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Report on the Experiments on Ensilage 
Weight op Bullocks on Mat 6, 1887 
Receiving Silage. 
Bullock. 
No. 1 
No. 2 
No. 3 
No. 4 
Total of 4 bullocks on) 
May 6 \ 
Total on Feb. 14 .. 
Gain during 80 days , . 
cwts. qrs. 
lbs. 
11 
2 
0 
11 
1 
17 
10 
2 
9 
10 
3 
7 
44 
1 
5 
39 
2 
25 
4 
2 
8 
Gain per bead daily . . 1 • 6 lbs. Gain per liead daily 
Receiving Say. 
Bullock. cwts. qrs. lbs. 
No. 5 11 2 0 
No. 6 10 1 15 
No. 7 10 1 27 
No. 8 11 0 11 
Total of 4 bullocks on) 
IMay G \ 
Total on Feb. 14 .. 
Gain during 80 days 
43 
1 
25 
39 
2 
27 
3 
2 
26 
1-3 lbs. 
It will be seen that the bullocks on silage did rather better 
than those on haj, the respective daily gain per head being : — 
Witb silage, 25 "6 oz., or, roughly speaking, 1^ lbs. 
"With hay, 21 • 0 oz., or, say IJ lbs. 
Mr. Evans has also gone into some calculations of the cost 
of the increase, and in his conclusions, I may mention, he 
reckons that the cost of each pound of increase of dead-weight 
was for the whole period : — 
In the case of silage, 7|c?. 
„ „ hay, 9f(?. 
As the bullocks were not slaughtered at the conclusion of the 
experiment, it will be of course understood that this can only 
be an approximation. 
Appended I give analyses of the silage and the hay : — 
Silage. 
Hay. 
75-31 
13-33 
-:!G 
100 
l-:i2 
G 31 
7-22 
30-17 
8-11 
25-80 
Volatile acids (reckoned as acetic acid) 
•29 
rix(-d acids (reckoned as lactic acid) .. 
•17 
Soluble carbohydrates, chloropliyll, &c. 
1G*21 
4G4 
•81 
2-54 
100-00 
100-00 
•40 
1-35 
•27 
1-17 
Non-albuminoid nitrogen 
•13 
•18 
