conducted  at  Crawley-Mill  Farm,  Woburn. 
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5 per  cent,  consists  of  dry  and  mainly  carbonaceous  matter,  which 
is  dissipated  in  the  form  of  carbonic  acid  in  the  process  of 
germination  on  the  malt-floor. 
In  considering  the  comparative  merits  of  barley  and  malt  for 
feeding  purposes,  it  should  be  borne  in  mind  that,  in  the  process 
of  malting,  barley  loses  about  5 per  cent,  of  dry  feeding  substance, 
and  that  the  cost  of  malting  probably  will  not  be  less  than  2s.  Gd. 
per  quarter  of  barley. 
It  is  scarcely  necessary  to  direct  attention  to  the  fallacies  in- 
cluded in  the  results  of  feeding  experiments  in  which  equal 
quantities,  by  weight,  of  barley  and  malt  were  given  to  sheep 
or  oxen,  or  in  which  a different  kind  of  barley,  probably  an 
inferior  feeding  barley,  has  been  given  to  one  set  of  animals  ; 
and  malt,  produced  from  first-class  barley,  to  another  lot. 
In  all  comparative  feeding  experiments  with  malt  and  barley 
the  same  kind  of  barley  ought  to  be  employed,  and  the  malt  and 
malt-dust  be  given  together  in  proportion  to  the  weight  of  the 
barley  from  which  they  had  been  produced. 
The  linseed-cake  used  in  the  sheep-feeding  experiments  had 
the  following  composition  : — 
Moisture 11 '05 
Oil 12-03 
‘Albuminous  compounds  (flesh-forming  matters) . . 35  • 12 
Mucilage,  sugar,  and  digestible  fibre  22  • 86 
"Woody  fibre  (cellulose) 10  "73 
Mineral  matter  (ash)  8 • 21 
100-00 
* Containing  nitrogen  5-62 
This  cake,  it  will  be  seen,  was  both  rich  in  oil  and  albumi- 
nous compounds,  and  decidedly  a linseed-cake  of  superior 
quality. 
The  pea-meal  was  made  from  old  peas,  and  had  the  following 
composition  : — 
Moisture 13 '70 
Oil 1-43 
‘Albuminous  compounds  (flesh-forming  matters) . . 22  * 69 
Mucilage,  sugar,  and  digestible  fibre  52-96 
Woody  fibre  (cellulose) 5*57 
Mineral  matter  (ash)  3*65 
100-00 
* Containing  nitrogen  ..  ..  3-63 
The  feeding  experiments  were  begun  on  the  23rd  of  December, 
1882,  and  continued  until  the  17th  of  February,  or  for  a period 
of  eight  weeks,  after  which  the  sheep  were  weighed,  and  the 
following  results  obtained  : — 
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