Earth-nut Cake as a Feeding Material for Cattle, 729 
the cattle beginning with 2 lb. per head daily of the cake (or 
6 lb. of the mixture of earth-nut cake, oats, and barley), and 
gradually increasing to 41b. of the cake (cr 12 lb. of the mix- 
ture). The bullocks did perfectly well on the cake, and there 
was no difficulty whatever in getting them to eat it, nor any 
harm from its somewhat acid chai’acter. The following table 
gives the main results : — 
Four Ilere/ord Bullocks fed on Earth-nut Cake, Oats, and 
Barley, with Roots and Clover-hay Chaff. 
No. 
Weights at 
commencement, 
Nov. 28, 1891 
Weights 
on 
Jan. 19, 1892 
Weights 
on 
Feb. 19 
Weights 
on 
M.arch 14 
Gain in 
live-weiglit 
in 107 (lays 
cwt. 
qr. 
ih. 
cwt. 
qr 
lb. 
cwt. 
qr. 
lb. 
cwt. 
qr. 
lb. 
cwt 
qr. 
3 
lb. 
1 
11 
1 
14 
12 
1 
8 
12 
3 
10 
13 
1 
5 
1 
19 
2 
10 
0 
24 
11 
0 
20 
11 
2 
10 
12 
0 
14 
1 
3 
18 
3 
10 
2 
J2 
11 
2 
18 
12 
0 
11 
12 
1 
2G 
1 
3 
It 
4 
9 
3 
6 
11 
1 
0 
12 
0 
10 
12 
2 
0 
2 
2 
22 
— 
42 
0 
0 
IG 
2 
0 
48 
2 
13 
GO 
1 
17 
8 
1 
17 
Gain 
per 
head I 
daily 
durine: > 
2 
42 
lb. 
1- 
91 lb. 
2- 
08 lb. 
2 
•19 
lb. 
each period 
" 1 
Fasted 
Ilive-weights 
' in stones of 
i 141b. 
Loss in 
fasting 
Carcass 
weights in 
stones of 
8 lb. 
Price realised at 
4s. 8(7. per stone 
(8 lb) 
dead-wcigiit 
Cost of additional food 
(earth-nut cake, oats, barley) 
consumed in 107 days 
' St. 
lb. 
per cent. 
st. 
lb. 
£ f. 
rf. 
£ a. 
0. 
1 1 102 
4 
3-82 
102 
3 
23 17 
9 
Earthnut 
4 7 
7 
2 ' 93 
9 
3-4G 
97 
5 
22 1.5 
7 
Oats 
4 13 
5 
3 97 
2 
2-71 
98 
1 
22 17 
11 
Barley 
3 13 
0 
4 : 98 
4 
1-71 
101 
4 
23 13 
8 
— 1 391 
5 
Average 
2-92 
399 
5 
93 4 
11 
12 16 
0 
Average 
per head 
99 
7 
23 6 
3 
3 4 
0 
Comparing these results with those obtained in the experi- 
ment with beans, oats, and barley, we have ; — 
Daily 
gain per 
liead in 
live- 
weight 
Careass- 
weight per 
head (81b. 
stone) 
Price realised 
per bead at 
4s. S'l. per 
stone 
Cost per 
head of 
additional 
foods 
Bullocks fed on beans, oats, and barley 
„ „ earth-nut cake, oats, 
and barley . . J 
lb. 
201 
.219 
st. lb. £ s. (1. 
100 2 23 7 8 
99 7 23 G 3 
£ s. fl. 
3 6 9 
3 4 0 
3 D 2 
