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REPORT OF THE 



John Baswell fed ten homed cattle. The expense of 

 keeping the five cattle on raw food was £32 2s. Id. 

 while that of the cattle on prepared food was £34 5s. 

 lOd. On being slaughtered, the two lots appeared to be 

 very similar, but the particular weight is not mentioned. 



3. Relative Economy of feeding with Tiirniips alone^ 

 or with Turnips and other more expensive Food. 

 Robert Stevenson was the successful competitor for 

 the society's premium. He took eighteen oxen ; their 

 live weight was ascertained at the beginning, at the 

 end, and at intermediate periods of the experiment, 

 which continued 119 days. The cattle were divided 

 mto three lots of six beasts each, and a correct account 

 was kept of the weight of food consumed by each lot. 

 Lot 1 was allowed linseed cake, bruised beans, and 

 bruised oats, in addition to turnips, and, during the last 

 twenty-four days of the experiment, twenty pounds of 

 potatoes were given per day to each ; lot 2 received 

 the same allowance, except the linseed cake, and half 

 the potatoes, and lot 3 was fed upon turnips alone. 

 The cost of the keep of each animal, during the 119 

 days, was as follows : 



Total cost of feeding one beast of lot 1, ^ . , £5 2 7 

 of lot 2, . . . . 3 17 

 of lot 3, . . . . 1 18 7i 



The improvement in live weight was as follows : 



First lot increased in weight 108 stone. 



Second " " 101 " 



Third " " . 49 '^ 



Abstracting the cost of feeding from the value of the 

 increased weight, the loss and profit would stand as 

 below : 



Loss on feeding lot 1, £3 15 Si 



Profit on feeding lot 2, 119 3^ 



Profit on feeding lot 3, 2 11 1 



*'Thus, when turnips alone were used, a profit of 

 twenty-two per cent, was realized j where beans and 



