Becwticated and Undem'ticated Cotton-cal:e. 
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daily. Mangel was substituted for swedes on March 28. The 
quantity of roots consumed throughout was, on an average, 401b. per 
head daily, and of hay-chafF 8| lb. to 9 lb. The water given was 
also weighed ; raoi'e was drunk by the beasts taking decorticated 
cake than by the others, the relation being, in the lirst and second 
periods 351b. as against 25 lb., and in the third period 39 lb. as 
against 32 lb. daily each animal. 
At the conclusion of the experiment five well-known stock- 
farmers of experience were invited to the farm, in order to place 
their estimates on the eight animals previous to their being weighed. 
A tiible of the results by the two methods, and showing how very 
far wrong the estimates were, is given in a paper by Mr. Albert 
Pell on " Weighing Live-stock " [Journal R.A.S.E., Second Series, 
Vol. XXV., Part II. (1889), p. 463]. The bullocks were weighed on 
May 14, then fasted one day and the fasted live-weights again taken. 
After this the beasts were slaughtered and the carcass weights re- 
corded, all the operations being conducted by Mr. Fraser, the able 
manager of the experimental farm at that time. 
The following table gives the live-weights of each bullock and of 
each set of bullocks at the commencement and at the end of the 
various periods of feeding, and also the respective gains obtained : — 
I. — Four Hereford Bullocks fed on Decorticated Cotton-cake 
icith other Foods {alike in both cases). 
Weights at 
commencement, 
Dec. 20, 1888 
Weights on 
Feb. 20, 1889 
Weights on 
March 28 
Weights ou 
May 14 
Gain in live- 
weight in 
145 days 
1 
2 
3 
4 
cwt. qr. lb. 
9 3 26 
10 0 22 
9 2 12 
9 0 0 
c^vt. qr. lb. 
11 3 4 
11 3 0 
11 0 0 
10 1 14 
cwt. qr. lb. 
12 2 12 
12 0 22 
11 2 10 
11 0 12 
c«t. qr. lb. 
13 1 5 
13 0 7 
12 2 0 
11 1 17 
cwt. qr. lb. 
3 17 
2 3 13 
2 3 113 
2 1 17 
38 3 4 
44 3 18 
47 2 0 
50 1 1 
11 1 25 
Gain per head daily i 
each period . . / 
2-76 lb. 
201 lb. 
1G4 lb. 
2 21 lb. 
Gain per head daily daring entire period, 2-21 lb. 
II. — Four Hereford Bullocks fed on Undecorticatcd Cotton-cake 
tcith other Foods (alike in both cases). 
6 
6 
7 
8 
9 0 3 
9 3 7 
9 3 2(J 
9 3 26 
10 2 23 
11 1 17 
10 3 12 
11 1 7 
11 0 18 
11 3 14 
11 1 14 
12 0 0 
12 0 4 
12 1 14 
12 0 4 
12 2 10 
3 0 1 
2 2 7 
2 0 6 
2 2 12 
38 3 G 
44 1 3 
46 1 18 
49 0 4 
10 0 26 
Gain per head daily t 
each period . . ) 
2-47 lb. 
1-65 lb. 
loGlb. 
1-07 lb. 
Gain per head daily during entire period, 1 97 lb. 
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