FEEDING EXPERIMENT WITH SHEEP. e.g 
ration” weighed 362 pounds, and the five animals (Nos. 8-12) 
which were to be fed the ‘“‘narrow”’ ration weighed 361 pounds. 
The first week after the separation of the animals there were 
quite marked differences in their apparent growth. One animal 
in each group gained, but on the whole the animals lost in 
weight so that on January 5th, when the feeding experiment 
actually began, the animals of the wide ration group (Nos. 3-7) 
weighed 356% pounds, and those of the narrow ration group 
(Nos. 8-12) weighed 355 pounds. 
The two animals (Nos. 1 and 2) which had been selected for 
slaughter at the commencement of the experiment were kept 
together until Jan. 5, when they were butchered. In the mean- 
time they had also changed in weight. December 29 No. 1 
weighed 73 pounds, and on Jan. 5th, when butchered, it weighed 
74 pounds, and No. 2, which weighed 72 pounds on Dec. 29, 
had decreased in weight to 69 pounds on Jan. 5. 
By this arrangement the group slaughtered at the beginning of 
the actual experiment consisted of two animals, while the two 
groups which were fed had five each. It would have been more 
satisfactory to slaughter and analyze five for the measure of the 
amount and composition of the flesh at the beginning, but the 
pressure of work at the time made so large a number of weigh- 
ings and analyses difficult, and furthermore the whole experiment 
was regarded as preliminary to more extended series of trials 
and one of its objects was to get experience; hence the smaller 
number was taken. The figures in the following tabulation in- 
dicate that the average weights of the animals of the three groups 
at the beginning of the actual experiment, January 5th, were 
nearly the same. 
Average Weights of Sheep of Different Groups at Beginning and 
Lind of Preliminary Pertod of One Week. 





SLAUGHTERED. FED. 
Two Sh Wide Ration. Narrow Ration. 
N bite Pa Five Sheep. Five Sheep. 
PE Deas Nantes Nos. 3-7. Nos. 8-12. 
December 29th, 72.5 lbs. 72.4 |bs. 92 2b, 
January 5th, 71.5 1DSs 71.3 Ibs. 71.0 lbs. 




