AT PEN DI X. 



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On Fatting Beasts with Oil, Bran, & Hay. 



Letter from LORD PETRE to Sir JOHN SINCLAIR, 

 Bart, dated Park-Lane, 2d April, 1795. 



SIR, 



A AM very forry that I was detained at a meeting of the. 

 Chelmir Navigation Company, till it was too late for the 

 Board of Agriculture. 



I have received the following account from the country, 

 Telative to the fatting of beads on oil and bran: it is not fo 

 accurate as if they had been fed with a view fo making a regu- 

 lar experiment, but fuflicicntly io for general information. 



To fimfli a beafi, weighing 100 Irorie or more, and coming 

 from gr2fs half fat, will colt, in oil, bran, and hay, ios. per 

 week, and gain, at leaft, 12 ftone per month, by which, <>.t 

 the moderate price of A- Z d. per lb. or 3s. per flone 4 the feeder 

 will be the lolcr of 6d. per Hone ; but as the ox will be im- 

 proved,. in value, is. per Rone more, than if he had not \,i-en 

 finifhed with oil, (on account of the encreafed quantity of 

 fliet gained by the feeding with oil or oil-cakeb) the feeder, 

 upon the whole, is well paid for his trouble and expences. 



What would be the difference' between the expence of oil, 

 or o.l-cakcs, I cannot pretend to fay ; I am at Inch a diflance 

 from the mills, that t lie carriage is very considerable, and a 

 or two of oil ir, eafily brought from London, which in- 

 duces mc to prefer oil. 



I aain, <xc 



