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and less of meal. The difference of the weekly cost of my 

 way of feeding is as hereinafter stated. 



Oil cake at 12 per thousand in London, with the cost of 

 about 2 per thousand getting home, will bring- the cost 

 of each cake to very nearly three pence halfpenny. At 

 10. 10s. to three pence. 



The different weekly cost of feeding for each beast will 

 be as under : 



a. d: 

 10} bushels of turnips ...... 3 6 



1$ cwt. of hay 5 10 



9 4 



Turnips 3 6 



1 cwt. of cut and uncut hay 5 

 half a bushel of meal 2 



10 6 



Half a bushel of linseed 



Three gallons of meal 1 



1 J cwt. of cut and uncut hay 4 

 lurnips 3 



s. d. 

 3 6 

 6 



12 8 



21 oil cakes at 3JJ 6 



Three gallons of meal 1 6 



Cut and uncut hay 4 



Turnips 3 6 



One acre of a &ood crop of Swedish turnips will produce sufficient for ten 

 beasts, kept in the stall six weeks. 



No food can be given to stall-feeding beasts, that will 

 fatten them so boon or so well as linseed oil-cake. It 

 certainly is expensive feed, but not so expensive as it 

 appears to be, taking into consideration that it fattens 

 quicker. The expense of it compared with other stall- 

 feeding food, is thus : when it costs the consumer at home 

 12. 10s. per thousand, each cake said to be 31bs. (but 

 never are quite so much) ; the stone of 14lbs. costs Is. 3df . 

 Linseed, at 56s. per quarter, Is. lid. Barley meal, when 

 the price of good grinding barley is 26s. per quarter, the 

 stone will be about lid. The stone of bean meal, when 

 beans are 32s. per quarter, the same. Some winters, I have 

 fed with linseed instead of cake, and found it answer very 

 well, although it added to the trouble of feeding. My 

 mode of preparing it has been to break it in a little hand- 

 mill, and steep it in cold water, in seven tubs, of a size 

 sufficient for one day's feed ; in this way it will have been 

 steeped seven days before it is mixed with cut hay and 



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