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pent in receiving goo i a paying, 'or helping to pay, the Vias on ara i farms 
o other | estate improvement that etel be end in een or | will be tamea upon, as they are now by «yea 
[don’t say that all this came at/once, by any m written on paper or sketched o paste eboa rd, or cited | as a necessary evil, and called nothing. better than 
E long dark winterly ride Homeward, Nothing from “ the I ad been and 0. 
oes that is born to last: but there have tl hout pi t ve or if all the Lenses an nd | When cattle are first put into the sta talls I — 
m "s lives na few—a very few | Ag t rfe cte d on paper or parch- direi the meal or cake, a ixing the roots 
A ind in a certain d bef with the chaff, pouring the pur over hina md 
tion, cling like a fishhook, and for the moment | fied eyo all that time- honoured apparatus put il leaving. the m ixture either in a heap or cistern 
simost as stingingly: and that smart is often the birth D | 24 | y this means the eid is nt 
throe of a half unconscious resolve—a germ of power to | veyed i in that old arve| more palatable, ed ‘ae! mixture eaten very readily. 
ei E and S led purpose. It finds food | a n As ned H- ne itself: in i my | At this time the will be pulped or ‘whines and 
a sor thoughts in all its bine po cr et brevity il may be centile: the. first eight to 10 weeks with the 
ini tag deal into special | — it — almost to nsei — m bullocks to the fattening stalls; but when the cattle 
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that little * fishhook.’ the help that lawyer or la fs -agent could giv ne | raw and the corn Äi cake dry. The butchers 
m - A" ened to me thus. Before Bi office SPUR made itse re telt tha t highs! and for many «nd | ay ‘cattle fed on cooked food do not weigh wel, 
over, the good natured law ma: Ya afte’ they turn out so full. of fat, and the 
onini X indecisively and even mek id etorily | to r move $ thet Sigue shame awa y the very echo | flesh y^ far from so firm as they wish it to be. 
be A ns pn an axio us and repeated a Ded of the words I had heard, from that portion of earth | Now I know this to be MNT: : aid an instance 
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iind tut iiptomais, D said * Language was ange, it seemed to me, that I should never have Mme of roots, cattle fed in 1 winter will not give 
conceal th ' broke in with a cheery proponi to Mni of this before! How the boy may fish, and the the purchaser satisfaction. My brother, who farms in 
io his ient cR to stay and join his early family youth may shoot and hunt, and disport himself i in a! Norfolk {open the estate of Lord Wodehouse), had 25 
dimer. A grunt, gie "You're very good” (also | hundred ways over t faces, res- | very nice rthorn steers in his yards, when I visited 
ted), in a jolly s gouty kind of way not easily | ponsive to his own, and partake of jolly “luncheons | him last Febra uary; he was giving them pulped roo 
gun from my Sachen? decided me also : and | "e ad with welcoming smiles, at hospitable farmhouses, land Clov i 
ver learn, never guess one tittle of the trouble | straw, i. any, and from 4 lb. to 6 lb. of cake or meal. 
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added, to me, ina kind of hospitable irtó- way, land slavery from year’s end ve year’s end, and alas! | fat, and I, pug tnm A T n ware the following week, 
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to my gar, than for anything about ‘Leases and | deep under his feet over wide tracts where the| who c ^w hat my brother had been 
nete en! foot that follows the plough, - hei steps to the | feeding "his ballocks 1 = upon, as the butchers who bought 
And my ear as right. Plenty of kindness, hospi- | ho opper and pum has preceded or pl ost terribly of their weighing so 
tality, an va ment, * Had I had much shooting rd on i annual a ustomed errand ; mE where the foot of | badly, and eiie out such brutes. The credit the 
ed knew Th Fere been a day from town, ki ; tho hand that dives below the stale | Norlolks ries ve the London market, from January 
my ey ecutory business) ‘ Best coverts in wm surface- ‘soil, ‘the mind that directs the drain- | to June, is owin the abu ndane ce of ro ots with which 
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the fe » Yours, for woodcocks’ (Oh! you fa n and rra s the course € character of the they are eds d and friends 
wicked tempting ‘Lawyer,’ you very well knew why !) | under-strata, have advanced no more than into the | remember this, who think shat cattle can be fed with- 
And so on from subject to subject, as rogni a run as | primeval forests of the Western World, | out any roots at all. 
