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Flushing and other means of increasing lamb yields / by F.R. Marshall and C.G. Potts.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Marshall, F. R.
Corporate Author:	United States. Department of Agriculture
Other Authors:	Potts, C. G.
Format:	Government Document Book
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1921.
Series:	Bulletin of the U.S. Department of Agriculture ; no. 996.
Subjects:	Lambs > Feeding and feeds.

Table of Contents:

Extent to which flushing is practiced in the United States. pp. 1.
Factors influencing size of lamb crop. pp. 2.
Results of flushing in ewes : General plan of the experiments. pp. 3.
Number of lambs dropped. pp. 4.
Relation of weight gains to number of twins
Feed for flushing
Earliness of lambing. pp. 6.
Uniformity of lambs' ages
Twin production as affected by age of ewe. pp. 7.
Twin production as affected by breed of ewe
Twin production as affected by sire. pp. 8.
Breeding for twin lambs. pp. 9.
Value of twin lambs in comparison with singles. pp. 10.
Comparative weights of single and twin lambs. pp. 11.
Summary. pp. 13.