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MANAGEMENT OF SHEEP FEEDING 



ings took place, and when each was found to be consuming 

 Ib. of hay, J Ib. of concentrated food-stuff, and 12 Ibs. of 

 roots daily. A second weighing on 2nd February and the 

 final one on 24th March divided the test, extending over 

 104 days, into two periods of 54 and 50 days. 



In addition to turnips supplied ad libitum at ios., and 

 \ to \ Ib. of hay per day at 3, ios. per ton, the feeding- ' 

 stuffs allowed to each lot, and prices per ton, were as 

 follows: i. Nothing. 2. Equal parts of decorticated cotton- 

 cake, at 7, 95. 7d., and dried distillery grains at $, 75. id. 

 3. Linseed cake (St Petersburg), at 7, 95. 7d. 4. Undecorti- 

 cated (Egyptian) cotton-cake, $, 45. 7d. 5. Undecorticated 

 Bombay cotton-cake, at 4, I2s. 6d. 6. A mixture of equal 

 parts of Bombay cotton-cake and dried grains. 



The feeding-stuffs effected no saving of turnips. The 

 linseed cake produced the greatest increase, which sold at 

 id. per 8 Ibs. less than the lowest of the other lots, but not 

 at the least cost per unit, as in this respect it takes a second 

 place to Bombay cotton-cake, which produced the finest 

 quality of mutton. 



Although the unfed lot, No. i, sold at 55. per 8 Ibs. 

 against 45. 7d., 43. 8d., and 45. 9d. got for the other lots, 

 all of which were rather fat and over the limit of 60 Ibs. of 

 dressed carcase, it yielded the smallest profit and enriched 

 the land least of all. Live-weight increase per cwt. cost 

 ;i, I2s. for food, but left 75. worth of manurial residue. It is 

 thus evident that linseed-cake and Bombay cotton-cake are 

 both eminently suitable as supplementary winter food, and 

 that a mixture of foods is better than a single food. 



The Cost of feeding a Hampshire teg for sixteen 

 weeks during the finishing process is as follows : 



