658 On the Comparative Value of Linseed-cake, and a 
given per day ; besides this fixed daily allowance of roots, 
hay, and hay-chafF, the bullocks in lot 1 were supplied with 
as much decorticated cotton-cake and maize-meal as they would 
eat, and those in lot 2 with as much linseed-cake as they would 
consume. 
After the bullocks were put up in the feeding-boxes a week, 
each bullock in the first lot consumed about 5 lbs. of decorticated 
cotton-cake and 5 lbs. of maize-meal daily, and those in lot 2 
about 10 lbs. of linseed-cake each per day. 
The consumption of cake and meal gradually increased, and 
after a lapse of 4 J weeks, the first lot ate daily about 11 lbs. of 
decorticated cotton-cake and 11 lbs. of maize-meal per head, and 
the second lot about 16 lbs. of linseed-cake each per day. 
By that time lot 1 had consumed : — 
Cwts. qrs. lbs. 
Hay and hay-cliaff 6 0 8 
Mangolds 34 0 0 
Decorticated cotton-cake 8 3 20 
Maize-meal 8 3 20 
The second lot during the same period consumed the same 
quantity of roots, hay, and hay-chaff', namely : — 
Cwts. qrs. lbs. 
Hay and hay-chaff 6 0 8 
Mangolds 34 0 0 
Linseed-cake 15 1 0 
The experiments were continued for a period of 9 weeks, but 
in "the middle of the experimental period the bullocks were 
weighed, when, with the consumption of the preceding quantities 
of food, they had made in 4^ weeks the increase shown in the 
following table : — 
BULIOCKS. 
Weight of 
Bullocks on the 
26tb Nov., 
1880. 
Weight of 
Bullocks on the 
2slh Dec, 
18b0. 
Increase in 
Live-weight 
in 4i Weeks. 
Fed on decorticated 1 2 
cotton-cake and j jr^" g 
Maize-meal. ) ° 
Total weight of 3 bullocks 
Lot 2. jNo-J •• •• 
Fed on Linseed-cake, j q 
Total weight of 3 bullocks . . 
Cvvts. qrs. lbs. 
12 2 20 
12 2 14 
12 0 10 
Cwts. qrs. lbs. 
13 3 0 
13 2 14 
12 3 16 
Cwts. qrs. lbs. 
10 8 
10 0 
0 3 6 
37 1 16 
40 1 2 
2 3 14 
11 1 18 
13 0 6 
13 0 11 
11 3 1 
13 3 22 
13 2 20 
0 1 11 
0 3 16 
0 2 9 
37 2 7 
39 1 15 
13 8 
It will be seen that the bullocks fed upon cotton-cake and 
