APPENDIX. 



THE following is Mr. Thomas Horsfall's statement, referred to on 

 page 138, with the omission of a few passages, relating to matters 

 not immediately connected with the dairy. It is entitled 



THE MANAGEMENT OF DAIRY CATTLE. 



ON entering upon a description of my treatment of 

 cows for dairy purposes, it seems pertinent that I 

 should give some explanation of the motives and con- 

 siderations which influence my conduct in this branch 

 of my farm operations. 



I have found it stated, on authority deserving atten- 

 tion, that store cattle of a fair size, and without other 

 occupation, maintain their weight and condition for a 

 length of time, when supplied daily with one hundred 

 and twenty pounds of Swedish turnips and a small por- 

 tion of straw. The experience of the district of 

 Craven, in Yorkshire, where meadow hay is the staple 

 food during winter, shows that such cattle maintain 

 their condition on one and a half stone, or twenty-one 

 pounds, of meadow hay each per day. These respective 

 quantities of turnips and of hay correspond very closely 

 in their nutritive properties ; they contain a very simi- 

 lar amount of albuminous matter, starch, sugar, etc., 

 and also of phosphoric acid. Of oil an important 

 element, especially for the purpose of which I am treat- 

 ing the stated supply of meadow hay contains more 

 than that of turnips. If we supply cows in milk, of 

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