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liking the best economical use of the various kinds of feeding- 
siffs at the disposal of the breeder and feeder of stock. 
The English market is well supplied with numerous articles 
( food, some of which are scarcely ever used by continental 
I iners, though largely employed bv British farmers for feeding 
d fattening purposes. 
It may not be amiss, therefore, to give a list of the various 
sides of food used in England, and to add a few remarks in 
ine instances. 
Linseed and rape-cake, especially the former, are largely used Linseed-cake, 
f feeding and fattening purposes, and, if pure and in good 
tidition, no food is considered to equal linseed-cake for rapidly 
f tening sheep and oxen. 
Earthnut-cake is occasionally sold in England to the farmer, Earthnut-cakc. 
I I more frequently it is bought up by cake-makers, and used 
1 adulterating linseed-cake. 
There are two varieties of cotton-cake. One is made in Cotton-cake, 
ligland from Egyptian cotton-seed, shell and kernel crushed 
t^ether, and the other is principally imported from New 
( leans, and made in America from the decorticated seed. 
3 -corticated cotton-cake has also been manufactured in Liver- 
|ol to a small extent the last year or two, from the kernels of 
< ton-seed imported from America. Both descriptions of cotton- 
tee are largely used by English stock-feeders. Whole-seed 
c ton-cake has been found very useful to store sheep and oxen 
Ci on grass, at periods of the year when they are apt to become 
e acted by scour ; and it is also gi^'en with much advantage to 
s ok fed upon abundance of succulent food, which has a ten- 
t acy to keep the bowels in too loose a state. In these cases the 
f ringent principle contained in the husk of cotton-seed acts 
i!dicinally as a never-failing corrective. Decorticated cotton- 
it ie, being made from the kernel in which all the nutriment 
l ides, is a much more concentrated food than cake made from 
t ! whole seed. On an average it yields about 40 per cent, of 
1 Togenous matters, and possesses high manuring qualities, but 
i s too rich in nitrogenous compounds to suit by itself the health 
< herbivorous animals. It is rather indigestible, and requires 
t be broken up finer than linseed-cake ordinarily is ; it should 
i given to fattening stock more sparingly, and mixed with about 
tice its weight of Indian corn or barley-meal, or meal rich in 
s.rch and comparatively poor in nitrogenous compounds. 
Experience further has shown that, when sheep are put on 
ngh poor pasture, on which they are obliged to ramble over 
iich ground in order to pick up sufficient food, the very t)est 
' 'ans of making the most of the wiry herbage, and to keep the 
cp in good condition, and at the same time to materially 
