Cultivation of Graft Land Stall-feeding. Houfe-Lamb Suckling* 577 



fuch as cane-tops &amp;gt; and guinea grafs well dried by expofureto the fun, and with oil 

 cake. Thefc are nioiftened with the fame quantity of moIafTes, to which water 

 with a little fait is added.* With thcfe articles a little hay | or not too fucculent 

 green fodder, was employed . Their effects in fattening poor worn-down oxen 

 v/ere found very coufiderable. They are not, however, from their great expenfe, 

 capable of any general application in this way. 



Whatever the nature of the food may be that is employed for the purpofe of 

 fattening animals in the yard or the flail, the greateft care is necefTary to fee that 

 it is regularly given to them, that they have it in due proportitn and fufficiently 

 varied ; that pure water be amply provided, and that they have litter fo as to keep 

 them perfectly dry and clean. Where this fort of bufinefs is conducted on an ex- 

 ten five fcale, it is alfo of the greateft utility to have a machine for the occafionai 

 weighing of the cattle as they advance in their fattening, as without fuch afliftance 

 it is but few perfons who are capable of judging whether they go on in a profitable 

 manner or not. But, by weighing them from time to time, at the diftance of every 

 eight or ten days, in the morning before they are fed, this may be correctly afcer- 

 tained ; and where they fall off, or do not advance in a fufficient degree to the 

 preceding weighings, fuch changes may be made in their food, water, and manage 

 ment, as are the moft likely to promote their fattening in the mod perfect manner.f 



* Middlefex Correded Report. 



f The following table exhibits the refults of various experiments made by Mr. Mure in fattening 

 cattle with different forts of food, in the flail and field, as Hated in the jcjth volume of the Annals of 

 Agriculture. 



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