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set crossways, to cut each root in four pieces, as they are 

 raised. After the cattle have ate their allowance, which 

 should be no more than they can eat at once, they should 

 have some hay given them. Part of the crop of turnips is 

 also gathered, and stored away for Winter-feeding, and 

 some are left in the ground for Spring-feeding. 



Other Farmers and Graziers, again, feed iheir fating and 

 other cattle in stalls, where cabbages and roots of different 

 kinds are fed out to them ; and this is believed to be the 

 most economical way. Some of these articles of food are 

 much more efficacious, by being steamboiled. 



For the various articles of food, for feeding and fating, 

 see CARROT, PARSNIP, POTATOE, JERUSALEM ARTICHOKE, 



M ANGLE- WURTZEL, BEET, TURNIP, CABBAGE, PuMFKIN, 

 &C, 



In stallfeeding, as well as in soiling, great attention 

 should be paid to the comfort and cleanliness of the cattle. 

 Dr< Anderson says, they should not only be kept clean and 

 well littered, but they should be curried daily in the man- 

 ner of Horses, and that they will faten much faster, and 

 keep better, for this. 



He says also, that particular attention should be paid to 

 their having pure water, and such as they are fond of. It 

 is obvious, that if such water be not given to cattle, they 

 \vill not drink as much as they want, and will, therefore, re- 

 main in a suffering condition, which is repugnant to good 

 keeping or easy fating. They should also have water often, 

 so as not to be at any time suffering for want of it. 



Dr. Anderson states, that he knew a Man who attained 

 great opulence, by attending strictly to these matters, par- 

 ticularly to the important point of having a continued supply 

 of the purest water for his Milch-cows; nor would he suffer 

 the animals to put a foot in it, or even let it be tainted by 

 their breath. 



In addition to the various roots there used for feeding 

 and fating cattle, meal of different kinds is used to advant- 

 age, either when mixed with steamed or raw choped roots, 

 or with choped hay, or straw. Instead of wasting the straw, 

 as is but too common here, it is all saved, and used for lit- 

 tering, and for choping up with strawcuting machines, for 

 the purpose of mixing with other food, and thus a great 

 saving is made of hay. 



It would also be a great improvement to chop up our 

 cornstalks in the same manner. The kinds of grain which 

 might be used here to most advantage for grinding up and 

 mixing, as before mentioned, are probably Indian corn, rye, 

 and buckwheat. Machines are also used in Greatbritain for 

 grinding different kinds of grain by hand, with which a Man 

 grind a bushel or more in a quarter of an hour. 



