130 Report on the Field and Feeding Experiments at Wobum. 
Rotation No. 4. — Four acres : lb78, mangolds ; 1879, barley ; 
1880, seeds ; 1881, wheat. 
Seeds, 1880.^ — In the spring of 1880 there was a magnificent 
plant of clover and Italian rye-grass, which had been sown with 
the barley in the preceding year. The clover and rye-grass 
were fed off by sheep in the course of the growing season. On 
one acre, 672 lbs. of decorticated cotton-cake were consumed ; 
on the second acre 728 lbs. of Indian corn-meal ; and the third 
and fourth acres were separately eaten off without any purchased 
food. 
On each of the four acres 10 sheep were put on the 30th of 
April ; and as the clover was very strong 10 sheep could not con- 
sume it with sufficient rapidity, for which reason 5 additional 
sheep were put on each acre on the 27th of Ma v. By the 
15th of June the sheep had gone once over the green clover ; 
they were then weighed and found to have given the following 
increase l increase in Live- 
weight. 
Plots. lbs. 
[■Fed-off by 15 sheep, each sheep receiving; abont] 
I lb. decorticated cotton-cake ; 10 sheep on the > 97 1 
land 47 days and 5 sheep 18 days J 
I Fed-off by 15 sheep, each sheep consuming as'j 
additional food about 2 lb. maize -meal; 10 > 98 J 
sheep on the land 47 days and 5 sheep 18 days] 
g (Fed-ofif by 15 sheep, without other food ; 10 sheep) ,^-^3 
( on the land 47 days and 5 sheep 18 days ..J * 
^ ( Fed-off by 15 sheep, without other food ; 10 sheep) jlQa 
\ on the land 47 days and 5 sheep 18 days ..) ' 
The clover on plot 4 was by far the best, and the sheep did 
better upon it than on the three other plots, although they had 
cake and corn on plots 1 and 2. 
On the 15th of June, 5 sheep were drawn off from each acre, 
and on the 16th of June, 10 sheep were put on each acre plot 
to feed off the seeds the second time. By the 26th of July they 
had gone twice over the clover ; they were then weighed, with 
the following results : 
Clover fed-off by Sheep the second time. 
Increase ia Live- 
weight. 
Plots. lbs. 
1. 
(Fed-off by 10 sheep, eating about i lb. of decorti-) ^qqi 
( cated cotton-cake per day ; on land 41 days . . ) ^ 
(Fed-off by 10 sheep, eating about i lb. of maize-) iqq^ 
I meal per head per day ; on land 41 days ..J * 
(Fed-ofif by 10 sheep, without additional food; on) .,.3 
\ land 41 days f 
(Fed-ofif by 10 sheej), without additional food; on) 
\ land 41 days J 
