Report on Bullock-feeding Experiments at WoLurn. 405 
Thus, taking the manurial values of the food consumed accord- 
ing to Lawes and Gilbert's tables, as — linseed-cake, SI. 18s. 6c?. per 
ton; decorticated cotton-cake, 51. 13s. ; hay, 11. 8s. Id. ; and roots 
is. 8d. per ton, wo arrive at the following results : — 
Lot 1. Lot 2. Lot 3. 
£ s. d. £ s. d. £ I. d. 
Total cost of food . . . . 38 3 7 30 5 9 11 2 0 
Less manurial value . . . 20 15 5 15 13 7 5 5 1 
17 8 2 11 12 2 5 16 11 
Cost per lb. of increase in live weight 202d. 209f/. 313eZ. 
From these it would appear that the double quantity of cake 
had been economical. The percentage of carcass in the more highly- 
fed beasts was greater than in the others. Samples of the food were 
taken every week and the average composition is shown below. 
Analysis of Foods consumed by Bullocks. 
Decortica- 
ted cotton 
cake 
Linseed 
cake 
Hay 
Swedes 
Mangel 
9-86 
12-22 
13-45 
88-83 
86-82 
Oil 
1358 
11-26 
Albuminous compounds . : 
39-94 
.26-31 
815 
105 
109 
'Mucilage, starch, digestible i 
23-89 
35-34 
46-78 
8-47 
10-45 
6-33 
8-69 
25-59 
•98 
•77 
6-40 
618 
603 
■67 
•87 
100-00 
10000 
10000 
10000 
100 00 
1 Containing nitrogen . . 
6-39 
4-21 
1-30 
•17 
•18 
As originally arranged, the bullocks were to be fasted on the farm 
and slaughtered in the neighbourhood, it being thought that a better 
result would be obtainable by quietly fasting the beasts for a longer 
time on the farm than by exposing them to the knocking about of 
a railway journey. 
At the last moment, however, the arrangements for slaughtering 
at Woburn fell through, and Mr. Elliott, the resident farm manager, 
had to arrange for the beasts to be slaughtered at Oxford. He was 
unable to arrange for the whole fifteen to be taken in one lot ; only 
half the number could be dealt with at one time. Accordingly, three 
bullocks each, of lots 1 and 2, and two of lot 3, after being weighed 
were fasted at the farm, being kept in the boxes and yard without 
food for twenty-six hours. The fasted weights were then taken. 
No. 14 of lot 2, however, managed to get over the rails that 
divided him from the non- fasting bullocks in the yard, and conse- 
quently he was not properly fasted, and his carcass weight was too 
low. 
