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Show Cracked Corn Found Best Feed for Suckling Lambs Tests made at the University of Kentucky experiment station indicate indi-cate cracked yellow shelled corn is the cheapest and best ration for the creep-feeding of suckling lambs. Experiments carried on over a period of nine years compared cracked yellow corn with mixtures of feeds. These included cracked corn, crushed oats and pea-sized linseed lin-seed oilmeal; cracked corn and commercial milk substitute, and a thjrd ration composed of "sweet feed" made of corn, oats, bran, linseed lin-seed oilmeal, mollases and salt. The experiment was conducted under the most controlled conditions possible, Kentucky educators reported. re-ported. The conclusion of the experimenters: experiment-ers: "None of the three more costly cost-ly mixtures showed any consistent or significant superiority to corn alone in rate of gain, efficiency of gain or market finish of the Iambs." The experiments were not designed de-signed to answer the question of whether creep-feeding pays, but rather to determine what rations are best for creep-feeding under Kentucky conditions. |