Mixture of Dccorticated-calie, Sfc, for fattening Bullocks. 659 
maize-meal made 1 cvvt. 6 lbs. more live-weight in 4^ weeks 
than those fed upon linseed-cake, both lots having had the same 
allowance of mangolds, hay-chaff, and hay. 
The next table shows the composition of the three kinds of 
purchased food used in this experiment : — 
Coniposition of 
Decorticated 
Cotton-cake. 
Linsccd'CiikCi 
Oil 
Mucilage, sugar and digestible fibre 
7-16 
16-23 
39-44 
24-46 
14-90 
10-90 
24-56 
31-97 
13-99 
3-01 
9-38 
/ 09-76 
\ (Starch) 
2-21 
1-65 
G-30 
6-41 
11-47 
6-20 
100-00 
100-00 
100-00 
6-31 
3-93 
1-50 
During the second period of the experiment, or from the 
28th of December, 1880, to 21st of January, 1881, the bullocks 
in lot 1 consumed : — 
Cwts. qrs. lbs. 
Decorticated cotton-cake .. .. 7 0 8 
Maize-meal 7 0 8 
Mangolrls 29 1 0 
Hay and hay -chaff 4 1 14 
and during the whole experimental period of 9 weeks the food- 
consumption was the following : — 
Cwts. qrs. lbs. 
Decorticated cotton-cake .. .. 16 0 0 
Maize-meal 16 0 0 
Manifolds 63 1 0 
Hay and hay-cha£f 10 1 22 
The second lot consumed in the second half of the feeding 
period, i.e. from 28th of December, 1880, to 21st of January, 
1881 Cwts. qrs. lbs. 
Linseed-cake 13 3 0 
Mangolds 29 1 0 
Hay and hay-chaff 4 1 14 
and, in the whole experimental period of 9 weeks — 
Cwts. qrs. lbs. 
Linseed-cake 29 0 0 
Mangolds G3 1 0 
Hay and hay-chaff 10 1 22 
On the 21st of January the bullocks were again weighed, 
