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Oh the Feeding of Stock. 
Food. 
£. s. d. 
Rapc-cake, 5 weeks, 3J stone, dl. 10s. per ton 0 14 3 
Linsced-cake, 3 weeks 1 day, Ql. per ton 10 3 
Turnips, j ton per week, at 6s, per ton 1 10 6 
Value of Lambs, Feb. 15, 35s 17 10 0 
20 15 0 
Price, April 27, 50s 25 0 0 
Profit* ;. 4 5 0 
1853.— ] 0 Ho:?gets on Linseed Cake. 
No. of 
Weigbed 
Weighed 
Increase. 
Weighed 
Increase. 
Total 
Sheep. 
Feb. 15. 
March 15. 
April 13. 
Increase. 
1 
123 
135 
12 
144 
9 
21 
2 
109 
122 
13 
133 
11 
24 
3 
107 
il<i 
9 
128 
12 
21 
4 
107 
lie 
9 
123 
7 
16 
5 
106 
114 
8 
119 
5 
13 
G 
105 
112 
7 
124 
12 
19 
7 
104 
110 
6 
119 
9 
15 
8 
98 
108 
10 
116 
8 
18 
9 
97 
102 
5 
111 
9 
14 
10 
94 
100 
6 
109 
9 
15 
Totals. 
1050 
ll35 
85 
1226 
91 
176 
Food. 
£. s. d. 
Linseed-cake, 7 lbs. per day, 65 days, at 9/. per ton .. 117 0 
Swede turnips, 15 or 16 lbs. a-piece per day, say 10 
cwt. per week, 9A weeks, at 6s. per ton 18 0 
10 Hoggets at 35.s. " 17 10 0 
Cost 20 15 0 
Sold, April 21st .. .. 25 0 0 
Profit 4 5 0 
One good result followed from the experiment being pro- 
longed after the rape-cake was abandoned, namely, when Lot 1 
was put to linseed-cake, and immediately began to show a larger 
increase of weight than the other lot, it became at once manifest 
that the bad success attending the use of the rape-cake was in no 
way due to the animals which had been experimented upon. 
The immediate object of the next experiments was to decide 
upon the expediency of rearing half-bred lambs, the ewes being 
* If the 5 tons of turnips consumed be valued at 8s. instead of 6s. per ton, their 
cost will be increased, and the profit consequently diminished by 10s. in each 
instance. 
