Lamb feeding in the irrigated valleys of southern New Mexico

Summary and conclusions; Introduction; Purposes of study; Economic conditions during period of study; Returns from lamb feeding; Value of manure; Cost per lamb sold; Death loss; Gain per head and per day; Actual margin; Necessary margin; Marketing of lambs; Shrinkage in weight of lambs to market; Factors affecting profitableness of lamb feeding; Actual margin; Market price movement in relation to marketing; Profits from shorn and wooled lambs; Relation of purchase weight to profit; Relation of daily gain to profit; Feed-lot management of lambs; Disease; Choice of ration; Delayed feeding of grain; Use of silage and pasture; Estimating the sale price necessary to cover costs; Appendix; Purchase and sale prices, margin per hundredweight, and percent death loss for individual feed lots of lambs studied, table 14; Costs and receipts, margin and profit per head of lambs sold, for individual feed ltos of lambs, table 15; Variation in the yearly purchase and sale prices and feed costs per hundredweight for lambs sold from feed lots studied, table 16; Necessary sale per hundredweight of lamb at Kansas City under varying feed and purchase prices; for a 70-pound feeder lamb, table 17; for a 65-pound feeder lamb, table 18; for a 60-pound feeder lamb, table 19; for a 55-pound feeder lamb, table 20; Ration fed lambs for individual feed lots, 1936-39, table 21; Monthly and yearly prices of alfalfa received by producers, 1921-40, inclusive, table 22Bulletin containing the results of a multi-year study to determine common methods for and the profitability of feeding lambs for slaughter in southern New Mexico