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In April and May the meal was reduced to 10 pints, and 

 Indian corn took the place of barley-meal ; also G lbs. of hay 

 •was given at mid-day. In June, clover-hay and 12 lbs. of 

 Indian corn, 2i^ lbs. of rape-cake, and chaff were allowed. 



The total weight of these 37 Hungarian cattle was 489 cwts., 

 /ir 13 cwts. 22 lbs. each, and the heaviest ox weighed 15 cwts. 

 Of this, 40 per cent, was supposed to be offal. The cattle are 

 fed three times in the day, and all food is weighed out of the 

 store. Even the working oxen and all the other cattle have 

 their portions weighed and bound up separately. 



Salt at the rate of 1 oz. per head per week for sheep, and 2 ozs. 

 per head per week for cattle, is allowed. 

 ^^ At Ungarisch-Altenburg fatting cattle wei'e noticed upon a 

 liberal diet, of which the following are examples : — 

 12-1- lbs. of oats, o^ lbs. pea-meal, 



1^ lb. of pea-meal, 3| lbs. oats, 



l4- lb. of mixed meal, 3f lbs. mixed meals, 



1-i- lb. of oil-cake, l4- lb. oil-cake, 



1^ lb. malt-combs, li lb. malt-combs, 



With cut hay-chaff. With green food. 



Calves of from 6 to 12 months old were receiving — 

 2h lbs. of pea-meal, 

 5 lbs. oats, 

 14- lb. malt-combs, 

 With green fodder. 



The oxen were increasing about 2^ lbs. per day upon an 

 average. I was also informed that half-bred Southdown and 

 Merino wethers had been sold fat at one year old for 33^. each. 

 Such cases might be multiplied with profit, for they are in 

 themselves instructive. Since my object in introducing them 

 is merely to give an idea of the system pursued, they seem suffi- 

 <;ient for their purpose. 



31ilk Pj'od net ion. —In a well managed cow-stable a little black- 

 board hangs behind each cow, upon which her name is inscribed, 

 and underneath the amount of milk she last yielded. A large 

 l)lackboard, ruled for each day in the week, and for each cow in 

 the byre, gives the aggregate daily yield of milk. 



The beautifully arranged cow-byres on the Archduke Albrecht's 

 estates were enlivened hy the presence of a multitude of swallows, 

 which are encouraged in order to destroy insects. 

 Allffau cows at Altenburg: were receiving — 

 2i lbs. rape-cake, 

 14- lb. Indian corn, 

 14- lb. wheat bran, 

 GO to 74 lbs. green fodder. 

 And this yielded rather more than 7 quarts (G mass) per day of 



