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300 lbs."* Summers moderately wet, with closely- 

 fed yet fresh feed, are found better for the dairymen 

 than when decidedly wet, with more abundant but 

 coarser feed. The celebrated Stilton cliecse is made 

 from a cross of the Leicester and Durham, is pro- 

 duced from the cream, and, when of first-rate quali- 

 ty, it sells from 30 to 50 cents per pound. Hundreds 

 of tons of it are sent from Lancashire and Leicester- 

 shire to London every year. Tliough the Short 

 Horn, or some cross of the kind, is generally found 

 in the great dairies for the supply of the cities, yet 

 a very large proportion of the butter and cheese 

 made in Great Britain comes from the districts 

 where the Long Horns have the ascendancy. 



A series of experiments in fattening cattle have 

 been in progress for several years past at Woburn, 

 the seat of the Duke of Bedford, in wliich cattle of 

 different breeds have been fed alike, and the cost of 

 the cattle, the expense of feeding, and the ultimate 

 profit and loss of the different lots and methods have 

 been carefully registered. The Durhams, or Short 

 Horns of the improved kinds, from their early matu- 

 rity or ripeness, and the facihty with which they 

 take on fat, have hitherto stood highest on the list, 

 although, in some instances, they have been closely 

 pushed by the improved Devons and the Hertford- 

 shire cattle. The polled cattle have been the low- 

 est on the scale, and are now excluded from the pas- 

 tures of the Woburn estate. The profits in feeding 

 have been greatest where turnips have been the base 

 of feeding, in connexion with hay ; and the greatest 

 loss Avas sustained where linseed-cake was used as 

 the principal food. We copy the following, as ex- 

 hibiting the nature of the experiments and the mode 

 of conducting them : 



Six oxen, grazed in the same pasture, were put up 

 for stall-feeding on the 6th of January and fed till 

 ihe 14th of April : they were divided into pairs. 



«• Marshall's Midland Counties. 



