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On the Farming of Suffolk. 



is supplied by the troughs around the building, and seldom ftiils or 

 water. The width of passage between the stalls allows of carting in 

 turnips, &c. The stalls are adapted for tying up two beasts in each, 

 two polled or one-horned bullocks may be loose, I generally have two 

 in each stall during the winter, and one during the summer months. 

 When two are tied up, the manure taken from them is thrown into the 

 outer cattle-yards, and again foddered upon by leaner cattle. When 

 loose in the stalls, nothing is removed till quite full ; there is a drain- 

 age from the stalls and piggeries to the tank; the tank is a large 

 bricked arch running under the hay-house about 6 feet in depth. 

 Each stall having separate doors, I am enabled to regulate the heat of 

 my shed, opening the upper doors on the contrary side to the wind; 

 and, during the heat of the last summer, I closed them all. The shed 

 being dark, the bullocks were not troubled by flies, and the ventilation 

 in the roof kept them cool. Three strong ash rails divide the stalls, 

 fastened with pegs into the posts, that they may be removed in an 

 instant if required. The doors are also guarded by t^vo ash rails 

 (removable). 



" My plan of making the compound is to put 9 pails of water into a 

 copper ; when boiling-hot, scatter in 2 pecks of crushed linseed, boil 

 this five minutes, then stir in 4 pecks of bean or pea meal ; as soon as 

 this is done, take away the fire that it may not burn. With a wooden 

 shovel empty the contents of the copper into two small tubs, where it 

 may remain till next morning, when, being turned over, they will show 

 you two puddings of about 10 stone each (14 lbs. per stone). This is 

 ready to slice and give to the cattle. As the bullocks progress, I 

 increase the hnseed. For the last tw^o years I have cooked 20 stone 

 daily, with few exceptions. 



The cost of my pudding, including fire and labour, I estimate at 4:^d. 

 per stone ; and this I believe equal to two English cakes at 6d. 



" I engage my man to be in the shed at 5 o'clock every morning, and 

 to give 1 stone of pudding to each beast as the first food. From 1 to 2 

 bushels of roots are given during the day, and 3 or 4 half-peck baskets 

 of hay or other chaff, generally mixing with it 1 to 2 pints of crushed 

 linseed, and 4 pints of bean-meal. Every evening at 8 o'clock, from 

 2 to 4 lbs. of uncut hay are given to each, if the stack-yard will allow 

 of it. When the bullocks are getting fat, I increase the pudding to 2 

 stone per head, and reduce the roots to 1 bushel each. The beasts are 

 supplied with water. By preparing common white turnips, swedes, 

 mangel wurzel, tares, clover, and grass, I have a succession of green 

 food the whole year. The food is prepared and placed in baskets near 

 each beast before any is given, so that all may be eating at the same 

 time, and, owing to this regularity of feeding, all the bullocks are gene- 

 rally laid within 5 minutes after eating their allotted quantity." — 

 I>ec. 24th, 1846. 



In addition to these excellent observations, I beg to give a plan of a 

 boiling-house, two or three of which have lately been fitted up for the 

 preparation of compound on a considerable scale. 



The boiling-house, of which the annexed drawing is a plan, occupies 

 the angle formed by the bullock-shed and piggery. 



