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What is thus accompHshed with cows may 

 be also accompHshed with cattle and sheep. 

 Experiments have been conducted by the 

 Bath and West of England Society, by the 

 Highland Society of Scotland, by the experts 

 of the Northumberland County Council, the 

 Edinburgh College of Agriculture, and by 

 the Agricultural Department of Cambridge 

 University, in the feeding of sheep, or sheep 

 and cattle mixed, upon grass-land, both un- 

 manured and manured with various combina- 

 tions, and in every instance it was found that 

 the weight of the animals was considerably 

 increased by the employment of phosphatic 

 manures, whether combined with potash or 

 not. When, however, cattle and sheep were 

 mixed upon the same land the increase in 

 the live weight grown was greater than with 

 sheep alone. 



There are no means of testing the value of 

 herbage other than that of grazing by stock. 

 To weigh the crop is to mislead the grower. 

 The weight of a hay crop, for example, is 

 no guide to the feeding value of the grass, which 

 is more digestible and nutritious when young. 

 Thus, where stock are grazing upon a pasture 

 field they are continually consuming young 

 herbage, whereas if left to inaturc for 



