72 Experiments on the Comparative Fattening Qualities 
That the Lelcesters g^ave rather more wool, both per head and 
per cent, upon their weight, and the cross-bred ewes more than 
the wethers. 
That the fat Leicesters averaged only about 4 lbs. more weight 
per carcass than the cross-breds. 
That the cross-breds gave, within a given time, slightly the 
highest percentage of dead-weight to live-weight ; rather the most 
loose or inside fat (especially the ewes), and slightly the highest 
price per stone of mutton. 
And finally, when sold dead, the Leicesters, — and when sold 
alive the mixed cross-bred, — gave slightly the highest average 
price per head. 
With the above observations we conclude the comparison 
between the Leicesters and cross-breds alone, as rapid fatteners 
on a liberal system of feeding and management ; and in the usual 
' Tabulated Summary ' of the results which next follows (Table 
XIX.), we include those of the Hampshire and Sussex Downs 
and Cotswolds. Henceforth, therefore, the whole six lots af 
sheep will be compared together. 
Taking the items of comparative interest somewhat in the 
order in which they stand in this Tabulated Summary, it is seen 
that of the six lots that have been experimented upon, the Cots- 
wolds give by far the largest average weekly increase per head ; 
indeed, about half as much more than either the Sussex, Leicester, 
or cross-bred sheep, and nearly one fourth more than the Hamp- 
shires, which are the second in order of rate of increase jkv head 
per loeek. 
The increase per 100 lbs. live weight per week, as given in the last 
line of the first or upper division of the Surnviarji Table, does not 
show by any means such a variation in the rate of increase among 
the six lots, when it is thus calculated in relation to their respec- 
tive weights instead of per head. Still, even in this respect, the 
Cotswolds stand the first ; next come the cross-breds ; then the 
Hampshires and Leicesters ; and lastly the Sussex Downs. The 
rate of increase thus calculated in relation to the average weight of 
the animal is for the Cotswolds one-tenth more than for the 
cross-breds, and from one-seventh to one-sixth more than for the 
Hampshires, Leicesters, and Sussex Downs. It is here worthy 
of observation, that, excluding the Leicesters, the order in which 
the different lots gave increase in relation to their weight is 
obviously pretty nearly the inverse of that of the quality of the 
mutton. That is to say, those Avhich have given the greatest 
increase in proportion to their weight yield tlie coarsest mutton, 
and those which gave the least increase in relation to their weight 
the finest mutton. Consistently with this view, the Leicesters, 
however, fall somewhat sliort in the rate of their increase con- 
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