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Cake Breakers. 



Some cakes, especially good ones, are as hard as beans, 

 they must be broken to save waste and economise the 

 animal's teeth. For young animals they should even be 

 reduced to a coarse powder. 



Fig. 78.— Oil Cake Breaker (Barford and Perkins). 



Maceration. 



Grains like maize, ' gram ' linseed, etc. may be prepared 

 by steeping in water for several hours, maize takes a very 

 long time to soften and linseed at least two or three days. 

 This is a good method to adopt when crushing appliance does 

 not exist, or where, as in the case of linseed, it is not always 



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