SOME OE THE AIN'IMAES FED AND SLATJGHTEEED AS HUMAN FOOD. 529 
sition of the increase of fattening Pigs so obtained, is adduced that indicated by the 
direct application of the analytical results to determine the composition of the increase 
from the store to the fat condition, in the case of the two Pigs actually analysed, which 
provide the data for apphcation to the other cases. 
Table VIII. shows the estimated percentage composition of the increase of fattening 
oxen. 
Table IX. shows the estimated percentage composition of the increase of fattening 
sheep. 
Table X. shows the estimated percentage composition of the increase of fattening pigs. 
In each case the original and final weights, and the increase in weight, of the animals 
are given. The composition to be apphed to each in the calculation is also stated. 
There is always added some description of the food consumed. When at command, as 
in the case of most of the Sheep, and all the Pigs, the amount of certain constituents of 
the food which were consumed to produce a given amount of increase, are also given, by 
the side of the estimated composition of that increase. 
Table VIII. — Showing the Estimated Percentage Composition of the Increase in 
Weight of fattening Bullocks and Heipees. 
Note . — Original "Weiglit, taken at the Composition of the “Half-fat Ox,” analysed. 
Final "Weight, taken at the Composition of the “Fat Ox,” analysed. 
General particulars of the experiments. 
Calculated percentages 
in Increase. 
Num- 
Actual weights 
In- 
crease 
Mine- 
ral 
matter 
(ash) , 
Nitro- 
Total 
Descrip- 
her 
Duration 
Description of 
(fresh) in 
lbs. 
upon 
genous 
Authority. 
tion of 
of 
of expe- 
100 
com- 
Fat. 
dry 
sub- 
stance. 
animal. 
ani- 
raals. 
riment. 
fattening food. 
Ori- 
ginal. 
Final. 
In- 
crease. 
ori- 
ginal 
weight. 
pounds 
(dry). 
wks. days. 
Swedish turnips, \ 
hay, and oat straw./ 
Mr. Templeton* . . . 
Heifers. 
12 
18 6| 
12124 
15274 
3150 
26-0 
1 05 
6-51 
72-5 
80-0 
Hon. Capt. GnEYf. . . 
Bullocks. 
50 
23f oj 
Oilcake, bean-meal, 1 
and turnips. / 
54796 
71470 
16674 
30-4 
U47 
7-68 
66-3 
75-4 
Hon. Capt. GREYf. . . 
Bullocks. 
36 
26 f oj 
Oilcake, bean-meal, 1 
and turnips. j 
41188 
54530 
13342 
32-4 
1-62 
8-10 
64- 1 
73-8 
Average for the 98 animals 
1-47 
7-69 
66-2 
75-4 
* Journal of the Eoyal Agricultural Society of England, vol. xvi. pp. 163-9. 
t Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, pp. 715 and 732 (1852). 
