484 Feeding Experiments at Craivley Mill Faim, Wobum, 
first thing in the morning ; at 10 a.m. 4 lbs. of hay, and 
at 4.30 P.M. roots, straw, cake, and com, as in the early 
morning. 
The amounts of food consumed by the 4 bullocks in division 
c during the period were : — ■ 
By Bullocks feed- 
ing on \\Tieat, 
Oats, and Barley. 
Swedes 
Straw-chafF 
Hay . 
Meal . 
Water 
lbs 
16 
cwt. qr. 
159 2 
16 0 
27 3 
36 0 18 
lU 2 0 
14 
Average per 
Head Daily, 
lbs. 
390 
4 
6'97 
9 
28-5 
In the appended tables, on page 485, are given the full par- 
ticulars as to the increase in weight, the live weights at fann, 
fasted weights, and carcase weights, of all the 14 animals that 
went through the experiments. 
For the purpose of comparison, it will be noticed that the 
two bullocks in the yard did just about as well as the two in 
the shed having the same food, and these four animals may 
accordingly be taken together, as representing the increase on 
the diet of wheat, oats, and bai'ley. It is true that the two 
single animals fed on beans in the shed appear to have done 
better than the four in the boxes, but the comparison with four 
animals is a much safer one than with two only, and hence the 
four on beans in the boxes are taken by preference as represent- 
ing the gain due to the beans, oats, and barley mixture, the 
conditions here being exactly similar to those in the case of the 
cake-fed animals. 
We come thus to the conclusions : — 
Increase in live weight of 4 "\ 
bullocks, feeding 112 days / 
Equivalent in lbs 
Gain per head daily .... 
Fed on linseed- 
cake, decorticated 
cotton-cake and ! 
maize-meal 
cwt. qrs. lbs. 
10 2 13 
1189 lbs. 
2-65 lbs. 
Fed on beans. 
Fed on wheat, 
oats, and barley 
oats, and barley 
cvrt. qrs. lbs. 
cwt. qrs. lbs. 
9 1 16 
8 2 13 
1052 lbs. 
965 lbs. 
2-35 lbs. 
2- 15 lbs. 
On calculating the composition of the entire mixed food 
given to the animals in each experiment, the " albuminoid 
ratios" were found to be as follows: — Cake-fed Bullocks, 1 ; 4*8; 
Bean-fed Bullocks, 1 : G-33 ; Wheat-fed Bullocks, 1 : 7-65. 
