Show find oats satisfactory in fattening lamb crop purdue university and the federal bureau of animal industry in cabling about to find new uses for the oats crop conducted an experiment at lafayette to determine det ermint the lalue of oats oata in fattening western lambs during the past winter previous lamb feed ing results bad indicated Indicate cr that oats was not dot equal to corn for the fattening process but bat in this case with cottonseed meal added to the ration very satisfactory results were obtained the lambs lambe fed on oats and cottonseed meal gained 12 22 pounds more in 84 days than did the lambs fed on corn and cottonweed cotton beed meal corn silage and clover bay were fed in achaj tion to the other feeds named it has been definitely demonstrated that a legume bay la Is essential la in feeding lambs on the dry lot although the amount fed MAY day be small email two feeds of clover bay every five day are enough to keep the lambs lu in good condition according to the results of this experiment compared with the lot fed clover ha hay y dully daily the lot receiving a limited amount of this lilg feea made cheaper gain and finished just as aa well the oats cats lot required less bay than the corn lot |