150 An Experiment on the Comparative Value 
Each lot had an allowance for litter of 1 ton 19 cwts. and 
1 qr. of wheat-straw, cut into chaff about 2 inches long. 
The following table shows the composition of the three kinds 
of purchased food used in this experiment : — 
Composition ■ 
Decorticated 
Cotton-cake. 

Linseed-cake 
(American- 
cake). 
Maize-meal. 
Oil 
Mucilage, sugar, and digestible fibre 
S-58 
14-86 
43-06 
16-32 
9-60 
7-58 
10-89 
9-86 
29-87 
34-33 1 
8-25 
6-80 
15 01 
1-88 
8-60 
71-20 
(Starch). 
1-56 
1-75 
100-00 
100-00 
100-00 
6 -89 
4-78 
1-37 
The next table shows the weight of the eight bullocks when 
put into the feeding-boxes on the 17th of December, 1878, and 
the increase in live-weight of each bullock during that period : — 
BtLI.OCKS. 
■\Veiglit of 
Bullocks on the 
9th November, 
1878. 
Weight of 
Bullocks on the Increase in 
17th December, j Live-Weight. 
1879. 
Fed on Decor- 
ticated 
Cotton-cake 
and Maize-meal, 
Cwts. qrs. lbs. 
9 1 23 
9 2 3 
10 3 0 
9 3 2 
Total weight of 4) 
Bullocks 
••/l 
Fed on 
Linseed-cake. 
|Xo 
Bullocks 
C»-ts. qrs. lbs. 
10 0 26 
10 3 2 
11 0 19 
10 1 7 
39 2 0 ; 42 1 26 
Cwts. qrs. lbs. 
0 3 3 
1 0 27 
0 1 19 
0 2 5 
2 3 26 
5 .. 
10 
0 
19 
11 
0 
14 
0 
3 
23 
6 .. 
10 
0 
17 
10 
3 
'i 
0 
2 
25 
7 . . 
9 
2 
15 
10 
0 
0 
1 
14 
8 .. 
10 
2 
r.) 
11 
0 
26 
0 
2 
7 
of 4| 
40 
2 
14 
43 
0 
27 
2 
2 
13 
It will be seen that the mixed cotton-cake and maize-meal 
gave a little more increase than the linseed-cake. 
The bullocks were again weighed on the 17th of January, and 
then sold off to the butcher. 
