440 



Com^parative Fattening Qualities of Sheep. 



With the still more serious items — the cost of the turnips 

 consumed and the value of the manure produced, we must deal as 

 "best we can ; but as the reader will have before him all the 

 materials upon which the calculations are based, he will be able 

 to arrive at his own conclusions, by any method he may think 

 more applicable. 



Excluding: these items, then, for the present, we give in Tables 

 XVI. and XVII. the cost of the lambs November 7th, when the 

 experiment commenced, and that of the purchased food consumed 

 — oil-cake and clover — on the one side ; and, per contra, the pro- 

 duce of sale of the 40 fat sheep, as obtained in each case from 16 

 sold dead, 16 sold alive, and 8 calculated as sold alive. 



Table XVT. — Balance Account of the Hampshires. 



Cost of forty Hampshire Wether Lambs, November 7th, 



They consumed of purchased food : — 



8120 lbs. Oilcake, at 6/. 15s. per ton ... . 

 72b0 lbs. Clover Hay, at Al, per ton .... 



Total purchased food t . 

 Forty fat Hampshire Sheep, and Wool, sold May, 1851, for 



£. s. d. 



24 9 4i 

 13 0 O" 



£ s. d. 



58 0 0 



37 9 4J 





95 9 4i 

 95 2 9 



0 6 7^ 



Table XVII. — Balance Account of the Sussex Sheep. 



Cost of forty Sussex AVether Lambs, November 7tb, 1850, 



at 25s. 6c?. per head .... 



They consumed of purchased food : — 



6272 lbs. Oilcake, at 6/. 15s. per ton .... 



Total purchased food . 



Forty fat Sussex Sheep, and Wool, sold May, 1851, for . 



Difference ..... 



£. s. d. 

 • • 



18 18 0 

 10 15 0 



£. s. d. 

 51 0 0 



29 13 0 





80 13 0 

 80 6 Hi 



0 6 0| 



The Hampshire lambs are here charged 295. per head, and the 

 Sussex 255. %d. The price paid for the Hampshires when bought 

 in, was, however, 265., and that of the Sussex lambs 255. ; but 

 three-pence per week per head is added to these prices for the 

 tim.e the animals were on store keep, before the experiment com- 

 menced, viz., 12 weeks for the Hampshires, and two for the 



