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before so ordinary that they refused to eat it. As the 

 lambing season advances, and circumstances require, the 

 proportion of linseed will be increased a method that 

 all who are straitened for provender will find it their 

 interest to adopt ; remembering that this mixture is alike 

 serviceable to lean cattle and to horses, and that the 

 straw of peas and the stalks of beans are second only to 

 hay. A few Swede turnips, mangel-wurzel, or carrots, 

 sliced very small, and added to the water when first put 

 into the copper, will much improve the compound. 



"Were horses, both in town and country, fed upon lin- 

 seed according to this receipt, only using less water and 

 more linseed meal, one-half at least of the corn now con- 

 sumed in stables might then find its way to the dwell- 

 ings of the poor. In some cases three parts of the oats, 

 in others the whole, might be superseded by linseed, if 

 we may believe Mr. "Warnes. Expense, at the same time, 

 would be considerably reduced. Linseed meal, sprinkled 

 in small quantities upon grains hot from the brewery 

 and intimately incorporated with the rammer, is excel- 

 lent food, when mixed with chaff, for horses employed in 

 slow work. Nor will this compound turn sour if pro- 

 perly consolidated. 



Calves might, upon the compound system of feeding 

 in boxes, be made to weigh thirty or forty stone each 

 (of fourteen pounds), at a year old. Two returns of fat 

 cattle in a year may be effected. But success will, in a 

 great measure depend upon particularity of feeding, and 

 cleanliness. A bullock ought never to be long without 

 food, and a clean lock of straw to rest upon ; for when 

 he ceases to eat he will lie down and ruminate, seldom 

 rising except to eat again. Let those who wish to try 

 the experiment place their bullocks in boxes on the first 

 of January, and return them at the end of June, when 

 they will have consumed the last of the turnips, which 

 are the worst, and the first of the grass, which is the 

 best ; then replace them with the others, which will con- 

 sume the last of the grass, which is the worst, and the 

 first of the turnips, which are the best, allowing them a 

 liberal and equal proportion of compound. 



