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The Feeding Values of Ootton-eake. 
IT. Undecorticated Cotton-cake Lot (9 Bullocks). 
No. 
Live- 
weights 
on farm 
cvrt. qr. lb. 
12 3 4 
3 IG 
1 4 
2 9 
2 14 
2 18 
3 18 
2 19 
2 8 
112 3 2G 
Fasted live-weights in 
cwt. qr. lb., also in 
stones of 14 lb. 
cwt. qr. lb. St. lb. 
12 0 8= 96 8 
12 2 4 = 100 4 
11 2 13= 92 13 
12 0 0= 9G 
11 0 14= 89 
11 3 1G= 95 
13 0 18 = 10.5 
11 0 2= 88 
11 3 21= 95 
107 1 12 = 858 12 
Loss in 
fasting 
per cent. 
5-59 
2-8 
G-1 
4-G 
4- 3 
CI 
d-4 
5- 5 
50 
5-04 
average 
Carcass 
weights in 
81b. stones 
St. lb. 
96 7 
103 3 
94 0 
99 
90 
93 
103 
90 
93 
864 3 
Percentage 
of carcass 
per cent. 
57- 3 
58- 9 
57-8 
59- 0 
57- 8 
66-0 
560 
58- 8 
5C-1 
Price realised 
at 4j. 4<f. per 
stone dead- 
weight 
£ s. rf. 
20 19 10 
22 7 11 
20 7 4 
21 9 7 
19 10 0 
20 4 1 
22 7 4 
19 13 3 
20 6 3 
187 5 7 
Average per head ..... 
Gain per beast in Lot I. over each in Lot II. 
96 0 
C 5 
j in money 
( viilue 
20 16 0 
18 8 
The cost of the decorticated cake consumed during the whole 
period by the eight bullocks of Lot I. was 16?. Is. 9d., or 21. Os. M. 
per head, and of the undecorticated cake consumed by the nine 
bullocks of Lot IL 13?. 17.s. 5d., or 1/. 10s. lOd. per head. Thus it 
will be seen that a gain of 11. 8s. 8c?. per head was obtained at an 
extra expenditure of 9s. 5c?., leaving a net profit of 19s. 3s. on each 
beast fed upon decorticated cotton-cake. In other words, each ton 
of decorticated cotton-cake used would give an increased value of 
3?. 9s. 4c?., supposing the prices of the two cakes to be alike. This 
allows, therefore, of decorticated cotton-cake being 3?. 9s. id. per 
ton dearer than undecorticated cotton-cake in order to produce an 
equal feeding effect. 
This result with Shorthorn bullocks is even higher than that ob- 
tained in the 1888-9 experiment, when Hereford bullocks were used, 
the allowed difference of cost between the two cakes being then ascer- 
tained to be 53s. per ton. 
Combining the two years' results, and without putting too much 
importance upon the particular money figures, it may, I consider, 
be fairly maintained that, for feeding purposes alone, and omitting 
manurial value (which would put the balance still more 'in favour 
of the decorticated cake), decorticated cotton-cake is fully worth 
50s. a ton more than undecorticated cotton-cake. 
J. Augustus Voelcker. 
