HAGI AS A FORAGE CROP. 
35 
As the composition of feeding stuffs, as shown by the chemi¬ 
cal analysis, does not fully suffice for an exact judgment on 
\ the nutritive value, we carried out a digestion experiment with 
two sheep, and used for this purpose the hay obtained in the 
first cutting of 1889. About 40 kilogrms. of this hay which had 
j been stored in a dry room during the summer, were cut into 
pieces of about 2 centimetres’ length and well mixed, before the 
experiment commenced. The two animals, rams of the South- 
down breed about 2^ years old, furnished with bags of rubber 
cloth and with rubber funnels to guide the urine off into a 
bottle, were kept during the whole experiment in the feeding 
boxes described in Bulletion No. 2, p. 2—5. From November 
5th—18th they received 1 kilogrm. of the hay per day per head, 
besides water ad libitum and 6 grms. of common salt. After 6 
days preliminary feeding the residues of food left uneaten and 
the faeces were quantitatively collected and the amounts of 
water consumed and of urine excreted determined. Besides 
this, the animals were weighed every morning. The results of 
these determinations were the following : 
Hay left uneaten. 
Water consumed. 
Live- 
weight. 
_ 
■—-^ 
^- K 
- s 
kilosrrams. 
Date. 
Sheep 
Sheep 
Sheep 
Sheep 
t 
No- 
No. I. 
No. II. 
No. I. 
No. II. 
Sheep 
Sheep 
vember. 
grms. 
grms. 
grms. 
grms. 
No. I. 
No. II. 
I ith 
208 
166 
1100 
1210 
26.9 
2 9-5 
12 ,, 
173 
21 
1290 
1200 
26.9 
2 9-3 
13 » 
205 
2 4 
1200. 
1670 
27.0 
2 9-5 
H ». 
207 
2 5 
1120 
1260 
27.I 
29.6 
15 
164 
6 
1280 
1620 
27.I 
29.8 
16 ,, 
l 5 2 
6 
1390 
1560 
27.4 
C-O 
O 
b 
17 .. 
157 
5 
1620 
I 53 ° 
27.6 
30.2 
Daily average 
180.8 
53 6 - r 4 
1286 
H 3 6 
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