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week for litter required in a covered yard, or, in round numbers, 
1 cwt. per month at Is., we shall have the following charges 
against the manure account : — 
s. d. 
4 weeks' chafif-cutting and straw for food 4 0 
4 weeks' attendance, at 2 0 
Straw used for litter, about 1 cwt 10 
7 0 
s. d. 
Value of manure 8 0 
Per contra outgoings 7 0 
leaving us only Is. per month as insurance against risk and losses, 
and for profit. 
This estimate is based upon the quantity and value of manure 
made by feeding in boxes, because such is the only manure of 
standard value in which the proportion of excrement (liquid and 
solid), litter, and water, can be accurately determined ; but the 
question before us turns solely on the value of the excrement, 
which depends only on the food given, quite independently of 
the amount of water or litter with which it is combined. If the 
water be nearly doubled, and 1 cwt. more of litter provided, at 
the extra cost of Is., the 2 tons of manure thence resulting would 
be fairly valued at 4s. 6d. each. 
We have hitherto been looking at the comparatively favourable 
side of the picture of stall-feeding, let us now take a case in 
which the unfavourable features predominate, yet without the 
intervention of any disaster. 
The lot referred to consisted of seven young beasts, of which one 
home-bred (neat, but small) was by a bull of Mr. Jonas Webb ; 
two others were purchased for me by one of the best farmers in 
Cambridgeshire by auction, at the farm on which they were 
reared, and kept by me for one year as store-beasts, and the re- 
maining four (very well-bred young stock) were bought in like 
manner at a sale close to home, ready to be fattened, and con- 
sidered to be well bought by a very well-known Cambridgeshire 
farmer, who was himself a purchaser at the same time, and about 
at the same rate. These details are material, because success in 
grazing does no doubt greatly depend on the judgment shown in 
the selection of store-stock. 
My detailed account will commence only from Michaelmas, 
1859 ; but a retrospective glance over the year 1858-59 will be 
also desirable. 
At Michaelmas, 1858, my home-bred. No. 1 of this lot, was 
valued at 11/. ; Nos. 2 and 3 were bought shortly after Michael- 
mas, at 13/.' No doubt these latter were bought very dear ; at 
such a rate as to make the purchaser hesitate ; but store-stock 
