TRANSACTIONS OF SECTION M. 743 
The Sheep-feeding Experiments. 
These experiments were conducted in December to March with half-bred 
hoggets folded on turnip land. Subject to certain limitations as to the quantity 
of the items of the ration, each lot got as much as it would consume, An idea of 
the nature of the experiment may be got from a tabular statement of the first 
of the series. 
Food Consumed and Live Weight Increase produced in ninety-three days. 
Lot I.| LotII. |LotIII.) LotIV. |Lot V| Lot VI. 
Mixture of Mixture of Mixture of 
Cc trated 1 part De- ’ 3 parts Wheat, | Bom- 1 part 
Feeding-stuff ivan corticated | Lin- | 43; Décorti- | bay | Bombay 
None |Cotton-cake| seed- | cated Cotton-| Cot- |Cotton-cake 
and 1 part | cake cake, and ton- | and 1 part 
Dried 2 parts cake Dried 
Grains Cotton-seed Grains 
Total roots consumed, 5454 530 | 541 537 532 516 
in cwt. | 
Total hay consumed, | 1,662 1,532 | 1,600 | 1 652 | 1,415 1 356 
in pounds 
Concentrated feeding- | — 2,400 1819 | 1,885 2,122 2457 
stuffs, in pounds | | 
Increase per lot, in | 1040 1,391 | 1461) 1,252 1,379 1,366 
pounds 
Increase per head per | 2:06 2-755 | 2-894 2-48 2:73 2-706 
week, in pounds | | 
Cost of increase per ]b.* | 2-634. 260d. | 2-520.) 2-934. 2-394. 2-491. 
* The prices of the foods being: Turnips, 10s.; hay, 3/.; Bombay cotton- 
cake, 4/. 6s. 8d.; dried grains, 5/. 1s. 8d.; decorticated cotton-cake, 61. 16s. 8d. ; 
linseed-cake, 77. 6s. 8d.; wheat, 7J.; and cotton-seed, 7/. per ton. The manurial 
value according to composition is deducted from these prices before reckoning the 
cost of production. 
In the second and third experiments of the series some modifications were 
made. These will be apparent from the following tabular statement of the con- 
centrated foods that were tested :— 
pa Lot I. Lot II. Lot III. Lot IV. Lot V. | Lot VI. 
1903-4. Lots; Nothing | 4 Decorti-| Lin- Mixture of | Bom- | 4 Bombay 
of 38 sheep cated seed- | 3 wheat, 44 bay | cotton-cake 
cotton- cake. | decorticated | cotton- | and 4 dried 
cake, cotton-cake, | cake grains 
4 dried | 2 cotton- 
grains, seed. 
1904-5. Lots x re * Egyptian —_,, 
of 22 sheep cotton-cake. | 
| 
1905-6. Lots) 4 Bombay | 4 Tecorti- + 4 Bombay » | Dried grains 
of 32 sheep| sccetton- cated cotton-cake, 
cake, cotton- } oats. 
} linseed cake, 
cake. 4 maize. 
