liejwt on Bui lock- feeding Experiments at Wobum. 399 
weeks regarding the best methods of avoiding a repetition of the 
caterpillar blight, which has now for some years ravaged in 
the early summer the orchards in the chief fruit-growing counties. 
The careful experiments now being tried give hope of satisfactory 
advance. The Consulting Entomologist has been in active corre- 
spondence with inquirers and fellow-workers as to the methods by 
which serviceable information on Agricultural Entomology could be 
best conveyed for direct farm use in agricultural districts, as well 
as for practical and scientific instruction to agricultural students. 
30. Sixteen candidates competed at the Society's Senior Exami- 
nations which took place from the 13th to the 17th of this month, 
as compared with 2-1 candidates last year and 13 in 1888. Owing to 
the date of the Examination having been unavoidably fixed a little 
later than usual, it will not be possible to announce the results before 
the Meeting of Council to be held in June. (See page 42). 
« By Order of the Council, 
ERNEST CLARKE, 
Secretary. 
REPORT ON THE BULLOCK-FEEDING EXPERI- 
MENTS AT CRAWLEY MILL FARM, WOBURN, 
DURING THE WINTER OF 1889-90. 
TnESE experiments were arranged for the purpose of ascertaining to 
what extent cake would replace hay in the feeding of bullocks, and 
how the final results compared. 
Sixteen three-year-old Shorthorn bullocks were placed under 
experiment and divided into three lots. 
Lot 1. Six bullocks received daily per head : 
lb. 
Decorticated cotton-cake 3 
Linseed-cake 3 
Swedes and hay . . , .ad lib. (but weighed) 
Lot 2. Six bullocks : 
Decorticated cotton-cake ...... li 
Linseed-cake li 
Swedes and hay . ... ad lib. (but weighed) 
Lot 3. Four bullocks. 
Swedes and hay only . . . ad lib. (but weighed) 
Four beasts of lots 1 and 2 were kept in the feeding boxes, and 
two of each lot in the open yard. The four beasts in lot 3 were 
kept tied up in a covered shed. 
The roots and hay and water were weighed out every morning, 
and any unconsumed food was weighed back and deducted from the 
