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The Southdown grades possessed excellent quality and
U good muttion form, but they gained more slowly and required
a longer time to reach marketable weight than the grade L
Hampshires, Cheviots and Rambouillets. The Cheviot grades J
1 grew more rapidly than the Southdown grades. They had
  finer quality than the Hampshire and Rambouillet grades.
  Lambs sired by the purebred rains topped the Louisville
a and Cincinnati markets. The largest lambs therefore returned
the most profit per head.
j The Hampshire ram sired a larger percentage of twins
i than did any other rams. The Clieviot ranked second, the
l Southdown third, the Rambouillet fourth and the scrub last.
T For the production of market lambs, more profit resulted from
the use of the Hampshire ram than from the use of either the
(`heviot or the Southdown. The Cheviot ram returned more
profit than did the Southdown during the three years in which
the Cheviot was used. g
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Effect of Stale Buttermilk on Growing Pigs. Several com- _
plaints had been received ot the injurious effect of stale butter-
. milk when fed to growing pigs. A comparison was made be—
tween similar lots of pigs to show the effect of buttermilk, if
any. Five lots of pigs were fed corn meal, shorts and butter-
milk or tankage. Lot 1 received fresh buttermilk; lot 2, two-
» day old buttermilk; lot 3, stale buttermilk, lot -1 semi-solid but-
; termilk, and lot   tankage.
  The pigs receiving fresh buttermilk made slightly larger
i daily gains and more economical gains than did the pigs re-
ceiving stale buttermilk. The pigs receiving stale buttermilk
Y made slightly larger and more economical gains than did the
T pigs receiving two-day old buttermilk or the pigs receiving
` semi-solid buttermilk, or the pigs receiving tankage.
In the second experiment, two lots of pigs were fed. Each
, lot received shelled corn, while one was given fresh buttermilk
and the other stale buttermilk. The pigs receiving stale but-
termilk gained an average of 2.23 pounds per day, while the
pigs receiving fresh buttermilk gained 2.13 pounds.
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