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bushels, others rating four bushels, as equivalent to one bushel 

 of corn. 



M. I. approves highly of potatoes as feed for fattening stock, 

 and deems four bushels fully equal to one bushel of corn. He 

 gives as many as the cattle will bear, and this varies from one 

 to two bushels per day. He put up a steer in autumn which 

 cost him twenty-six dollars, and killed him in March, weigh- 

 ing one thousand lbs. with eighty-seven lbs. of rough tallow. 

 This animal would seldom take more than five pecks per day. 

 The quality of the hay, which cattle consume under these 

 circumstances, he does not deem important ; and thinks the 

 straw of grain will do nearly as well as hay. 



He purchased a heifer, two to three years old, at eighteen 

 dollars, and put her in the stall in November. She would 

 have been three years old in fix weeks from the time when 

 she was killed had she been saved. Wlien dressed she weighed 

 nine hundred and ninety-four lbs. and had one hundred and 

 seventeen lbs. of rough tallow. She was fed exclusively upon 

 potatoes and hay, and eat usually one bushel and a half per 

 day. She was sometimes induced to eat two bushels per day. 



In the feeding of cattle for market a great deal of practical 

 skill is required, and constant observation of their condition, 

 otherwise they may be surfeited and their appetite destroyed ; or 

 their digestive powers be overtasked and the feed fail of its 

 object. 



A farmer in Charlemont, of large experience in the fatting 

 of stock, considers the common English or flat turnip of little 

 value for fattening stock. The cattle fed upon them appear 

 healthy and in fine condition, but yield very little tallow. A 

 pair of cattle fatted by him and much admired by the butchers, 

 which weighed eighteen hundred lbs. when dressed, had only 

 thirty lbs. tallow each. 



I presume the experiment has never been fairly tried, of the 



value of turnips for fattening stock. This is likely to have 



been only a solitary instance ; besides this, we want to know 



in the case, how many turnips were given ; under what cir- 



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