264 MISCELLANEOUS ENQUIRIES 



floors to the kiln instead of woven wire, but the great loss by 

 respiration is a necessary part of the process. 



The problem then remaining was to ascertain if the 

 inevitable loss thus produced in the dry matter of the original 

 barley would be compensated for by an increased digestibility 

 of the malt. Experiments with stock were made as follows : 



(1) Milch cqws, two lots of ten, each animal receiving either 



3 Ib. of barley or its equivalent in malt per diem. The 

 experiment lasted for 10 weeks, and the amount of milk 

 produced and the live weight of the cows were recorded. 

 The general ration to which the barley or malt was 

 added consisted of 2 Ib. rape cake, 2 Ib. bean meal, 14 

 Ib. clover chaff, 7 or 8 Ib. straw chaff*, and 50 Ib. Swedes 

 per head per diem. 



(2) Two lots of three-year-old bullocks were fattened, 

 receiving respectively either 4 Ib. barley No. 2 or its 

 equivalent in malt, in addition to a general ration of 

 clover chaff", cake, and Swedes ad lib. The experiment 

 lasted 20 weeks. 



(3) Five lots of twelve Hampshire Down wether lambs under 



cover. Lot 1 had for 16 weeks f Ib. and for 4 weeks 

 1 Ib. barley No. 1, per head per diem. Lot 2 had ah 

 equivalent in malt from barley No. 1. Lot 3 had 

 similarly f and then 1 Ib. of barley No. 2. Lot 4 had 

 the equivalent in malt. Lot 5 had the same weights of 

 a mixture of two parts unmalted and one part malted 

 barley No. 2. The general ration was 1 Ib. of clover 

 chaff, and cut Swedes ad lib. 



(4) Six lots of eight pigs for 10 weeks. Lot 1 had unmalted 

 barley No. 1 ad lib. Lot 2 had the malt from the same 

 barley, also ad lib. Lot 3 had both barley No. 1 and its 

 malt separately ad lib. Lots 4, 5, 6 were similar, save 

 that barley No. 2 and its malt were substituted. All 

 the pigs in addition had 1 Ib. each of pea meal per 

 diem. 



In all these trials the final differences in the weights of the 



