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A piece of lucern, in proportion to the size of every farm, 

 ought to be grown, and a few acres of early potatoes planted. 

 These will always afford a sjipply, should the grass at any time 

 fail, and they will be found convenient as a change of food. 

 If not wanted, the potatoes of course will remain as winter 

 store. To this system let the use of compound be added, 

 and the farmer will be rendered comparatively independent of 

 turnips, which, at best, is an expensive and precarious crop. 



Great disappointment is often experienced in the use of oil- 

 cake. Bullocks will refuse to eat it, if previously fed with 

 some of a better quality ; and it is but reasonable to suppose 

 that their progress must be greatly retarded by a change for 

 the worse. But no such inconveniences adhere to the use of 

 compound, for the 



Degrees of Fattening 



may be regulated in strict accordance with the convenience and 

 intention of the farmer, by mixing up a small quantity of linseed 

 at first, and increasing it at pleasure. Upon this principle the 

 condition of cattle may be advanced or retarded as circumstances 

 require ; and the grazier who has a store of linseed at command 

 will be protected from loss under any emergency, either from 

 the want of grass, through the heat and drought of summer, 

 or turnips, through the frosts of winter. Also, in every case 

 w here milk is re quired, linseed will be found a powerful aux- 

 iliary, whether for calves, for lambs, or for jngs,* Adequately 

 to portray its value to the fold, the dairy and the stable would 

 require an additional volume, so diversified are its properties, 

 and so easy their application ; as the subjoined letter, pub- 

 lished in December last, will in some degree elucidate. 



* Observe, linseed compounds are not adapted to the fattening of pigs. A 

 correspondent informed me that he tried the experiment, and that the pork 

 was unsaleable. 



