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Experiments of SUeep-Feeding. 



SllEEl' FED ox "WUEAT-MEAL. 



Shearlinsfs. 



Hoggetts. 



The fatting flock in the field receive 1^ lb. of wheat and 

 barley meal mixed half and half, and ^ lb. of cotton-cake; on 

 the other hand they have barley-straw chaff instead of clover- 

 hay. In my experiment I introduced the use of clover-hay to 

 adapt my proceedings to Mr. Lawes' standard diet for sheep ; 

 I also refrained from mixing wheat and barley, because mixtures 

 are as objectionable when definite results are sought for by expe- 

 riment, as they are beneficial in general farming practice. This 

 antagonism between the requirements of scientific investigation 

 and of approved practice is one of the difficulties that beset the 

 path of agricultural progress. 



I am, on the whole, satisfied with my success in converting 

 my own produce into meat and manure, neither hoarding my 

 corn nor increasing the glut of a depressed market. 



5. — Letter on Covered Yards. By H. S. Tho3IPSON, M.P. 



To The Editob. 



" My dear Sir, — You ask my opinion of covered farmyards, 

 especially with reference to the question of cost. I send you, by 

 way of reply, the following remarks, partly extracted from a 

 paper I wrote for the Yorkshire Agricultural Society on this 



