ON STALL FEEDING. 17 



work, out of employment : and wliat is more, the labourer 

 ■n-oukl obtain fair wag-es for liis services, in consequence of 

 the removal from the market of his brethren, who liave 

 hitherto been driven to the necessity of underbidding- him, 

 and who have been involuntarily running- a race with him 

 to obtain employment. 



Jour, of the R. A. S, E. vol. vii. part 1. 



Art. v.— on STALL-FEEDING. 

 By the Editor of Farmer's Almanac. 



This is the month (October) when stall-feeding- is very com- 

 monly commenced. Here, ag-ain, it is g-ratifying- to find how 

 well the observations of the practical farmer and those of the 

 man of science illustrate each other. The first point, says 

 Mr. G. DobitOji is to have a g-ood sort of animal to beg-in 

 upon. Ts^ever buy a coarse half-bred beast because you may 

 fancy it is cheap ; note its points — its temper ; do not re- 

 gard merely the heaviest; ahviiys, therefore, select the 

 beasts before purchasing-, rather than agree to g-ive a certain 

 price per head to pick where you like from the drove; 

 attend to quality more than form. Tie up in October. In 

 the feeding", the great points to be attended to are, cleanli- 

 ness, warmth, quiet, and good and regular feeding. When 

 fat, sell them to butchers at home if you can ; estimate the 

 weight and value of your bullocks the day before any one is 

 coming to buy them, and after letting the butcher handle 

 and examine them well, let them out into a yard for him 

 to see ; they will always show better than when tied up. 

 According to Mr. Hillyard, beasts should increase in the 

 1st month 04 lbs., in the second SO lbs., in the last fortnight 

 48 lbs., in the ten weeks 192 lbs. In some experiments by 

 Mr. J. H. Leigh," Avith thirty beasts, each daily fed as fol- 

 lows (to this was added, March 10, either 2 lbs. per head 

 of hay, valued at Qd. per Aveek, or about an equal value of 

 Indian corn, bean-meal, crushed wheat, or sugar) : 



* Jour. Roy. Ay. Soc. vol. vi. p. 74. ^ Ibid. p. 237. 



