460 



The quantity of water drunk by the seven lots during the five weeks 

 was as follows, showing the relative degree of thirst occasioned by the 

 different aliments. 



Fifteen pounds of dry lucern being considered as a proper ration for 

 one sheep per week, or seven and a half pounds a half ration, he finds 

 that the following quantities of each of the other aliments are equivalent 

 in nutritive value to the half ration of lucern. 



Oil cake, 4J lbs. ; barley, 3^ lbs. ; oats, 5 lbs. ; crude potatoes, 14 

 lbs. ; cooked potatoes, 13 lbs. ; beets, 16J lbs. ; carrots, 23 lbs. 



Thus taking the quantity of lucern as a standard, the nutritive powers 

 of the different substances will be — 



Dry lucern, 



Flax seed oil cake, 



Barley, 



Crude potatoes, 



Cooked potatoes, 



Beets (white variety), 



Carrots, 



100 lbs. 

 57 " 

 47 " 

 187 " 

 173 " 

 220 " 

 307 " 

 Bih. Univ. Mai, 1832. 



