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corn l1ad made an average daily gain of 1.95 pounds, while the
gain of the broken-ear lot was 1.89 pounds daily. The cost
per hundredweight gai11 for the shelled 0or11 lot was $14.23 a11d
for the broken-ear lot $14.21. The steers fed broken ear cor11
were valued at twenty—f1ve cents per hundredweight more tl1a11
were the steers 1·eceivi11g shelled corn, thus the lot fed shelled
eor11 made a slightly greater loss. In this experiment it did
not pay to shell the corn. i`
Grading-up Mountain Ewes. Airexperimeiit to determine
the effect of using a purebred sire on mountain ewes, begun in
1915, was concluded this yea1·. Rams of tl1e four breeds used
(Hampshire, Southdown, (Theviot a11d Rambouillet) sired
lambs that were more meaty, grew more rapidly, were of finer
quality and dressed out a higher percentage than lambs sired
- by scrub rams. The average mountain ewe produced tive
. pounds of low grade wool. Purebred rams increased the
weights of the fleece of the progeny and in practically OV(‘l‘}'
instance bettered the quality. The following is a summary of
tl1e wool production;
WEIGHTS AND GRADES OF WOOL.
,- Average \Vt.
Breeding of Fleece Grade
I Rambouillet—mountain .................... 7.52 lbs. %&% combing & clothing
1- Hampshire—Rambouillet-1nount»ai¤n 7.08 lbs. 148;% combing & clothing
(1 ]‘I211I1])SlIl1'C-IllOllHiL€Lill ............._.......... 6.2 lbs. 1/r&% combing & clothing
3_ Southdown—mountain ........................ 6.06 lbs. %&% combing & clothing
C¥heviot—mountain ....____............_......... 6.0 lbs. 1/Q&% combing & clothing
aa SONilltlO\\'l1-R8l]1l)Olllll€·{-lllOlll1i.2ll11 5.74 lbs. %&% combing & clothing .
io Mountain _____.__.....______..____...____...___...._... 5.0 lbs. 14& low 1.4 comb. & clo’g.
  The Rambouillet ram when _bred to the mountain ewes
m produeed lambs that gained very rapidly. The halt'-blood
Ramhouillet ewes were exeellenti mothers, were hardy 2lll(l
d_ produced heavy fleeees of good quality.
Of The grade Hampshire lambs gained 1·apidly and were
tv ready for market at an earlier age than any others. They
  lacked the quality of the Sonthdown and (‘heviot grades. The
of grade Hampshire ewes were of good size a11d were good
ed ` mothers.
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