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give heifer a couple of calves to rear, tied together with 

 neck straps and a chain about a yard long, and allow 

 her, if necessary, up to 4 Ibs. cotton cake per day. 

 Calves are then weaned about end of January or in 

 February. Feed calves liberally with cake, and sell off 

 fat in May at fourteen or fifteen months old. 



(6) Fattening Cattle in Summer at Grass. 



This is a very good and easy way of producing 

 beef, and may be adopted more especially on 

 moderately rented land. Two very good systems are 

 as follows : 



1. Bullocks may be reared as cheaply as possible up 

 to two years old on grass in summer, with straw and 

 turnips in winter. The following summer they would 

 in many cases receive some cake to hasten the fattening 

 process, so that they may be sold fat from the grass- 

 land. 



2. Store cattle may be bought at twelve to eighteen 

 months old in the autumn or spring. These would 

 be wintered cheaply on straw and roots, then fed off 

 during the following summer on grass and cake. 

 If a bullock increases in value at grass at the rate 

 of IDS. or more per week, it is giving a very good 

 account of itself. 



An interesting experiment was carried out at 

 Cockle Park, in fattening bullocks at grass in summer. 

 Yearling bullocks were purchased for this purpose at 

 305. per live cwt. At the beginning of the experiment 

 (May) they weighed on an average 5j cwts. These 

 were fed for twenty weeks at grass with 2 to 3 Ibs. of 

 cake per head per day, made up of three parts decorticated 

 cotton cake and one part linseed cake. The cake, 

 attendance (3d. per head per week), and interest (5 per 



