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HERBERT INGLE. Cattle feeding Experiments in Britain. A 

 Review of over 200 Trials made in the years 1833-1908. 



- Trans, of the Highl and Agric. Soc. of Scotland, Vol. XXI, 

 1909, pp. 196-254. 



Large numbers of experiments on the feeding of cattle have been 

 made in this country during the past fifty or sixty years. Generally the 

 object in view has been a comparison of the effects of certain food 

 stuffs. Sometimes equal weights of the foods have been considered, 

 other times equal money values, while only recently has much at- 

 tention been paid to the chemical composition of the rations. 



In the present paper an attempt has been made to reduce the 

 results to a uniform basis as far as possible. 



The important points to bring out were: 



1) The average daily ration. 



2) The rate of increase in live weight. 



3) The quantity of digestible matter in the ration. 



4) Its albuminoid ratio. 



5) The amount of digestible matter consumed per i Ib. of 

 increase in live weight. 



The element of cost has been neglected owing to the fluctua- 

 tions in the prices of commodities. 



The figures in the tables given are the result of considerable 

 labour, for in many of the original papers the data are somewhat 

 involved. 



The various columns give: 



I. The name of the experimenter. 



II. The date of the trial. 



III. The publication in which the results appeared (i). 



The following is a list of the publications containing the official 

 rts on the experiments reviewed. 



A) Trans, of the Highl. and Agric Soc. of Scotland. 



B) Journ. of the R. Agric. Soc. of England. 



Cj Journ. of the Board of Agric. and Fisheries. 



D) Reports of the Univ. Coll. of N. i Vales. Bangor. 



E) Reports of the W. of Scotl. Agric. Coll. 



F) Reports of the Aberd. and N. of Scotl. Coll. of AgrMture. 



G) Reports of the Durham Coll. of Sc. issued in connection with the 

 Council of Northumberland. 



H) Reports of the Agric. Dept. of Cambridge Univ. 



I) Reports of the Agric. Dept. of Leeds Univ. 



J) Reports of the Agric. Dept, of the Univ. of Wales, Aberystwith. 



K) Reports of the Edinbg and E. of Scotl. Coll. of Agriculture. 



L) Guide to Experiments by the Agric. Dept. of Cambridge Univ. 



