448 Practical Experiences hi tlie Preparation of Food for Stock; 
Schedule of Questions. 
1 and 2. [Do not relate to the subject under discussion.] 
3. Do you use straw for feeding purposes ? 
4. If so, what suhstitute do you use for litter, and what is the cost as 
compared with straw ? 
6. Is the straw chaffed ? 
6. Is hay given chaffed or unchaffed ? 
7. In your experience what usefulness or economy is there in using these 
foods chaffed as compared with unchafled ? 
8. What other foods do you generally use, and are they given mixed ? 
9. If so, (a) What are the actual quantities and proportions of the 
mixtures? (i) What are the quantities given per head per day? (c) 
What are the times of feeding? 
10. What are the foods you give to (a) Horses ; (6) Dairy Stock ; 
(c) Fattening Beasts ; {d) Breeding Sheep ; (e) Fattening Sheep, and 
(/) Swine, respectively ? 
11. What are your general arrangements and methods of feeding in 
summer and winter respectively ? 
12. Do you use brewers' grains, and, if so, what is 3'our practice in 
storing, salting, preserving, and feeding ? 
13. What saving do you tind in the use of chaffed and mixed foods, and 
how do the animals thrive, (rx) With regard to milk, butter, and cheese 
yields ; and (6) With regard to fattening ? 
14. Are you in the habit of cooking or steaming foods for your stock, 
and if so, what is your practice? 
15. What are the foods cooked or steamed, and the proportions of the 
mixtures ? 
16. What, in your opinion, is tlie cheapest method of cooking or steam- 
ing foods ? 
17. What benefit have you derived from the system? 
18. For what stock would you recommend this method ? 
19. Have you tried the giving of warm food and water in the winter to 
dairy or other stock, and if so, with what result? ' 
To these questions tlie following are some of the answers 
received : — 
Sir J. B. Lawes, Bart., F.U.S., LL.D., Hothamsted, 
St. Albans^ llerte. 
3, All oat straw ; some wheat straw. 4. No substitute. 
6. Yes. 0. All chaffisd. 7. Much less waste. 
10. No sheep are kept. Dairy cows (50 to GO) when iu milk hare 
decorticated cotton-cake all the year round, about 4 lbs. per day in summer, 
4 lbs. to G lbs. or 7 lbs. in winter, .according to the yield of milk ; also in 
winter, 4 lbs. of bran per day, chaff" (half hay and half straw), mangolds, 
60 lbs. to GO lbs. per day, according to the crop ; also ensilage instead of part 
of the mangold. 
11. Oxen fattening on grass in summer, 5 lbs. to 7 lbs. cotton-cake daily ; 
' Where numbers corresponding to any of these questions do not appear in 
the replies which follow, it should be understood that tlic question is answered 
in the negative, or that tlie writer has no experience to record 
