76 Experiments on the Comparative Fattening Qualities 
Cotswolds, 
Leicesters, 
Cross-bred ewes, 
Cross-bred wethers, 
Hampshires, 
Sussex Downs. 
The order of highest amount of wool per 100 Ihs. live weight 
is — 
Leicesters, 
Cotswolds, 
Cross-bred ewes, 
Cross-bred wethers, 
Sussex Downs, 
Hampshires. 
It is worthy of notice, that of the cross-breds, which were fed 
in the same season and side by side with the Leicesters, the 
eices gave considerably more wool both per head and per 100 lbs. 
live weight than the wethers ; the female offspring, therefore, 
inheriting more prominently the qualities of the male parent so 
far as the Jleece is concerned. Comparing together the Hamp- 
shires and Sussex Downs, which were fed side by side with each 
other, the Hampshires gave an average of If lb. more avooI per 
head ; but the Sussex, on the other hand, gave nearly one-fourth 
more than the Hampshires per 100 lbs. live weight of animal. 
Looking to the question of the quantity of mutton or weight 
of carcass yielded by the different breeds thus fed only to the 
age of about fifteen or sixteen months, it is seen that the Hamp- 
shires and Cotswolds averaged nearly 12^ stones (8 lbs. per stone) 
of marketable meat or dead weiglit, equal to 24 or 25 lbs. per 
quarter ; these Cotswolds were, however, six weeks' less time on 
fattening food than the Hampshires, and were nevertheless some- 
what too fat. The Sussex Downs and Leicesters gave only about 
three-fourths as much dead weight per head as the Hampshires 
and Cotswolds ; that is, little more than 9i stones each, equal to 
about 19 lbs. per quarter ; tlie long-wooUed Leicester again 
giving an equal weight of mutton with the short- woolled Sussex 
after six weeks' shorter time on fattening food, though probably, 
it is true, not in point of fact six weeks younger, owing to their 
earlier date of lambing. Of the cross-breds, the Avethers gave 
about 9, and the ewes about 8i stones of meat per head — equal 
respectively to about 18 and 17 lbs. per quarter. 
The Hampshires, therefore, after an equal length of time on 
fattening food, were brought to about one-third more carcass- 
weight per head than the Sussex sheep. The Cotswolds, with 
six weeks less on fattening food than either the Hampshire or 
