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The following table shows the quantity of lood given daily to each beast, 
and the weekly cost : — 
5. (I. 
4 lbs. of oil-cake each per clay, at 8/. per ton . 2 0 
4 lbs. of barley-meal \m- ilay, at 1//. per lb. . 2 4 
10 lbs. of cut oat-straw per day, at 2s. the cwt. . 1 3 
20 lbs. of turnips, at 20s. the ton . . .13 
2 lbs. of hay at night, at 4/. the ton . . .06 
Weekly cost . . 7 4 
I continued this manner and quantity of feeding until the IGth of De- 
cember, when I found they were not increasing so much in weight as 
they had done ; I therefore ordered a bushel and a half of potatoes, or 
135 lbs., to be steamed and given amongst the cut stuff daily to the 
twenty-eight beasts, as well as a pound of Indian corn ground fine for 
each of the beasts, making it into a thick gruel, and given with the po- 
tatoes, oil-cake, and cut stuff. The price of the potatoes was 1*. 0x1. for 
90 lbs., consequently the extra weekly cost of each beast would be, for 
potatoes Id., and the Indian corn at \d. per lb. "id. also, making the 
weekly cost 8.*. Gd. each, until the last week, when they had 2 lbs. each 
of oil-cake more daily, which increased the cost \s. a-week — in the whole 
9*. Qd. 
It will be observed by reference to the Table of Weights, that No. 12 
does not appear in the list after the 30th of December — he had been 
going on remarkably well, and gained more in weight the last week than 
anv except 2 or 3. On the 3 1st of December, however, he refused his 
food ; I had him removed from the stock and bled, and immediately sent 
for the veterinary surgeon, who at once pronounced it pleuropneumonia, 
and applied the usual remedies, but without success ; it rallied so far as 
to feed a little, but died on the 2nd of January. I had the feeding houses 
sprinkled twice a-day with the chloride of lime, and very fortunately had 
no other cases, although some of the cattle remained with me after the 
17th of January, the day of my first sale. The average weight gained 
by the twenty-seven beasts in nine weeks was 200 lbs. and \ at a cost 
of 3/. 1 \s. 8d. — being five weeks at 75. three weeks at Ss. 6d., and 
one week 9*. 6d. I ought to mention that they had the last three weeks 
bean instead of barley-meal. 
When the several butchers had removed their purchases, I had all the 
buildings whitewashed and plentifully sprinkled w ith chloride of lime and 
water before putting up another lot of beasts, consisting of 16 Scots and 
Welsh bullocks, 1 Durham ox, 1 long-horn heifer of Lord Bagofs cele- 
brated breed, which was barren, and 12 cows and heifers. The bullocks 
had been kept in the fields with a shed to go in, and were supplied with 
oat-straw and a few turnips ; the cows were with my dairy stock, and 
had little more than oat-straw. The regular feeding was commenced 
on the 3id of Februar}% but in consequence of the severe frost the yard 
was too slippery to weigh the cattle for the first time before (he .5th of 
February; they were not weighed again until the 17th, and afterwards 
on each succeeding Monday, until the day of sale. (See Table, No. 2.) 
