26 ON BOX-FEEDING CATTLE. 



resides, lie fattened last winter for market tlie following- 

 cattle, after being- six months box-feeding- : — ■ 



£ s. d. 

 Seven Durham steers, cost 8/. 10s. each, sold for 19/. 10* 

 eacli ........ 



SL\ Scotch steers, cost 10/. each, sold for 22/. 10*. each 



One cow, cost 5/. 5*., sold for 15/ 



Four Scotch steers, cost 10/. each, sold for 20/. each 



^201 15 



The above cattle were bong-ht in and disposed of within 

 six months. They consumed, with the following- now in 

 herd, 19 acres of turnips, about 14 quarters of linseed, and 

 a few bushels of barley-meal, with several acres of pea 

 straw : — 



Three Durham heifers, estimated value above the cost price 

 Two Irish steers ....... 



Five small steers and heifers ...... 



Three calves, and butter from two cows . . . , 



Deduct, for 14 qrs. of linseed, mostly grown upon the farm, 

 35/., also for barley, 4/. ...... 



Leaves a return of . . 



The next item of profit is the manure, to form a just 

 estimate of Avhich is impossible ; of course the rent of the 

 land, rates, &c., and expenses for attendance, etc., must be 

 enumerated to show a clear profitj but the utmost allowance 

 that the severest critic could make, would leave a balance 

 unprecedented in favour of box-feeding-. In bring-ing- this 

 paper to a conclusion, I cannot do so without strong-ly 

 urging- upon you all to follow the system so successfully and 

 profitably carried out by Mr. Warnes — a system by which 

 3^ou can double the nvmiber of cattle usually kept on your 

 farms, you can turn your money over twice in the year in- 

 stead of once — you can double your profit, increase the 

 quantity of your manure, by which means you increase the 

 fertility of your land — a system simple in practice, powerful 

 in effect, and applicable to every grade of farmer. 



Agricultural Gazette, November 28, 1846. 



