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\ assimilated more readily. The pulper is of great value, 
rticularly upon corn-farms, where large crops of straw are 
■own, and where there is a limited acreage of pasture ; as bj 
use a larger proportion of the pastures may be grazed, the 
pensive process of haymaking reduced, and consequently an 
reased number of cattle kept. The accident of choking 
,-ge pieces of root is avoided, and hoose is less frequent than 
ider the sliced-root system. 
In a good system of feeding with the use of pulped roots, 
e following routine is adopted : first thing in the morning 
,ve an allowance of 2 to 4 lbs. of linseed-cake, followed by a 
;d composed of cut chaff, pulped roots, and meal. This is 
.peated, so as to make three feeds per day, and the racks are 
pplied with hay at night. The corn-meal is mixed with the 
.t hay and straw-chaff, and pulped roots, say twelve hours 
;fore using, so as to allow a slight fermentation to commence, 
ood feeders, however, always consult nature by occasional 
langes of food ; and they believe in giving whole or sliced but 
ipulped roots, in considerable quantity, during the latter part 
the fattening process. 
As a contrast must be set the large amount of experience of 
ttle fattening with little or no root food at all. 
For instance, Mr. W. J. Edmonds, of Southrope, Lechlade, Cattle diet 
IS recorded the favourable result of fattening cattle, giving each without root 
; 5 bushels of mixed hay and straw-chaff, 4 or 5 lbs. of oilcake, 
id ^ a peck of meal (barley, bean, pea or wheat-meal,) increased 
1 peck per day about six weeks after the fattening has begun, 
he oilcake and meal are boiled for \ to f of an hour, and thrown 
a rich soup over the chaff, with a little salt, about 8 hours 
■lore wanted, or not much longer, lest it should turn sour. And 
ir. Edmonds' Christmas cattle with this feeding, and only one 
^ck of roots each in addition, handled remarkably firm, were 
ell fed, and made a good price. 
The practice of Mr. Charles Randell, at Chadbury, near Eves- Mr. Ramleir 
im, may be here adduced as one of the best examples which practice, 
nglish farming affords of cattle-feeding and manure-making 
ithout roots. Mr. Randell's statement, which appears in Mr. 
oseph Darby's paper in the Royal Agricultural Society's 
Journal ' on " Straw as Food for Stock," is as follows : — 
" After having heard how readily and profitably straw, aided by roots, cake, 
com, is converted into beef in Norfolk, and other root-growing counties, 
. the manure, essential for the reproduction of the means of carrying on the 
recess, preserved, you may like to know how the occupier of a clayland farm 
vhere to attempt to grow turnips is in the opinion of some good practical 
rmers in the neighbourhood a sufi&cient qualification for a lunatic asylum), 
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