70 Experiments on the Comparative Fattening Qualities 
Table XVII. 
Balance Account of the Cross-bred "Wctliers. 
n 
s. 
,7 
a. 
£. 
s. 
1 
a. 
Cost of 40 Cross-bred Wether Lambs at 34s. per head 
68 
0 
0 
They consumed of purchased food: — 
16 
16 
0 
4480 lbs. Clover Hay at 4/. 10s. per ton .. .. 
9 
0 
0 
25 
16 
0 
93 
16 
0 
40 Fat Cross-bred Wethers and Wool sold, April, 1853,for 
99 
2 
Difference 
5 
6 
Table XVIII, 
Balance Account of the Cross-bred E 
wes. 
s. 
a. 
i. 
s. 
a. 
Cost of 40 Cross-bred Ewe Lambs at 33s. per head . . 
66 
0 
0 
They consumed of purchased food: — 
16 
0 
0 
4256 lbs. Clover Hay at 4/. 10s. per ton .... 
8 
11 
0 
24 
11 
0 
90 
11 
0 
40 Fat Cross-bred Ewes and Wool sold, April, 1853, for 
96 
2 
If 
5 
11 
If 
The Leicesters, as before stated, cost 35s. per head when 
bought, and, in addition to this, ?>d. per head per week is charged 
for their board up to the time of commencing the experiment, 
which brings them to 36s. 6c?. on December 2nd. 
The larger number of the cross-breds were bought in at 32s. 
per head ; but others, which arrived some weeks later, cost 33s. : 
charging, as before, 3c?. per head per week for board, the cross- 
breds average 33s; 6c?. per head at the commencement of the ex- 
periment ; iDut as the mean live-weight of the wether stores was 
about 4 lbs. more than that of the ewes, the former are reckoned 
as costing 34s., and the latter 33s. per head. 
On former occasions we have charged the oilcake at 6/. 15s. 
per ton, and the clover-hay at 4Z. per ton : both these, however, 
were much dearer at tlie time of this experiment, and they are 
charged therefore at their market prices at the time, without 
carriage — viz., the oilcake at 8/. per ton, and the clover-hay at 
4.1. 10s. 
