164 Early Fattening of Cattle, 
One at 11 months gave 7s. per week from birth ; one at 13 
months, 8s. 3t/. per week; three at 14 months, 7s. ; three at 
15 months, 7s. Id. ; six at 16 months, 6s. 10c?. ; and two at 18^ 
months, 7s. per week, A 2^-jear-old Sussex steer returned 
6s. Zd. per week, and a 2-year-old, 7s. per week. These were 
both from a famous herd. Those Shorthorns which afforded 
the least return were calves bought in the market ; and those 
which gave the highest were by Mr, Stanford's pedigree bull, 
out of his own well-bred but not pedigree cows. 
The above figures show that tolerably bred Shorthorns will 
return 7s. a week from birth on this system, at from 13 months 
to 18 months old. 
The best feeders of common country-bred cattle in Sussex and 
Surrey inform me that they consider a fair average weight for 
animals well fed from birth is 100 Smithfield stone at 100 
weeks, giving a return of one stone per week, or 6s. per week. 
At the sales I have quoted, Mr. Stanford obtained 6c?. or Is. a 
week more for two-year-olds fattened from birth ; and a " plum," 
killed by Mr. Page, of Partridge Green, gave 8s. per week, i.e., 
132 stone at 100 weeks. Mr. Glazebrook, of Shoreham, 
slaughtered one of the bullocks from Charlton Court, a 16 months 
old steer, weighing 76 stone 2 lbs., and yielding 15 stone of 
loose fat. There was very little offal. 
These animals were not pure-bred heavy-fleshed Shorthorns^ 
which are rarely seen in Sussex, but common cattle, such as the 
Brighton dairy cows produce. The returns are 6s. 6f?. per week 7 
and similar returns, which cannot but leave a profit, might be 
obtained under this system with the same class of cattle ; and 
6c?, or Is, a head per week more with pure Shorthorns, 
The following is an estimate of the cost of a young bullock at 
seventy-one weeks old, or one year and nineteen weeks : — 
£ s. d. 
PiTichase of a calf 2 0 0 
Four weeks new milk, 6 quarts daily, at 2d. per) 3 q 
quart f 
Eight weeks skimmed milk, 6 quarts daily, at JeZ, per) g 
quart, and 2 lbs. meal, at \id. per lb J 
Seventeen weeks in June, July, August, and Sep-j 
tember on a daily diet of 2 lbs. linseed-cake, 2 lbs. I 3 19 4 
bean-meal, mangel, hay, grass, clover, &c J 
Twenty-six weeks to end of March, 5 lbs. cake and^ 
meal daily, J bushel of roots, hay, and straw, for | 6 16 6 
fodder j 
Sixteen weeks to harvest, 8 lbs. cake and meal daily,) 5 25 g 
mangel, grass, clover; total 7s. 2ld. a week .. J 
Attendance, 71 weeks at M 1 15 6 . 
Insurance, Interest, and Kent of Shed 15 0 
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