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plausible theories, but by men of long experience and sound 

 judgment. I subjoin, with much satisfaction, an extract from 

 a letter inserted in the 'Sussex Herald,' by Sir Charles 

 Burrell, Bart., with a plan of whose boxes, and boiling-house, 

 &c., attached; and those of many other landowners and tenant- 

 farmers, I purpose to embody in my forthcoming work. 



" I cannot lose the opportunity of repeating my entire satis- 

 faction derived from Mr. Warnes's box-feeding system as set 

 forth in his pamphlets, and brought into both summer and 

 winter practice on my farm, the beasts thriving rapidly on the 

 compound mode of crushed linseed, with bean, barley, or other 

 meal, boiled and formed into a mass ; with which my beasts 

 have thriven more advantageously than others on oil-cake, and 

 at less cost ; and, as regards the excellence and flavour of the 

 m*eat, it is superior, and specially tender and juicy. And if 

 further proof were desirable, it is afforded in their ready sale 

 to the neighbouring butchers, and in the intended increase, 

 early in the spring, of the number of my cattle-boxes, from the 

 roofs of which the rain-water will be saved in one or more 

 spacious tanks arched over, similar to one which wholly sup- 

 plies my hot and "green houses. With respect to particular 

 statements of comparative cost in feeding on Mr. Warnes's 

 system, it seems to me prudent to state no corrected calcula- 

 tions until 1 have completed two years' trial. Suffice it now, 

 however, to add that I have sound grounds for preferring the 

 box-feeding system to every other mode ; the food being 

 cheaper, the cattle thriving faster, and the dung made being 

 so much better, that we consider 12 loads thereof equal to 20 

 loads from oil- cake-fed beasts, whether tied up or otherwise. 

 Moreover, the very recent date of your letter precludes the 

 making accurate calculations ; but I hope that what I have 

 stated will be plain and satisfactory. 



** Charles Merrick Burrell." 



The first range of boxes to which Sir Charles refers, were 

 originally commodious pig-sties. 



W. W. Whitmore, Esq., of Dudmanston, Shropshire, is 

 engaged, at the present time, in transforming a barn into a 



