42 FEEDING STOCK. 



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



each 77 



Sis Scotch steers cost 10/. each, sold for 22/. 10*. each 75 



One cow cost 5/. 5*. sold for 15/ 9 15 



Four Scotch steers cost 10/. each, sold for 20/. each 40 



£201 15 



" The above cattle were broug-lit in and disposed of within 

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

 herd, nineteen acres of turnips, al)out fourteen quarters of 

 linseed, and a few bushels of barleymeal, with several acres 

 of pea-straw : — 



Three Durham heifers, estimated value above the cost £ s. d. 



price 22 10 



Two Irish steers 13 



Five small steers and heifers 30 



Three calves, and butter from two cows 11 



£76 10 

 Deduct for fourteen quarters of linseed, mostly grown 



upon the farm, 35/. ; also for barley 4/ 39 



Profit £37 10 0" 



In reference to Mr. Warnes's experiments, too, it was to 

 be observed that the value of the manure was very much 

 increased in comparison with that derived from the ordinary 

 method of feeding-. But, besides this, there was another 

 method of feeding-, of vrhich he would speak from personal 

 observation, and which he had witnessed in the neighbour- 

 hood of Northallerton. He went to that ])lace because he 

 had heard that Mr. Marshall was keeping- double the amount 

 of stock, with the same quantity of turnips, which he had 

 been in the habit of doing- only two years ag-o ; the other 

 food used being- g-round oats, barley, rye, and old beans, and 

 chopped hay, instead of straw at times : but the cattle did 

 best with the straw. Hearing-, as he had stated, that Mr. 

 Marshall kept double the stock upon the same amount of 

 turnips, by his system of feeding-, he (Professor J.) was very 

 anxious to see the mode of carrying- his system into opera- 

 tion, and went down to Yorkshire for that purpose. There 

 he saw about 200 head of cattle feeding- — a portion of which 

 was sold off every week, and their places supplied by others. 

 What struck him as very remarkable was, the state of abso- 

 lute rest in which he foimd the cattle. There was not a 



