Ilume-yroini Produce as Food, for Cattle. 
727 
The conclusion is come to from this and the preceding table 
that the increased money return of 4s. lOd. (23/. 12s. 6d. less 
23/. 7s. 8c/.) for each bullock fed on the foreign produce was obtained 
at the extra cost of 11s. IcZ. (SI. 17s. 10c/. less 3/ 6s. 9c/.) Thus, the 
feeding with beans, oats, and barley resulted in the obtaining of 
practically as heavy an animal, but at a less expenditure of 6s. 3c/. 
per head. This shows that the utilisation of home-grown pro- 
duce in the form of a mixture of beans, oats, and barley may bo 
carried out in the case of bullocks to quite as much advantage 
as feeding with linseed-cake. Of course it must be borne in 
mind that the price of linseed-cake was, at the time of ex- 
periment, decidedly high, and, if calculation be made, it will 
be found that had the linseed-cake cost 16s. per ton less, the 
results of the two ways of feeding would have been practically 
the same. As the linseed-cake cost on the average of the two 
deliveries 91. 16s. per ton delivered on the farm, it may be shown 
as the result of this experiment that, with the present low prices 
of home-grown produce, equally good returns may be obtained 
by feeding bullocks on home-grown produce composed of beans, 
oats, and barley as by feeding them on pure linseed-cake of 
good quality (containing, say, 11 per cent, of oil) when the latter 
costs 91. per ton. 
In certain respects this result appears somewhat at variance 
with the experiment on sheep, which is recorded on pages 716 
to 723, wherein it was found that feeding with linseed-cake 
alone, even at the then high cost of the cake, proved more profit- 
able than replacing the cake to the extent of one-half by barlej". 
But, apart from the differences of the two classes of animals, and 
the fact that the sheep were feeding in the open while the 
bullocks were under cover in warm boxes, there is the question 
as to how far the value of the home-grown mixture was affected 
by the inclusion of bean-meal as well as of oats in it, so that 
the result cannot be taken as conclusive so far as concerns the 
utilisation of barley alone by cattle. It would appear desirable 
to carry out further experiments on this point. But, mean- 
while, this experiment will be useful in showing that feeding 
with linseed-cake may, without fear of loss, be replaced by using 
a good mixture of home-grown foods, including beans, whenever 
the price of linseed-cake rises above 9/. per ton delivered. 
III. — Earth-xut Cake as a Feeding Material for Cattle. 
Simultaneously with the experiment which has just been 
described, another was earned out on a smaller scale, in order 
to test the feeding value of earth-nut or ground-nut cake. 
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