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Show OATS EQUAL CORN TO FATTEN LAMBS Grain Was Found Efficient in Three Feeding Trials. Oats are equal to corn for fattening fat-tening western lambs was the leading lead-ing feature in an exhibit by the Purdue university agricultural experiment ex-periment station at the recent International In-ternational Live Stock exposition at Chicago. Three feeding trials were conducted con-ducted Involving 150 lambs, In which oats, cottonseed meal clover hay and corn silage were fed In direct comparison with shelled corn, cottonseed meal, clover hay and silage. Corn is n highly efficient effi-cient grain for finishing market animals, hut oats proved to be equally as good, requiring 677 pounds of oats, 51 pounds of cottonseed cot-tonseed meal, 261 pounds of hay nnd 284 pounds of silage for 100 pounds of gain, whereas It re quired S67 pounds or corn, pounds of cottonseed meal, 402 pounds of hay and 454 pounds of silage for the same amount of gains. Lambs receiving oats In the ration consumed approximately 40 per cent less roughage than the lambs receiving corn. The market value of oats in recent years has often been very low, which Is an added advantage of this common grain as a lamb feed. For economical gains it has been found that oats should be supplemented supple-mented with a protein feed as cottonseed meal, linseed oil meal, or- soy beans. Twelve pounds of oats to one pound of protein feed is a good .proportion. In the case of feeding corn, seven pounds of shelled corn to one pound of supplement produces an economical economi-cal proportion. |