250 FARMER'S ASSISTANT. 



Mr. Young states, that four Bullocks, six Milch-cows, and 

 twenty Working horses were fed, a few years since, at 

 Partington, in Yorkshire, for above five months, with car- 

 rots, which were the produce of three acres only, and with 

 no other food than a little hay, during that time. He adds, 

 that the milk was excelent in quality and flavor; and that 

 the refuse or waste, with a small quantity of other food, fat- 

 ed thirty Swine. 



The hay used for feeding and fating is greatly improved 

 by the addition of a little salt. Mr. Darke, of Breedon 

 (Greatbritain) says, that by adding only eight pounds of salt 

 to a ton of flooded mouldy hay, he found that his Oxen did 

 better on it, than others which were fed on the best. 



The Proprietors of the Bolingbroke distilery, near Lon- 

 don, say tlie Compilers of 4 The Complete Grazier, 9 have 

 erected stalls for fating about three hundred and fitly head 

 of cattle at a time. The stalls are paved with brick, and 

 great attention is paid to keeping them clean. The food 

 for fating is the wash or grains of the stills, and hay, and, 

 occasionally, choped oat or barley-straw. The hay or straw 

 is given twice a day, that they may ruminate as usual; 

 and they have as much grains as they can eat. In generaK 

 they come readily to this food ; though some are four or 

 five days before they become fond of .it. They are usually 

 fated in about sixteen weeks. The grains are conveyed to 

 the stalls in tightbodied carts, made for the purpose, and 

 turned into vats fited for their reception. 



Others, again, practise choping the hay and straw fine, 

 with the strawcuter, and mixing it with the grains in the 

 vats, and leting the mass lie two or three days, in order to 

 give the taste of the hay to the whole. The cattle, thus 

 kept, afford great quantities of excelent manure. Particular 

 attention is paid to their littering, in order that, when done 

 eating, they may lie down and repose comfortably; for com- 

 fortable and quiet repose, as well as cleanliness, is deemed 

 essential to their speedy fating. 



It would seem, that the saccharine parts of vegetables con- 

 tribute very essentially in fating, and, for this reason, mo- 

 lasses has been successfully used in the Westindies for fat- 

 ing the poor old wornout Oxen that are used there. About 

 half a pint is given them twice a day, mixed with other 

 food, for this purpose. 



A beast will eat more in a cold day, than in a warm damp 

 one ; and, therefore, where messes are dealt out in stall- 

 feeding, regard should be had to this circumstance, when 

 the food is such as may cloy the cattle, and thus weaken 

 their stomachs; for in that case they are liable to fall back, 

 until the tone of the stomach is recovered. Regularity in 

 the times of feeding; and that those times be as nearly 



