Sheep 



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September 2dt/i. — 352 lambs in the Parks, on a little cotton- 

 cake and some oats, until November 4tli, when they were folded 

 on a wheat-stubble. Gave them 5 bushels of meal daily, mixed 

 with 468 lbs. of straw-chaff. Cost 3of/. each per week for meal. 

 December 20th. — Increased the food to Q^ bushels of meal and 

 1 bushel of oil-cake. 



JDecember ISth : — lbs. 



2|- bushels of maize crushed and boiled 143 



41 busliels of mixed meal 200 



1 bushels of oil-cake 50 



393 



Cost 5^(1. per week for corn and cake ; chaff 2^ lbs. each, 

 between these and the ewes, the lambs eating rather less than 

 2 lbs. each. 



Eight pounds of rock-salt licked up by the 352 lambs per week. 



January 2ord. — The food was increased to 7i bushels of meal, 

 2 bushels oil-cake, 2 bushels rape-cake. 



Cost per stone (14 lbs.)- 



Mixture of Corn. 



Wheat 4 parts 



Barley 4 „ 



Oats 2 „ 



Maize 4 „ 



d. 



Wheat 1 



Barley 10 



Oats 10 



Maize 10 



Oilcake 1 4i 



liape-cake 9 



Extracts from Stock-book. 

 Lamhs. 



