OIL. 
ae where they are made ufe of upon an extenfive 
{cal 
A rec cent writer has fated, ‘that the late — in the 
f 
above fize fome- 
cake in this application is broken down into {mall parts, 
aa eal blended with the chaff or other fubftances 
that are made ufe of with it, On the continent, Mr. Young 
fays, linfeed cake is fometimes exhibited in a liquid ftate, 
being diffufed in hot water, and drank by the cattle, hay 
great fuccefs, a practi applicable, 
where the cake-fed ae are not fully fattened e fale i in the 
completed w much more advanced ages than in 
other modes of fattening. 
t wherever this expenfive fort of food is employed, 
fh 
good, 
orfolk, and a ‘few other wulbsiae they fome- 
times ufe “oil-cakes ie the latter kind, after being reduced 
means of a machine Gontryed for the purpofe, 
more generally for turnips. 
harrowed in with the feed. 
eight fhillings the quarter, in fome parts of Yorkthire from 
fixteen to twenty. Experience has proved, secs the fuccefs 
e ane 
ment ed in cae volume of 
the Agricultural Mager, four ridges, about twenty yards 
ddle of a large field, were ¢ alternately 
uantity of 
The 
the turnip feed, into the fame drills. 
dry red loam, with a few {pots of gravel interperfed in 
diferent parts of the om: On thefe gravelly {pots the 
aa ey rather fuperior on the parts which were limed ; 
but e loam the oil-caked ridges ora at leaft, 
double as weight of thofe which were lim 
r. Calvert, at Albury, when oil-cake was ok cheaper 
than at prefent, found it the moft advantageous aud pre: 
fitable food that he could give his cows; three c 
cows in calf and oe eerie he agree this ‘all cake 
advanced beyond o/. a ow far it may anfwer 
at much higher prices, bey eu butter having both greatly 
duce o go on he other food. ke ak very 
(ere) a and at 6/. or 7/. a thoufand was the cheapeft 
food that could be given. Hertfordfhire Accu tal 
Rep 
Good eas crops have been raifed by it in fome parts 
of ee 
ae wi a fubftance of the manure kind, prepared 
by i tone ating different oily materials = tho fe of other 
kinds. It has been highly extolled by fome cultivators, 
while others have thought lefs favourably of its properties 
It is probable, however, that the expence of articles of this 
nature muft render their ufe very limited in moft fituations. 
But on the fuppofition that oil rendered mifcible with 
water, contftitutes the chief nourifhment of vegetables, — 
affords their principal fupport; Dr. Hunter of York p 
pofed the following oil-compott. 
Bi ts a, 
Take North American pot-afh 12lb. o 4 0 
Break the falt into {mall pieces, and pu 
it into a convenient veffel with four gal- | 
lons of water. Let the mixture ftand > 0 14 © 
forty-eight hours, then add coarfe — 
oil, 14 gallons 
o 18 o 
may be noticed, that in a few days the falt will he 
diffolved, and the mixture, upon ftirring, becom grail 
uniform. Then take fourteen bufhels of fand, or tw 
of dry mould. Upon thefe pour the above liquid eed 
dients. ‘Turn this compofition frequently over, eo adding 
to it as much frefh horfe-dung as will bring on and a 
mentation: in fix months it will be fit for ufe. And j i 
apprehended, that the above quantity will be found faficient 
or an acre; his trials, however, do not give oe pb 
autherity to determine upon a point. “But con- 
venience of carriage, he has no more an to be 
ufed than will effectually ve up the liquid ingredients. 
owever, if the farmer choofes to mix up the compoft 
with the mould of his field, he would advife him to ufe a 
as not yet 
pafture and meadow gr 
ever will nourifh corn, will alfo feed the roots of grafs. 
When ufed upon fuch i b 
rainy feafon, as all top- 
fome time, as they will bite the cae teo clofe in queft of 
the {alt contained in the compoft, whi¢h he has found to be 
the ie in {mall trials. 
s added, that the oil-compoft is only intended to 
ol. the place of rape-duft, foot, woollen rags, = other 
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