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them daily with equal quantities of Swedes and chaff, giving 
to one six, a pound each per day of linseed-cake, and to the 
other six, a like quantity of cotton-seed cake. The sheep were 
weighed when put up, and again at the end of four weeks, 
with the following result : 
Cwt. qr. lb. 
Six fed with linseed-cake, 
weighed Dec. 26, fasting 5 3 18 
Ditto, weighed Jan. 24 .6 1 25 
Increase 0 2 7 
£ d. 
4 weeks’ consumption of 
cake, lcwt. 2qrs. 61b., at 
14/. 10s. per ton, cost .1 2 6 
Cwt. qr. lb. 
Six fed with cotton-seed 
cake, weighed same time 6 0 9 
Ditto, weighed J an. 24 .6 1 15 
Increase 0 16 
£ s. d. 
4 weeks’ consumption of 
cake, lcwt. 2qrs. 61b., at 
8/. 10s. per ton, cost . • 0 13 3 
Although the cost of the cotton-seed cake gave a saving of 
9-s. 3d. as compared with that of the linseed-cake, the sheep 
fed on it increased less than the others by 29 lb. live weight, 
equal to 16 lb. dead weight, which, at Q\d. per lb., would be 
8=?. 8 d., being very nearly equivalent to the 9<s. 3d. saved in 
the price of the cake. The weighing at the end of the second 
month gives,” he says, c< results so nearly corresponding with 
the foregoing that I need not trouble you with the particu- 
lars.” 
From these details it would seem that, at 8/. 10s. per ton, 
cotton-seed cake is but little cheaper than the best linseed- 
cake at 14 1. 10<? , but at the same time we may rejoice at the 
introduction of another variety of cake, likely to be supplied 
in almost unlimited quantity, useful in itself, and the compe- 
tition of which with linseed- cake is calculated to render the 
cost of the latter more moderate to feeders of stock, and to 
prevent the injurious adulterations to which we have referred. 
