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Th e Practical Value of Bung 
fodder consumed, the dung, sacli as it was, -was also obtained at 
a low price. 
Cattle-feedixg ox Roots and Straw : Cost per Week. 
Br. 
lOJ cwt. roots per week, 
at 8s. id. per ton . . 
3 cwt. fodder and litter, 
at 6c? 
Interest, attendance, &c. 
0 4 41^ 
Cr. 
6 lbs. meat at Qd. . . 
10 cwt. of dunof, cost 
s. d. 
4 0 
2 10^ 
£0 6 lOi 
The dung at this rate would cost 5s. Qd. per ton. 
£0 6 10^ 
Cattle-feeding on purchased food and home produce of hay, 
clover, and roots, based upon previous calculations, shows such 
results as might be expected now. When the allowance of 
roots is confined to \ cwt. a day instead of 1^ cwt., of course 
three times as manj^ cattle are required to consume a given 
quantity of food. 
The approximate cost of fattening cattle on partly pur- 
chased food, at the present low prices, the cost of cotton-cake, 
linseed-cake, and maize at the very lowest average price 
delivered on farms, would amount to about per ton. 
Present assumed Cost of Fattening Cattle per Head 
PER Week. 
Dr. 
8 lbs. cake and meal per 
day, I cwt. per week, 
at 71. per ton .... 
1 cwt. clover or hay, at 
3«. 6f/. per cwt . . . 
1 cwt. litter, at6(i.percwt. 
3^ cwt. roots, at od. per 
cwt 
Interest, attendance, &c. . 
0 3 6 
Cr. £ 1. d. 
8 lbs. meat, at 8rZ. . . . 0 5 4 
5 cwt. dung, if in boxes, 
cost 0 4 8 
£0 10 0 
£0 10 0 
The dung at this rate would cost \Ss. Sd. per ton. 
A hundred and eighty head of cattle, fattened at this rate 
for twenty weeks, would cost for dung during a winter the large 
sum of 840Z. If all this dung were applied to the root-crop, the 
cost would amount to 14/. per acre. If 810/. stood for all the 
arable land, the cost per acre would come to 3/. 10s. 
Tlie cattle fed on roots and straw alone would produce 600 
tons of dung or so, neither hay nor clover being used. This 
poor dung, at 5s. 9(1. per ton, only amounts to 172/. 10s., or 
667/. 10s. less than the cost of the purchased and dear food 
manure. Jf, therefore, 200/. were spent on purchased artificial 
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