200 BULLOCK FEEDING EXPERIMENT. 
fed until the experiment commenced on January 25th. The 
quantity of food ‘given daily to each animal was not varied 
while the experiment continued. The daily ration for each 
was 4 lb. decorticated cotton cake, 2 lb. linseed cake, 5 Ib. 
long hay. In addition, Lot I. received 4 1b. barley meal, 
whilst Lot II. received 4 lb. maize meal, and both lots 
received as much chaffed straw and pulped roots as they would 
eat. They consumed on the average 16 lb. chaff and 65 Ib. 
roots per head per day. The analyses made in the College 
laboratory of the concentrated feeding stuffs, and the price 
per ton of each, are given below :— 


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Decorticated|) Maize | Barley Linseed 



Cotton Cake. Meal. Meal. Cake. 
Per cent. Per cent. Per cent. Per cent. 
Water - - - =a 1057 | 13°8 F200 II‘*5 
Fat - - = - - i235 4°1 | I°5 II°7 
Albuminoids” - 29°I 9°5 Lise 33°7 
Digestible Caxpoby, drates. BEI 702 | 67°2 29°8 
Fibre - 6°4 Se 4°6 Q'l 
Ash - - : Styh zits 7°9 2 a 4°2 
100'0 100°O - 100°0 100°0 
Price per ton - | £6 15s. od. | £4 18s. od. | £5 15s. od. | AS nyse 
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The animals were all weighed before the commencement of 
the experiment. They were sold as soon as they were 
sufficiently fat for the local trade. One was sold from each 
lot on February 24th, another on March 3rd, and the remain- 
ing two from each lot were sold on March 19th. 
The total live weight of Lot I. (barley meal) at the com- 
mencement of the experiment was 39 cwt. 3 qr. 10 Ib. and 
the total weight when sold was 42 cwt. 2 qr. 18 lb., or an 
increase of 2 cwt. 3 qr. 8 lb.; whilst Lot II., which were fed 
on maize meal, weighed 39 cwt. 3 qr. 21 lb. at the beginning, 
and 42 cwt. 2 qr. 25 lb. when sold, showing a gain of 2 cwt. 
3 qr.4 lb. The average increase in live weight per bullock 
was 79 lb. in the case of J.ot I., and 78 lb. inthe case of Lot II. 
The average cost per head of 676 1b. of cotton cake, 676 lb. 
of barley meal (in the case of Lot I.) or maize meal ‘in the 
