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This estimate shows the young bullock, born in the 

 spring and sold at harvest time the next year, costs $1.51 

 per week, and should be worth, according to Mr. Stanford's 

 average, 8108.02. The value of the manure is estimated at 

 twenty per cent, of the cost of the food ($85.12) or $17.02. 

 The account stands thus: 



Dr. A bullock 71 weeks old $107.35 



Profit .. 17.69 



Total $125.04 



Or. A bullock sold at 71 weeks old $108.02 



Value of manure 17.02 



Total $125.04 



This is an instructive exhibit of the most profitable 

 form of English stock feeding. The English farmer is 

 obliged to take his profit in the manure account, which the 

 American farmer too seldom takes the trouble to estimate. 

 It is to be considered, also, that this English farmer is 

 merely a tenant, and estimates the value of the manure to 

 the tenant, to be applied to the land of his landlord. A 

 study of this fact would be of the greatest value to the 

 American farmer who holds the fee simple of his land, but 

 is less desirous of improving it than the temporary holder 

 of an English farm. The sooner our farmers shall study 

 this manure problem, connected with cattle feeding, the 

 better it will be for their permanent prosperity. It will 

 also be noted that the food is charged at figures as much 

 higher than our current rates as the price of beef is higher 

 there than here. Cake is the principal food that the 

 English farmer buys ; and, therefore, when he turns his 

 own crops into meat and realizes full prices for them, 

 besides saving the manure for his land and laying the 

 foundation for more crops, he properly thinks himself on 

 the prosperous road. 



We must here contrast the cost of keep of such young 

 bullock in this. country, that we may get a proper com- 