if * Lease" and“ Agreement? were a couple of igiene | and tomahawk and dd of the Indian have alike| I will the 
that 1 had sli spat = him under e € table, or "T eded for as man enturie ries, or more. Wo nde rfal | notion, 7 some of the Pts toda pe are most 
across it, and hi as doubling rou he decanters. history of tl vogue in the present day, Without doubt, that 
What could P men? Suddenly, ri Qu to my | wants of man! only [^ seen and ion erin hich dtd first is Lied cake, and, when 
pogin ur oj ntroduction, | because human 1 ers as beri pure, deservedly so; but we must be 
in & oos. de at Talt teip near pene —the ladies fex should be read. To one whole bMS] is given | careful what we purchase, and be guided by our 
having left the em RT of the coverts— of the abe rhip-crop—to | own “ palates” as the best test of its genuine- 
i P another its SE extension—to another the intro- | ness. I prefer to mix meal of some sort with cake, 
* Which ?" wakening up with a start,— duction of the dra "- tile to another the improvement | when a e portion of roots is given; but the 
^ indwolde.” of its form, and epth—to another lati ices of each article will rule this. Now that 
a ” Know it? Yes |—'d st a lark!” | of steam’ power o" ‘the processes of the farm yard—to | most fee meals are cheap, such as Beans, me 
eas ver saw a struggling mod i has had all | another its advancement into the field,—and so on Maize, Lents and others, it is a good practice to use 
z ands at the tho pumps for eight-and- -forty hours, suddenly But who that pow stands and contemplates an almost rushed Linseed, in proportion of about one to five; 
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pap bet he once ce did Witness, and MEE ou may for rm | give, would believe there was a time when straggling when cattle are eating Mangels, I prefer meal to ‘cake, 
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ai 8 face Wide enly collapsed gave up guage of exp irony would ‘starve Cotton-seed cake is, I find, very useful on Grass, 
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leet shell had burst: there was no * pick- (Concluded from page 85.) ho lost t Welsh beasts from using it, an 
e bits? This lay plainly [The following is MEN remainder en Mr. paper read the > quantity was s only | 4 Tbs. ed en m day, thrown 
I shee of our ght A from which i um at the London Farmers' club] ass land. t when 
; = “py ao nd m formidable 1 E i A FARMER, ‘having selected or bred his young tho cake was sent him for i inspection, ‘ai ight as 
the ton a miphatically dropt, than even from | stock, must keep them nicely, and care must be well give cattle compressed “ cherry stante” as they 
tale of facts, u Vitered the em. AndasI mm inditing a bed a draw à P between too high feeding and | would be quite as digestible ; so mind, when emm 
tuman dig me record to the honor of solicitorial | to —the the score of expense, and | Cotton-seed cake, and let E seed be well crush 
$ Which novelists delight to demonize, te othe rei o ans of the well doing of the|and the cake havea mealy appearance. Decorticated 
X Woun Mes saw a more thoroughly tender phrase | a ould advise an occupier of arable | Cotton aké I ys did „like, and, after Lge 
lindly counta ling for another, written on man’s pora je 6 ga his young rue fn much X trial pd cee Iu 
ted lit y ie nes than the table-lamp shone upon, |The food should be, when old, fro ow for very dattioniar. 
| that wat * a glory to the mind's eye that recalls | to 40 lbs. of roots, and 1 lb. of Linseed meal or ritis | m^ to dive 606 much, rhe then rare -—- or s to very 
: Tor many à 1 m ered evening. Mae cig of Oat, Barley, Maize, or other corn, according | young stock. The experience of other na es 
Stefan und ong year he had known, as only the! to This should be boiled or "vend ed Mie and if so I shall be glad to hear that I dut 
tained estate knows, the troublous re Bs puped 3 Tools and chaff; from 6 to 8 lbs. of chaff may | from its pec peice, it is just the sort of foods . 
"ies neglected tract that had just. fallen be give ; but care must be taken so to pen the | farmer would use tight extensively. Rape-ca 
ie Well he g „I have know! ike very walt upon light land for manure, but 
EM sald mem di ve ay E. "of stra : at d am 1o È th self rine mr rod iiie fr feeling, noticas 
e^ its very ignorance—to| use o w chaff, an ve los em myself | w great authorities may say upon the matter. I 
lei bet charze-that no overdose of Rides ciel it. But after all nae be said an m now taki vom view of th 
e a dr discourage : and down|it is to the fattening of cattle that occupiers of|aside all analyses us fi given to cattle, 
Sticks at the first "- as it seemed to| arable land must pay most attention, as the dif-|as I consider mee ore of lit little or no value as a test 
oug as fairly nm at|ference in wt often the margin between | of their fattening "properties, or why does Linseed 
Mie em pict ture—so profit. or lo ss. RO of no use allo owing an | show no better quality by analysis than Rape cake? 
df he h fortable bed | Maize, Lentils, Beans, Peas, Barley, are all good 
e the lamp- | at night ; ha will not mane much progress. I remember | food for bullocks, when ground fine, and given in 
8, of a large-developed| some years ago seeing 20 very good Sho; vores pur- | moderate quantities; but no one of them separately 
ll and genial expression | chased on Norwich Hill, in Octo ber; by two neigh-| will increase the weight of an ox so fast D Linseed 
e bite of a rough care- | bouring farmers, and I helped them to dide the lot, | cake, nor ed the manure from them be so valuable. 
to have converted his cheerful | each man taking 10—the e the T and the Sy ther a have heard some statements about ca attle eating 
kind of moral slaughter-house. | the roan bcr Baltakis I do not think t| eds 8. per | 28 Ibs. of sake per day ; now I believe this, in a few in- 
measured (as elder ple | head differe — between t the to lots; pedi hen they | pine? has been exceeded, yet when the cake has been 
th and Ignorance—blessed | came to mark et the following spring, one lot — e if | pure, no ill effects have resulted, except to the farmer's 
ch Life and Labour are | I remember ri ght: 81. to 4l. each more than the mM -— The má artificial food I ever had a lot of 
acera which no hand| Upon asking the reason of this Airs En ocks eat was 21 lbs. per day, consisting of 14 ae 
i eme Youth! happy | both lots to have had the same quantity of artificial Me and 7 Ibs. of Barley and Bean meal. This 
tale of pem with | food, I was told that the owner of the cattle that t Wragby, 
faded li f old'the most money made as much fuss with them Me Lincolushire, in Oetober ; and, as soon as I had bought 
