482 Feeding Experiments at Crawley Mill Farm, Woburn, 
The respective costs of the foods were, including cost of 
delivery, cartage, breaking, &c. : — 
£ s. d. 
Linseed-cake (at 81. per ton delivered to nearest 
station) 8 4 0 per ton 
Decorticated cotton-cake (at 6/. per ton, 10s. carriage) 6 14 10 „ 
Maize-meal (at 26s. per quarter = 480 lbs.) . . 1 8 3 per 480 lbs, 
Oats (at 20s. 6^^. per quarter = 336 lbs.) . . . 1 3 6 per 336 lbs. 
Beans (at 36s. per quarter = 504 lbs.) . . . 1 18 3 per 504 lbs. 
Barley (at 2os. per quarter = 448 lbs., home-grown) 17 0 per 448 lbs. 
AVheat (at 29s. per quarter = 480 lbs.) . . . 1 9 0 per 480 lbs. 
As the four bullocks fed on cake and meal (a) were in the 
same building and under precisely the same conditions as the four 
others fed on beans, oats, and barley (6), it is better to regard this as 
one experiment, although there were altogether six fed on food b. 
The comparison is further a better one since these eight bul- 
locks were sent off together to be slaughtered, and their fasted 
and carcase weights were recorded at the same time. The ex- 
periment began on December 19, when all the bullocks were 
weighed and put up, and it continued until April 9, a period of 
112 days. The bullocks in the boxes began by eating about 
38 lbs. of swedes per head daily, 4 lbs. of straw-chaff and 6 lbs. 
of hay, and they drank about 22 lbs. of water. They soon took 
more hay, viz. 7 lbs. daily, and drank more water, 35-45 lbs., 
the quantity of roots also increasing to 40 lbs. After this the 
amounts of roots, hay, and chaff taken did not increase, and the 
animals fed steadily on. During the whole period the weights 
of food consumed were : — 
By 4 bullocks f eil 
on Unseeil-cake, 
decorticated cot- 
ton - cake, and 
maize-meal, dur- 
ing 112 days, 
cwt. qrs. lbs. 
Avcr.ijje per 
head daily. 
lbs. 
39-9 
By 4 bullocks fed on 
beans, oats, and bar- 
ley during 112 days. 
cwt. qrs. lbs. 
158 1 6 
Average per 
head daily. 
lbs. 
39-5 
Straw-chafE 
. . IG .3 22 
4-2 
16 0 26 
41 
Hay ... . 
6-85 
27 .3 6 
6-9 
Cake or Meal . 
. . 3G 0 18 
9 
36 0 18 
9 
172 1 10 
431 
143 2 0 
35-9 
On April 9 the bullocks were weighed at the farm, then 
sent off, like the sheep in the previously recorded experiment, 
to Nottingham, they being fasted meanwhile. The fasted weights 
were taken in the market on April 10, the beasts slaughtered, 
and the carcase weights taken on the next day. Mr. Fraser 
was present all the time, and took every possible care to ensure 
accurate records being obtained. 
Meanwhile two more bullocks had been feeding in the 
covered shed on the food b (beans, oats, and barley), and two 
