Cultivation of Graft Laud. Stall-feeding Proper Sorts of Food for. 5 7.5 



to give fome other fort of meat, fuch as hay, cut chaff, and other fubftances of the 

 fame nature. In this mode of fattening, fome begin by giving, to a beaft of a 

 hundred (lone, two cakes per day, of about fix pounds each, for fix or eight weeks, 

 and then increafe them to three, till the animals become fat.* In addition to the 

 cake, from half a ftone to a ftone of hay is given each day : the whole confumption 

 in cake being about 21 cwt., and in hay 26 cwt. ; which, at the prices previous to 

 the late advance on thcfe articles, rendered the expenfe of winter-fattening an 

 animal of the above fize fomething more than feven guineas. Lean cattle of the 

 fmaller kinds have been made perfectly fat in the courfe of eight or ten weeks by 

 this fubftance, in the trials of Mr* Moody.-)- The cake, in this application, is 

 broken down into fmall parts, and frequently blended with the chaff or other fub 

 ftances that are made ufe of with it. On the continent, according to Mr. Young,, 

 linfeed cake is fometimes exhibited in a liquid (late, being diffufed in hot water 

 and drunk by the cattle, hay and other fubftances being given at the fame time. 

 In the Lincolnshire Report a method is fuggefted, of giving cake to cattle while 

 im the paftures, in a fmall proportion, with great fuccefs ; a practice which may 

 be applicable where the cake- fed beafts are not fully fattened for fale in the early 

 fpring months. It is an advantage in fattening with this and other fimilar fub 

 ftances, that the animals may be completed with them at much more advanced 

 ages than in other modes. 



The ufe of linfeed oil and bran has been attempted on the fame principles as that 

 of cake, but probably with lefs fuccefs. The confumption in this method for beafts 

 of the fmaller fize is fomething more than half a peck of bran three times in the 

 day, with a third of a pint of linfeed oil well ftirred into it ; with this good hay or 

 cut chaff is ufually given. This method is attended with more trouble than that 

 of cake-feeding, without any fuperiority in the effect. It can only be employed 

 when the oil is cheap. 



When fheep are fattened with cake, they require it to be reduced into a much 

 finer ftate than for beafts, and it may then be mixed with bran or other fimilar fub 

 ftances, and put in the troughs or cribs. 



Oats are excellent for ftall- fattening cattle, but the price has lately been too high, 

 for their being made ufe of to any extent in this way. They are moftly given in 

 the ftraw when applied in the fattening of cattle* 



* Annals of Agriculture,, vol. XXXIL f Young s Eaftern Tour, vol. I. 



