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In Norfolk generally, and in many parts of other 

 counties, the use of linseed, to fatten bullocks and sheep, 

 is beginning to be understood. Many suppose that they 

 are sufficiently acquainted with its properties ; but there 

 is yet much to learn as to the extent of its value, par- 

 ticularly for rearing store-stock, in combination with box- 

 feeding and summer-grazing. The direct advantage is 

 seen in the rapid progress of the cattle ; the indirect, in 

 the superiority of the crops where the manure thus ob- 

 tained has been applied. Formerly, through ignorance 

 of management, linseed, as cattle-food, failed to remune- 

 rate, and consequently its use had long been discontinued 

 in Norfolk ; but in consequence of Mr. Warnes's efforts, 

 the demand became greater than the supply. 



"We must refer the reader to that gentleman's work 

 for plans of boxes, boiling-houses, &c., as being more 

 closely connected with the grazier's trade than with our 

 present subject the culture of flax, contenting ourselves 

 with quoting the testimony which Sir Charles Eurrell has 

 given as to their efficiency. He thus writes to the 

 Sussex Herald: "I cannot lose the opportunity of re- 

 peating my entire satisfaction derived from Mr. Warnes's 

 box-feeding system, as set forth in his pamphlets, and 

 brought into both summer and winter practice on my 

 farm, the beasts thriving rapidly on the compound made 

 of crushed linseed, with bean, barley, or other meal, 

 boiled, and formed into a mass, with which my beasts 

 have thriven more advantageously than others on oil- 

 cake, and at less cost ; and, as regards the excellence and 

 flavour of the meat, it is superior, and specially tender 

 and juicy. And if further proof were desirable, it is 

 afforded in their ready sale to the neighbouring butchers, 

 and in the intended increase, early in the spring, of the 

 number of rny cattle-boxes, from the roofs of which the 

 rain-water will be saved in one or more spacious tanks, 

 arched over, similar to one which wholly supplies my hot 

 and green houses. "With respect to particular statements 

 of comparative cost in feeding, on Mr. Warnes's system, 

 it seems to me prudent to state no corrected calculations 



