480 Feedinrj Experiments at Crawley Mill Farm, Wohufn^ 
on the mo7*niug of April 9, and twenty of them (4 from each pen) 
were then sent on their journey, their destination being Notting- 
ham. They were kept fasting and weighed again in the market 
on the morning of April 10 ; they were then killed and the 
carcase weights recorded on the next day. Mr. Eraser, the 
resident manager at Woburn, personally superintended the whole 
of the operations from beginning to end, so that the figures 
given may be accepted as absolutely correct. The remainder of 
the sheep continued to feed as before till April 16, when they 
were weighed and sent off to Nottingham for slaughter, just like 
the others, Mr. Fraser again personally seeing to the accurate 
recording of the results. 
Here it should be mentioned that in consequence of the cold 
weather the sheep were not shorn before being killed, so that 
the live weights and also ofFal include the whole wool. 
As to the meat, the purchaser's remarks were to the effect 
that the quality of it was in eveiy way excellent. The " ripest " 
mutton was however that from Pen I. (oats), although that 
from the oats-with-barley and the wheat-fed sheep was also very 
ripe. 
Next to be taken into consideration are : the expense of 
the additional foods, and their relative cost in producing the 
increase in live weight. 
Kelative cost in 
aflditional food per 
lb. of increase 
ill live weight. 
p « ,1 
Pex I. 658 lbs. Oats (crushed) 
Pen II. „ „ Barley (grittled) 
Pen III. i ^29 „ Oats \ 
[ „ „ Barley ) 
Pen IV. G58 „ Wheat (whole) 
r-v. (T;; re«J • 
The differences in manurial value and in chemical composi- 
tion of the foods are so slight as to make it unnecessary to enter 
into calculations of them. 
The wheat, it will be noticed, produced the most increase 
at the lowest cost per lb. of increase. The increase of weight 
in all the pens was very satisfactory, and somewhat similar 
to the results obtained in the first year of the experiments, the 
wheat (as then) producing one pound of increase at the lowest 
cost. Oats-with-barley was the only other food alike in the 
two sets of experiments, and the results in the two cases are 
nearly the same. 
,c. 
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<i. 
cost 
2 
G 0 . 
. 1-45 
1 
19 8 . 
, 1-30 
JJ 
2 
2 10 . 
. 134 
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1 
19 8 . 
. 1-22 
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2 
2 10 . 
. 1-51 
