Report on the Field and Feeding Experiments at Woburn. 307 
The nitrate of soda and salts of ammonia were applied on 
the 2nd of May. 
The barley — Chevalier barley — was drilled in on the 11th 
of April at the rate of 9 pecks per acre, and appeared above 
ground on the 21st of April. 
Three bullocks, which made the dung-, when put into the 
feeding-boxes on the 10th of October, 1880, weighed — 
cwte. qrs. lbs. 
No. 1 10 3 13 
„ 2 12 1 13 
„ 3 12 0 20 
Total weight of three bullocks) i iq 
oa the 20th Oct. 1880 
The bullocks in the course' of 5 weeks consumed — 
Decorticated cotton-cake 5 cwts. 
Maize-meal 8 cwts. 
Cattle cabbages 3 tons. 
Wheat-straw chaff 10 cwts. 
And they were supplied during that period with 13 cwts. of 
wheat-straw, cut into chaff from 2 to 3 inches long, used as litter. 
The dung was removed from the feeding-boxes on the 26th of 
November, placed into a covered hovel, and allowed to rot until 
the 10th of January, when it was weighed. 
With the consumption of the above-named quantities of food 
and wheat-straw chaff used as litter, the three bullocks produced 
2 tons 11 cwts. 2 qrs. and 8 lbs. of rotten dung. 
On the 22nd of November, 1880, when the bullocks were 
removed from the feeding-boxes, their weight was as follows : — 
Gain in Live-weight from Oct. 20 
to Nov. 22, 1880 (,5 weeks). 
cwts. qrs. lbs. cwts. qrs. lbs. 
, No. 1. bullock .. .. 11 0 22 .... 0 1 9) Total gain in 
„ 2. „ .. .. 13 0 7 .... 0 2 22[ 5 weeks : 
„ 3. „ .. .. 13 0 10 .... 0 3 isj 1 cwt. 3 qrs. 21 lbs. 
Total weight of three bullocks) 07 1 n 
on the 22nd Nov. $ ^ 
The three bullocks accordingly increased in weight at the rate 
of 43| lbs. per week, or each bullock gained about 14J lbs. per 
week, or 2 lbs. per day. 
The barley was cut on the 1st and 2nd of September, and 
stacked on the same days. It was threshed out in the field on the 
13th of October, 1881, and the straw weighed at the time of 
threshing ; the corn was weighed and measured on the 20th of 
October, when the results embodied in the following Table were 
obtained : — 
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