Cultivation of Grafs Land. Stall-feeding Proper Sorts of Food for. 5/3 



food is, however, conftantly neceflary to correct their laxative quality. And when 

 given after being prepared by fire, it is the practice of many to mix them with 

 cut chaff. 



Where the cabbage is made ufe of, the confumption is in general found to be 

 fomething lefs than one fifth the weight of the animal in the courfe of the day : 

 therefore an animal weighing fixty ftone confumes in the ratio of twelve Hone 

 each day. In the trials of Mr. Turner, an ox of eighty ftone was found to eat 

 fifteen ftone of cabbages with half a ftone of hay. And in refpect to their power 

 of fattening, it was found that oxen put to them in low condition about November 

 became in a ftate of fatnefs fit for fale in the following March, weighing eighty 

 ftone ; ufually improving in the courfe of four months in value about five pounds 

 ten {hillings.* In this proportion, an acre of thirty tons of this crop would be 

 adequate to the fattening of three beafts of the above fize. 



Grains can only be made ufe of in this way in particular fituations, as near large 

 towns, where they can be obtained at a reafonable rate. Thofe procured from 

 diftilleries are found the moft beneficial in this ufe. The quantity made ufe of for 

 moderate-fized beafts is ufually from a bufhel to a bufhel and a half, three times; 

 in the courfe of the day, hay or cut dry food being given between the periods of 

 feeding with thefe fubftances. Grains feem to be much lefs powerful in their fat- 

 tening properties than any of thofe articles that precede them. 



But turnips, though very frequently employed in this manner, are greatly inferior 

 to cabbages, as, befides their being more liable to injury, they probably poffefs 

 the fattening property in a lefs degree than any of the fubftances that have been 

 mentioned. The proportion in which they are confumed by the fattening animals 

 has by fome been found to be fomething more than a third of their weight, but by 

 others about a third in the day.j- In other experiments, an ox of from feventy 

 to eighty ftone has been afcertained to eat fomething lefs than three hundred weight 

 in the courfe of the day, befides chaff and hay ; and fmall cows of about thirty 

 ftone, one hundred weight and three quarters in the fame fpace of time. An ex 

 perienced agricultor has found, that when confumed in ftalls or fheds, an acre of 

 good turnips will &quot; completely winter-fat an ox of fifty fcore,&quot; befides affording 

 manure for an acre and a half of land ; but if fed upon the land, two acres will. 



* Turner in Young s Six Months Tour, vol. II. 

 i Baker s Experiments, and Kames s Gentleman Farmer. 



