MR. SMITH TO SIR C. BURRELL. 



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The boxes hold 4 cart-loads (containing 1^ yards each) of manure. They 

 were cleaned out in January, and will be again when the cattle are sold, which 

 will give 12 yards of manure, sufficient for 1 acre of ground. 



N.B. The calculations are made from the medium prices of the day ; but 

 having fed my beasts chiefly on tail- peas and barley, my account will be bene- 

 fited thereby— a course most farmers will adopt. It is impossible to make a 

 correct calculation of compound against oil-cake, as you may buy the latter at 

 almost any price and of any quality. 



(Signed) J. B. Daubuz. 



To Sir C. M. Burrell, Bart., Knepp Castle, 

 near Horsham. 



Stag Park, Petworth, February 2Srd, 1847. 



Sir, 



In compliance with your request I now send you the calculation of 

 compound, including the evaporation. 



21 lbs. of linseed at l^d. per lb. . . 2s. 7\d. 

 63 lbs. of pea and bean meal, cost . .60 

 156 lbs. of water 



240 8s. I^d. 



This quantity makes thirty cakes, each weighing 7^ lbs., total 225 lbs., making 

 the evaporation 15 lbs. Respecting the number of beasts we can fatten in the 

 boxes, I think it the better plan to tell you when they were put in and when 

 sold. The size of our bullocks will not allow of so many being done in the 

 tiine you have specified. The first lot were put in the end of June and sold 

 at Christmas ; those put in at Christmas I expect to sell in April or beginning 

 of May. Our usual system has been to fatten two lots of beasts in about eighteen 

 months. Oxen that were turned off at Christmas and grass-fed during the 

 summer, tied up in September and sold at Christmas. Beasts bought in the 

 autumn and tied up at Christmas, sold in May or^beginning of June. 



I remain, your humble Servant, 



Alfred Smith, 

 Bailiff to Colonel Wyndham. 



To Sir C. M. Burrell, Bart. 



I have, with the object of increasing summer box-feeding, sown a field 

 with Mr. Dixon's superior kind of Italian rye-grass ; the results of 

 which he made known in the Royal Agricultural Society's Journal. 

 Having sown the seed without corn last autumn, the field is well 

 covered with healthy plants, to which I purpose applying tank-water 

 from my farm-yard and stables, at proper times, according to Mr. 

 Dixon's system. While I state this hoped-for increase of green food 

 in spring and summer, let it not be supposed that the use of coarse 

 grass from road sides, and plantations, &c., is to be discontinued. 



With respect to my boxes, I will endeavour to give a statement of 

 their size and range for sixteen beasts ; but a perfect scale I cannot 

 attempt. The following is their description : — 



Towards the east is a boiling-house, 20 by 16 ; at the end of 



