POOD 



129 



Here is an example of the actual food requirements for 

 fattening cattle, the experiment having been made by the 

 Eoyal Agricultural Society at Woburn. 



Two lots of four animals all of the same age were taken, 

 the hay and roots were unlimited. The experiment lasted 

 145 days, and the following was the amount of food con- 

 sumed per head per day : 



Lot 1 increased in weight 2-21 lbs. per head per diem ; 

 Lot 2, 1*97 lbs. per head per diem. Lot 2 received un- 

 decorticated cotton cake, Lot 1 decorticated, which is the 

 explanation of the difference in fat stored up. 



To produce 100 lbs. increase in live weight with oxen, 

 Lawes and Gilbert found that 250 lbs. oil-cake, 600 lbs. 

 clover chaff, and 3,500 lbs. swedes were required. The 

 amount of each food-constituent stored up for 100 con- 

 sumed was as follows : nitrogenous matter, 4-1 ; non- 

 nitrogenous, 7"2 ; mineral matter, 1"9. 



Here is an example of a cattle feeding mixture for show 

 cattle : — 



Lbs. 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 



Crushed oats 



„ barley 



,, maize meal 



,, wheat 

 Bean or pea meal 

 Bran 



Double handful of sweet chaff. 

 Pulped roots 



The above is one feed. The stock proprietor* who 

 ■* Mr. Watson, late of Keillor, North British Agriculturist. 



9 



4 



Digitized by Microsoft® 



