Cultivation of Grafs Land. IlouCc-Laml Suckling. 



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fale. This is a practice which can only be undertaken with advantage in fituations 

 at no great diftance from large towns, where there is great demand for early lamb. 

 In order to conduct this fort of fattening with profit and fuccefs, a lamb-houj e or 

 Juckle of proper dimenfions muft be provided. It is found from practice that a 

 range of building from fixty to feventy feet in length, and fifteen or eighteen in 



In the following table the quantity of different forts of green crops per acre is fliown, and the pro- 

 portion of flock they will fupport: 



tons. cwt. qrs. His 



Weight of fcarcity root from 1 acre 1.9 8 3 20 



4- 3 18 

 328 

 328 



Weight of 1 bu/hcl 



10 



potatoes - 10 



cabbages - 14 



Quantity of beans from an .acre 8 coomb? 



qrs. 



2 

 1 



2 

 1- 



ibs. 



i 



Expcnfe of 1 acre of cabbages 1 



potatoes 1 



turnips 



beans 



d. 

 

 6 



6 6 fcarcity root about the fame price, . 

 8 6 



I acre* of fcarcity root will keep a middling fized bulleek 254 days, at 3 bufh. per day, 

 turnips - 172 4- ditto, 



potatoes - 1C}0 2 ditto, 



cabbages ... ISO 4 ditto. 



beans 



105 



24- ditto. 



N. B. It appears that an acre of beans, cut green and given flalk and all, exceeds the dry beans 28 

 days. One acre of grafs cut green will keep a middling-iized bullock 112 days, fuppofing I ton 

 6 cwt. per acre. Three bullocks ate 35 rods of green beans in 12 days. The remainder of the 

 crop was 12 coombs 2 bufhels per acre ; therefore an acre of green beans will keep one bullock 

 l6 4) days. 



With fcarcity root againft potatoes the refults were as below : 

 Fowl Scarcity Root, i Food Potatoes. 



Time. 



Jan. 17. 



Feb. 28. 



Number, Kind, and Weight of Beaifs. 



Stonos. Ibs. 



8 fhort-horns weighed 963 



- average 120 5 



weighed again 1014 

 average 126 10 



Gain in 6 veeks 6 5 

 Quantity of food confuted per v &amp;lt; ; ck by each 

 beaft: One peck three-quurters of beans, and 

 four bufhels of cut chaff Is. Sd., and fourteen 

 bufhels of fcarcity root. 



Time. 



Jan. 17. 



Feb. 28. 



Dumber, Kind, ancj Weight of Beasts. 



Stones. Ibs, 



8 fhort-horns weighed &amp;lt;.)55 



average 119 5 



weighed again 1010 

 average 120&quot; 3 



Gain in 6 weeks 6 12 

 Quantity of food confumed per week by each 

 beaft: One peck three-quarters of beans, and 

 four bufliels of cut chaff Is. 8d., and eight bufhek 

 of potatoes. 



The proportions between the living and dead weights in animals are interefting to the grazier. - 



