Report on the Field and Feeding Experiments at Woburn. 285 
previously. The weights at the commencement and end of the 
period of feeding were : — 
Put up, 
Nov. 16th. 
Removed, 
Dec. 7th. 
Gain in Live- 
Weight 
in Twenty-one 
Days. 
„ No. 2 
„ No. 3 
„ No. 4 
Total weight of 4 Bullocks .. 
cwt. qrs. lbs. 
9 1 23 
8 3 14 
10 3 14 
9 0 14 
cwt. qrs. lbs. 
10 0 17 
9 2 10 
11 1 3 
9 3 21 
cwt. qrs. lbs. 
0 2 22 
0 2 24 
0 1 17 
0 3 7 
38 1 9 
40 3 23 
2 2 14 
The increase, it will be seen, was a satisfactory one. The 
composition of the foods employed was as follows : — 
Decorticated 
Cotton- 
cake. 
Maize-meal. 
Oil 
Digestible fibre, starch, &c 
10-45 
15-60 
42-84 
20-99 
3-07 
7-05 
13-15 
4-57 
9-31 
62-44 
8-73 
1-80 
100-00 
100-00 
* Containing nitrogen 
6-85 
1-49 
The swedes contained nitrogen — 
First lot used "27 per cent. 
Second lot used '18 „ 
The wheat-straw contained nitrogen • 45 „ 
The decorticated cotton-cake, it will be seen, was of good quality 
and rich in oil. 
The dung after removal from the pits was kept under cover 
until February 26th, 1888, it then weighing 30 cwt. 7 lbs. 
Plots 10 B and 11 B, were on the same day dressed with the 
dung in quantity sufficient to supply to them respectively 100 lbs. 
and 200 lbs. ammonia per acre. 
The winter was altogether a most unfavourable one, and the 
occurrence of repeated frosts in the early spring tended to 
produce but a poor plant of wheat ; especially was this the case 
upon the unmanured portions. Plot 10 B also looked very poor. 
Towards the middle of March it began somewhat to recover, 
