314 Report on the Field and Feeding Experiments at Woburn. 
shows the number of sheep fed on each acre, the quantity of 
purchased food consumed (if any), the number of days the 
animals were kept on the land, and the total increase in live- 
weight yielded — 
Increase in Live- 
weight. 
Plots. lbs. 
, jFed-offbylO slieep, with 672 lbs. decorticated) .003 
( cotton-cake ; on land 83 days j * 
o i Fed-off by 10 sheep, with 728 lbs. of maize-meal ;) , 
^- \ on land 83 days \ "^^-^t 
o ( Fed-ofif by 10 sheep, without other food ; on land) , „o i 
I 79 days \ ^^'^^ 
. (Fed-off by 10 sheep, without other food; on) ip-n 
\ land 79 days \ 
These experiments, it may be well to bear in mind, were 
solely made for the purpose of consuming the clover on the 
land, and to incorporate with a portion of the experimental 
field the manurial constituents of a definite quantity of 
decorticated cotton-cake, a food rich in nitrogen, and with 
another part those of a fixed quantity of Indian-cornmeal, a 
food poor in nitrogen. But although their object was not to 
experiment on the best mode of fattening sheep on clover, they 
nevertheless incidentally reveal a few facts of more or less 
interest and value to feeders of stock. 
In the first place, I would observe, the periodical weighings 
of the forty sheep on the clover-field clearly show the impolicy 
of keeping stock on too scanty an allowance of food, and, in the 
second place, they show the superiority of decorticated cotton- 
cake as a food for sheep when it is given to them judiciously. 
Sheep fed upon cotton-cake and grass or clover, I may say in 
passing, should always be supplied with fresh water. 
The sheep which consumed about i lb. of decorticated cotton- 
cake, it will have been seen, increased in weight to a greater 
extent than those fed upon a similar allowance of maize-meal, 
and did remarkably well ; for the ten sheep on plot 1 gained 
in weight 433j lbs. in eighty-three days, not taking into 
account the clipped wool, whilst in the same period the ten 
sheep fed upon maize-meal as an additional food made only 
351] lbs., by no means a bad increase, but still not nearly so 
good a one as that gained by the consumption of decorticated 
cotton-cake. By the consumption of about J lb. of decorticated 
cotton-cake, and as much white clover as they would eat, the 
sheep increased on an average of rather more than \ lb. per 
head per day. 
There can therefore be no doubt that the consumption of 
decorticated cotton-cake on the land, whilst it greatly enriches 
