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of the sheep, but we all know that an ox will allow aso rigidly to ubs : 
much larger quantity of nutriment to pass through its cil 1 hr 8 ce y the 1 a —-> ways 8 pei Le cde 3 met Sire 
cinien aso on unground grain, han 175 sheep ; f. forro 8 when value ia the a * a e oe ant — e er. * the — 4 val cake ; 
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fore an important, 1 to pe ations to. 5 The | tage, j paying for the extr 1 =~ cutie z eee . bosa ‘confieroed b ö 
digestive organ Ot fhe ox, and s 1 are designed selling the one and buying the other. The valuable | instance in which the economy of usi 
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the reverse when it is given in excessive quantities. | grain, and I therefore always allow them to ese it | gation as we have now in hand, it is 
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in autumn, and o an unlimited supply of Turnips | the system of feeding which I adopt, Tr — ot pra „5 — 
(which is necessar, ap obta: in the regular feeding of the out of place to go into 1 details. The same with a manifest ada Rabi pi 5 
lot, whatever the numbers may be), they will eat a very necessity of circumstances m ot exist in others in| and very bulky food . We that it i 
large quantity ; in fact, from the watery nature of the pursuing a a similar mode, for t tho elements of success in | to his jase’ died his ee . 
food, more than the system can profitably assimilate. | farming are presented to such variety, that they | stantly full, so that even w or ake bee 
As the season advances they will consume a smaller | will ever give unbounded ae for skill and experience | greatly more nourishi richest 
quantity x of eae k I bera 7 gee’ o: ane stones im- to develope, but he must be a good or farmer in | must A i ome i gene sier 
peri en put up to feed, eat daily 220 lbs. of |the extreme 3 will not profit by freely di i ith hi inati igesti i 
cut Swedes, with Oat straw in the racks, and 5 Ibs. of | agricultural topies with his 8 „ | jaryon spas 6 — ipe 
oilcake besides. It i is a well eee fact amongst | lent opportunity for which the directors of the High- | of other, his power of assimilation is not preach y 
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utility of this system is now beginning to be pretty Shall i I i i i es erwise 
t y | shall now, in compliance with their request, and as in | eating straw more |. 
widely acknowledged, and it has been gah wrought | some sort representing Nee some re- do. 115 East Lothise f. wae 3 informed 
: ga 8 details. have followed a modified syste m of it, | marks on the subject under discussion. In endeavour- me that he has tried this plan with — 
at 6 A. M., well mixed bs. o uxili en injurious 
chaff, the latter having been well wetted with cold water | depends mainly upon the amount of nutritive power avoided, but during the whole process of fattening, a 
yid be cake and grain are thrown in amongst it; by | possessed by the Turnips themselves, and that this is much less quantity of Turnips will suffice than is — 
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thi been reversed, the cattle in boxes some- | how so many animals were fed on specified rations of | present year. My cattle at that time were getting as 
times very apt to hoove, when cut Turnips are rapidly Turnips alone, and so many more on other substances | many Swedish Turnips as they could eat, and, in ad- 
swallowed ; but when the other is adopted, I have never in addition. Now, although this may be quite bat i dition, 4 lbs. of Bean and Barley meal, with $ lb, of 
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food specified, the cattle have straw in racks, of which ekok field of the ey on which the trial is 9 | oes a was given to pama e 
they consume very little. Ihave found this allowance | it determines nothing for the country a rge. I know Seeing, however, berg: ap ae were to run 
and mode of feeding answer well; and with a little at- for example, that Gras s or Turnips produced on t the eck lature * cattle w ly for or market, I was in- 
tention and tempering, you may have all — cad best parts of the farm which I occupy, will fatten a duced some pelts which I met with in the 
clean swept-out by night- fall, ang ate animals ared | bullock better, per se, than that from the worst parts,| Agricultural Gazette, to purchase a straw. cutter, and 
to rest for the night the most perfect — "ot — even with a large addition of farinaceous food. The to a considerable quantity of chopped straw to 
tent i — ginable. I do not know how far a more perfect same thing holds good o < every product of the soil, so their daily fare, To induce them to eat this chopped 
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mode of 22 100 4 or 5 lbs of at and in be come a important consideration, and the fallacies arising from had been well stirred, and rani to lie for a vag 
