516 Sheep-Feedivg Experiments at Crawley Mill Farm^ 
Analyses of Swedes and Hay-cliaff. 
Swedes. 
Hay-chaff. 
Water 
Sugar, digestible fibre, &c 
Mineral matter 
89-60 
1-10 
7-58 
1-00 
-72 
13-62 
8-61 
45-49 
25-43 
6-85 
100 00 
100-00 
* Containing nitrogen 
•17 
1-37 
The following Table gives the market-prices of the different 
cakes and meals employed, at the time the experiment com- 
menced : — 
s. d. £ s. d. 
Linseed-cakc, per 112 lbs 9 0 or !) 0 0 per ton. 
Undec. Cotton-cake, per 112 Ik-!. .. 5 7 or 5 12 6 per ton. 
Wheat-meal, per 124 lbs. = 2 bush.) m -, o r x 
wholewheat [ ' 8 6 per quarter. 
Crushed Oats, per 84 lbs. = 2 bu«h.» ,3 ^ ^ 6 per quarter. 
whole oats | 
Barley Meal, per 112 lbs. = 2 bush, j *t n i o p i 
whole barley \ ^ °^ ^ ^ 6 per quarter. 
Split Beans, per 144 lbs. =4 bushels 13 0 or 1 6 0 per quarter, 
* These prices include grinding. 
At starting, the quantity of additional food given in the case 
of each pen was ^ lb. per head daily. Thus Pen I. had ^ lb. of 
linseed-cake per head daily, Pen II., ^ lb. of linseed-cake, and 
^ lb. of undecorticated cotton-cake, and so on. It was intended 
to continue the experiment for three months, giving for the first 
month ^ lb. per head daily of additional food, 2 lb. the second 
month, and possibly 1 lb. the third month. The linseed-cake 
and cotton-cake were given broken up into small lumps, and 
the wheat and barley were ground into meal ; the oats were 
crushed, and the beans split. 
From the beginning the sheep began eating their full daily 
allowance of J lb. each of cake and corn, in addition taking at 
first ^ lb. each daily of hay-chaff, and 11 to 12 lbs. of swedes. 
The latter quantities were gradually increased up to ^ lb. of hay- 
chaff, and 20 lbs. of swedes. In Pen III. alone (wheat-meal) 
there seemed a reluctance to take the full quantity, and some- 
times a rather less quantity of swedes also was consumed. 
Whatever was not cleaned up was weighed back. Thus the 
