ration consisted of such a portion of one of the other alimentary sub- 
stances before mentioned as was found sufticient by a careful weigh- 
during the five weeks to keep each lot in the same healthy con- 
dition. The following table shows the current progress of the ex- 
periment; the quantity of water drunk by each lot of sheep during 
the five weeks being also measured, by a guaged trough. The au- 
thor concludes that fifteen pounds of dry lucern may be considered 
_ &8 a proper ration for one sheep per week, or rather more than two 
pounds per day. The primitive weight of each lot, as before ob- 
served, was four hundred and thirty six pounds. 
Lots. Food. Ist week. 2d week. 3d week, 4th week. 5th week. 
ist, Dry lucern, 4371ps.433 4375 4373 443. 
2d, Lucern and oil cake, 428 428 4324 4394 4444 
3d, Lucern, oats and barley, 4224 4334 4294 4363 4374 
4th, Lucern and crude potatoes, 441 4404 434 4323- 4393 
5th, Lucernand cooked potatoes, 437 4354 4474 4445 4514 
6th, Lucern and Beets, 435 424 436. 437. 444% 
7th, Lucern and carrots, A417 407 4194 4263 4272 
The quantity of water drunk by the seven lots during the five 
weeks was as follows, showing the relative degree of thirst occasion- 
ed by the different aliments. 
{st lot, 223 quarts. 5th lot, 108 quarts. — 
2nd lot, 189 6th lot, 5 | 
3d lot, 164 7th lot, 36 
4th lot, 123 
Fifteen pounds of dry lucern being considered as a proper ration 
for one sheep per week, or’seven and a half pounds a half ration; he 
finds that the following quantities of each of the other shee 
equivalent in nutritive value to the half ration of lucern. ia 
Oil cake. y. Oats. _ Crude potatoes. Cooked Seiatoes:: 
43 lbs. 34 lbs. Sibs: 14lbs, - 19 lbs, 164 lbse 23 bs 
Thus taking the quantity of lucern as a standard thes —nutrilive: 
poner of the different substances will be 
Dry 1 ucern, a 100 Ibs. 
aes seed oil ke. - - — ty Baten 
‘Barley, - a : 47 
Crude ote, - - - 187 
- 173 
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