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Sir J. B. Lawes — continued. 
in winter, cotton-cake, sometimes maize or rice, mangolds, liay. Oxen 
should increase about 1 lb. for each 10 lbs. or 12 lbs. of dry food consumed. 
12. No. 
14. No. The AN^oburn experiments, which were carried out many years 
ago, were not favourable to cooking, and the more recent German experi- 
ments are against it. 
Mr. Henry Simmonds, Bearwood Farm, Wokingham. 
3. Not to any very considerable extent ; chiefly as a mixture with hay 
ill equal proportions for chaff. 
4. Moss litter is used, but only in a small way. Do not consider, to a 
farmer, it can be economically substituted for straw. 
5. Mostly ; but some long straw is given in racks to store cattle, with 
oil- or cotton-cake. The cattle eat the best of it, leaving the worst to be 
thrown out of the racks as litter. 
6. ChafTed for sheep. The fatting cattle get a little long hay the last 
thing at night. The horses have straw chaff, and two trusses long bay each 
per week. 
7. When chaffed, you can use inferior straw and fodder, making it palat- 
able by mixing it with oil, treacle, or meal of many kinds, or with oil or 
cotton-cakes. Cattle eat more in quantity than when the feeding stuffs are 
given separate!}' with unchaffed straw, &c. 
9. Feeding times : cake and meal night and morning, with hay-chaff; 
roots after breakfast ; hay, a little (long) last thing at night, say eight 
o'cloek. 
10. Horses: 2 bushels of oafs, ^ bushel split beans, with two trusses 
hay and straw chaffed, per week per head, when in full active work. Dairt/ 
stock : Jersey herd kept for use of mansion only ; no roots allowed ; only 
hay, crushed oats and a little cake or bean meal. Fatting beasts : 6 lbs. 
oil-cake, 2 gallons mixed meals, ^ to 1 bushel roots, with hay chaff and a 
little long hay per day. Fatting sheep : roots, 1 lb. oil-cake, with malt dust 
cr hay chaff daily. Pigs : cut roots, with beans and water for large stores, 
or miller's offal. Fatting hogs : barley meal, sometimes peas or beans mixed 
with the barley. 
14-18. Nothing done in this way, It was carried on to some extent on 
a neighbouring farm, but without any great success apparently. 
] 9. Warm water given to dairy stock in cold damp weather is no doubt 
good, and will greatly increase the yield of mUk and cream. 
Mr. Martin John Sutton, of Dijsons Wood, Kidmore, 
ReoAing. 
3. Yes. 4. Peat-moss litter. 
5. Yes. G. Principally unchaffed. 
7. Great saving in using straw chaffed. Ilay is probably more economi- 
cally used as chaff', but fattening cattle thrive better witli long bay before 
them. 
8. Waterloo round cake and linseed cake, not mixed. Tail-corn (ground) 
mixed with roots or chaff, or both. Swedes, mangold, cabbage, sometimes 
mixed and sometimes not mixed. When used with chaffed straw, generally 
mixed with it. 
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