ae 3 | Jan. 16. |17,485 30. | 355 Tee ae 



| WHAT THE EXPERIMENTS AND OUR EXPERIENCE TEACH. 
Taken together with our experience in feeding 2,000 to 
4,000 lambs each winter, the experiments tend to show that a 
mixture of feeding stuffs so combined as to furnish a palatable 
and wholesome ration is of greater importance in feeding lambs 
than the chemical composition of the ration. Lambs, when 
first placed on a grain ration, will usually make rapid gains for 
a short time irrespéctive of the composition of the ration, but 
unless the ration is a palatable one and well suited for growth 
as well as fattening, the lambs will not continue to eat vigor- 
