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Class III. — Fed on limited turnips (84 lbs.), witli 3 lbs. bean meal, 

 C lbs. linseed cake, and straw : — 



84 lbs. (I cwt.) turnips, at 6d. per cwt. . . 4^d. per day. 

 3 lbs. iDean meal, at Id. per lb. . . . 3d. „ 

 6 lbs. linseed cake, at l^d. per lb. . . 6|d. „ 



Is. 2jd. perday, 

 or 8s. 3|d. per week, or £1, 13s. 3d. per month, or £6, 13s. 

 for the four montlis which must expire before they are fat 

 when so fed. 



Isow it will be observed that the same quantity of roots is 

 t^iven in Classes II. and IIL, and that the sole difference in the 

 diet consists in an additional allowance of concentrated food 

 bein<^^ supplied to the last lot, which is presumed to have the 

 effect of shortening, by one month, the time occupied in the 

 process of fattening. It appears that, leaving the increased 

 value of the manure out of account in the meantime, there is a 

 saving of 18s. 8d. each in the second lot, and of 14s. in the third 

 as compared with tlie first. This, moreover, is irrespective of 

 the extra fodder consumed bv the animals in Class I., and also 

 of the additional attendance during the two or three months 

 that they have to be kept longer than the others. 



This difference in cost of food, presumably to produce equal 

 results, is of itself a profit by no means to be despised, but it 

 represents only a part of the gain from restricting the roots, for 

 the consumption of turnips in the tw^o last classes is only one- 

 lialf wliat is daily going on in the first, and besides, in the 

 latter it is continued for seven months, whereas in the others it 

 lasts for five and four months respectively. Thus, if the same 

 weight of roots was set aside at the outset for each lot, consider- 

 ably more than one-half of them is still unconsumed in the 

 classes where artificial food has been given. At the rate of 

 IJ cwt. per day, or 42 cwt. in a month of twenty-eight days, 

 14 tons 14 cwt. would Ije consumed in seven months. A con- 

 sumption of 84 11)S., or f cwt. per day, is equivalent to 21 

 cwt. per month, or to 5 tons 5 cwt. in five months, and to 

 4 tons 4 cwt. in four montlis. Thus there is a balance of 9 tons 



9 cwt. of unconsumed turnips in the one case, and of 10 tons 



10 cwt. in the other. Accordingly, considerably more than 

 double the number of cattle can be fed, according to either of 

 the two last- mentioned scales of diet, as com})ared with the tirst, 

 and, therefore, whatever ])rotit is to be made from cattle-feeding 

 in any year, a proportionately greater ])r()fit can be thereby 

 cleared wli(;re the turni])s ;\re restricted, and dry concentrated 

 food substituted. The onlv additional element to be estinuited 

 in tlu! calculation, and which would motlify the result to some 

 extent, is that while the same gross weight of roots would be 

 consumed by the larger and the smaller number of beasts, the 



