in the Winter of 1885-86. 515 
Table I. — Weights of Sheep put under Expeeiment on 
Decembek 3, 1885. 
Pen I. 
Pen II. 
Pen III. 
Pen IV. 
Pen V. 
cwts. qrs. 
lbs. 
cwts. qrs. 
lbs. 
cwts. qrs. 
lbs. 
cwts. qrs. 
lbs. 
cwts. qrs. lbs. 
3 
14J 
3 
1 0 
20J 
1 
0 
6i 
3 12i 
3 
25J 
1 
0 
7 
1 0 
14 
1 
0 
151 
1 
0 7i 
1 0 
4i 
3 
27 
1 0 
81 
1 
0 
U 
1 
0 3J 
3 
20 
1 
0 
1 0 
9i 
3 
14i 
3 27i 
1 0 
6 
1 
0 
8| 
3 
27 
3 
8| 
1 
0 OJ 
1 0 
161 
3 
23 
3 
21 
1 
0 
13 
1 
0 7i 
1 0 
121 
1 
0 
G 
3 
IG* 
1 
0 
7 
1 
0 261 
1 0 
5f 
1 
0 
6| 
3 
15| 
1 
0 
m 
3 201 
8 0 
20J 
8 
0 
8 0 
20J 
8 
0 
201 
8 0 21i 
The sheep were supplied with sliced swedes and haj-chafF 
ad libitum, the weights of each given being, however, recorded ; 
and they received as additional food : — 
Pen I. — Linseed-cake. 
Pek II. — Linseed-cake and Undecorticated Cotton-cake. 
Pen III.— Wlieat-meaL 
Pen IV.— Crushed Oats and Barley-meal. 
Pen V. — Crushed Oats and Split Beans. 
The different foods were analysed in the Society's Laboratory, 
and the composition of each was as follows : — 
LinEeed 
Cake. 
Unde- 
corticated 
Cotton 
Calce. 
Wheat 
Meal. 
Crushed 
Oats. 
Barley 
Jleal. 
Split 
Beans. 
Oil 
*Albuminous com-"l 
Starch, mucilage, di-1 
gestible fibre, &c. / 
Woody fibre 
Mineral matter 
11- 50 
12- 01 
25-81 
14-90 
5-13 
20-87 
13- 98 
-53 
14- 35 
14-22 
6-47 
8-81 
19-01 
2-17 
10-06 
13-85 
1-90 
28-94 
32-03 
11-80 
6-85 
30-18 
24-27 
4 -05 
66-97 
1- 93 
2- 24 
65-71 
1-20 
3-59 
63-09 
3-27 
1-80 
47-45 
4-67 
3-19 
100-00 
100-00 
100-00 
100-00 
100 00 
100-00 
'Containing nitrogen 
4-13 
3-31 
2-29 
1-41 
1-70 
4-G3 
The foods were all of good quality. The linseed-cake was a 
pure and superior one. 
