12 ON THE BREEDING, REARING, 



tables published, and lias direct reference to the subject 

 before us, on account of the proportions of gluten, starch, 

 and oil which each article contains. 



In the root crops I place first carrots; second, mangel- 

 wurzel ; third, Swedes ; fourth, potatoes ; fifth, cabbage ; 

 sixth, common turnips. 



In the green crops — first, dills j second, r^-e; third, clover ; 

 and fourth, grass. 



In the corn crops — first, beans ; second, peas ; third, lin- 

 tels; fourth, wheat; fifth, barley and Indian corn; sixth, 

 oats ; seventh, rye ; eighth, buckwheat. 



In the straw crops — first, pea-straw, which is nearly equal 

 to hay ; second, oat and barley straw ; fourth, wheat-straw ; 

 fifth, rA^e-straw ; and sixth, bean-straw. 



Thi'ee pounds of oil-cake are equal to aboi;t ten pounds of 

 hay. 



British Farmer's Magazine, Oct. 184G. 



Art. III.— on THE BREEDING, REARING, AND FEEDING 

 OF CATTLE, 



WITH A VIEW TO EARLY MATURITY, AS PRACTISKD BY THE WRITER 

 FOR UPWARDS OF TWENTY YEARS. 



By George Lowes Ridley, Esa., Banks Hall, near Barnsley. 



If experience in any particular branch of business is to be 

 gained from a length of servitude, I may fairly be allowed to 

 claim to myself that privilege ; and it is for the benefit of 

 the younger branches of my brother farmers, that I attempt 

 to make knowaa to them my system of rearing and feeding 

 my own stock, not with any view of showing up my manage- 

 ment as superior to that of many other breeders more fortu- 

 nate than myself. 



Firstly, I must strongly impress on all farmers whose 

 farms are adapted to the rearing of stock, that their first 

 great object should be to possess themselves of a good and 



