Show heavy corn ration may cause death of lambs there are large numbers of lambs iambi in the cornfields of northern colorado most host of these lambs have been on the corn for three or tour four weeks they hv have stripped the plants of leaves and husk huska a and are eating the corn grain in some instances with very little forage available to lighten the ration unless the lambs are supplied with plenty of forage and arrangements made so they will consume it there is danger from now on of heavy death losses due to a too heavy corn teed feed lambs are being feizi in the pens and fed alfalfa until noon then turned on the corn until evening with good success they are herded in the pens over night and held there until the following noon on hay this causes them to take on a good fill of alfalfa before going on the corn and so far death losses on these lambs have been neg lible lie he lambs need alfalfa or other pro forage tor for protection against too much grain and should be made to take it in sufficient quantities to regulate the g grain rain they consume if a protein hay Is not available and it Is 19 necessary to feed them on prairie bay or straw about I 1 10 of a pound of linseed meal or cottonseed meal should make a good substitute in experiment exper imen a with lambs in the cornfields salt has been used satisfactorily as a mineral supplement E J marynard Ua rynard colorado state experiment station |