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The six ewes fed on cut Swedes, ate 140 lbs., or li cwt. every day, d. 

 at 6d. per cwt., cost per week each 8ia. 



Also, half a peck of beans daily for the six ewes, at 4s. per 

 bushel, cost each per week, 7d ; making the cost of keeping 

 each ewe per week 15i 



The six ewes fed on clover-hay chaff only, ate daily 31 lbs., or 3^- 

 lbs. each, at 6d. per stone, or £4 per tun, cost per head per 

 week lOJ 



"Experiment No. 2. — Being desirous to prove further the value of 

 clover-hay chaff for ewes and lambs, I a^am selected twelve couples 

 from the flock, and divided them equally mto two lots ; they were also 

 put into separate small yards. On the 3d of April, 1845, the lambs 

 being weighed alive : 



Six couples were fed on 9 lbs. of bran daily, which cost per head d. 

 for each ewe per week, 5Jd. ; they had also 15 lbs. of clover- 

 hay chaff daily at 6d. per stone, cost each ewe per week T^d., 

 making the total cost of keeping each couple per week 13 



The other six couples were fed on clover-hay chaff only, and ate 



3i lbs. each ewe per day, at 6d. per stone, cost lOi 



All the lambs were weighed again on the 17th of AprU, and 

 the result was as follows : 



Six lambs, whose dams were fed on clover-hay chaff and bran, lbs. 



gained each on the average in 14 days 6 



Six lambs, whose dams were fed on clover-hay chaff only, gained 



in the same time i 4J 



A difiference is here shown of li lb. of live weight per lamb in favor of 

 the use of bran, but when the cost of it is taken into consideration there 

 does not appear to be much advantage in the use of it. 



"Experiment No. 3. — Mangel Wurzel against Swedes. — March 11th, 

 1846, 1 drew 12 couples from the flock, the lambs being about a month 

 old ; these were divided fairly into two lots, and put into separate yards ; 

 six of them were fed on mangel wurzel cut and put into troughs, with a 

 little hay-chaff; the other six couples were fed on cut Swedes, with a 

 little hay-chaff also ; they were all weighed alive when put in on the 

 11th of March, and again on the 2d of April, when I found the following 

 result : 



Lambs gained each Ewes lost in 

 on the average in the same 



twenty-two days. time. 



Couples fed on yellow globe mangel lbs. lbs. 



wurzel and chaff 8^ 8 



Couples fed on cut Swedes and chaff 9J 3J 



" This experiment does not speak much in favor of mangel wurzel 

 for couples early in the spring, but my ewes did not appear to like them, 

 and would not take to them well only as they were fresh cut. I found, 

 upon weighing the food of both sorts, that the ewes ate of mangel about 

 14 lbs. each per day, and those that had Swedes 22 lbs. each, which was 

 a great difference in the consumption of food ; mangel being of a softer 

 nature than Swedes, they ought to have eaten the most of them, but as 

 the contrary was the fact, I suppose made the great difference stated in 



