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about 170 bullocks ; buying in October and selling in 

 May. Now, it would occasion an American farmer 

 some wonderment to be told, that this great herd of 

 cattle is fed and fatted almost entirely for the manure 

 they make. It is doubtful if the difference between the 

 cost and selling price averages 2, or ten dollars per 

 head. For instance, the bullocks bought in will 

 average 13 or 14. A ton of bruised cake and some 

 meal are given to each beast before it is sent to market, 

 costing from 10 to 12. When sold, the bullocks 

 average 24 or 25. Thus the cake and the meal 

 equal the whole difference between the buying and sell- 

 ing price, so that all the roots, chaff and attendance go 

 entirely to the account of manure. These three items, 

 together with the value of pasturage for the months the 

 cattle may lie in the fields, from October to May inclu- 

 sive, could hardly amount to less than 5 per beast, 

 which, for 170, would be 850. Then 1,700 are 

 paid annually for guano and artificial manures. Now 

 add the value of the wheat, oat and barley straw grown 

 on 1,500 acres, and mostly thrown into the barn-yards 

 or used as bedding for the stables, and you have one 

 great division of the fertilising department of Chrishall 

 Grange. The amount of these three items cannot be 

 less than 3,000. Then there is another source of 

 fertilisation nearly as productive and valuable. Up- 



