444 FEEDING ANIMALS. 



To test grass land, in comparison with cole-seed (a species 

 of rape or cabbage) and cabbage, in the autumn of 1844 he 

 put ten lambs upon each, on the 14th of October. 



Ex. 15. Ten lambs penned upon green cole-seed (rape), 

 with cut clover chaff, gained, in one month, 12K Ibs. each. 



Ex. 16. Ten lambs, penned on drum-head cabbage, with 

 cut clover chaff, gained 10M Ibs. each in one month. 



Ex. 17. Ten lambs, upon grass, and fed upon cut swedes 

 and cabbage, in equal quantities, with clover chaff, gained 

 9M pounds each. 



Ex. 18. Ten lambs upon grass, and fed upon cut white 

 turnips and cabbage, in equal parts, with clover chaff, 

 gained 11 Ibs. each. 



To test carrots, as against swedes, he fed No. 16 all the 

 swedes they would eat, and No. 17 all the carrots they 

 would eat. 



Ex. 19. Ten lambs, fed upon cut swedes and clover 

 chaff, were found to have gained, in one month, 10 Ibs. 

 each, and had eaten 22 Ibs. of turnips per day. 



Ex. 20. Ten lambs, fed upon cut carrots and clover 

 chaff, gained, in the month, 9M Ibs. each, and had eaten 

 22^ Ibs. of carrots per day. 



It will be noted that the ten lambs upon green rape 

 gained more than those upon swedes and cabbages. This 

 series of .experiments very well represents the feeding of 

 lambs with roots, grain, grass, etc.; but it has not gone 

 much into the use of oil-cake, and has not given the 

 results in feeding older sheep. 



FEEDING YOUNG LAMBS. 



We will now give a series of somewhat different experi- 

 ments, representing the lambs at an earlier age with their 

 dams. This is from Mr. T. E. Pawlett's essay, which was 

 highly commended by the Royal Agricultural Society of 

 England. His views are based upon a long-continued 



