Some of the Agricultural Lessons of 1868. 
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of purchased food. They have now no cake, the mixture being 
for the lot daily : — 
s. d. 
1 cwt. Bran, costing (5 3 
1 cwt. Malt-dust ' 5 3 
i cwt. " Ground-nut Meal " 4 li 
with 30 bushels clover-chaff and 30 bushels of wheat-chaff, given 
two-thirds in the morning and one-third at night. 
"This ' giound-nut ' meal is a new article of food. What its 
feeding properties are, v/e do not yet know ; it is certain, how- 
ever, that stock of all kinds are fond of it, that it increases milk, 
and that it induces sheep to eat wheat-chaff most kindly. Messrs. 
Burlingham and Co., Evesham, are agents here for the crushers 
in Liverpool, and will answer any inquiries you make about it. 
" Tims I hope to get my sheep stock through the winter. 
For spring and summer food — clover and mixed seeds having 
entirely failed — the 81 acres sown therewith have been planted 
with 
Cabbages 10 Acres. 
Trilblium 33 „ 
Italian Rj^e-grass 30 ,, 
Eye to feed off 8 „ 
My difficulty will be with ewes and lambs at first, the provision 
for them coming on in the following order : — 
8 Acres Eye ) i -i i i • 
o t/ 1 i. i. n 1 t wiule lambuig. 
b „ Eape 2;rown on wacat stubble .. j ° 
16 „ Wiute\- Oats. 
30 „ Eye-grass. 
These crops, with about 100 acres of the grass land, must carry 
them till the trifolium is fit to fold off, of which we shall probably 
want about 10 or 12 acres, leaving the remainder to be partly 
mown for fodder and partly given to working horses until the 
vetches are ready for them. By the end of May, we shall wean 
the lambs to cabbages, and then all anxiety about them is over. 
I have 30 acres planted this year, and I have 7 acres more to plant 
in the spring. 
" The cow stock — 97 Short-horns of all ages — will be kept 
mainly on straw with one feed a-day of a mixture of cut-chaff, 
wheat-chaff, bran, and ' ground-nut ' meal ; reserving the hay for 
the dairy cows and heifers (45) after calving. The horses will 
have cut-straw and wheat-chaff and ' roughings ' (cavings), with 
bran, Indian corn, and beans. The season does not affect the 
feeding of horses or cattle. We have abundance of straw. 
"The only change as to the corn-crops will be that, instead of 
half the arable land being wheat, about 30 acres after turnips last 
eaten will be barley, and only 170 wheat. 
