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Add 4l. 16s. 6d. for sundries, to compensate for errors, and call the extraordinary expenses Incurred by 

 feeding 20 horses upon potatoes instead of grass and hay, 60l. from September 1st, to May 3 1st, 

 and to defray these expenses, the farmer receives the produce of forty acres of land. Shall I state the 

 value of this produce to be five times 401. or only four times that sum, or shall I leave the farmer to 

 reflect how he can apply the produce of these remaining 40 acres, so as amply to remunerate him for 

 his trouble and economy ? I leave the farmer also to determine hov^r he may feed his horses during the 

 montlis of June, July, and August, in the cheapest and best manner possible, and to the best advan- 

 tage. Were I asked how this should be, I would answer upon lucerne, clover cut green, or any green 

 food* and carrots,t and in the yard for the sake of the manure and for the sake of comfort. Who can 

 view without honror tlie immense consumption of grass and the annoyance which horses cause, when 

 left to range over rich pastures at their pleasure, consuming the food of animals useful to the mainte. 

 nance of man, and as soon as full, destroying more than twice as much as they have devoured, and per- 

 haps breaking fences, and running over and beating down fields of standing corn, either belonging to 

 the farmer himself, or, what Is worse, his neighbour, and thus destroying not only the food of man, 

 but the peace and quiet of the neighbourhood, without any benefit whatever to the farmer, and with loss 

 of rest| equally as necessary as food to themselves? 



II. — ^Ycu will of course naturally enquire what use Mr. Curwen makes of his chaff and coulder. He 

 never gives this to his horses, but with the waste of corn, and the broken straw in the ham from tlirash^ 

 ing, he does not 



" Jfter burn the strawy'* 



but boil it, actually boil It, mixing with it oil cake : thus, for every cow, two stones of boiled straw, 

 chaff, and coulder, with two pounds of oil cake per day, and besides this boiled stiif, (a sample of 

 which I shall have the honour to shew you at our next meeting) Mr. Curwen gives each cow 4 lbs. of 

 green food, as lucerne, clover, turnips, coleworts, or cabbages. The cows are fastened by the head to 

 fixed wooden yokes in stalls, and stand so elevated, that their dung falls from them below their bed. 

 Here they are kept day and night, and fed alternately with the boiled ingredients, and 1 lb. of green 



however, he cannot afford to make himself a present of this carriage,^ if he has calculated the work of his horses sO' 

 nicely, that he cannot allow them to be thus idlj/ employed for three days, then let the additional 41. iGs. 6'd. which 

 I have given to compensate for errors, pay the carriage. 



* The advantage of green food above dry, i. e. the profit of using food green above using the same in a dry state, 

 may partly be ascertained from the excess of weight in its green above that in its dry state. The Bishop of Llandaff 

 has ascertained the following diminution in weight to take place in lucerne, clover, and rye-grass. 



1200 grains of lucerne in its green state are reduced to 250 in its dry state as hay, i. e. nearly from five to one, i<> 

 speak in round numbers. 



1272 grains of clover to 324, i.e. nearly from 4^ to one. 



1272 grains of rye-grass to 406, i. e. nearly from three to one. 



Hence a rod of lucerne which might produce in three cutings 4| cwt. green, and afford food for nine horses for a 

 day, will be reduced to less than 1 cwt. when made into hay, and not afford food sufficient for two horses for the 

 same time. 



f We shall soon see the advantages of this crop for feeding horses stated : for if no other person does it, I shall under- 

 take it n'.yself upon the data, which I have received from Mr. Curwen, and what I saw at Workington, together witfi 

 what I have also seen upon Mr. Burrows's farm at Witchingham, near Reepham. Land proper for carrots will produce 

 15^ tons per acre. 



% Mr. Curwen finds great benefit in this respect to his horses by feeding upon potatoes. They very soon fill themr 

 Mlves, and immediately fall to rest. They appeared very healthy and in excellent working order when I saw them. 



