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consequently stall-feeding, of late, has seldom turned out to 

 be profitable, but often, as 1 have experienced, a serious loss. 

 Meat cannot be laid on lean beasts in the stalls, to repay the 

 expense of the food they consume ; the only chance of 

 making stall-feeding answer is, to put in the beasts which 

 prove to be only three parts fat at the latter end of autumn, 

 when grass will no longer improve them, but which will in 

 the stalls, increase in their weight, and improve in the 

 quality of their meat ; still however, if the price of beef 

 when these beasts become fat should be the same as when 

 they were put into the stalls, the expences will not be repaid. 

 Meat must be a penny a pound more in the spring than 

 it had been in the autumn, to repay the great expenses of 

 stall feeding. It is carried on to a very large extent in Nor- 

 folk and Suffolk, and although from the great expense of 

 oil cake consumed, the farmers certainly must lose by every 

 beast they feed, still they must continue the system on their 

 large arable farms, for the purpose of turning their straw 

 into good manure. 



On beasts being tied up, white turnips w ill do for the first 

 week or so ; they keep beasts cool inside, but there is so 

 very great a proportion of water in them, that they are not 

 of half so feeding a nature as Swedes. 1 hose who have 

 mangel wun.el should keep it as a corps de reserve, for 

 spring, or severe frost, when the turnips are frozen, which 

 are often given to beasts almost as hard and as cold as stone, 

 and which, in such. a state, cannot be good for them. The 

 turnips should be cut there are many machines for cut- 

 ting or slicing. The machine I use, and like better than 

 any I have seen, I have had five-and-twenty years ; it was 

 made at Banbury, turns very easily with a large fly-wheel, 

 and cuts the turnips very expeditiously into irregular piece?, 

 which I prefer to slicing them. My method of feeding, 

 when the beasts have been up a little time, and when on 

 what I call full feeding is thus : first feed in the morning, 

 half a bushel of cut turnips, and afterwards half a bushel 

 of cut hay, with about a quart of meal in it. These feeds 

 repeated at noon ; in the afternoon, a feed of turnips, and 

 supped up at night with hay in the rack, and three oil cakes 

 in the manger. Should oil cake be cheap, give more of it, 



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