GERMAN EXPERIMENTS. 

 BEFORE SHEARING. 



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This experiment of Stohmann's shows the effect of 

 higher feeding over that of Wolff's, but neither shows a 

 gain equal to the English experiments given, above ; and 

 this may be explained from the fact that the English 

 mutton sheep are better bred than the German, mature 

 earlier, and eat larger rations. Take No. 19 of Mr. Smith's 

 experiments, where the 10 lambs average 22 Ibs. of swedes 

 per day. This would be equal to .29 Ib. digestible albu- 

 minoids, 2.40 Ibs. carbo-hydrates, .022 Ib. fat; and they 

 averaged a gain of .33 Ib. per day, and* this is only about an 

 average gain per day of the lambs in Smith's and Pawlett's 

 experiments, and yet the proportions of the rations do not 

 greatly differ. 



We will add to these experiments those of Weiske, of 

 recent date, on feeding lambs. He carried two lambs 

 through nine periods of about five weeks each, beginning 

 at the age of four months. At the end of the ninth period 

 the lambs were put into the flock for some nine months, 

 and then fed another period. The ration consisted of hay 

 and peas at first, but gradually the hay was increased and 

 the peas diminished until in the last three periods the 

 ration was composed wholly of hay. In each period 

 analyses were made of the fodder, of the excrement solid 



