| lb. | |
|---|---|
| 2¾ bushels of maize crushed and boiled | 143 |
| 4½ bushels of mixed meal | 200 |
| 1 bushel of oil-cake | 50 |
| —— | |
| 393 | |
| —— —— | |
Cost 5½d. per week for corn and cake; chaff, 2¼ lb. each, between these and the ewes, the lambs eating rather less than 2 lb. each.
Eight pounds of rock-salt licked up by the 352 lambs per week.
January 23rd.—The food was increased to 7½ bushels of meal, 2 bushels of oil-cake, and 2 bushels of rape-cake.
| Mixture of Corn. | Cost per stone (14 lb.) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| s. | d. | ||||
| Wheat | 4 parts. | Wheat | 1 | 0 | |
| Barley | 4 " | Barley | 0 | 10 | |
| Oats | 2 " | Oats | 1 | 0 | |
| Maize | 4 " | Maize | 0 | 10 | |
| Oil-cake | 1 | 4¼ | |||
| Rape-cake | 0 | 9 | |||
Sheep Feeding.—In Ireland sheep are often exclusively fed on grass; but in most cases the addition of other food is desirable, and more especially is it necessary during winter. When confined to roots, sheep, on an average, consume about 26 lbs. daily, unless when under shelter, which diminishes the quantity by from five to ten per cent. Some sheep on which Dr. Voelcker experimented were fed as follows:—
| lbs. | ounces. | |
|---|---|---|
| Mangel wurtzel | 19 | 8 |
| Chopped clover hay | 1 | 3⁄10 |
| Linseed cake | 0 | 4 8⁄100 |
| ——————— | ||
| Total | 20 | 15 38⁄100 |
On this diet four sheep were maintained from the 22nd of March until the 10th of May, a period of forty-seven days. The weights were as follows:—
| 22nd Mar. | 10th May. | Gain. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No. 1 | 153 | 170½ | 17½ |
| No. 2 | 134 | 151½ | 17½ |
| No. 3 | 170 | 187 | 17½ |
| No. 4 | 136 | 155 | 19 |