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a high value on the latter Ghai: you td the assurance | have not found it profitable to give large quantities of | each bullock, They all eat it . on the very stg 
that you are feeding your cattle at as little expense as | cake or meal per head, to fattening cattle. No doubt trial, and the effects were, that they made more rapid 
when they have nothing but Turnips and straw. The | the animals improved more rapidly with such food than | progress, and were quite satisfied with just half their 
Omparative rapidity with which cattle will take on | without it; but then the additional price obtained for former allowance of Turnips. In confirmation of what 
flesh, under the different methods, more especially during | them was s not in proportion to the 13 3 at I have now stated, I may mention that a friend of mine, 
the first months they are put up to feed, will be appa- which tig are fattened. The manu ve reason | who is a very su Beet grower, tells me that by 
rent to those here will give the two a fair trial. By | to thin was greatly praes by then use a pea food ; giving his cattle a daily feed of grey-dust (the refuse 
g the ial food with the aa bulky material | but I ee. say, that I consider this an expensive way fi atmeal grindi bene 
of chaff, any — ecified quantity can be more 3 of purchasing foreign manu aie bi and that if much of the siderable saving of Turnips effected. Those who have 
divided amon, ongst a lot of cattle in n yards or in boxes, for | return from the fattening of cattle has to be looked for read the Rev. Mr. Huxtable’s pamphlet, are aware of 
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. tity of stock on farms ie Turnips can only be raised matter to the food of cattle, and I shall specify some of | through a machine which rasps and crushes rather than 
over a small part of the occupation ; obtain- | these. have ther hinted, ; fi i 
ing a market for the dor grain (by consuming it on which I occupy is a 8 soil. The Turnips grown roots thus prepared, that he gets his cattle to eat a suf- 
the farm „will, in the end, prove the most economical upon this part I endeavour to consume by sheep, as ficient quantity of the chaff, without having recourse to 
way 6 obtaining a — supply of manure, at least it E as possible, but to re the straw of = 7 inseed or other meal at all. If this is the case, I re- 
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in the practice of . more than 4 to 5 lbs. daily, of | Turnip crop to the hom stead, and that F 1 1 0 a in red feeding ; as 2 really good soils, the process 
extra food, in fattening cattle. In regard to the fie: chiefly to the rearing of young cattle. Now such | might thus be conducted without using the farinaceous 
— us auxili Turnips i rnips are deficient in nutritive PE I th hink it t ad- food, until the animal had n l 2 pan ts be 
always inclined to keep by oilcak he extent of one- | visable to add siteiki better, ey ora 8 ore 
ha ot the oilcake, to the extent of one- | vi upon them may not be stabbed in their poria. cling might, I think, still b be a advan antageous ; X * 
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— gra on 9 * r gfe ag adem eee ee peat in reari „I must use teni less i n the manner rand for — si which 
ol any other kind of corn, but as to this I am not so Linseed-cake on another account. need not remind | I have bende to deseri ibe, cannot, I think, be 
particular, as the dete prices of grains for the time | this ntig of the sreng liability of these young | profi „On weak soils it may be impossible to fatten 
being determine which can be most economically given. | animals to that malignant disease, called blackleg. a bullock without them; but this just suggests the in- 
In feeding sheep, the game principles will be found to Have kept a memorandum of my own losses, by it 1 quiry, w he oceu of s do 
apply as in the case of cattle ; by substituting a portion found that in the first 14 years of my farming, they 
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sheep in sae rh in 3 with the extra food, the trums then in vogue, without any success. I then, ch they would cease 
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| Fee years I have — it „In 1848 season a good deal of inferior grain, and having ha a Kee 
| I used chaff. > bran, ad Odes ther 2 DR but | no blackleg for several years, I ge og: that a > y of eee which they come into the hands 
| Mt = aes — gut cot ae, Sheaf; and a I| feed of meal might be as good for my calves e low country grazier, to the manifest loss of both 
| z addition of ; little in- cake, and much cheaper; but, Sat “tor A judged | partion wil appear ho how desirable it is that the same 
| erior Batley for ne nearly 1000 sheep. I have not kept | economy, I, that year, lost eight calves EPIROT Oo 
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