Agricultural Chemistry. — Fijj Feedimj. 483 

 Table YII. — continued. 



(Experiments with Pigs. — Series II) — continued. 



,Nos. of Pigs. 



PEN 9 



Mixture of 1 part Bran, \ ^ , 

 ,, 2 parts Barlev Meal, and I , ' 



3 parts Beans-& Lentils, /Libitum. 



PEN 10 



Duplicate of Pen 9, 



1st 

 Period 

 14 Days. 



2nd 

 Period 

 14 Days. 



3rd 

 Period 

 14 Days. 



4tl. 

 Period 

 14. Days. 



Total 

 Period, 

 8 Weeks. 



1st 

 Period, 

 14 Days. 



2nd 

 Period, 

 14 Days. 



3rd 

 Period, 

 14 Days. 



4th 

 Period, 

 14 Days. 



Total 

 Period, 

 8 Weeks. 



1 



—3 



20 





Died 

 June 20 



j- 45 



28 



24 



19 



22 



93 



2 



32 



21 



22 



21 



96 



29 



14 



18 



18 



79 



3 



31 



30 



2.5 



26 



112 



31 



33 



20 



27 



111 



3 pigs . 



60 



71 



75 



47 



253 



i 88 



71 



57 



67 



283 



Nos. of Pigs. 



PEN U 



Mixture of 1 part Bran, 



2 parts Bean and Lenii 



Meal, and 



3 parts Barley Meal, 



1 Ad. 



j Libitum. 



PEN 12 



Duplicate of Pen 11. 



1 



32 



24 



22 



27 



105 



43 



22 



24 



21 



110 



2 



41 



27 



18 



24 



IJO 



1 31 



16 



25 



26 



98 



3 



27 



20 



24 



24 



95 



30 



17 



24 



28 



99 



3 pigs . 



100 



71 



64 



75 



310 



1 



104 



55 



73 



75 



307 



An inspection of this Table (VII.) shows that five of the pigs 

 of this second series died during the experiment. It would ap- 

 pear that we were very unfortunate in one of the purchases, for 

 all of these five pigs belonged to one of tlie lots of eight, and 

 hence the loss Avas most probably due to the bad constitution of 

 the animals. The weather was, however, excessively hot during 

 part of the period of this experiment, and therefore unfavourable 

 to the health of pigs fattening on a very liberal diet. It was 

 evident that many did suffer from this cause ; and that some of 

 the losses were indeed in a great measure attributable to it. 



These accidents, of course render it quite impossible to form 

 any judgment of the value of the different foods by a comparison 

 of the actual gross results of pen with pen. But we shall find, 

 that, even with this greater irregularity in the amounts of actual 

 increase obtained per pen than in the previous series, tl ere 

 is still, when we come to consider this increase in relation to 



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