226 Mode of Feeding Cattle. [April. 



was observed, which, they were aware, was a circumstance favor- 

 able for tattening. In connection with this subject he got the 

 following information, and in order that they might fully under- 

 stand it, he would present it in a tabular form. It was as fol- 

 lows: 



Linseed, 2 lbs., boiled for 3 hours in 4 gallons water. 



Cut straw, 10 lbs Ui^ed with jelly. 

 Growing corn, 5 lbs. \ ■' •' 



To be given in two messes, alternately with two feeds of Sweedes. 

 Now, the mode in which the linseed was boiled was of considera- 

 ble consequence. In the fust place it was boiled for three hours. 

 The jelly was then poured upon crushed grain and cut straw, much 

 in the same manner in which a man made mortar, being mixed 

 together with a shovel and allowed to stand for an hour. It was 

 then stirred again, and after a lapse of two hours it was given to 

 the cattle in a hot state, and the result was, that if the animals are 

 fed regularly on this kind of food and turnips alternately, they re- 

 main in a state of extraordinary quiet. They become exceeding- 

 ly fond of it, and cominance bellovving whenever they hear their 

 neighbors being served before them selves. The practice was to 

 give them a meal of the linseed mixture at six in the morning, 

 turnips at ten, another mess of linseed in the afternoon, and turnips 

 again in the evening. When he saw them first in the morning, 

 it was after they had got their mess, and he was much astonished 

 to see them, on visiting them on the second occasion, when they 

 were all on the qui vim for their meal. Two things were to be 

 observed in regard Id this system of feeding — firs^, that it consisted, 

 in addition to turnips, of a mixture of grain, straw and linseed in 

 certain quantities, given hot; and the resalt was double the amount 

 of stock kept on the same amount of land. The proportion of 

 turnips which could be grown upon a farm usually determined 

 the amount of stock a man might keep; and, if by an improve- 

 ment in the system of feeding, the quantity of cattle could be 

 doubled, by turning the money twice instead of once within a 

 year, the farmer would obtain double the profit. But this was not 

 the only advantage; he would double the manure which he made 

 at the same time, which would contribute very much to the fer- 

 tility of his land; he being enabled, by the use of this linseed, to 

 return more than he took out of it. The proportion of the food 

 had other important consequences in regard to manuring the soil. 

 The crushing of the grain and seeds, by reducing them to the 

 minutest particles, macle the substances of which they were com- 

 posed more easily assimilated to the food of plants, and made it 

 better ma lure, because of the extremo division which it had under- 

 gone. Now% they would observe that, by having this large adiii- 

 tional amount of manure, they would get larger crops, and intro- 



