704 CATTLE AND DAIKY FARMING. 



beast without a little cake and corn in addition. Mr. Buttar's diet for young store-cat- 

 tle is as follows: 



Pence^ 



15 pounds cut straw 



28 pounds (J cwt) turnips (pulped) at 6d. per cwt IJ 



1 pound linseed meal, at l^d. per pound , ij 



3 pounds cotton-cake, undecorticated 2 



1 pound treacle, at lei. per pound 1 * 



6 



Mr. Buttar's testimony is to the effect that in the above mixture, costing 6d. daily, . 

 his stores are kept in much better condition than IJ cwt. turnips, which at 6d. per cwt. 

 would cost 9d. 



Mr. Dalziel, Dumfries, at the commencement of the season, places his feeding cattle 

 on the following allowances: 56 pounds turnips, pulped and mixed with chaff, 2 pounds 

 linseed cake, 2 pounds Waterloo cake, and 4 pounds Indian meal, well mixed with hot 

 water. After two months, a pound of cake and a pound of meal additional are given. 

 The average expense of the supplemental food is Id. per pound — that is, lOd. daily, or 5s. 

 Wd. per week for each beast when the animals are on full feed. Long straw ad libitum is 

 also at the command of the cattle. Mr. Dalziel is of opinion that if f cwt. of turnips 

 were given instead of J cwt., the cattle would not make so much progress. We have 

 already relerred to the experience of Mr. Bryce with cut hay, oat straw, or wheat chaff. 

 Many years ago, that gentleman informs us, he used to make bullocks very fat on 

 Swedish turnips and wheat straw, an unlimited supply of each; but on this diet it took 

 about eight months to make his cattle ripe for the butcher. Now he succeeds in making 

 them equally fat in one-half the time by feeding them according to the following sys- 

 tem: He pulps the turnips and mixes them, and aidds 2 or 3 pounds per head of corn meal, 

 the whole being allowed to stand for 24 hours to allow the meal and chopped fodder to 

 become thoroughly saturated with the moisture from the turnips. The beasts are fed 

 Ihree times a day with this mixture, two and three year old bullocks getting about 80 

 pounds and younger cattle 60 pounds each. In addition, from 4 to 6 pounds of linseed 

 cake (home made) are allowed per head, according to age, with an ordinary allowance 

 of fodder. 



Mr. Wilson, Ballencrieff, arranges Ms cattle in different sets of courts, according to 

 their forwardness of condition, and his scale of allowances in food is a graduated one, a 

 different quantity being given to each set. When the courts containing the first quality 

 of beasts are cleared they are refilled from the second courts, and so on. The following is 

 the usual scale of daily allowance for each lot: 



First, or more advanced lot. 



Pence. 



10 pounds chaffed clover hay, at £4 per ton 4^ 



56 pounds (J cwt.) turnips at 6d. per cwt 3 



4 pounds linseed-cake, atlid. perpound 6 



5 pounds mixed meal, at Jd. perpound 2^ 



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This it will be seen is exceptionally liberal feeding, but Mr. Wilson from his business 

 in Edinburgh has special reasons for desiring to have command of the highest quality 

 of beef. 



The second courts are getting the following diets each day: 



Pence. 



5 pounds chaffed hay, at £4 per ton .- 2 



5 pounds straw chaff, say 1 



84 pounds (J cwt.) turnip, a,t6d. per cwt 4J 



2 pounds cotton-cake (undecorticated) l| 



3 pounds mixed meal, at^d. per pound 1^ 



lOJ 



The cost is here about lOJrf. per day. No straw is given as fodder, but the cattle are 

 roughly littered. In comparing the outlay on Mr. Wilson's cattle with others, it should 

 be noted that an estimate is put on fodder in the former case which has not been calcu- 

 lated in the latter. 



