298 Agricultural Chemistry — Sheep-Feeding and Manure, 



which is given the averao;e weekly gain at an earHer period of the 

 experiment, we see that it exceeds that calculated on the entire 

 period. That the confinement and want of green food were not 

 without effect is rendered probable from the fact that the re- 

 mainder of the flock from which the experimental sheep were 

 taken, and which were allowed the run of 40 acres of very highly 

 manured clover, and about I lb. each per day of oil-cake besides, 

 o^ave during eleven weeks about double the average weekly in- 

 crease of those in the experimental pens, as the particulars given 

 below of those whose marks remained legible will show. 



Table.' — Showing the Mean Weekly Increase of 30 Sheep, fed upon 

 Green Clover, and 1 lb. each per day of Oil-cake, during a period 

 of 11 Weeks. 



The rate of increase here indicated falls little short of the 

 wider estimates usually formed on this subject; and, whilst we 

 are satisfied of the correctness of the figures given above, and do 



