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ON THE USE OF LINSEED. 



early in the spring, of the number of my cattle-boxes, from the 

 roofs of which the rain-water will be saved in one or more 

 spacious tanks arched over, similar to one which wholly sup- 

 plies my hot and green houses. With respect to particular 

 statements of comparative cost in feeding on Mr. Warnes's 

 system, it seems to me prudent to state no corrected calcula- 

 tions until I have completed two years' trial. Suffice it now, 

 however, to add that I have sound grounds for preferring the 

 box-feeding system to every other mode ; the food being 

 cheaper, the cattle thriving faster, and the dung made being 

 so much better, that we consider 12 loads thereof equal to 20 

 loads from oil-cake-fed beasts, whether tied up or otherwise. 

 Moreover, the very recent date of your letter precludes the 

 making accurate calculations ; but I hope that what I have 

 stated will be plain and satisfactory. 



" Charles Merrick Burrell." 



The first range of boxes to which Sir Charles refers, were 

 originally commodious pig-sties. 



W. W. Whitmore, Esq., of Dudmanston, Shropshire, is 

 engaged, at the present time, in transforming a barn into a 

 double, and some adjoining bullock-sheds into a single, row of 

 boxes, with lofts for provender ; all which, communicating with 

 the cooking-house, originally a dairy, form a complete esta- 

 blishment, and at a cost comparatively nominal. This gentle- 

 man's plan embraces 40 boxes, capable of containing 50 or 60 

 bullocks. 



The Rev. J. C. Blair Warren, of Horkesley Hall, has about 

 50 boxes, on various parts of his premises, arranged and 

 constructed upon principles alike economical. But the most 

 compact establishment that I have yet had the pleasure of 

 inspecting is that of H. S. Partridge, Esq., of Hockham Hall, 

 comprising, under one roof, accommodation for 14 bullocks ; 

 a boiling-house, with coppers and a pump; a turnip-house, 

 and chambers for hay ; and cutting and linseed-crushing ma- 

 chines. 



I mention these circumstances to show that all farm premises 

 may, by a little consideration and contrivance, be similarly 

 converted, and every farmer in the kingdom be stimulated to 



