An Experiment in Pir/-Feedinf/. 167 



The palm-nut meal was part of a quantity boug'lit by the 

 Agricultural Co-operative Association of Messrs. Smith and Co., 

 Liverpool. 



The following is an analysis, by Dr. Voelcker, of a sample 

 taken at the works for the Association : — 



Analysis of Pcdm-nut Meal. 



Moisture 6-36 



Oil .. .. 18-OG 



•Albuminous compouiuis 15'18 



Mucilage, sugar and diijestive fibre 37 '96 



Woody fibre' .. .. " 19-10 



Mineral matter (ash) 3 '34: 



100-00 

 * Containing nitrogen .. 2-43 



On the 26th September, 1867, four Sussex pigs of about ten 

 months old, in very good store condition, were bought for 10/. lis. 

 They were fed for a few days, till they became accustomed to 

 the food and the barn in which they were lodged, on a mixture 

 of palm-nut meal and malt-dust, with a few boiled roots. They 

 were weighed on the 27th October, at 3 o'clock, shortly before 

 they received the first allowance of the weighed food. 



lbs. 

 No. 1, a black ami white boar pig, weighed .. .. 149 



2, a black sow, weighed 157 



3, a black boar, „ 149 



4, a black sow, „ 145 



Food was prepared by mixing 112 lbs. of palm-nut meal and 

 56 lbs. of malt-dust in a thirty -gallon tub nearly filled with cold 

 water. Of this mixture, as much as they could eat was given 

 them twice a day. The experiment lasted for 94 days. During 

 the first 40 days, 22 lbs. of cold boiled turnips were given with 

 the other food each day, each pig thus getting 5^ lbs. of roots. 

 As the pigs fattened the proportion of roots was diminished, and 

 for the next 46 days only 11 lbs. per diem was given. No roots 

 were given during the last eight days. From the 64th day till 

 the time they were killed, 1 lb. of whole peas, in addition to the 

 other food, was given per diem to each pig. My first intention 

 was to have weighed the pigs each time they had finished their 

 tubful of food ; but when this happened at the afternoon, instead 

 of the morning meal, it would have been necessary to weigh the 

 fasting pigs in the morning instead of at 3 o'clock. To avoid 

 the diiferences that might have resulted from weighing at different 

 times of the day, the weighing only took place when the tub was 



