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had kept for six months. At the farm where he now resided, he 

 had reared for market the following cattle, after only six months' 

 box-feeding: — 



7 Durham steers, cost .£8 10s. each, sold for .£19 



10s. each, £77 



6 Scotch steers cost ^£19 each, sold for £22 10s. 



each, 85 



1 Cow cost £b 5s., sold for ^£15, - - - 9 15 



4 Scottish steers cost £10 each, sold for £20 each, 40 



£201 15 

 The above cattle were bought in and disposed of within six 

 months. They consumed, with the following now in herd, nine- 

 teen acres of turnips, about fourteen quarters of linseed, and a few 

 bushels of barley-meal, with several acres of pea-straw: 

 3 Durham heifers, estimated value above the cost 

 price, ------- 



2 Irish steers, ------ 



5 Small steers and heifers, - - - - 



3 Calves, and butter from two cows, - - - 



£76 10 



Deduct from 14 quarters of linseed, mostly grown 



upon the farm, £35, also for barley, £4, - - 39 



£37 10 



In reference to Mr. Warnes's experiments, too, it is to be ob- 

 served that the value of the manure was very much increased in 

 comparison with that derived from the ordinary method of feeding. 

 But, besides this, there was another method of feeding of which 

 he would speak from personal observation, and which he had wit- 

 nessed in the neighborhood of Northallerton. He went to that 

 place because he had heaid that Mr. Marshall was keeping double 

 the amount of stock, with the same quantity of turnips, that he 

 had been in the habit of doing only two years ago; the other 

 food used being ground oats, barley, rye, and ok! beans, and chop- 

 ped hay, instead of straw at times; but the cattle did best with 

 the straw. Hearing, as he had stated, that Mr. Marshall kept 

 double (he stock upon the same amount of turnips, by his system 

 of feeding, he (Protessor Johnston,) was very anxious to see the 

 mode of carrying his system into operation, and w^ent down to 

 Yorkshire for that purpose. There he saw about 200 head of 

 cattle feeding, a portion of which was sold off every week, and 

 their places supplied by others. What struck him as very re- 

 markable, was the state of absolute rest in which he found the 

 cattle. There was not a single beast upon its legs; no motion 



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