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to the value of oil cake in feeding, not only as a diet that 

 rapidly promotes the collection of flesh and fat, but as a 

 powerful addition to the manurial value of the barnyard. 

 Those who have tried it are delighted with its effects. It is 

 very rich in oil, and the manure falling from the cake fed 

 animal possesses a value beyond estimation. This fact has 

 long been recognized in England, and that is why the oil 

 cake from our oil factories is shipped to England instead 

 of finding a market here at home. It is plain, however, 

 that the reason is, because the fewest numbers of farmers, 

 and I say it with great reluctance, save their manure at all. 

 Those few who do, place no particular estimate on any given 

 quality it may have, being content to spread whatever they 

 happen to have, satisfying themselves if it is only ma- 

 nure. The dung of cattle or sheep fed on oil cake is so 

 vastly enriched that it may be spread on a greatly extended 

 area with far better results than can be obtained from ordi 

 nary manure of a much larger bulk, and the color of the 

 grass or grain is darker, and can be discerned to the very 

 row. Not only is it better in the long run, but its action 

 is quickly seen, and its effects will re m ft in long after the 

 presence of the manure cannot be detected in the soil. Nor in 

 the case of sheep does it require the tedious process of 

 spreading, for they themselves distribute it so regularly and 

 uniformly over a field that every blade of grass and every 

 root receives its share, and by a more luxuriant growth 

 shows the presence of the stimulant. 



In estimating the size of sheds for sheep, 10 foot square, 

 according to the most approved plans North, are generally 

 allotted to each sheep. This, however, is more space than 

 necessary in our climate, for the reason mentioned above, that 

 it is only at night, and on cold, rainy days, that the sheep 

 husbandmen in Tennessee require this shelter. The flocks 

 with us are not confined to this limited space on account of 

 snows or excessively cold weather, for weeks at a time, like 

 they are in the less favored regions North. A shed 20 feet 



