Home-grown Produce as Food for Cattle. 723 
I'lirtliermore, it must be remembered tbat linseed-cake has a 
considerably higher manurial value than either barley or malt, 
and thus the value of the cake-feeding is still more enhanced. 
This experiment would therefore show that, even with linseed- 
cake at a high figure, it pays better to feed sheep with it when 
eating off roots than to use even home-grown barley to partly 
lessen the cost. Also, that malt as a feeding material for sheep 
does not repay its extra cost. 
II. — The Utilisatiox of Home-grown Produce as 
Pood for Cattle. 
The continued low prices obtainable for grain-crops grown 
on the farm suggested the earn ing out of an experiment at the 
Society’s Farm at Woburn during the winter of 1891-2, in order 
to ascertain the practical difference between feeding bullocks 
entirely upon crops produced on the farm as against feeding 
them with imported articles such as linseed-cake. The foods 
which it was decided to contrast were, in the one case linseed- 
cake, as representing foreign produce, and in the other case a 
mixture of beans, oats, and barley, as representing home-grown 
produce. 
Twelve Hereford bullocks were weighed on November 28, 
1891, and divided into two lots of six each. 
Lot I. was to receive : 
Beans ) 
Oats j- 
. in equal proportions 
J’.arley ) 
Swedes . 
. ad libitum 
Clover-Lay chaff . 
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Lot II. was to receive : 
Linseed-cake 
Swedes 
. ad libitum 
Clover-Lay chaff . 
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The costs of the different foods were : — 
— 
Delivered at nearest station 
Cost per ton, including 
cartage, brc.aking, 
grinding, &c 
Linseed-cake (first de- 
£ «. (1. 
£ t. d. 
livery) 
Linseed-cake (second de- 
10 5 0 per ton 
10 9 0 
livery) 
9 9 0,,,, 
9 13 0 
Beans .... 
2 0 0 per qr. of 504 lb. 
9 9 0 
Oats .... 
1 5 0 „ „ 336 „ 
!> 3 0 
Barley .... 
1 5 0 „ „ 44S „ 
7 0 0 
