. Profitable stock feeding; a book for the farmer . Range Scenes Near Forbes, Wyoming, 234 PROFITABLE STOCK FEEDING. week. At this rate they will be consuming onepound each during the fourth week. This is tak-ing it for granted that it is desired to. get suchlambs ready for market as soon as possible. Afterone pound per day has been reached the furtherincrease should be more gradual. A feed ofone and one-half pounds of grain per day at theend of seven weeks would be sufificient to insurelarge gains and a comparatively short feedingperiod. If hay or other roughness is comparativelycheap, and it
. Profitable stock feeding; a book for the farmer . Range Scenes Near Forbes, Wyoming, 234 PROFITABLE STOCK FEEDING. week. At this rate they will be consuming onepound each during the fourth week. This is tak-ing it for granted that it is desired to. get suchlambs ready for market as soon as possible. Afterone pound per day has been reached the furtherincrease should be more gradual. A feed ofone and one-half pounds of grain per day at theend of seven weeks would be sufificient to insurelarge gains and a comparatively short feedingperiod. If hay or other roughness is comparativelycheap, and it seems expedient to make more mut-ton from such feed and lessfrom grain, the fatten-ing may go forth more slowly, postponing the timeof marketing accordingly. The grain ration couldthen start with one-eighth pound each per day, in-creasing this one-eighth of a pound per week, in-stead of one-fourth, until at the end of seven weekseach lamb is receiving one pound per day. Thegrain ration could be limited to this amount, whichlimitation would insure
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