Report on the Field and Feeding Experiments at Woburn. 119 
ments. The clung, estimated to contain nitrogen corresponding 
to 100 lbs. of ammonia per acre for one plot, and 200 lbs. of 
ammonia per acre lor the second plot, was put on the land 
on the 20th and the 21st of January, 18b0 : 
Total Food consumed by Four Bullocks in Five Weeks. 
Decorticated cotton-cake 5 cwts. 
Maize-meal 8 cwts. 
Mangolds 3 tons. 
Wheat-straw chaif 10 cwts. 
Wheat-straw, cut into chaff about 2 inches long, llj cwts. used as litter. 
Weight of Four Bullocks which made the Dung for the Barley 
Experiments. 
Bullock. 
Weight when 
put upon, 
December 1, 
1879. 
Weight on 
January 5, 
1880. 
Increase 
in Five 
Weeks. 
Total 
Increase 
of Two 
Bullocks. 
No. 1 
cwts, qrs. lbs. 
9 0 23 
cwts. qrs. lbs. 
9 0 20 
qrs. lbs. 
0 3 
loss. 
„ 2 
„ 3 
9 3 4 
9 1 24 
10 0 7 
10 0 8 
1 31 
2 12) 
qrs. lbs. 
3 15 
4 
9 1 14 
Not wei 
ghed. 
One of the four bullocks was rather wild in the feeding-boxes, 
and all attempts to put the animal on the weigh-bridge were 
frustrated by the beast becoming perfectly wild and unmanage- 
able. 
Of the three remaining bullocks, it will be seen that two gained 
3 qrs. 15 lbs. in 5 weeks, and the third apparently lost 3 lbs., or, 
practically speaking, neither lost nor gained in weight. 
The two bullocks which gained in weight made 99 lbs. in 
5 weeks, as they increased at the rate of 19 8 lbs. per week, or 
each bullock gained 9*9 lbs. per week. 
The barley came up well, and there was a good even plant on 
all the plots. The crop was cut on the 17th of August, 1880, 
and carted and stacked on the 7th of September. 
The barley was threshed out in the field on the 6th of 
November, and the straw weighed at the time of threshing ; the 
corn was put in carefully labelled bags in the granary, and kept 
there until the 19th of November, when it was dressed and 
weighed. 
The results of the weighings are embodied in the following 
Table : 
