92 MANUFACTURED FOODS FOR AGRICULTURAL STOCK. 
given, composed of nine parts barley-meal and one part bran. 
To lot No. 2 the same mixture of barley-meal and bran was 
given, with the addition of two parts of the manufactured 
food to every ten parts of the barley and bran mixture. 
The food was in each stirred up with hot water, and both 
lots were allowed as much of their respective foods as they 
chose to eat. The results of this comparative experiment 
were as follows : 
Description of Food. 
Lot I. 
Nine parts Barley-meal, 
one part Bran. 
Lot 2. 
Nine parts Barley - 
meal , one part Bran, 
two parts Manufac¬ 
tured Food. 
No. of Pigs .... 
3 
3 
Duration of experiment 
28 days 
28 days 
Original weight . . 
357 lbs. 
355 lbs. 
Final weight . . . 
4.96 „ 
494 „ 
Increase . 
139 „ 
139 „ 
Total food consumed 
Food consumed to pro- 
547 „ 
556 „ 
duce 100 of increase 
393 
400 
The amount of increase for a given quantity of food con¬ 
sumed was in both cases good. It is obvious, however, that 
so far from there being less total food consumed when the 
manufactured meal was employed, there were 9lbs. more of 
the mixture eaten when one sixth of it consisted of the 
expensive manufactured food ; whilst the amount of increase 
in weight was exactly the same in the two cases. In fact, 
the results are so nearly absolutely identical that the differ¬ 
ence cannot perhaps be fairly attributed to any intrinsic 
difference in the character of the food. But it is, at any rate, 
clear that nothing was gained by adding to the barley-meal 
and bran one fifth of its weight of food, costing about five 
times as much money. 
The general observations that have been made above are, 
then, fully borne out by the results of this experiment. In 
conclusion, I feel bound to say, that I should require much 
clearer evidence than any that has hitherto been adduced, to 
satisfy me that the balance-sheet of my farm would present 
a more satisfactory result at the end of the year, were I to 
give to each horse, ox, sheep, and pig, a daily allowance of 
one of these costly foods .—Journal of the Royal Agricultural 
