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They also had 12 cwts. wheat-straw as litter, and drank 41 cwts. 
2 qrs. of water. They were all quiet, and without exception 
took readily to their food. The weights on November 20th and 
December 12th were : — 
Put up, 
Nov. 20. 
Removed, 
Dec. 12. 
Gain in Live- 
Weight 
in Twenty-two 
Days. 
„ No. 2 
„ No. 3 
„ No. 4 
cwts. qrs. lbs. 
9 0 1 
8 3 0 
9 3 23 
8 3 11 
cwts. qrs. lbs. 
9 13 
8 2 14 
10 1 0 
9 0 10 
cwts. qrs. lbs. 
0 1 2 
0 15 
0 0 27 
Total weight of 4 Bullocks . . 
36 2 7 
37 0 27 
0 2 20 
The bullocks, it will be seen, did not do at all well in the 
time ; and not nearly so well as in the previous year. No. 2 
was unwell, and off his feed for several days. They had 30 lbs. of 
roots per day each at first, increasing to 40 lbs. daily, other foods 
in proportion. The cake and meal used had the following 
compositions : — 
Decorticated 
Cotton- 
cake. 
Maize-meal. 
Oil 
Digestible fibre, starch, &c 
4-99 
16-90 
45-68 
21-02 
4-97 
6-44 
12-47 
4-53 
8-87 
71-49 
1-10 
1-54 
100-00 
100-00 
* Containing nitrogen 
7-31 
1-42 
The white turnips contained nitrogen -22 per cent 
The first lot of wheat-straw used contained nitrogen • 55 „ 
A second lot contained nitrogen "25 „ 
The dung was at once removed from the pits, and stacked 
under cover until February 6th, a period of eight weeks, when it 
was weighed, the amount being 31 cwts. 18 lbs. From this, 
quantities calculated to yield respectively 100 lbs. and 200 lbs. 
ammonia per acre, were put on the half-plots, 10 B and lis, 
on the same day. The wheat by this time looked very strong 
and healthy, though showing as yet no perceptible difference in 
