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me for this variation from English practice, and all of them con- 
tribute their share to the total result. Thus very few turnips are 
grown, and artificial food is considered too dear, very little 
account being taken of the comparative value of farmyard- 
manure made from different feeding materials. Then an im- 
portant consideration is that, in winter, Hamburg is practically 
the only accessible market for fat stock, the London trade not 
beginning until spring is well advanced, although sometimes a 
few winter-fed cattle are sent over in April. These generally 
go from the Southern Ditmarsh country, where farmers are 
beginning to pay more attention to stall-feeding. As an 
example of the opening for winter-feeding which exists in the 
Ditmarsh, I may mention that a farmer in the Tonning Marsh 
informed me that he was in the habit of buying 2J-year-old 
oxen in the autumn, and, as he has little or no straw, he sends 
them to be wintered in the Ditmarsh by farmers who have 
much more straw than can be used up by their own beasts. 
He pays from 24s. to 365. per head for their winter keep, which 
consists almost entirely of straw, and in the spring they return 
to his marsh-pastures, where they are fattened off during the 
summer. 
Each marsh has its own aboriginal breed of cattle ; but at the 
present time it is impossible to describe from observation their 
distinctive characters ; as they have been so crossed with Short- 
Fig. 12— Bull of the Eiderstadi Marsli Breed (4 years old). 
