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bullock turnips, and that they are worth about C/. 15.?. per 

 acre, each beast will consume 85 lb. per day, with the pre- 

 pared food; from this Ave may calculate that 20 tons of 

 turnips will feed twenty beasts for twenty-six days, at a cost 

 of about 1.?. 8d. per week per head. 



" Ag-ain, assuming- an acre of land to yield 20 tons of 

 Swede turnips, and that their value is about 8/. 5.s. per acre, 

 each beast will consume G3 lb. daily, along- Avith prepared 

 food ; from which we conclude that 20 tons will supply 

 twenty beasts for thirty-five days, at a cost of l.S'. 8c/, per 

 week per head. Hence five acres of Swedes, yielding- 20 tons 

 per acre, will sufiice for twenty beasts for twenty-five weeks. 

 " If, instead of Swede turnips, Ave supply raAv carrots or 

 potatoes to the cattle, they consume the same Aveig-ht of the 

 latter as of the former, Avithout making- an}^ apparently 

 g-reater progress. 



*' Reg'ularity and cleanliness, hig-hly important as they 

 are in every system of feeding- animals, are, in this method, 

 the basis of f-uccess. Without them every attempt must 

 inevitably fail. I have found that the omission of this food 

 once on a Sunday makes the cattle return to it Avith an in- 

 creased appetite. Under this mode of feeding-, three-year- 

 old heifers increased in Aveig-ht (calculating- by measurement) 

 during- the time they Avere tied up, on an averag-e of the 

 whole lot, about 14 lb. each per week. Tavo of them made 

 20 stones each in sixteen Aveeks. Steers consume less food, 

 and grained Aveight more sloAvly." 



The author brings forward many Avitnesses to the excel- 

 lence of his practice. We C]uote the following- letter from 

 Mr. Thompson : — 



" Dear Sir, — I have great pleasure in sending- you the 

 result of my trial of your method of preparing- food for cattle. 

 I have not had time to make a long- trial, but T have taken 

 some pains to make an accurate one. My previous system 

 having- been found to Avork well, I determined to g-ive it a 

 fair chance ag-ainst the new one ; and I according-ly selected 

 two of the most thriving- of a lot of tAvelve bullocks, of 

 nearly the same age and condition, and fed them for the 

 first month on the food I had been in the habit of g-iving-, 

 viz. Swede turnips, linseed-cake, and bean-meal, in the pro- 

 portions stated beloAv. Two others, of nearly erpuil weig-ht, 

 bad their food prepared according- to your directions. All 

 four Avere Aveighed at the commencement of the experiment, 

 viz. April 11, 1840. Their weig-hts are g-iven in Table No. I. 



