420 Sheep-Feeding Experiments at Craidey Mill Farm, 
In order to make the comparison a fair one, the prices of the 
different foods have been stated as above, including all charges 
to the time of their being given to the sheep. 
The sheep were the same kind of cross-bred sheep as used 
before and of similar age, but were decidedly stronger animals. 
They were 40 in number, divided into five pens of eight sheep 
each ; and before the experiment began they were put on roots 
for a short time, to accustom them to the diet. The weights at 
commencement were as follows : — 
Weights of Sheep put under Experimext on December 23, 1886. 
Pen I. 
Pen II, 
Pen III. 
Pen IV. 
Pen V. 
cwt. qrs. lbs. 
1 1 7 
1 1 10 
1 1 7 
1 I G 
1 1 26 
115 
1 2 10 
12 2 
cwt. qrs. lbs. 
1 1 16 
1 1 22 
1 1 13 
118 
1 0 26 
114 
12 8 
12 3 
cwt. qrs. lbs. 
1 0 14 
110 
115 
112 
1 1 21 
1 1 10 
13 0 
1 2 19 
cwt. qrs. lbs. 
1 1 12 
12 2 
1 0 17 
1 1 18 
12 7 
1 1 21 
119 
1 1 14 
cwt. qrs. lbs. 
1 2 15 
1 1 12 
1 0 14 
1 1 16 
1 1 14 
1 1 10 
1 1 15 
1 2 5 
Total ofl 
8 slieepj 
11 0 17 
11 0 16 
11 0 15 
11 0 16 
11 0 17 
All the sheep at once took well to their foods ; the swedes 
were sliced and given ad libitum, a quantity, beginning with 
about 23 lbs. each sheep daily, being weighed out to them from 
time to time as required : hay-chaff was also given ad libitum. 
At first the sheep ate 4 oz. of hay-chaff per head daily, after 
two days they would eat 6 oz., and by January 1, 1887, 
8 oz. per head daily. The additional food given to each pen 
was at first J lb., but was increased on January 14 to f lb. per 
head daily. After a time it was noticed that the sheep in Pens 
1, 2, and 3 would eat per pen about 20 lbs. of roots daily more 
than those in the other pens : the quantity of roots consumed in 
Pens 1, 2, 3 rose gradually from 23 lbs. to 30 Ibs^ per head 
daily, while in Pens 4 and 5 it did not go above 27 lbs. 
The winter, though cold and prolonged, was dry, and not 
nearly such a trying one for the sheep as the preceding one had 
been ; fortunately too, for the value of the experiment as con- 
firmatory of the previous one, no sheep died. Several, however, 
were at different times ill, viz., No. 1 (linseed-cake pen), No. 32 
(linseed-cake and barley pen), Nos. 28 and 37 (decorticated 
cotton-cake and barley pen). No. 1 suffered from a breaking out 
on the jaw ; No. 32 had a swollen face ; and the other two 
seem to have been unwell throughout the greater part of the time. 
