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a stirrer, one or two half-hogsheads, two or three pails, 

 and a wooden rammer. These will cost about 12 ; but 

 if proper cylinders were attached to mills, as they are in 

 the neighbourhood of North "Walsham, the machine could 

 be dispensed with, and the outlay reduced to about 2. 

 Large coppers are found inconvenient for stirring when 

 compounds are made with the meal of peas, beans, &c. 

 The sizes most in use contain from thirty to forty gallons. 

 Upon large farms it will be desirable to have two one 

 smaller than the other. The stirrer is an iron-ribbed 

 spoon fastened to a shaft of wood four feet long, and 

 somewhat less than the handle of a pickaxe. The rammer 

 is three feet long, about five inches square at the bottom, 

 and two and a half at the top, through which a pin four- 

 teen inches long is passed, for the convenience of being 

 used with both hands. 



"Winter-grazing may be commenced upon white turnips, 

 grown after flax, the tops of which, being extremely 

 luxuriant, are cut with pea-straw into chaif, compounded 

 with linseed meal, and given to the bullocks on the fol- 

 lowing plan : Upon every six pails of boiling water, one 

 of finely-crushed linseed meal is spread by the hand of 

 one person, while another rapidly stirs it round. In five 

 minutes, the mucilage being formed, a half-hogshead is 

 placed close to the copper, and a bushel of the cut turnip- 

 tops and straw put in. Two or three hand-cupfuls of the 

 mucilage are then poured upon it, and stirred in with a 

 common muck-fork. Another bushel of the turnip-tops, 

 chaff, &c., is next added, and two or three cups of the 

 jelly, as before ; all of which is then expeditiously stirred 

 and worked together with the fork and rammer. It is 

 afterwards pressed down, as firmly as the nature of the 

 mixture will allow, with the latter instrument, which com- 

 pletes the first layer. Another bushel of the pea-straw, 

 chaff, &c., is thrown into the tub, the mucilage poured 

 upon it as before, and so on till the copper is emptied. 

 The contents of the tub are lastly smoothed over with a 

 trowel, covered down, and in two or three hours the 

 straw, having absorbed the mucilage, will also, with the 



