638 MANAGEMENT OF SHEEP FEEDING 



roots = about one-seventh of the live-weight, after deducting 

 the moisture of the food. The increase was nearly 2 per 

 cent li ve- weight = 2 Ibs. per week for a 100 Ibs. sheep. A 

 usual increase is I Ib. of live-weight to 8 or 9 Ibs. of solid 

 food, moisture being deducted About 58 per cent, of the 

 fasted live-weight of sheep, moderately fat, is butchers' 

 carcase (Warington) ; very fat sheep give 6 to 8 per cent, 

 more in the case of refined breeds, such as Southdowns. 

 Lean sheep give about 50 per cent, and old ewes, unless 

 of the more fleshy breeds in good condition, often little over 

 that proportion. In ordinary sheep passing from store to 

 fat condition, 68 per cent of the increase is carcase. 



The following calculation shows the amount of mutton 

 produced from the food already recommended. The amount is 

 reduced to percentage to correspond with Lawes and Gilbert's 

 8 Ibs. or 9 Ibs. dry food example. A little more food is 

 allowed for sheep kept outside. This drawback is so far 

 made up for by the advantage gained from giving a mixture 

 of concentrated food. 



Food per day, per 100 Ibs. live-weight, would thus be \ Ib. 

 cake and corn, 12 Ibs. roots, and I Ib. hay ; or per week : 



3i Ibs. cake. 

 7 Ibs. hay. 



io Ibs. - i Ibs. moisture (= 14 p.c.)= 9 Ibs. dry food. 



84 Ibs. roots - 76$ Ibs. ( = 9Op.c.)= 7^ Ibs. 



Total, i6 Ibs. dry food. 



This should give 2 Ibs. increase of live-weight = I Ib. in 8J 

 Ibs. dry food. 



The last or confirmation section of two series of experi- 

 ments of the Edinburgh and East of Scotland College of 

 Agriculture, conducted by Wm. Bruce, B.Sc., Senior Lecturer, 

 and reported in Bulletin VIII., 1905, dealt with 132 half- 

 bred hoggets by Leicester-Cheviot parents, divided into six 

 lots of 22 sheep folded in a turnip field in areas of 50 yards 

 square each. They were valued on 3rd December at i, i6s. 

 per head, or what proved to be 4jd. per Ib. live-weight, and 

 fed alike till loth December, when the first of three weigh- 



