Feeding Ecqmdmeufs at Wulnirn. 
00 
It remains now to consider at wliat extra cost of feeding the 
above gains of pens 1 and 3 above pen 2 -were obtained. Inas- 
much as roots and clover-hay chalf were given in all three cases 
alike, and as the amounts of these consumed by each set of 
twenty-four sheep W’ere almost the same, it is only necessary to 
take into account the additional foods used and their cost. Tlie 
foods consumed by the respective pens during the entire period 
were : — 
Food 
Total foorl coTi- 
sumetl in 93 days 
by 24 sheep 
Cost of food 
consumed 
Cost per head 
dnrinj? entire 
jjc-riod 
Average weight 
of food consumed 
per iiead daily 
Ten 1. 
II). 
£ . ,d. 
11). 
Lin.‘«eed-cake . . . 
Clover-hay cl.aff 
Roots 
1.020 
804 
42,777 
7 ;j 2 
0 0 
•73 
■38 
19- 10 
Ren 2. 
Linsccd-cako . . . 
Rarlcv 
Clover-hay chafl . . 
Roots 
810 
813 
840 
42,300 
1-024 
.0 1 
r -.305 
\ -305 
■37 
18-97 
Rex ?>. 
Linseed-cake . . . 
Rarley 
Malt 
Clover-hay chaff . . 
Roots 
813 
.042 
271 
840 
43,128 
1 0 19 3 
r> 10 
f -oorj 
■243 
[ -122 
■37 
19-32 
From this table and the preceding one the following con- 
clusions can now be drawn : — 
(a) The extra return in pen 1 (linseed-cake) over pen 2 
(linseed-cake and barley) of 21. IDs. ^<d. was obtained at the 
extra expenditure in additional food of IZ. Os. lOtZ. (11. os. 2d., 
less 61. 2s. 4cZ.), and the feeding with linseed-cake alone was 
more remunerative than feedins: with a mixture of linseed-cake 
and barley in equal quantities. 
(h) The extra retui-n in pen 3 (linseed-cake, barley, and 
malt) qvei,'.,pen 2 (linseed-cake and barley) of 9s. 4d. was ob- 
tained at the extra expenditure in additional food of 16s. llcZ. 
(61. 19s. 3d., less 61. 2s. 4cZ.), and thus the addition of malt to 
the mixture of linseed-cake and barley did not prove advan- 
tageous. 
From these results it must be concluded that it is more 
profitable to feed sheep on linseed-cake alone than on one-half 
linseed-cake and one-half barley ; also that the partial sub- 
stitution of malt for barley is not attended with any benefit. 
