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Rations for Farm Stock. 



Car bo - 



lb. Albds. Fat. hydrates. 



8. — 28 Hay -= 1*51 '28 11*40 



7 Maize Meal == -56 -28 4*80 



\ Linseed Cake ... ... = "12 '05 "15 



I Linseed = '05 '09 "05 



•70 x 2-4 = 1 -68 



2*24 i8'o8 



Numbers 1, 2, and 3 are adapted for a farm mainly under the 

 plough, No. 4 is for one half tillage and half grass, Nos. 5 and 6 

 are for one having about one-third of its land arable, No. 7 is for 

 a farm of strong land where only home-grown foods are used, 

 and No. 8 for a grass farm. Decorticated cotton cake containing 

 a much higher percentage of albuminoid matter than any other 

 oil cake, less of it is required to level up a food like straw, which 

 is very deficient in albuminoids, to the standard ratio. Being 

 also at the present time somewhat cheaper than linseed cake, 

 rations containing it as the chief nitrogenous food-stuff can 

 be more cheaply compounded than those containing linseed 

 cake. Preference is also here given to cotton cake for butter- 

 making rations, as it produces a firmer, less greasy, and more 

 palatable butter than linseed cake. But for cattle up to a year 

 old and sheep up to 6 or 7 months, linseed cake is much the 

 safer one to use. 



In barley-growing districts, barley straw would probably take 

 the place of oat straw in these rations ; not being so digestible, 

 as a rule, a little allowance can be made by exercising a 

 trifling generosity with the meal used. In the rapid feeding of 

 cattle for the fat market it is more necessary to resort to 

 charring, scalding, and mixing of foods, than in feeding cows 

 for milk ; the craving for food is keener in the latter 

 than in the former, and fattening cattle are found to eat 

 straw that has been chaffed, mixed with pulped roots 

 and allowed to lie a day before being eaten, or chaff 

 scalded and mixed with meal of some kind, and a sprinkle 

 of treacle, better than in the long dry state. Also, where 

 no roots are available, some hay-chaff scalded or steamed 

 and mixed with the meal or other trough food, and given 

 alternately with long hay, induces the cattle to eat with 

 more relish. Cattle spices or condiments are often used for the 

 same purpose. 



