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Mr. W. T. SCARTH, of Westside Rouse Farm, Darlington. 
3. I use oat and barley straw and wheat chaff for pulp. 
4. I use moss-litter, which costs about 30s. per ton, whereas straw costs 
about 31. 10s per ton, and 41. this year. 
5. The straw is chaffed for pulping purposes. 
6. Hay is given both chaffed and unchaffed ; used mostly chaffed for 
horses and sheep, and given whole to cattle. 
7. When chaffed there is less waste. 
8. I use for cattle pulp containing a little salt, straw, cotton cake, meals, 
and turnips, and for sheep cake and oats mixed, and cut turnips. 
9. (a) About two parts cotton to one of linseed, (b) Three stones of 
pulp in the morning, three stones of sliced turnips at noon, and three stones 
of pulp in the evening, (c) Morning, between 6 and 7 ; noon, 12 ; evening, 
4 o'clock. 
10. (a) To a ho)-se, 1^ peck of corn per day, and cut hay. (b) To dairi/ 
stock, hay and cotton cake, (c) To fattening beasts, pulp containing cotton 
and oil cake, and ground oats, {d) To breeding sheep, a small feed of turnips 
a day, and a little chopped hay and a few oats, (e) To fattening sheep, oats 
twice per day, and cut turnips on tillage land, with a little chaff. 
11. The above (No. 10) is winter feeding. In summer cattle graze in 
pastures, with 3 lbs. of cotton cake per head ; sheep graze and get nothing 
else. 
13. (b) They feed and digest their food better. 
14. I have always steamed chaff and barley meal for young cattle, 
15. A mixture of meal and chaff, and given cold. 
16. By utilising the waste steam of a fixed engine, and also by using 
Barford and Perkins's steaming apparatus. 
17. It keeps cattle in good health, and they thrive better. 
18. For all stock except sheep. 
Mr. Thomas Jennings, Staincross, Barnsley. 
3. I have partially for a number of years. 
4. I have had no need to buy, as I have always been able to grow more 
than I could consume in straw-yards. 
5. Yes. 
6. Mostly unchaffed to milch cows ; chaffed and mixed to others. 
7. I consider a very great economy is derived by chaffing, mixed with 
meal and pulped roots. Young stock especially will thrive well at a mini- 
mum cost per head. 
8. Linseed and cotton-cake : two-thirds former to one-third of latter. 
Peas and Indian corn, with a little bran. Seconds wheat, barley, &c., for 
swine. 
10. Horses : Com, peas, maize. Dairy stock : Turnips, limited, twice 
a day ; one feed of chaffed straw and meal and hay : and cake once a day. 
Fattening beasts : Turnips twice, chaffed straw and meal, and cake. Breeding 
theep : Turnips ; to graze after November ; no corn or cake. Fattening sheep : 
Chopped turnips, with cake, mixed. Pigs : Mixed seeds, &c. &c. 
11. Cattle generally have been kept well in early spring, so that the 
early grass with a little help has soon made them fit for butchers, so as to 
procure the best prices for grass beef. In winter arrangements have had to 
be made according to circumstances, and to the outlook of the future. Sheep 
in like manner. 
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