GERMAN EXPERIMENTS. 

 PER 100 LBS. LIVE WEIGHT. 



453 



This table shows most clearly the extra cost of putting 

 on live weight as the animal grows older and heavier. If 

 we take an. average of the- first three periods, we find that 

 3K Ibs. of digestible food produced one pound gain in live 

 weight ; but if we take an average of the 6th, 7th and 8th 

 periods, it required 8jV Ibs. of digestible food to make one 

 pound gain in live weight about two and a half times as 

 much food to produce the same result. This shows in 

 striking light the advantage of early maturity. If our 

 readers will carefully study these experiments and tables, 

 they will never more doubt the economy of full-feeding 

 from birth to commercial maturity. 



CUTTING AND COOKING FODDER FOR SHEEP. 



The preparation of the winter food for sheep is an import- 

 ant matter to be considered. The sheep's grinding or masti- 

 cating apparatus has often been so strongly commended as 

 to lead most feeders to suppose that the artificial prepara- 

 tion of their food is labor lost. This, however, is far from 



