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BRITISH HUSBANDRY. 



[Ch. XXXIV. 



f 3 lbs, of bruised beans, and 



To the stots 



To the heifers i on lu c i * 



120 lbs. of potatoes. 



r4J lbs. of bruised beans, and 



[ 30 lbs. of potatoes 



together with as many purple-topped Swedish turnips, topped, rooted, 

 and properly cleaned, as they could either of them eat ; and half a 

 stone of straw each. The steamed food was separately dressed every 

 day, and the mode of preparing it was in a common farm-house 

 steamer*, the tub of which was filled as full as it could hold with 

 turnips, which required from five to seven hours in steaming. The 

 potatoes were put in on the top of the turnips about an hour before 

 their being taken off, when they had fallen so much down as to admit 

 them ; and the beans were put in last, about lialf an hour afterwards : 

 all three, when taken off, being thrown into other tubs, where they 

 were well mixed. The food was in both cases given three times a day, 

 to each as much as they could eat, in troughs regularly cleared of the 

 refuse, and well cleaned : the bruised beans given to the lots on raw 

 food being served to them at noon, and the potatoes, one half in the 

 morning, and the other half at noon t. A small quantity of salt — at 

 the rate of about two ounces to each beast per day — was also given : 

 at first, in consequence of its decided effect in preventing the steamed 

 food from becoming so soon sour ; and afterwards, from its being so 

 well relished by the cattle X' 

 The following is the quantity of food consumed by the separate lots 

 duriner a week ; — 



Three Heifers 



••{ 



Steamed Food. 

 Cwt. qvs. lbs. 

 37 16 



3 







r23 



Two Stots i 3 



I 



Swedish Turnips 



Potatoes 



Beans 



Swedish Turnips 



Potatoes 



Beans 



Haw Food. 

 Cwt. qvs. lbs. 

 23 1 14 



3 







17 

 3 

 



Their live and dead weight from the 20th of February till the SOtli of 

 May (soon after which eight of them were killed) was as follows : — 



By wliich it will be seen, that not only did the cattle on steamed eat very 



* On Steaminj^, see vol. i. chap. vii. p. 129. 



f So saj's the statement; but we should apprcliend tliat the potatoes, if given one 

 half at night instead of at noon, would have been the better plan. 



% Tlicy did not get any salt for the first ten days ; but after being used to it for three 

 weeks, the cattle on steamed food were tried with one feed without salt, and they did 

 not seem to relish it so well : a little salt being, however, put upon their food, they at 

 once began to eat it greedily. 



