C a t o* s Farm Management 



(iv) Be sure you have well con- 

 structed stables furnished with sub- 

 stantial stalls and equipped with lat- 

 ticed feed racks. The intervals 

 between the bars of the racks should 

 be one foot. If you build them in 

 this way, the cattle will not waste 

 their food. 



(liv) This is the way that proven- 

 der should be prepared and fed: 

 When the seeding is finished, gather 

 mast and soak it in water. Feed a 

 measure of it every day to each steer; 

 or if they have not been worked it 

 will be sufficient to let them pasture 

 the mast beds. Another good feed is 

 a measure of grape husks which you 

 shall have preserved in jars. By day 

 turn the cattle out and at night feed 

 twenty-five pounds of hay to each 

 steer. If hay is short, feed the leaves 

 of the ilex and ivy. Stack the straw 

 of wheat, barley, beans, vetch and 

 lupine, indeed all the grain straws, 



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