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with it. Again, in the new experiment, the relative costs of the 
different foods were taken into account with reference to the 
respective increases they yielded. A further change was made 
in the number of sheep experimented upon, not eight but 
twenty-five sheep being placed in each trial pen, the increased 
number tending greatly to make the experiment more reliable. 
The plan of experiment was : to arrange seventy-five sheep in 
three pens of twenty-five sheep each ; to feed the first pen with 
linseed-cake alone ; to give to the second pen the same weight 
as pen 1 of a mixture of linseed-cake and barley (grittled) in 
equal parts ; and to feed the third pen with the same weight of 
food, but composed of a mixture of linseed-cake, barley, and 
malt, in such proportions that the linseed-cake formed (as in 
pen 2) one-half the mixture, and that the other half was made 
up of barley and malt in quantities which represented equal 
money values-, in other words, a certain amount of the barley 
was replaced by an amount of malt representing a money 
expenditure equal to the cost of the barley in the mixture. 
Tlie sheep were Hampshire tegs, about ten to eleven months 
old, and were employed to feed off a field of swedes with clover- 
hay and the additional foods given to them. The malt was 
purchased, as stated already, at Bedford, and was subsequently 
grittled ; the barley was grown on the farm, was valued in 
Bedford market, and grittled before using. Linseed-cake, at 
the tiure of commencing the experiment, was very expensive, 
but a second lot purchased during the pi’ogress of the trial was 
rather cheaper. The costs of the different foods were as 
follow : — 
Cost per ton, in- 
cluding cartage, 
Deliveied at nearest station breaking, grinding, &c. 
£ s. d. £ 3. d. 
Linseed-cake . . 1st delivery 10 6 0 per ton . ... 10 9 0 
2nd delivery 9 9 0 „ .... 9 13 0 
Barley 166 per qr. of 448 lb. 7 0 0 
Malt 2 0 0 per qr. of 310 lb. 14 0 0 
From these figures it will be noticed that the malt was, 
weight for weight* just twice as dear as the barley : — 
448 lb. barley cost (grittled) 28s., or \d. per lb. 
3401b. malt „ ,, 42s. 6<f., or l^<f. per lb. 
Accordingly, in making up the proportionate mixture for pen 8, 
so as to use e([ual money values of barley and malt, there was 
just one-half the quantity of malt that there was of barley. As 
the sheep began in pen 1 with ^ lb. per head daily of linseed- 
cake, the additional foods at the commencement of experiment 
were : — 
