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etc., an assortment of four or five kinds of cake, and meal and 

 a little treacle mixed together. When well forward in condi- 

 tion the animals got whatever they could eat of the mixture, 

 but when they had two or three months' time before them the 

 amount given was at first restricted. The last feed in the day 

 was given at dusk ; and at 8 o'clock, when the last visit of 

 inspection was made, the cattle were usually stretched out and 

 groaning. See also the late James Biggar's method, p. 181. 



John Ross, Meikle Tarrel, N.B., with unsurpassed feed- 

 ing experience, condemns a ration per day for a bullock 

 of 6 Ibs. rising to 10 Ibs. of concentrated feeding stuffs, as 

 above a paying amount, if young, well-bred, moderate-sized 

 animals, to suit the market demand of the present day, be 

 bred and fed at home and the calf flesh retained by good 

 management. " Such animals should be ready for the butcher 

 at 1 8 to 24 months old without ever in any one day of their 

 lives consuming 6 Ibs. of cake or meal." Profit can now be 

 secured only "along the lines of careful, economical diet, 

 making the most of the best of the home produce, and using 

 merely what is necessary of imported food to balance the 

 deficiency of oil or albuminoids." 



Depending on the condition of the store animal at first, 

 three to five months may be taken to finish prime, and an 

 increase of from about 15 to 28 stones may be made by the 

 following method of treatment : 



Calculation showing Cost of Feeding per Week. 



3 Ibs. cake* and 3 Ibs. meal, or 42 Ibs. a week 



Per day -I at ^ d ' per lbt 



| cwt. roots, or 5^ cwts. per week, at 4d. per cwt. 



[2 Ibs. straw, or 6 st. per week, at i^d. per st. 

 Attendance 



= 24 



= i 9 



= 09 



o 6 



Cost of producing 12.2 Ibs. of beef . .54 



About 6s. 2d. per imperial stone of 14 Ibs., or 493. 4d. per 

 cwt. of dressed beef. 



* Cake or meal at id. per Ib. /"g, 6s. 8d. per ton ; at fd. per lb. = ^"7 ; at d. 

 per Ib ^"6, 43. 6d. ; roots (consuming value) at 4d. per cwt. 6s. 8d. per ton ; 

 straw and litter averaged at i|d. per st. = i per ton consuming value on the farm, 

 or half the price to a cowfeeder in town. 



Sir J. B. Lawes and Dr Gilbert showed by experiment 



many years ago that it required from 12 Ibs. to 13 Ibs. of dry 



