DIGESTION EXPERIMENTS WITH SHEEP. 

 J. M. Bartlett. 



Tlie digestion experiments, the results of which are presented 

 in the following pages, were not all made during 1898 — three of 

 them being made in 1897. The general plan was the same as 

 heretofore followed. Sheep were the animals used and the feed- 

 ing periods consisted of seven days preliminary feeding and five 

 days for the experiment.* 



The materials of which the digestibility was determined were : 



1st. Oat Hay; cut in bloom. 



2d. Oat Hay ; cut when the grain was in milk. 



3d. Oat Hay ; cut when the grain was in dough. 



4tk. Oat Hay; cut when partly in bloom and partly in milk. 



5th. Oat Hay ; cut when the grain was partly in milk and 

 partly in dough stage. 



6th. H-O Horse-feed. 



7th. Flax meal. 



DIGESTION EXPERIMENT 63 (OAT HAY IN BLOOM.) 



RATIONS. 



Fed daily, Sheep -No. I, 600 grams per day. 

 Fed daily. Sheep No. II, 600 grams per day. 

 Fed daily. Sheep No. Ill, 800 grams per day. 

 Fed daily, Sheep No. IV, 200 grams per day. 



♦Digestion experiraentd with slieep have been conducted at tliis station since 

 1885, and the results are sriven in the Reports for 1886, 1887, 1888, 1889, 1890, 1891, 1893, 

 1894, 1896 and 1897. The Report for 1891 contains a description of the digestion 

 room, stalls, harness, etc., used in the experiments. 



