480 Abstract Report of Agricultural Discussions. 
Cr. s. d. 
By increased value of bullock per week 7 0 
By value of manure per week 14 
8 4 
2. Account of Keeping a Bullock in a Fatting State by Winter Feeding. 
Dr. s. d. 
To 4 lbs. of oilcake per clay, or 28 lbs. per week, at 121. per ton 3 0 
To 1 lb. of bean-meal per day at 121. per ton 0 9 
To 64 11)S. of mangold per day, or 448 lbs. per week, at 10s. 
per ton 2 0 
To 20 lbs. of oat-straw fodder per day, or 140 lbs. per week, 
at 30s. per ton 1 10 
To 20 lbs. of straw litter per day, at 15s. per ton Oil 
To attendance per week 0 6 
To interest on capital and gain 3 0 
12 0 
Cr. 
By increased value of bullocks per week 10 8 
By value of manure per week 1 4 
12 0 
These tables required some explanation, and the first inqniiy that 
suggested itself was, how he had arrived at this quantity of food ? 
His practical experience for some years past had led him to adopt a 
moderate system of feeding, as best calculated to yield a profit ; and 
he objected in toto to bullocks being kept as mere manure-making 
machines, on the plea that a profit was not to be made out of them. 
If that assertion be admitted, would not the manure-dealers say 
that thej^ could sell manures better and cheaper than they could be 
procured by the feeding of cattle ? If his practice were not gainful 
he certainly would not continue it, but he was satisfied that it was 
profitable to him. The 4 lbs. of oilcake-meal per day in the last- 
mentioned table was the quantity he regularly gave, unless he kept 
the animals for exhibition, and then he added a pound of bean-meal 
per day ; otherwise the cost of corn and cake never exceeded 3s. 9(7. 
per week. 
With regard to the 64 lbs. of mangold per day, or 448 lbs. 
per week, he had to thank this Society for having taught him, 
through the pages of its Journal, that a far less quantity of roots 
was sufficient than he had at one time supposed. In 1854 an essay, 
by Mr. Charles Lawrence, was published in the Journal, in which 
it was stated that 50 lbs. were sufficient for an animal, and would 
give a considerable increase : that statement first called his par- 
ticular attention to the subject. He had been told right and left 
that if he gave mangold he would ruin his stock. Nevertheless, he 
had continued to feed sheep and bidlocks for years upon it ; and 
had ceased to cultivate swedes, for the simple reason that he liked 
eighteen pence better than a shilling ; that he could grow 30 tons 
of mangold where he could grow but 20 tons of swedes ; and 64 lbs. 
of mangold were, in his judgment, equal to 75 lbs. of swedes. 
