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application of manure, you may coax an ample crop of 

 turnips, and may feel yourself much at your ease as to the 

 mode of using them, as you may draw them off, or consume 

 them on the land, in all weathers. On land which, how- 

 ever well drained, has an inclination to be sticky, you 

 must make up your mind to have more trouble with your 

 green crops ; but if used tenderly, it will give you a heavy 

 weight of mangold- wurzel, turnips, or cabbage. They 

 should, however, be sown early, for you will have no 

 comfort with them if they remain on the land after 

 November. 



So we dispose of all articles in general use for cattle- 

 feeding except oil-cake. It is amenable to no local facili- 

 ties, and is just as applicable to one situation as to another. 

 In spite of repeated denunciations, it maintains its ground. 

 The popular tradition respecting it is singular. For many 

 years linseed-crushers threw what they considered as the 

 refuse of the mill to the manure-heap. A cottager's lane- 

 fed cow, having access to one of -these heaps, was observed 

 to be frequently feeding at it ; and she gave evidence, by 

 the sleekness of her coat and the increased fulness of the 

 pail, that the food was highly beneficial. So it came into 

 use, and was soon found to produce fat as no article had 

 ever produced it before. Veterans of our standing will 

 remember the denunciation of cake -fed beef. It had an 

 unnatural taste the shambles where it prevailed had an 

 unnatural smell the grain was coarse the fat was liquid 

 or rancid the meat would not keep and so forth. Now 

 Mr. Giblett or Mr. Slater gives 6d. per Smithfield stone 

 extra for a Norfolk-fed Scot (the animal of all in the 

 market which has eat the most oil-cake), simply because 

 they dare not send any other sort of beef to the nobility 

 and gentry who are their customers. No other article of 

 food (except perhaps bean-meal, which has the disadvan- 

 tage of making the flesh hard) gives to a butcher the same 

 full confidence that the dead weight of an animal will be 

 fully equal to his appearance when alive. All the pre- 



