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double, and some adjoining bullock sheds into a single, row of 

 boxes, with lofts for provender ; all which, communicating with 

 the cooking-house, originally a dairy, form a complete esta- 

 blishment, and at a cost comparatively nominal. This gentle- 

 man's plan embraces 40 boxes, capable of containing 50 or 60 

 bullocks. 



The Rev. J. C. Blair Warren, of Horkesley Hall, has 

 about 50 boxes, on various parts of his premises, arranged and 

 constructed upon principles alike economical. But the most 

 compact establishment that I have yet had the pleasure of 

 inspecting is that of H. S. Partridge, Esq., of Hockham Hall, 

 comprising, under one roof, accommodation for 14 bullocks; 

 a boiling- house, with coppers and a pump ; a turnij)-house, 

 and chambers for hay ; and cutting and linseed-crushing ma- 

 chines. 



I mention these circumstances to show that all farm premises 

 may, by a little consideration and contrivance, be similarly 

 converted, and every farmer in the kingdom be stimulated to 

 adopt a system that will ensure profit to himself, rent to his 

 landlord, and employment to his labourers ; because it would 

 enable him to double his usual number of cattle, to make two 

 returns of fat bullocks in a year, and to apply to his land an 

 abundance of efficacious manure : a system based upon fun- 

 damental principles, depending upon its own resources, requir- 

 ing neither foreign food, foreign manures, nor chemical prepa- 

 rations : a system simple in practice, powerful in effect, and 

 applicable to every grade of farmer : a system more important, 

 if possible, to the breeder than to the grazier, if we may judge 

 from the remarks of the Duke of Buccleuch, at a meeting of 

 the Dumfries Agricultural Association ; and from the miserable 

 spectacles that appear in our cattle-markets — spectacles at 

 variance both with humanity and judicious management. His 

 Grace animadverted upon the deteriorating effect of keeping 

 cattle upon straw in winter, and advised the adoption of some 

 method that would, at least, retain the condition acquired in 

 the summer, and improve the manure. Linseed-meal boiled 

 for a few minutes, and intimately incorporated with straw, 

 will achieve both objects. For instance, Mr. Partridge has 21 

 score of ewes, to which a peck only is given per day, at the 



