214 On feeding Cattle with green Food. 



The cattle were turned out late at night for about six or 

 seven hours. 



The trefoil caused some trouble, on account of the cattle 

 sometimes swelling, but brought them on very well, though 

 they throve best upon the winter vetch or tares, and upon 

 the grass. The daily expense was one old man of more 

 than 70, to feed and clean them, another young man to 

 cut, rake, and carry the food vi'ith a single horse cart. 



If this stock had been turned out I should suppose they 

 would have run over at least 60 acres, if the crop had been 

 good, and much more, if the indifferent trefoil is consi- 

 dered. 



Experiment. 



Br. jT. s. d. Cr. £. s. d. 



Two men 13 weeks, at 14s. 9 2 Twenty-nine acres saved, 

 One horse ditto - 7s. 4 11 at 50s. - - 97 10 



13 13 

 Profit - - - 83 17 



Any person that intends to practise this method should 

 begin to cut his green food so early in spring that he may 

 be able again to mow the same ground from hay to corn 

 harvest. 



I have before observed, that I never saw cattle in summer 

 come on so fast. I speak this, not only from my own ob- 

 servation, but from that also of several farmers and but- 

 chers, who came through curiosity or business frequently 

 to visit them. The most feeding green food is winter 

 vetches ; and the most advantageous mode of cultivating 

 them, I think, is to plough up a clean stubble (that is in- 

 tended for turnips), manure it, and sow it with' vetches 

 soon after corn harvest. When the vetches are all cut in 

 May and June, or rather in the latter month, the field may 

 be plout>:hed and sown with turnips for a winter crop. 



From corn harvest till September 22, my cattle were all 

 out in the fields at grass. I then took up thirty into stalls, 

 and fed them with turnips which had been sown early in 

 May, and which had arrived at a very good size. My first 

 field of turnips has been carried off, ploughed and sown 

 with wheat, which has been above the ground some time, 

 and looks very promising. 



I have practis'.^d this scheme of sowing turnips in May, 

 carrying them off before the beginning or end of the folr- 

 lowing November, and then sowing the piece with wheat, 

 for these last three years. And I have found this wheat 



much 



