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11. MR. WARNE S METHOD. It is not best, however, to use it 

 in a crude state, but either to reduce it to a rich jelly or mu 

 cilage by boiling, or, after having done so, by the addition of 

 meal, to form it into a rich paste, of which cattle soon become 

 very fond. Mr. John Warne, of Trimmingham, in Norfolk county, 

 whom I have the pleasure of knowing, a highly intelligent and 

 enterprising farmer, has greatly interested himself to induce the 

 farmers of England to cultivate flax largely, not for the fibre 

 only, but for the seed, as feed for cattle, and in this way to 

 obtain the most effectual means of enriching their land, and 

 thus save at home some portion of those immense sums 

 which are now expended upon the importation of manures from 

 abroad. 



Having had repeated communications with Mr. Warne, I shall 

 give some account of the management which he pursues in the 

 use of seed for fattening. He has sheds for his stock, which he 

 divides into separate compartments, or stalls, or, as he calls them, 

 boxes. Each box is designed to contain one fatting animal. It 

 is intended to be about nine feet square, and the earth is dng out 

 so as to form a depth of about two feet from the surface, walled 

 in with brick, and the bottom made tight. The animal to be 

 fatted is placed in this box, and copiously littered with straw, of 

 which an ample supply is furnished daily, that he may have a 

 dry bed to lie down upon, and that as much of the manure as 

 possible may be absorbed by the straw. The animal is not 

 taken out of the box during the process of being fattened ; and, 

 besides such long feed as may be given, he is supplied with this 

 linseed paste, made after the recipe subjoined. 



&quot; Compound for Sheep. Let a quantity of linseed be reduced to a fine meal, 

 and barley be passed through a crushing machine, with smooth cylinders. 

 Put a hundred and sixty-eight pounds of water into an iron cauldron ; as soon as 

 it boils, not before, stir in twenty-one pounds of linseed meal ; continue to stir it 

 for about five minutes ; then let sixty-three pounds of the crushed barley be 

 sprinkled upon the boiling mucilage, and rapidly stirred in. After the whole has 

 been carefully incorporated, the fire may be suffered to go out. The mass will 

 continue to simmer until the barley has absorbed the mucilage ; and the com 

 pound, when cold, may be given to th 1 sheep.&quot; 



&quot; For bullocks, the same process is to be observed ; but the barley, in this case, 

 must be ground into fine meal, and the quantity of water somewhat reduced. In 

 this case, the fire must be extinguished, for the reason, that flattened barley re 

 quires heat to carry on absorption, while meal is sufficiently cooked by immersion. 



