SHEEP-FEEDING EXPERIMENTS IN SCOTLAND. 



During recent years a number of feeding experiments on a 

 fairly large scale have been carried out in Scotland, under the 

 auspices of the Highland and Agricultural Society, and 

 reports of them with all the details of importance have been 

 published in the Transactions, vols, ix., x., xii., xiii. Some 

 of these have been made with cattle and others with sheep, 

 and it is to some of the results obtained in the sheep-feeding 

 experiments that this article refers. The main object in view 

 has been to determine which of the by-fodders in common 

 use can be most efficiently and economically given to hoggets 

 consuming turnips in the open field during the winter months 

 so as to be sold as fat in spring. The number of such 

 feeding stuffs in common use in Britain is much fewer than 

 on the continent, and it might be considerably increased with 

 advantage ; but, as there is some risk in introducing new 

 fodders, farmers are naturally slow to change their methods. 

 The subjoined list gives the names and average composition 

 of the few feeding stuffs used in the Society's experiments 

 and their approximate average prices : — 



Feeding Stuff. 



Albumen. 



Oil. 



Carbo- 

 hydrates. 



Average 

 Price 









per ton. 











£ s. d. 



Linseed cake 



28 



9 



35 



800 



Cottoncake, decorticated 



45 



10 



20 



700 



Cottoncake, undecorticated - 

 Maize (Indian corn) 



24 



7 



25 



600 



10 



5 



65 



4 10 0 



Oats - - - - 



11 



6 



50 



6 12 0 



Barley ----- 



11 



2 



65 



640 



Dried Grains 



20 



8 



45 



500 



Barley Bran - 



IS 



5 



5o 



500 



These were given both singly and as mixtures along with 

 as much turnips as the sheep would eat, and sometimes with 

 hay in addition. 



