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Experiments on the Feedinc/ of Sheep. 
and the " Experimental " periods, and those in Tables III. to 
IX. inclusive, to the " Experimental " period only : — 
Table I. The weig;lits of each sheep, its gain (or loss) between 
each weighing, and its total gain. 
Table II. The quantities of food consumed (and water drank) 
in each pen, between each period of weighing, and during the 
total experimental period. 
Table III. The average amount of food consumed (and water 
drank) per head per v-cek, between each weighing, and over the. 
total experimental period. 
Table IV. The average amount of food consumed (and water 
drank) per 100 Ihs. live loeight per week, between each weighing, 
and over the total experimental period. 
Table V. The average amount of food consumed (and water 
drank) per 100 lbs. live weight per week, during each of 19 con- 
secutive weeks, with the mean temperature and range of tem- 
perature of the feeding-house, at different times of the day for 
each of those weeks. 
Table VI. The amounts of food consumed (and water drank) 
to produce 100 lbs. increase in live-weiglit, between each weighing, 
and over the total experimental period. 
Table VII. The average amount of increase per head per weehy 
and per 100 lbs. live iceiyht per week, between each weighing, and 
over the total experimental period. 
Table VIII. The original and final weights, the total increase, 
the wool, and the weights and proportions in the fasted weight 
of the carcasses, and of the inside loose fat. 
Table IX. is a summary of Tables I., II., III., IV., VI., 
VII., and VIII. 
The Summary Table (IX.) shows at one view the average re- 
sults over the whole experimental period on each of the points to 
which the other tables respectively relate ; and it is to it that we 
would refer the reader for a record of the main facts of the 
experiments ; though, in the few remarks we shall have to make 
upon them, we shall necessarily be guided by a careful conside- 
ration of the detail as given in the other tables. 
The general result of the experiments is, as might be expected, 
that sheep thus fed upon dry food alone (with water) increased 
very little compared with the average result obtained with a 
good mixed diet of dry and succulent food. 
Table I., giving the detail of the weights and gain or loss of 
each sheep, shows that most of them lost weight more or less at 
one time or another during the progress of the experiment. 
Those in Pen 1, on hay-chaff alone, lost the most frequently, and 
finally gave the least total increase; but as the object in their 
case was to put their capability of digesting cellulose or woody- 
