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pany, and of bringing more of my own bred 

 flock under your examination, which, were un- 

 luckily most of them (cattle and sheep) at Mr. 

 Gator's park, at Beckenham-place, and my 

 working oxen out in teams. 



"I will beg you to remember that I do not 

 suppose the true Herefordshire cattle in re- 

 spect to kindly disposition for feeding, or deli- 

 cacy of flesh, to more than equal the true bred 

 Sussex. But that they are yet more complete 

 in their make, generally wider and fuller over 

 the shoulders or fore chine, and the breast or 

 brisket, also in the after part of the rump, 

 which is much oftener narrow and shelly in the 

 Sussex than the Hereford; the mouse-buttock 

 or ham apt not to be so round. 



"It is time to apologize for the tedious length 

 of my ' letter and also for speaking so freely 

 on some of the expressions above alluded to. 

 Allow me to put you in mind that you have told 

 us (who are of a different opinion from you in 

 those points) that one person has 'established 

 the superiority of his breed to all others beyond 

 an idea of question or competition/ that the 

 disposition to fatten, in that person's breed, is 

 so much greater and beyond all others as to 

 make a parallel absurd, which was surely rather 

 unnecessarily treating other people's breed, 

 other people's opinion, with more contempt 

 than they deserved, so I hope to be more easily 

 pardoned by you; and am, sir, 



"Your most humble servant, 



"J. H. CAMPBELL. 

 "To Arthur Young, Editor. 



"P. S. When I had the pleasure of your 

 company here, I understood you meant to feed 

 some cattle on bean-meal, and that you had not 

 practiced it before; if so, it might not be known 

 to you, or immediately occur, that chaffing hay 

 and mixing it with the bean-meal, will keep 

 the beasts' mouths clean, and stomachs from be- 

 ing clogged, and much promote their feeding, 

 as I have heretofore experienced, which makes 

 me take the liberty of mentioning it. 



"I beg your pardon More last words. 



"When you set down the different articles of 

 my stall-feeding, from which you cast up the 

 daily expenses, I believe the grains were set 

 down at a bushel per day and the meal at a 

 peck; if so, you will remember I mentioned 

 those quantities as the largest that the cattle 

 were brought to eat toward the finishing of 

 their fattening. It should be noticed also that 

 some time lapses after their coming into the 

 stalls before they have any grains, then on 

 grains some time before any meal is added; 

 then begin the meal at the proportion of a quart 

 to the bushel of grains, and by degrees only to a 



peck toward the latter end. At this present time 

 of writing they have but one-fourth of a bushel 

 of grains (this, indeed, because the quantity of 

 grains I get will not go to more per head of the 

 number of beasts in the upper shed, and my 

 people had given grains to all in that shed be- 

 fore I came home and I did not think it right 

 to put any of them from it again), and with the 

 one-fourth bushel of grains they have now one- 

 fifth bushel of the sort of meal I mentioned to 

 you. 



"So, taking the average of daily cost of food 

 from their coming into the stalls to their going 

 out, I believe you will not find me much wrong 

 in my reckoning one shilling (25 cents) per ox 

 per day, and supposing the dung to pay for lit- 

 ter and attendance. My garden having re- 

 quired supply at different times in different 

 carts, as I could spare them to carry it, and the 

 very many matters I had to set to rights on my 

 farm, etc., since I came here, prevented me, 

 hitherto, from taking a true account of the 

 quantity of dung made. 



"As to the value per load (what four horses 

 draw from London to this neighborhood) I 

 have, since you were here, enquired of a sensible 

 farmer, my near neighbor, who told me he has 

 given and should always be glad to do it when- 

 ever he had occasion for more manure than was 

 made by his stock, five shillings ($1.25) per 



HAMPTON LODGE (NEAR HEREFORD), OCCUPIED BY 

 JOHN HEWER, 1835-1846. 



such load. Spit dung he allowed not so good 

 as my stall dung, and when I said the bringing 

 it, he added 7s 6d ($1.87) per load, he said, cer- 

 tainly it could not be called less, he rather 

 thought it should be more. This is one in- 

 stance that shows how necessary it is to take 

 locality into consideration in valuing/' 



The following is extracted from another let- 

 ter of J. H. Campbell to Editor Arthur Young : 



