CHAP. xii. MIXED FOODS FOR CATTLE. 199 



and then mixed it with other substances, as, given singly, it was too 

 oleaginous, and was apt to disagree with the animals. The following 

 are some of the compounds proposed by Mr. Warnes for feeding 

 animals put up to fatten : 



1st. A mixture of three parts bean, pea, oat, or barley meal is 

 incorporated with one part linseed meal. This latter is first reduced 

 to a mucilage in the manner above described, and the other meal is 

 then incorporated with it. Bran, the chaff of corn or flax, or cut 

 grass or turnips, according to the season, may be added. The mix- 

 ture is not given to the cattle until cool. It will keep for a week, 

 if the air is excluded from it. 



2nd. Turnips, carrots, mangel, cabbage, or potatoes may be taken, 

 cleansed from dirt and sliced, then put into a boiler with enough 

 water just to cover them. As the roots are cooked they should be 

 removed a little at a time into a strong vessel close at hand, and there 

 mashed by one person, while another strews linseed meal over 

 them, so that it may become thoroughly incorporated with the mass. 

 When the whole is mashed, and the proper quantity of meal inter- 

 mixed, it should be rammed down and the vessel covered over, in order 

 that the heat may be retained sufficiently long to amalgamate the meal 

 with the other ingredients. 



3rd. Take clover or any other grass, or bean or pea haulm, or 

 hay or straw, and chop up fine, or chaff or bran, and mix with 

 the linseed mucilage, either separately or conjoined, so as to form a 

 consistent mass. Cover it up close, in order that the heat may be 

 retained as long as possible, and thus partially cook the whole, and 

 give it to the animals when it begins to cool. 



The quantity of these compounds to be given per day will depend 

 upon the size and condition of the animal, but in all circumstances it 

 is better to give a little and often than to run the risk of nauseating 

 the animal by large meals. 



Mr. Nicholls, from whose excellent paper on " Box Feeding with 

 Linseed Compounds" we have been quoting, describes Mr. Warnes's 

 system as being one of the best and most economical that can be 

 practised for feeding cattle, both from its excellent effects on the 

 animals and from the quantity and superior quality of the manure it 

 yields. 



Mr. Marshall's compound for fattening cattle is as follows : 



3 J gallons of water. 

 2 Ib. of linseed meal. 

 5 Ib. of barley meal. 

 lOlb. of chaff. 



The above is the allowance per day for each animal. 

 Mr. Hillyard gave his cattle 



9 Ib. of cut hay. 



2 Ib. of boiled linseed. 



2 Ib. of boiled potatoes. 

 J Ib. of molasses. 



3 J gallons of barley and bean meal mixed. l 



1 " Farmers Magazine, " 1850, vol. xxi. p. 191. 



