424 
REPORT—1854. 
Starch, however, there was nearly 20 per cent, of water, instead of only about 
per cent, as in the Sugar. 
The next Table (III.) shows the daily allowance per head of each of the 
foods which were given in fixed quantity, and also the amounts consumed of 
those given ad libitum, during each fortnightly period of the experiment, 
which in all extended over ten weeks. 
Table III.—Showing the daily allowance, or ad libitum consumption,per 
head, of each food during the five separate periods, and the total period 
of the experiment. 
[Quantities in lbs. and ozs.] 
Pens. 
Foods—how given. 
1st 
14 days. 
2nd 
14 days. 
3rd 
14 days. 
4 th 
14 days. 
5th 
14 days. 
Avenge, 
10 weeks. 
Lentil Meal. 
1 . 
] 
2. 
•j 
Mu fixed quantity. 
3 0 
3 0 
3 0 
3 8 
3 8 
3 3j 
4. 
J 
4 6$ 
2 10 
4 4$ 
4 13 
5 Hi 
4 6 
Bran. 
1. 
2. 
3. 
[ In fixed quantity.... 
1 0 
1 0 
0 8 
0 4 
0 4 
0 
4. 
Ad libitum . 
0 Ci 
0 4J 
0 2| 
0 2! 
0 li 
0 31 
. 
Sugar and Starch. 
Ad libitum, Sugar., 
„ Starch 
Sugar., 
Starch., 
Total 
Sugar. 
Starch. 
Total . 
1 
n 
1 
10| 
1 
10* 
1 
m 
0 
14 
1 
A 
0 
m 
1 
u 
1 
2 
«* 
1 
4 J 
2 
0 
1 
0 
3r 
1 
8* 
2 
13} 
feoual ds.il ’ n an< 3 ’ t,lcu ’ t,,ere waB throughout the experune ^ 
Jdftinn t y ,f llown . nce P er head of the lentil-meal and bran respec* 
C ^ the in pen 1 had as much Sugar, those in W 
to eat i!! th T lu P cu 3 ns much, both of Sugar and Starch, 
each pivpn *^ 0n 011 °ther hand, lentil-meal, bran, sugm' an ' t j 0I1 intbi* 
Pen 4 8 tWf a ® e ? aratc trn »gii, and ad libitum ; from the conw j^t ^ 
could ’be iud 01 V r naturu ^ inclination of the animals fur ^ ie r| nt i|-nieal 1,1 
fl o J S °‘* ;V commencement, the allowance 
weviois exnorfn^? 3 ,b *' P" head per day ; this amount being "die ^ 
afford a due P s..M r t, r a l abo . ut that "hick*would, with the bran t < ^ ofltf 
seen that the »,v^° 1,0 ,litro gcnous constituents of food. 0 fthe r c 
sTectivc foodVf t’ vv h‘®h fixed their own cousin*^ lk» 
spectivc food*, took considerably more of the nitrogenous leptd 
