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It will be noticed that the gain was very satisfactory and also 
very similar to that in the wheat lot. It may be of interest at 
this point to mention a by-experiment that was made, as there 
happened to be more bullocks on the farm, all of them belonging 
to one lot. The object was to see what difference there would 
be between the bullocks fed in the feeding boxes and others 
receiving exactly the same amount and kind of food, but allowed 
to run loose in the open yard. The weights of the four bullocks 
in the open yard at commencement and end were as follows : — 
Put up 
Xov. 16th. 
Removed 
Dec. 7th. 
Gain in Live 
weight in 
Twenty-one 
Days. 
Bullock Xo. 1 
„ No. 2 
„ No. 3 
No. 4 
Total weight of 4 Bullocks 
cwt. qrs. lbs. 
9 14 
10 0 10 
9 1 18 
9 2 3 
cwt. qrs. lbs. 
9 3 23 
10 2 1 
9 3 21 
10 0 26 
cwt. qrs. lbs. 
0 2 19 
0 1 19 
0 2 3 
0 2 23 
38 1 7 
40 2 15 
2 1 8 
It will thus be seen that the increase in live weight was 
practically as much in the case of the bullocks in the open yard 
as in that of the box-fed animals. 
Feeding Boxes. 
Open Yard. 
Continuous 
Wheat Experi- 
ment. 
Continuous 
Barley Experi- 
ment. 
Total gain of 4 Bullocks during 21 ■> 
cwt. qrs. lbs. 
2 2 14 
cwt. qrs. lbs. 
2 19 
cwt. qrs. lbs. 
2 18 
The dung was kept under cover and weighed on March 5th, 
1886, the total weight being 27 cwt. 3 qrs. 9 lbs. Plots 10 B 
and 11b were supplied with the quantities requisite to provide 
100 lbs. and 200 lbs. of ammonia per acre respectively. The plots 
were ploughed again and the dung turned in. The weather was 
very unfavourable for sowing, but this was finally done on 
April 10th, 9 pecks per acre of Golden Melon Barley being 
drilled. The mineral manures had been sown on plots 4, 5, 6, 
8 A, 9 A, on the day previous. The barley began to show by 
May 1st, and the nitrogenous top-dressings were sown on plots 2, 
3, 5, 6, 8 B, 9 B, on May 15th. Hoeing began on May 19th, 
and the barley progressed favourably, coming well into ear by 
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