USE OF LINSEED* 101 



Swedish turnips, be quite sufficient, or perhaps rather 

 more, than he would be inclined to eat. This small 

 quantity of linseed will act well on the stomach, and the 

 bullocks will thrive and fatten to a degree that can 

 scarcely be credited, except by the person who tries the 

 experiment. In no instance has it failed. The quantity 

 of seed may be increased after the animal has been 

 accustomed to it for some time, but to no great extent. 

 Mr. "Warnes (from whose book we borrow these par- 

 ticulars), reduced this fact to a certainty by repeated 

 tests. Therefore, as oil is stored so abundantly in 

 linseed, the failure of those who have so freely con- 

 demned the use of both oil and seed, may be fairly 

 attributed to a want of proper inquiry into, and a 

 prudent and systematic employment of, their extraordi- 

 nary fattening properties. The desirableness of fatten- 

 ing cattle on home-made food rather than on foreign 

 produce, was a subject brought forward at one of the 

 meetings of the Farmers'. Club, at North "Walsham, 

 Norfolk, in the autumn of 1840. Mr. Warnes, therefore, 

 had coppers erected, and commenced a series of experi- 

 ments, by incorporating linseed with corn or pulse, which 

 ended in the production of the desired substitute for 

 foreign oil-cake. The last of that gentleman's experi- 

 mental bullocks, for 1841, was disposed of at Christmas for 

 Ss. Qd. per stone; he weighed 60 stone, 5 Ibs., at fourteen 

 pounds to the stone, and cost 7. 17s. 6d. thirteen months 

 previously ; so that he paid > 7. 10s. for little more than 

 one year's keeping. His common food was turnips or 

 grass ; fourteen pounds a day of barley or peas compound 

 (to be hereafter described) were given him for forty-eight 

 weeks, and an unlimited quantity the last five weeks; when, 

 considering the shortness of that time, his progress was 

 perfectly astonishing. Altogether, the weight of com- 

 pound consumed did not exceed two tons, four hundred- 

 weight, at the cost of only 3. 165. per ton. 



To make the linseed COMPOUND FOE SHEEP, let a quan- 

 tity of linseed be reduced to a fine meal, and barley to 

 the thinness of a wafer, by a crushing-machine with 



