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have two or three at hand, varying from eighteen inches 

 to two feet long, tapering, and from four to six inches 

 square at the bottom. A pin should be passed through 

 the top for the convenience of being worked with both 

 hands. 



JN"or let these compounds be despised on account of 

 their simplicity. They are neat and convenient modes of 

 placing artificial food before bullocks, which must be 

 superior to foreign cake, if, as asserted, the latter is often 

 adulterated with all sorts of rubbish. Mr. "Warnes cal- 

 culates that sixteen combs of linseed are required to 

 make one ton of cake ; and, multiplying the number of 

 tons imported into this country by sixteen, questions 

 whether the amount is not infinitely more than is grown 

 on the whole continent of Europe. Foreign oil-cake, 

 however, is confessedly made from other seeds, such as 

 colza and cameline, besides linseed, and is considered as 

 good cake nevertheless. 



Great disappointment, it is further insisted, is often 

 experienced in the use of oil-cake. Bullocks will refuse 

 to eat it if previously fed with some of better quality ; 

 and it is but reasonable to suppose that their progress 

 must be greatly retarded by a change for the worse. 

 But no such inconveniences adhere to the use of the 

 compound, for the degrees of fattening may be regulated 

 in strict accordance with the convenience and intention of 

 the farmer, by mixing up a small quantity of linseed at 

 first, and increasing it at pleasure. Upon this principle 

 the condition of cattle may be advanced or retarded, as 

 circumstances require : and the grazier who has a store 

 of linseed at command, will be protected from loss under 

 any emergency, either from the want of grass, through 

 the heat and drought of summer, or of turnips, through 

 the frosts of winter. Also, in every case where milk is 

 required, linseed will be found a powerful auxiliary, 

 whether for calves, for lambs, or for growing pigs. Ob- 

 serve ! linseed compounds are not adapted to the fattening 

 of pigs : the result of an experiment purposely tried was 

 that the pork was unsaleable. 



