508 = 242 
Practical Agriculture. 
cated mixture of steamed food had a very fragrant odour, and wj 
much relished by the cattle ; it was given warm three times a-da' 
at the rate of about 7 lbs. to each cow (21 lbs. daily). Bear 
meal was also scattered dry over the steamed food, cows in fu 
milk getting 2 lbs. per day. When the animals had eaten u 
this steamed food and bean-meal, they were supplied daily wit 
28 to 35 lbs. each of cabbages, from October to December, ( 
kohl-rabi, till February, or of mangolds, till grass time — eachco 
having given to her, after each of the three feedings, 4 lbs. ( 
meadow-hay (or 12 lbs. daily). The roots were not cut, but give 
whole. The animals were allowed, twice a-day, to drink as muc 
water as they desired. Afterwards, Mr. Horsfall discontinue 
the use of bean-meal, owing to its comparative price, and ga\ 
in its place an additional allowance of malt-coombs, with aboi 
5 lbs. of rape-cake, and 2 or 3 lbs. of Indian corn-meal per cov 
On this food, in instances actually observed, his cows gav 
14 quarts of milk per day, and yet gained flesh at the rate o 
2 stones imperial per month. 
This scientifically conducted feeding of itself forms quite 
study. Mr. Horsfall both regulated and explained his practic 
by chemical analyses and physiological considerations, showin 
what an elaborate business meat (or milk) production has become 
But everybody is now aware of the advantages to fattenin 
beasts of boiling linseed and bean-meal to the consistence of 
thickish soup, making it salt, and pouring it over a heap ( 
mixed straw and hay-chaff, and letting the whole lie until it i 
thoroughly soaked before being given as food. 
■PulpiDg ioot<. Of late years pulping has come in fashion. And whether c 
not the advantage of pulping is derived from its inducing 
larger consumption of straw (cut and mixed with the pulp) tha 
cattle will care to eat uncut, it is decidedly a fine thing for th 
arable farmer who may have been wastefully expending larg 
quantities of straw in litter — a large portion being now save 
for use as food. There is economy of Ibod ; for the roots, bein 
pulped and mixed with the chaff, render the whole mass of ci 
stuff very palatable to the animals — no part of the cut hay c 
straw, or of the chaff from the threshing-machine, being rejectee 
The animals are not aljle to separate the chaff from the pulpe- 
roots, as is the case when the roots are merely sliced by th 
common cutter ; neither do they waste the fodder as when give 
without being cut. We can thus utilise mean and inferior ha 
or straw. After being mixed with the pulp for about twelv 
hours, a fermentation commences ; and this soon renders th 
most mouldy hay palatable, and the animals eat with avidit' 
that which they would otherwise reject. This fermentation t 
some extent, 1 believe, softens the straw, putting it in a state t 
