Davis County Clipper | 1902-02-07 | Page 3 | Food Eaten by Sheep and Cattle

rood food eaton eaten by sheep and cattle it Is sometimes asserted that cattle and sheep require the same amount of 0 teed feed per thousand pounds of live weight this statement seems not to be well founded in some elpe experiments rim ants at the iowa station the cattle consumed pounds of 0 dry matter per thousand pounds ot of live weight against an average of 2907 by the sheep both sheep and cattle were on full teed feed the sheep made a dally daily gain ot of pounds per thousand pounds of 0 live weight and the cattle in summing up this comparison we find that while the sheep ate 48 per cent more than the tha cattle they also gained n nearly early 75 per cent more prot prof C F curtiss I 1