Crawleij Mill Farm, Woburii, 1884-5, and 1885-6. 503 
six different cuts, from December 18 to May 10, each being 
sampled, and everything weighed. One cubic foot weighed 
30;^ lbs. Tills was really nice silage, not over acid at all, and 
was readily taken by the bullocks. 
tons. cwts. qrs. lbs. 
Total weight of Grass put into Silo 4 15 3 0 16 
„ „ silage removed 14 0 2 8 
Loss by evaporation, fermentation, &c. ,. 0 16 2 8 
Or about 5 • 5 per cent. 
{b.) Results of Feeding Trial. — The question for solution was 
that of last year, viz., " Will bullocks fatten as well on silage as 
on a mixture of roots and hay chaff?" and the trial was carried 
out on the same lines as then. This being, so to say, the 
principal experiment, the eight feeding boxes were used for it, 
four bullocks being fed on cake, corn, roots, and hay, as against 
four with the same cake and corn, but having silage in place of 
roots and hay. The water supplied to the beasts was also 
always weighed. As mentioned before, the bullocks had been 
previously feeding on the quantities of cake, corn, and roots 
which they were intended to have in the experiment. They 
were selected and weighed on December 21, as follows : — 
To receive Silage. 
To receive Roots and Hay-chaff. 
cwts. 
qrs. 
lbs. 
cwts. qrs. lbs. 
No. 1 
10 
0 
18 
No. 5 .. .. 
10 0 18 
No. 2 
10 
0 
4 
No. 6 .. .. 
9 3 6 
No. 3 
11 
3 
16 
No. 7 .. .. 
11 2 7 
No. 4 
10 
1 
22 
No. 8 .. .. 
10 2 9 
42 
2 
4 
42 0 12 
Briefly, it may be said that both sets of animals continued in 
the most satisfactory way possible throughout the experiment. 
They took their foods kindly, kept in the best of health, and 
steadily increased in live-weight. This being so, the experiment 
was in every way a successful one. At commencing, the 
bullocks ate in the one case 45 lbs. of swedes and 11 lbs. hay 
chaff per head daily ; in the other, 50 lbs. of silage, the cake and 
corn to each set being 3 lbs. decorticated cotton-cake and 5 lbs. 
maize-meal per head daily. These quantities of roots and hay, 
as also of cake and corn, were kept to throughout, the silage 
being given ad libitum, though weighed, the amounts varying 
somewhat according to the differences of moisture in different 
parts of the silo. 50 lbs. was the average daily amount for each 
