430 
REPORT —1854. 
which next follow, in which are given, not the actual amounts of food or con¬ 
stituents consumed, and of increase obtained, but the amounts of food and 
constituents consumed per 100 lbs. lire weight, and the amounts of each which ' 
were required to produce 100 lbs. of increase ; and the items which are given 
in each case are—the fresh substance ; the gross dry matter; the dry organic 
matter; the non-nitrogenous substance; the nitrogenous (proteine) com- 
pounds; the nitrogen and the mineral matter, the latter including only the | 
amounts contained in the respective foods, and excluding therefore that given I 
in the purely mineral mixture. 
Table VII.—Showing the average amount of total food or constituents 
consumed, per 100 lbs. live-weight per week. 
CO 
a 
Description of the foods. 
Fresh 
Gross 
dry 
matter. 
Dry 
organic 
matter. 
Non- 
nitro- 
Nitro¬ 
genous 
i\ 
Oi 
In fixed 
quantity. 
Ad libitum. 
food. 
genous 
sub¬ 
stance. 
sub¬ 
stance. 
i 
1. 
f Lentils. 
| Sugar . 
290 
25-8 
24-84 
19-93 
4-89 
0-78 
2. 
f Lentils. 
(.Bran. 
i Starch. 
30-5 
257 
24-86 
19-96 
4-90 
0-78 
3. 
f Lentils. 
Sugar 
Starch 
("Lentils ‘ 
J Bran 
I Sugar 
LStarch _ 
.... 
330 
28-6 
27-72 
22-88 
4-85 
0-77 
4. 
None 
325 
211-0 
28-08 
22-38 
5-70 
0-902 
_ 
31-2 
27-3 
26-38 
21-29 
5-09 
0-81 
S 
(Mtf 
(T9t 
1-024 
Mean of 12 previous experiments. 
,, 12 
24- 84 
20-80 
25- 27 
1915 
20-65 
19-86 
HaVe thcr ‘ in TabIe ViL thR average amounts over the "JjjjJjS! 
]• experiments, of the various constituents consumed wee 3’^ >’■ 
ve-we.ght of animal: and at the foot of the Table is S lV / n " lefltsi'= 
t aa 1 * 2 particulars in the cases of three previous series of«■ P jsoD 0 f iV 
wh ' ch there were 12, and in the third 5 pens. A cornpa 
fattenff °/ t j le8G Fonner experiments, in which there was g ^ 
uniform^ f °u f ’ " ith t,,at oF the present series, sufficiently^ 0 , lt . ft 
STto 5V""K "»<■-. f consumption of th. dry 
the animal when fed under soffi .. ^gfooc^ 
