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in addition bruised oats, 2 lbs., pea or bean meal, 2 lbs., 

 slightly moistened with water. Half the daily allowance 

 of cake is given at 6 a.m., and a feed of cut turnips at 



9 a.m. 



During the above hours the byres are cleaned out, and 

 the animals groomed ; when the turnips are finished a small 

 amount of oat-straw, or hay is allowed. 



Perfect rest is given until 1 p.m., when they receive 

 cake, roots, and straw or hay, as in the morning, with hay 

 or oat straw again at 8 p.m. The feeding, grooming, and 

 cleaning are done with clockwork regularity, and the feeder 

 above mentioned considers that no cattle man can success- 

 fully feed, until he knows exactly how much his animals 

 can eat without leaving a morsel. 



The methods of fattening adopted in England are by no 

 means identical with those in Scotland ; the difference in 

 the climate, and the longer time available for agriculture 

 are factors which affect this ; the food supply is also not 

 identical. Turnips and oat straw to the Scotch feeder are 

 what the swede, mangel, and hay are to the farmer of the 

 south. More green stuff is also grown in the south as 

 compared with the north, while in the finishing off of 

 cattle a more liberal use of cake is made in England as 

 compared with Scotland. 



A Bedford feeder, for example, houses his fattening 

 animals when the grass ends, and finishes them off on hay, 

 hay chaff, a few roots, seven or eight pounds of cake, and 

 one peck of a mixture of barley and bean meal daily. 



In Hereford the young cattle in their second year, while 

 still on grass, get four pounds daily of cotton cake and 

 ground corn (wheat, barley, or oats). The animals are 

 housed in September, and receive as much linseed and 

 cotton cakes, with bruised corn, as they can eat. 



In Norfolk, owing to the system of agriculture, there is 

 very little opportunity for grazing, but an abundant supply 

 of roots is available, and these are largely used in the 

 feeding of fattening stock, together with cake, hay, grain, 

 and straw. 



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