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part of farmers to keep their cattle in the stall for a very long 

 term. 



The use of succulent vegetables for the feeding or fatten- 

 ing of cattle other than potatoes, has not in Franklin county- 

 come within my knowledge. Meal made from the seed of 

 broom-corn is occasionally used, mixed with other provender, 

 but for neat cattle it is not approved by the best farmers. Flax- 

 seed jelly, that is, half a pint or a pint of flax seed formed into 

 a jelly by boiling, as an allowance for a stall-fed animal per 

 day, has been used for fattening cattle by some farmers with 

 remarkable success. It does not supersede the use of meal, 

 but is best mixed with it. It is believed that no article accord- 

 ing to its cost, can be used with more advantage than this for 

 this object ; and that none is known, which is more nutritious. 

 This jelly, which I have myself used with great advantage, is 

 prepared as follows : " to seven parts of water let one part of 

 linseed be put for forty-eight hours ; then boil it slowly for 

 two hours, gently stirring the whole lest it should burn. Af- 

 terwards it ought to be cooled in tubs ; and mixed with meal, 

 bran, or cut chaff, in the proportion of one bushel of hay to 

 the jelly produced by one quart of linseed well mashed together. 

 This quantity given daily with other food will forward cattle 

 rapidly, but it must be increased when they are intended to be 

 completely fattened." 



D, B. a successful feeder of fat cattle, is of opinion that a yoke 

 of good cattle to be well stall-fed, will require from twenty to 

 twenty-five bushels of corn meal. The amount of hay he 

 cannot estimate. 



I am not willing to pass over the opinions of another most 

 competent judge in relation to these matters. 



E. H. states that in Heath the cattle are fattened mainly on 

 potatoes ; the largest allowance to a single ox being one bushel 

 per day. The beef proves of excellent quality. He mentions 

 the case of a farmer in Coleraine, long accustomed to feeding 

 cattle, who has boiled the potatoes for his cattle and found them 

 when cooked well adapted for fattening animals. The animals 



