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less expense, trouble, and risk, than those in winter, and there- 

 fore make a more profitable return. I could offer several 

 calculations to prove the correctness of this theory, did time 

 and space permit. The object of this letter has reference more 

 to fattening than to rearing cattle, and to proving that double, 

 or even triple the present number may be profitably returned, 

 through the medium of linseed-compound, box-feeding, and 

 summer-grazing. The fear of trouble ought not to stand in 

 the way, nor need the farmer be under any apprehension on 

 the score of outlay, as respects the cost for boxes, crushing- 

 machine, cooking apparatus, and the increased number of 

 cattle he would be compelled to keep ; because the expense for 

 boxes, in most cases, if erected according to the description in 

 No. 3, would not amount to more than 20 or 30 shillings each ; 

 for iron coppers and crushers, about eight pounds u|X)n a farm 

 of two or three hundred acres ; and for bullocks, I have shewn, 

 and now repeat, the lowest priced pay the best. 



For instance, I sold in November last, three small bullocks, 

 bred in the early part of the summer of 1842, one of which 

 was purchased at 41., on the 11th of March last; another at 

 37. 35., on the 13th of April last; the third was bred on the 

 farm, and valued at 41. lOs., on the 11th of March last. Two 

 of them were Durham heifers, the other Norfolk bred ; their 

 ages 18 months each when killed. The first weighed 46 st. 

 7 lbs. ; the second, 41 st. 2 lbs. ; the third, 35 st. of 14 lbs. to 

 the stone, making 122 st. 9 lbs., which at 6d. per lb., the cur- 

 rent price of beef in this neighbourhood, amounts to 42/. 1 85. 

 Qd. ; and, had I sold them by weight, would have afforded a 

 balance of 317. 5s. 6</., and a profit unexampled in the agricul- 

 tural history of this country ; unexampled on account of the 

 shortness of time, the size of the animals, the smallness of the 

 outlay, and the food being entirely the produce of the farm. 

 Should it be asked, what was their condition when purchased ? 

 I refer to the cost price, which the practical inquirer will per- 

 ceive admitted only of what the chemical farmer would term 

 " a very minute development of flesh." 



These bullocks, with about twenty others, were, last year, 

 fattened on my farm consisting of 76 acres only. They. were all 



