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ON THE ECONOMICAL USE OF TLEXIPS 



linseed cake (home-made) are allowed per head, accordhig to age, . 

 with an ordinary allowance of fodder. 



Mr Wilson, Ballencrieft', Drem, arranges his cattle ia different 

 sets of courts according to their forwardness in condition, and 

 his scale of allowances in food is a graduated one, — a different 

 quantity being given to each set. When the courts containing 

 the first quality of beasts are cleared they are refilled from the 

 second courts, and so on. The following is his usual scale of 

 daily allowance for each lot : — 



First or most Advanced Lot. 



10 lbs. chaffed clover hay, at £4 per ton, 

 56 „ (^ cwt.) turnips, at 6d. per cwt, . 



4 „ linseed cake, at l^d. per lb., . 



5 „ mixed meal, at ^d. per lb.. 



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6d. 

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Is. 6|cl. 



This, it will be seen, is exceptionally liberal feeding ; but Mr 

 Wilson, from his business in Edinburgh, has special reasons for 

 desiring to have command of the highest quality of beef. 



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The second court lots are getting the following diets each 



5 lbs. chaffed hay, at <£4 per ton, . 

 5 „ straw chaff, say, 

 84 „ (I CAvt.) turnips, at 6d. per cwt., 



2 „ cotton cake (undecorticated), 



3 „ mixed meal, at M. per lb., 



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The cost is here about 10 Jd. per day. ISTo straw is given as 

 fodder, but the cattle are roughly littered. In comparing the 

 outlay on Mr Wilson's cattle with others, it should be noted that 

 an estimate is put on fodder in the former case which has not 

 been calculated in the latter. 



As the result of testing feeding cattle on the scales daring 

 several seasons, when farming in the north of Scotland, Mr Robert 

 Bruce, the Manor House Earm, Great Smeaton, Northallerton, 

 was led to reduce the allowance of turnips to live stock to the 

 extent of one-half in some instances, and one-third in others. 

 He is satisfied, as the result of experience, that not only is there 

 a saving to the extent of the value of the roots kept off', but that 

 cattle make greater progress on the smaller quantity than on 

 the larger. His present mixture is as follows : — 



64 lbs. turnips, at 6d. per cwt., 3M. 



4 „ barley meal, at 25s. per qr., . . . . . 3d. 



3 „ cotton cake (decorticated) and linseed cake, mixed, at 



l^d. per lb., 3|d. 



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