524 Report on the Exhibition of Implements at Norwich. 
of mixed oats and barley there is a total of 2s. Zd. in its favour 
over the same weight of mixed oats and beans. 
Placing the foods in order as they have come out in this 
experiment, they are : — 
Equal, 
Considered as Food only. 
1. Wheat. 
i Linseed-cake. 
Linseed-cake and Cotton- 
cake, mixed. 
Oats and Barlej% mixed. 
5. Oats and Beans, mixed. 
Considered as Food and Manure. 
''^ ' '(Linseed-cake. 
3. Linseed-cake and Cotton- 
cake, mixed. 
4. Oats and Barley, mixed. 
5. Oats and Beans, mixed. 
The practical result of this experiment is to show that 
wheat may be profitably used for feeding sheep in conjunction 
with roots and hay-chaff, and that such a diet is sufficiently 
nitrogenous without the addition of cake. It further confirms 
the practice of using linseed-cake, either alone or mixed with 
undecorticated cotton-cake, though it shows that no advantage is 
gained by the admixture of the latter. It is a singular feature 
that throughout the severe weather none of the cake-fed sheep 
died, though whether this should be taken as weighing in favour 
of cake as against wheat I can hardly say. In no case, how- 
ever, have the deaths been found to be attributable to the fact of 
wheat being the food, and the circumstance of one sheep dying 
in Pen V. (which received a more highly nitrogenous food), 
would seem to tell against such a supposition. Lastly, it must 
be borne in mind that fluctuations in market prices must, to 
some extent, affect these conclusions, which are based upon 
the respective prices at the time of the experiment. 
XIX. — Report on the Exhibition of Implements at Norwich. By 
Sir J. H. Thorold, Bart., Senior Steward. * 
The Showyard at Norwich was narrow, and somewhat cut up 
by plantations and trees, which added greatly to its picturesque 
appearance, but considerably increased the difficulty which the 
Society's Surveyor had to contend with in laying out the shedding 
for implements, although they occupied 1000 feet less space than 
last year. Moreover, the Society has endeavoured to meet the 
wishes of exhibitors of machinery by allowing implements tq be 
placed in the Machinery in Motion department, whereby makers 
are enabled to have all their exhibits on one stand, and to avoid 
the expense of taking additional ordinary shedding ; the effect 
of this has been to increase the popularity of the Machinery 
