conducted at Craioley Mill Farm, Wohurn, 1886-7. 415 
with me, it was arranged to conduct an experiment parallel to 
our own at Woburn, though with a different breed of" bullocks, 
viz. Welsh bullocks. Ultimately eight beasts were selected and 
all necessary details arranged, Mr, Evans giving every facility 
and providing whatever was required. Fortunately also there 
was an intelligent bailiff at hand, and I am pleased to say that 
the experiment was carefully and very satisfactorily carried out, 
accounts of the feeding and other matters being forwarded to 
me weekly. 
The bullocks chosen were eight Welsh bullocks about four 
years old, all being tied up in the same shed. Their weights 
on February 14, 1887, at the commencement of the experiment, 
were as follows : — 
Weights op Bullocks at Commencement, Feb. 14, 1887. 
Receiving Silage. 
Bullock. cwts. qrs. lbs. 
Iso.l 10 0 18 
No. 2 10 1 2 
No. 3 9 2 15 
No. 4 9 2 18 
39 2 25 
Receiving Hay. 
Bullock. 
i\o. 5 10 
cwta. qrs. lbs. 
No. 6 
No. 7 
No. 8 
15 
4 
10 
26 
39 2 27 
The hay and silage were made from the grass of a field on 
the farm, but unfortunately no record had been made of the 
relative acreage used for the one or the other. The bullocks 
were allowed per head daily 3 lbs. of decorticated cotton-cake 
and 3 lbs. of maize-meal ; water, silage, and hay] being given 
ad libitum., but in all cases weighed. 
The silage bullocks began by taking 57 lbs. of silage and 
29 lbs. of water, and the hay bullocks about 20 lbs. of hay and 
68 lbs. of water. The amount of silage consumed increased 
slightly to about 66 lbs. per head daily, and that of hay to 
22 lbs. or 23 lbs. Some parts of the silage being drier than 
others, proportionately more water was at times taken. The 
average amounts consumed during the whole period by each 
bullock per day were : — 
By Bullocks 
receiving Silage. 
Rilago 67 lbs. 
Water 29 „ 
96 lbs. 
By Bullocks 
receiving Hay. 
Hay 22 lbs. 
Water 72 „ 
94 lbs. 
The experiment was continued until May 6, a period of 
eighty days, when Mr. J. Bowen- Jones again visited the farm 
with Mr, Evans and myself, and the bullocks were weighed in 
our presence : — 
