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pastures, stocked with grade Short-horn year-olds and two- 

 year-olds, will be found, all summer long, troughs filled 

 with corn in the ear, that his steers may have their fill of 

 the best grass and all the corn they desire. Thus he pro- 

 duces cattle that sell at top prices in our market and are 

 sought as the most profitable cattle for exportation to Eng- 

 land. Some of his neighbors, seeing his good works, fol- 

 low his example. 



Corn, as a single diet, is too carbonaceous to produce a 

 proper nourishment of all parts of the body, and induces 

 fever, but when mixed with good grass, is well balanced 

 and makes the most rapid growth. 



The best English feeders have adopted the plan of stock- 

 ing their pastures fully, and then feeding linseed-cake, 

 corn-meal, etc., to help out the pasture. 



At a meeting of the London Farmers' Club, Mr. Tallant 

 said he could afford to pay 12 per ton for linseed-cake, or 

 7 for cotton-seed-cake, and give it on second-rate pasture. 

 It resulted in great advantage to the cattle, and to the pas- 

 ture itself. He had tested this for some years upon light 

 land pasture, and it was now able to carry double the ani- 

 mals that it could five years ago. This had been effected 

 by the use of oil-cake, to give the animals full-feed on 

 second-rate pasture. He was able by this process to turn 

 out steers that sell for 30 to 35 each, at 24 to 30 

 months. 



This shows what might be done to improve the pastures 

 in our Eastern States, the improvement all being paid for 

 by the beef grown. Here the cost of the extra food on 

 pasture is not more than one-half the cost mentioned by 

 Mr. Tallant. 



We do not advise that grain be fed upon all pastures, for 

 the best pasture-grass can scarcely be improved upon by 

 the use of grain. Grass must be the main reliance for 

 growing beef in summer ; but there are times nearly every 



