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On the Fecdiiu/ of Stock. 
In summor, if greon stover is given, or a little mangold, 
according to circumstances, the cost with some 2 or 3 lbs. of 
cake will not be much reduced. I shall show farther on, that on 
such keep well-conditioned stock may pay their own way, espe- 
cially if the times give them a little help. 
Coming to the keep given in the last 9 weeks of preparation 
for the market, which hag been estimated above at nearly 14s. 
per week, the experience of 1859 would both vary the materials 
and diminish the cost. The allowance made last autumn, under 
like circumstances, was — 
Per day. Cost per week. 
s. d. 
6 11)S. of linseed (3 stone at 15d.) ?> 9 
(j lbs. of meal, half bean, half wheat, at .. .. 3 (i 
6 lbs. of hay (3 stone at 5id.) 1 4J 
0 lbs. of locust-beans (61, 15s. per ton), 3 stone, at lOd., 
nearly 2 G 
84 lbs. of swedes .. (8s. per ton*) 2 O5 
13 2 
It will be observed that here the albuminous substances are 
<liminished and the fat-producing food increased. The locust- 
beans are in their proper place when from long feeding the 
animal is gett^ing dainty ; their want of nitrogen being unim- 
portant for the last stage of fattening, and overlooked for the 
nonce in the account of the manure. The wheat-meal is mixed 
with the bean-meal, not as being cheaper or better in any way 
than the latter for feeding purposes, but simply because there 
was a glut of the one and a deficiency of the other article. In 
the case under examination no exception can be taken to the last 
15 months of keep on the score of profit : — 
£. s. d. 
Each beast was valued at Michaelmas, 1856, at .. 15 p 0 
They cost for the year 20 16 0 
For 9 weeks over .. .. 6 4 6 
42 0 (5 
They averaged in price 47 10 0 
42 0 6 
Leaving a gain of £5 9 6 
which just neutralised the previous loss. It has been stated that 
this beef cost nearly 10s. per stone. If the price had been 
* Cost of 84 lbs. (or 6 stone) of Swedes, at 8«. per ton 
1 , 3 X S X 12 36 , 
= |of 2y0f 8 X nJ.= ^ ^2^- = J0-3W. nearly. 
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