724 
Feeding Exgieriments at Woburn. 
Samples of the foods were taken from time to time for analysis, 
and the following represent their average compositions : — 
Linseed- 
cake 
(first 
de- 
livery) 
Linseed- 
cake 
(second 
de- 
livery) 
Bean- 
meal 
Oats 
(crusli- 
eil) 
Barley 
(grit- 
tied) 
Clover- 
hay 
cliaft 
Swedes 
JIangcI 
Moisture 
13-83 
13-2G 
18-72 
15-16 
18-90 
18-38 
88-G7 
87 83 
Oil . 
10-91 
11-71 
2-01 
5 44 
2-19 
— 
— 

' Albuminous com- 
pounds . 
27-31 
30-73 
23-25 
12 OG 
11-23 
13-50 
1-19 
1-G2 
Starch, mucilage, 
and digestible 
fibre 
32-48 
31-79 
4G-55 
55-43 
Gl-99 
34-30 
865 
8-45 
Woody fibre 
9-04 
7-37 
C-29 
9-06 
3-3G 
25-28 
•83 
1-13 
“ Mineral matter 
(ash) 
G-13 
5-14 
3-18 
2-85 
2-33 
8-54 
•GG 
•97 
100-00 
100-00 
100-00 
lOOOO 
100 00 
100-00 
100-00 
100-00 
' containing Ni- 
trogen 
430 
4-92 
3-72 
1-89 
1-79 
2 JG 
•19 
•2G 
" including Sand . 
1-27 
-37 
•45 
1-18 
*56 
1-03 
•01 
•07 
The beans were ground into meal, the oats were crushed, 
and the barley was grittled. 
As the bullocks were more forward than those usually 
obtained for the feeding experiments conducted at the Farm, 
the quantity of food given to them was proportionately more. 
The experiment lasted from November 28, 1891, to March 14, 
1892, a period of 107 days, this being divided into three 
separate portions of 52 days, 31 days, and 24 days, at the end 
of each of which the live-weights of the bullocks were taken. 
The clover-hay chaff and x’oots were given as the animals 
would take them, but were weighed out to them, and anything 
left untouched was weighed back. The quantities did not vary 
much throughout the experiment. Swedes were given until 
February 7, and then mangel was substituted. From 45 lb. 
to 46 lb. of roots per head was about the daily amount all 
along, and from 13^ lb. to 14^ lb. of clover-hay chaff. Equal 
weights of the mixed diet of beans, oats, and barley (mixed in 
equal proportions) and of linseed-cake were given. The bullocks 
began with G lb. per head daily of the mixture or of linseed- 
cake ; this was increased on January 3 to 7^ lb., on January 
19 to 9 lb., on February 7 to 9f lb., on February 20 to 10^ lb., 
and finally to 12 lb. per head daily from February 28 until the 
close of the experiment. 
The recording of the live-weights was done as follows : — 
Tho bullocks received an evening meal at 4.3U r.M. ; their 
