Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 159, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1912 — GOOD RATION FOR FATTENING [ARTICLE]

GOOD RATION FOR FATTENING

Problem Is Important One and of Various feeds Com Is Boat Single Grain to Be Pod. The question of ration' for sheep at this time of the year is ffn important /one. All of the various form grains have been used with more or less success. Cofn easily heads the list as theTbest single grain for- fattening lambs. It is especially desirable because it causes the lambs to put on U it rapidly add does not stlmuate too much growth as in the case with many forms of concentrated feeds. _.Barley has also been used to very good advantage. It IF about on a par with sera'fed from the standpoint of rapidity and economy or gains, but lacks same. In palatability. Wheat and wheat screenings have both been used to fatten lambs. The feed has too much tendency to cause the lambs to grow rather than fatten. When combined with an equal* amount of corn the lambs put on fat much more rapidly. Oats is a useful feed, but, like Wheat, is more liable tSr< induce growth than fattening. It should be mixed With corn for best results. Oilmeal, cottonseed meal and gluten feed have all-been used in con junction-with com rations t«- good advantage? Not more than one-half pound of either ofimeal or cottonseed meal should- be ted a lamb' ; weighing from 50 to *3O pounds. While wheat bran itself is not helpful In putting on; fat, ft is one of- the best feeding- stuffs available to use to conjunction with; com or other: feeds in gettinglkmb* on fan feed. It fiirn&bes bulk, tiftra prevents the greedy ernes from getting too much concentrates and also acts as a regulator; of the digestiv4:syetem.