352 Report on the Field and Feeding Experiments at Woburn. 
All did very badly, the food got stale before it was done, and 
unfortunately foot-rot broke out. The sheep were put on the 
clover a third time on September 14 ; those in pens 3 and 4 
finished on October 6th, and the rest on October 9th, when the 
results were : — 
Plots. 
When put on, 
Aug. 27. 
When taken off 
Oct. 9. 
Increase ia 
Live-weight. 
1 
(Fed-o£f by 10 sheep, receiving! 
< decorticated cotton-cake ; on > 
12 
0 
lbs. 
2 
cwts. qra. lbs. 
12 2 211 
lbs. 
75} 
2 
fFed-off by 10 sheep, consuming'l 
\ maize-meal ; on land 23 days / 
11 
3 
231 
12 2 5 
65J 
3 
(Fed-off by 10 sheep, without 1 
< .idditional food; on land 20 > 
11 
2 
26 
Oct. 6. 
11 1 24f 
- 29} 
4 
(Fed-off by 10 sheep, without j 
1 additional food ; on land 20 > 
( days ) 
^11 
3 
If 
Oct. 6. 
11 3 251 
24 
The following statement is a summary of the results, and 
shows the number of sheep fed on each acre, the quantity of 
purchased food consumed (if any), the number of days the 
animals were kept on the land, and the total increase in live- 
weight yielded— ^^^^^^ i„ Live- 
weight. 
Plots. lbs. 
j Fed-off by 10 sheep, with 672 lbs. decorticated) ofifiA 
( cotton-cake ; on land 98 days J * 
n (Fed-off by 10 sheep, with 728 lbs, of maize-meal ;1 o^{\^ 
^- \ on land 110 days ] 
„ (Fed-off by 10 sheep, without other food ; on land) 
) 110 days f "^^^ 
. (Fed-off by 10 sheep, without other food; on) -iqqi 
*• \ land 110 days f 
Rotation No. 3. — Four acres. 1878, seeds; 1879, wheat; 
1880, mangolds ; 1881, barley ; 1882, seeds ; 1883, wheat. 
Wheat, 1883. — The land, upon which clover had been fed off 
by sheep in 1882, was ploughed up on October 10th, 1882, and 
harrowed on October 23rd, on which latter day the wheat 
Browick wheat), at the rate of 8 pecks per acre, was drilled in. 
t came up well, and continued to grow favourably through the 
winter, all gaps in it being filled up in January. Early in Feb- 
ruary it was attacked by a white grub, and was on February 26th 
rolled with a Cambridge roller in the hope of killing these. The- 
