476 Feeding Experiments at Crawley Mill Farm, Wohum, 
circumstances, foods may be more easily mixed, while in others 
they may be improved. But no rule can be formulated ap- 
plicable to all circumstances. 
XXIV. — Feeding Experiments conducted at Crawley Mill Farm, 
Wohurn, in the TFrn/e;- of 1887-8. By Dr. J. Augustus 
VoELCKER, B.A., B.Sc, &c., Consulting Chemist to the 
Society. 
A. — Sheep-feeding Fxperiments. 
These experiments were in continuation of those made in the two 
previous years, with the object of throwing light on the profitable 
use of cereals as additional food for sheep feeding off swedes on the 
land. The sheep were, as before, of the Hampshire and Oxford- 
shire cross, 10 months old, and 40 in number, divided into 5 pens 
of 8 sheep each. The foods selected for trial were as follows :— 
Pen I. received Oats (crushed). 
Pen II. „ Barley (^ittled). 
Pen III. „ Oats and barley, in equal quantities. 
Pen IV, „ AMieat (whole). 
Pen Y. „ Oats and wheat, in equal quantities. 
In each pen the sheep received as many sliced swedes as they 
would eat, and also hay-chaff, the quantities of both being 
weighed out to them. 
The experiment began on December 19, 1887, and lasted 
until April 9, 1888, a period of 16 weeks (112 days). For the 
first week ^ lb. of the additional foods was given per head daily, 
but after that it was increased to | lb., remaining at this until 
the close of the experiment. Analyses of average samples of the 
foods taken from time to time were as follows : — 
Crushed 
Oats 
Grittled 
Barley 
Oats and 
Barley 
Wheat 
Oats and 
Wheat 
Swedes 
Hay 
cbaS 
12-50 
16-79 
15-15 
18-70 
15 28 
88-25 
15-23 
Oil 
6-30 
210 
4-81 
1-97 
5-00 
» Albuminous com- 
pounds .... 
13-06 
9-87 
12-87 
9-49 
13-06 
1-32 
9-00 
Starch, digestible 
57-17 
65 76 
58-14 
66-18 
55-68 
901 
Woody fibre .... 
7-87 
2-74 
6-53 
1-87 
6-74 
•78 
} 68^85 
Mineral matter . . 
3-10 
2-74 
2-50 
1-79 
4-24 
•64 
692 
100-00 
100-00 
100-00 
100-00 
100-00 
10000 
100-00 
' Containing nitrogen 
209 
1-58 
2.06 
1 52 
2-09 
0-21 
1-44 
