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PEOGRESS OF THE BOX-FEEDING SYSTEM. 



Interest to adopt ; remembering that this mixture is alike ser- 

 viceable to lean cattle and to horses, and that the straw of peas 

 and the stalks of beans are second only to hay. A few Swede 

 turnips, mangold-wurzel, or carrots, sliced very small, and 

 added to the water when first put into the copper, will much 

 improve the compound. 



In offering, or rather in repeating, the above hints, I disclaim 

 every consideration but that of assisting my countrymen in 

 these perplexing and alarming times. Under happier cir- 

 cumstances, it would be the duty of every occupier of the soil 

 to ascertain the extent of his own resources. But at the 

 present crisis, the investigation is rendered imperative in 

 a tenfold degree. The farmer must remember, that other 

 interests are involved besides his own, and that he must no 

 longer turn a deaf ear to the calls for improvement on 

 account of imaginary trouble. For although a Protec- 

 tionist myself, I am confident that a free trade in corn, with 

 its consequent evils, can only be averted by " increased pro- 

 duction." 



John Warnes, Jun. 



Trimingham, Dec. ISth, 1845. 



P.S.— W. H. Windham, Esq., of Felbrig Hall, has about 40 

 boxes upon his Park Farm, and, with Lord Wodehouse, Sir 

 Edward Stracey, Bart., and other landlords in Norfolk, has 

 commenced the erection of boxes for their tenants, according to 

 the annexed plans. 



Calves might, upon the compound system of feeding in boxes, 

 be made to weigh 30 or 40 stone each (of 14 lbs.) at a year 

 old. Two returns of fat cattle in a year may be effected. But 

 success will in a great measure depend upon particularity of 

 feeding and cleanliness. A bullock ought never to be long 

 without food, and a clean lock of straw to rest upon ; for when 

 he ceases to eat he will lie down and ruminate, seldom rising 

 except to eat again. Let those who wish to try the experiment 

 place their bullocks in boxes on the first of January, and return 

 them at the end of June, Avhen they will have consumed the 

 last of the turnips, which are the worst, and the first of the 

 grass, which is the best ; then replace them with the others. 



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