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continuous crops were available, or the portion left 

 in pasture was ready for grazing. 



Again, in the second year, purchased feeding stuffs 

 to the extent of £614 8s. 4d. were bought, but of 

 this £157 12s. 2d. worth was fed to pleasure horses 

 kept by the owner of the farm, and to dairy cows 

 kept for the supply of milk to the household, thus 

 leaving £456 16s. 2d. spent in feeding stuffs for the 

 use of the farm. This latter figure also includes the 

 value of some of the hay referred to above, which 

 was charged against the farm as it was used, and 

 the balance represents expenditure on feeding stuffs, 

 cakes, meals, etc. 



ALBUMINOUS FOOD 



The purchase of these feeding stuffs was necessary, 

 even in the second year of the experiment, because 

 a sufficiency of 'albuminous foods was not available 

 for using with other foods on the farm, when 

 balanced rations were fed. For example, in the 

 spring of the second year, we had about 12 statute 

 acres of " winter greens." These were folded off 

 with bullocks and sheep. The supply of vetch hay 

 was by this time exhausted, and, as will be easily 

 understood, it was necessary to feed the succulent 

 forage along -with an astringent food — in this case 

 undecorticated cotton cake. 



Some critics have asked the question why was not 

 more dry albuminous food — vetch hay — grown in 

 the second year. The explanation is quite simple — 

 redundant in the case of the practical man. One 

 cannot step into a rotation of crops in one year, 

 especially under the circumstances referred to, when 

 all the land was previously grass land untilled for 



