704 CATTLE AND DAIRY FARMING. 



be:.-t without a little cake and corn iu addition. 



tie is ;us follows: 



Pence 



!."> pounds rut straw... ------ 



J-* pounds ! ', cwt ' turnips i pu Iped) at <>'/. TUT cwt ____________________ __________ 1\ 



I pound linsrrd meal, at 1 .%/. per pound ----- ---------------- --------------- ll 



:5 pounds cotton-cake, undecorticated . . ________________________________________ '2 



1 pound treacle, at Id. per pound -------------------------------------------- 1 



6 



Mr. lluttar's testimony i.- to the effect that in the above mixture, costing 6d. daily, 

 his stores are kept in much belter condition th^u 1\ cwt. turnips, which at (J<L percvrt. 

 would cost !)<?. 



Mr. Dalziel, Dumfries, at the commencement of the season, places his feeding cattle 

 on the following allowances: f>f> pounds turnips, pulv.ed and mixed with chaff, '2 pounds 

 linseed cake, "2 pounds Waterloo cake, and 4 pounds Indian meal, well mixed with hot 

 water. After two months, a pound of cake and a pound of meal additional are given. 

 The average expense of the supplemental food is 1.7. per pound that is, KW.daily, or 5s. 

 !()(/. per week for each beast when the animals are on full feed. Long straw ad lilnfum is 

 also at the command of the cattle. Mr. Dalziel is of opinion that if :,'- cwt. of turnips 

 were given instead of -J- c\vt., the cattle would not make so much progress. We have 

 already referred to the experience of Mr. Uryee with cut hay, oat straw, or wheat chaff. 

 Many 'years ago, that gentleman intorMS us, he used to make bullocks very fat on 

 Swedish turnips and wheat straw, an unlimited supply of ea-h; but on this diet it took 

 about eight months to make his cattle ripe for the butcher. Now he succeeds in making 

 them equally fat in one-half the time by feeding them according to the following sys- 

 tem: He pulps the turnips and mixes them, and adds 2 or Upounds per head of corn meal, 

 the whole being allowed to stand /'or 21 hours to allow the meal and chopped fodder to 

 become thoroughly saturated with the moisture from the turnips. The beasts are fed 

 three times a day with this mixture, two and three year old bullocks getting about 80 

 pounds and younger cattle GO pounds each. In addition, from -1 to G pounds of linseed 

 cake (home made) are allowed per head, according to age, with an ordinary allowance 

 of 1 'odder. 



Mr. Wilson, Balleuerieff, arranges his cattle in different sets of courts, according to 

 their forwardness ot condition, and his scale of allowances in food is a graduated one, a 

 different quantity being given to each set. When the courts containing the first quality 

 of beasts are cleared they are refilled from the second courts, and so on. The following is 

 the usual scale of daily allowance fr each lot: 



/7r>7, or more (tflrxnccd lot. 



Pence. 

 10 pounds chaffed clover hay, at 1 per ton ----------------- ....... ------------ 4J 



Go' pound- (\ cwt.) turnips at <H/. per cwt ---- ---------- 



ftt pounds linseed-cake, at \\<l. per pound ------ -------------------- G 



5 pounds mixed meal, at \<l. per pound -------------------------------------- 2^ 



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This it will be si-en H exceptionally liberal fading, but Mr. Wilson from his business 

 in !'. iinlmrm ha- special reasons for desiring to have command of the highest quality 



ofb. r. 



Tlv: second court - are getting the followin r ilict.s each day: 



Pence 



2 



1 





 101 



The enM i~ here about In 1 .//. )>"r da\ . Xo si raw is given as fodder, but the cattle aro 

 roughly In '. red. In comparing the out lav '\ Mr. Wilson's cattle with others, it should 

 bo noted tint an estimate i.s put on fodder' in the former case which has not been calcu- 

 lated in the latter. 



