THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE 
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did not appear to me likely to throw much hght on ond: | 
© | subject, I have confined my attention to the jes — 
of deleterious ingredients in these two cakes, may | as 
ail | observe at once that I hav 2 been able to — in 
either of them any organ although 
e have carefully searched py fee irritating poisonou s 
substances. However both pren nevertheless ma 
prejudicial when eaten in quantity by young stock, for 
uch the examination to which I — ted t m leads me 
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tain. Moreover, the seed Bon which the cakes are 
Me was evidently quite impur e, for notwithstanding 
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> tha the e pow wdery s state of both cakes, ped ally N can | w 
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many foreign i The 
character. tA thes. weed seeds I could not make o out 
tity in poc of the sets but amongst the weed neede 
there may be other poisonous se 
means to identify most vegetable poisons. e this as 
may, I am inclined to think that the 5 con- 
with | it 
Y | dition of eakes N d t] 
DEATHS OF CATTLE. FROM FEEDING ON 
that Seam of 15 n freely will be the sufferers. Both | as 
em | are evidently foreign cakes. Will you kindly inform 
be me under what name and at what price these cakes 
age were sold ? 
f opinion that the cakes 
No. . 2 and 3 may fei 400 e the mischief attributed to 
5 | them „but that in the belge of any positive proof a | Th 
reasonable doubt m - bei ente jme W or wn 
this was real; Ros 2I uch m 
-|decidedly respec 2 ' No. 1, a T em not the 
on rer doubt ink re tbis cake has been the cause of the 
ath of the - 
similar — ha n brought under my notice | 
nd 
ba within the last a nis a Cotton cake very sim milar to | 
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j| brought M^ inflammation and led tot the deat the 
anim mal. case is reported in the = ee 
In editio int Il analysis, which proves p 
inferior character x — r Cotton cake, I have made an 
proximate mechanical analysis, which . 
ide still more forcibly the cause of the death o 
the sheep. Experience has shown that the hard hss 
f£ Oot, 1 
ry indigestible, and aceumula 
ue stomach to hard stone-like masses, "ni aser dus 
irule ut inflammation Cotton wool I think is quite as 
bad if not 1 Cott da Now, in joy 
. much jon thie cn ‘rather tha an run ihe risk of 
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cent. of cotton wool, and only r per cent. of mea! 0 
f less and rath 
es | alone should be used ees relig) purposes, 
a highly nutritious s e, there is A ‘appreciable 
h — uantity of N vol ant only, 2 5 10 cent. of 
Cake like un 5 r g 
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cake | ti 
there is no less than 67 per of husk and 4 per slo soldin Ju 
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pu aN and I mes n elf u ing re 
parten 20 N arc 9 5 5 * to the 
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e you sent to me, a rashy to be given to an as i 
mal.— Believe me, Sin. d — 
m Seaman, Esq. Aud 8 VCELCKER. 
Copy. —Composition of sample of Een 1 — marked No. 1, 
"d Mr. Seaman, Wr n We lden 
. CHEM 
EMICAL Aena 
Moisture 15.16 
Qil ,. es E Lt . TE S L 
Album: min pegs ip N 
Gum, ru — . 23.32 
Trdigestivie xr fibre (pure ‘ealtulose) « . 29.98 
Mineral matters ( rs. ~ BAL 
100.00 
*containing nitrogen ys co 
2. MECHANICAL Awan sis. 
Husk, .. 60.99 
Meal vt VA 28.98 
Cotton wool .. 4.03 
Royal inar cu College, Cirencester, 100.00 
8, 1859. AUGUSTUS VOELCKER. 
pie cine RE occa 
SH iy rinse st 
THE ae a are Mr. Bond's replie 
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raised € our correspondents ag Mechi and Ms. ads R 
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1. Cost of Keepi ng a Hampshire D 
ave r a with interest Mr. Mechi’s donate ite on 
I ea 
.|the cost of keeping a Hampshire Down ew r 12 
months, including pus keep of her lamb til 
stock lamb in June uly. I at once ES 
- —— of the system x phj I haye pursued, in the 
nd managem 
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s|tire suecess, and consequ sen profit, 
upon y 
management and the large consumption of infe erior food. | ies in — 0 
Upon the sti the | 
tiff retentive soils corn-growing 
istricts of the eastern counties of England, straw is 
i isance rather tha n advanta I 
| superabundance creates a diffi to convert it int 
man Py a profitable process, and my — tae and | 
eg | su nsuming straw pr with e - 
passed gm ost s tations. re ew years 
sanguine 
|since I had no conception ewes would eat straw so 
| inl, thrive so well, or t during 
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