338 Report on the Field and Feeding Experiments at Wohurn. 
were dibbled in during October 22nd to 24th. The wheat began 
to show on the first days of November, and a week of heavy rain 
was succeeded by one of sharp frosts, which somewhat checked 
its growth. The mineral manures were sown broadcast on 
November 27th. On December 1st the wheat looked strong and 
health}-, and was a good plant. 
Four bullocks were put under experiment on November 20th 
to make the dung required for plots 10 B and 11 B. To do 
this they were put up in the feeding-boxes for 24 days, 
November 20th to December 14th, during which time they con- 
sumed 2 cwts. 2 qrs. decorticated cotton-cake, 4 cwts. maize- 
meal, 30 cwts. sliced white turnips, and 5 cwts. wheat straw-chaff, 
and were supplied with 12 cwts. of wheat-straw as litter. Their 
weights at the commencement and end of the experiment were 
as follows : — 
Put up, 
Nov. 20. 
Eemoved, 
Dec. 14. 
Gain in Live- 
Weight 
in Twenty-four 
Days. 
„ No. 2 „ 
„ No. 3 , 
„ No. 4 , 
Total weight of 4 Bullocks . . 
cwts. qrs. lbs. 
8 3 4 
8 3 26 
8 2 27 
9 2 3 
cwts. qrs. lbs. 
9 1 20 
9 2 2 
9 19 
10 1 0 
cwts. qrs. lbs. 
0 2 16 
0 2 4 
0 2 10 
0 2 25 
36 0 4 
38 2 3 
2 1 27 
All the bullocks did well, the total gain being double that 
obtained under similar conditions in the previous year. They 
began feeding with 30 lbs. of roots per day and other food in 
proportion, gradually increasing to 40 lbs. of roots per day. 
Analyses of the decorticated cotton-cake and maize-mpal gave 
their composition as follows : — 
Decorticated 
Cotton- 
cake. 
Maize-meal. 
Oil 
Digestible fibre, starch, kc 
7-80 
13-96 
39-51 
28-66 
3-76 
6-31 
13-05 
3-50 
8-62 
71-32 
1-66 
1-85 
100-00 
100-00 
* Contiiiniiig nitrogen 
G-32 
1-38 
