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on that account. Care must be taken lest the sprouts 

 are suffered to grow beyond the prescribed length, or the 

 quality will be materially injured; therefore it will be 

 necessary to destroy their growth by passing the barley 

 through the crusher ; it may be then used at pleasure. 

 The foregoing remarks equally apply to other grain and 

 pulse, in forming which into compounds the same rulea 

 must be adhered to ; but peas and beans require more 

 water than either barley or oats. The proper proportions 

 will easily be ascertained by practice. An admixture of 

 grain and pulse with linseed will be found to act well 

 together. 



Pigs in a yard fatten upon the excrement of bullocks 

 fed with oil-cake ; but if the cake be reduced to a pulp, 

 and incorporated with other materials, according to the 

 receipts for making compounds, the cattle would derive 

 the intended benefit instead of the pigs. This remark 

 is equally applicable to corn not properly ground. These 

 directions are given thus minutely, in order to urge the 

 necessity of reducing linseed, grain, and pulse, to fine meal. 



Either potatoes, carrots, turnips, or mangel-wurzel, 

 boiled and incorporated with linseed meal, form a com- 

 pound upon which cattle fatten with great rapidity. To 

 make it, nothing more is required than to fill the copper 

 with washed potatoes, or carrots, &c., sliced ; supposing 

 the copper would contain eight or nine pails of water, 

 let only one be added. In a few minutes the Fig. 19. 

 water will boil, and the steam will speedily 

 cook the roots ; then a convenient portion 

 should be put into a stout-bottomed trough, 

 with a little linseed meal, and mashed with 

 the rammer, while a boy turns it over ; the 

 remainder must be prepared in the same way. 

 As the mass increases in the tub it should be 

 pressed firmly down, in order that it may retain 

 the heat as long as possible. The length and 



size of the rammer ought to be adapted to the ^""^ 

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height and strength of the persons employed y or t ^ e 



(see fig. 19). It will be found convenient to compound. 



