BY USE OF DIFFERENT KINDS OF FOOD. 



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consumed in fourteen weeks by the different lots — cash prices 

 at places of import ; secondly, the actual increase in live weight ; 

 and thirdly, the estimated increase of carcass weights, calcu- 

 lated from length and girth and degree of fatness. Little 

 importance should be assigned to these, yet they indicate that 

 cotton seed made a high increase of carcass weight, though the 

 lowest increase of live weight; while, on the other hand, cotton 

 seed cake made the lowest increase of carcass weight, though 

 the highest of live weight. In the fourth table, while the 

 increase of live and estimated carcass weights correspond fairly 

 well in all the lots, yet the middle is the only one in which the 

 increase of estimated carcass falls below the increase of the 



actual live weight. 



Table III. 



Table IV. 



From a consideration of the whole results, and taking into 

 account the fact tliat No. G and No. 9 suffered from sore feet, I 

 draw the following conclusions: — 



(1) That the diilerence in increase of weight, due to the 

 difference in kind of the oleaginous foods experimented witli, is 

 insignificant, compared with the diilerence in price of these 

 foods, and hence — 



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