5~6 Cultivation of Grafs Laud Stall feeding Proper Sorts of Food for. 



Bran, in mixture with pea or other forts of meal, had likewife been found ufeful 

 in ftall-fattcning, as well as barley and other meals, in combination with various 

 fubftances of other kinds ; but their ufe muft conftantly be regulated by the prices 

 which they bear at the market. When materials of this fort are employed, it will 

 be found particularly necefTary, on the principles that have been already explained,, 

 to let the animals have a plentiful fupply of hay or cut chaff. 



It has long been contended by fome, that food in the ftate of acidity is the 

 rnoft advantageous in the feeding and fattening of fwinc, while others have as 

 ftrenuoufly maintained the contrary petition. The point has not, however, fo far 

 as we know, been fully decided by any fair experiments. That there may be 

 fomething in it, feems probable from the circumftance being fo frequently noticed, 

 and from Mr. Young having found the fame principle applied in the fattening of 

 cattle in France, where they finifh the procefs by the ufe of four rye pafte, brought 

 into a liquid ftate by the addition of water, and afterwards rendered fufficiently 

 thick by fome kind of cut meat. The principle on which this depends feems 

 involved in fome difficulty ; as it has been long a popular notion, that acids have 

 a directly contrary tendency. It would appear, however, not improbable, but 

 that acid fubftances may have fome power in ftrengthening the digeftive organs, 

 and thereby promoting the confumption of a larger proportion of food in a given 

 time, in confequence of which the animals become fat more quicJdy. 



Befides thefe fubftances, various others have been employed in particular fifua- 

 tions for the purpofe of fattening animals. The wafli of malt-diftillerks, which 

 has long been principally employed in the fattening of hogs, has now been found 

 applicable in the ftall-feeding of cattle. The method of ufing it is in conjunction 

 with fome farinaceous fubftances, fuch as thofe that have been already mentioned. 

 It is then given in fmall proportions, three or more times in the day : a little hay or 

 ftraw being given them to enable them to chew the cud.* On the principles ex 

 plained above it is probable, however, that fuch dry kinds of food might be made 

 ufe of more fully with advantage. In the Weft Indies, Mr. Millington found 

 molafles to poflefs an expeditious fattening quality, when joined with other articles 

 of the common food of cattle. It was made ufe of in his trials in the proportion 

 of from half a pint to a pint, twice a day, in mixture with different farinaceous or 

 mealy fubftances ; and, where thefe were not in ufe, with various kinds of dry fpod, 



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