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of weighing. The compound will keep a long time if 

 properly prepared. The consistency ought to be like 

 clay when made into bricks. 



Many farmers in the neighbourhood of North Walsham 

 put the compound while hot into shapes like brick moulds 

 (see fig. 18). The frame is about twenty-eight inches long, 



Fig. 18. Mould for Linseed compound. 



and ten wide ; it has neither top nor bottom ; and when 

 used is placed on a piece of board rather longer and 

 wider than the frame. The compound is firmly pressed 

 into the moulds with a gardener's trowel, and on the 

 frame being lifted up will be formed into cakes. Another 

 board is then placed under the frame, as before ; and so 

 on till the copper is empty. "When cold, the cakes may 

 be cut into pieces like bread, and given to the cattle. 

 It will be seen that many boards are required, and a con- 

 venient place for stowing the cakes. Mr. Warnes, after 

 trying the plan himself, pronounces it troublesome, ex- 

 pensive, and unnecessary. Observe, the inside of the 

 moulds should be made rather larger at the bottom than 

 at the top, in order to prevent the compound from stick- 

 ing when the frame is lifted up. 



In the spring and summer months, germinated barley 

 might be made into compound with great advantage. 

 Bullocks will eat it with avidity and thrive fast upon it. 

 The process is simple. Let some barley be steeped about 

 two days, and the water drained off. After the radicle 

 or root has grown to nearly a quarter of an inch in length, 

 it must be well bruised with the crushing-machine, and 

 as much as possible forced into some boiling mucilage, 

 containing the same quantity of linseed, but a fourth less 

 of water than would have been prepared for dry barley. 

 . It will soon turn sour, but the cattle will not refuse it 



