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Professor J. P. Sheldon' — continued. 
9. (a) I generally use about four quarts of meal to each bushel of chalF, 
first moistening the chafl"to make the meal stick to it. (6) I never pretend to 
weigh or measure the food out to the cattle, specially to fattening cattle. I 
give them all they will eat with a relish — all they will eat up cleanl}'. 
(c) The feeding hours are about 6 and 10 a.m., and 12.30, 4, and 8 p.m. 
10. To hones, hay, hay chaff, maize, and pea meals, split beans, boiled 
linseed. To cattle the same, except the beans and the linseed, instead of which 
they have cakes. To fattening beasts, as much linseed and cotton cake as 
they will eat, along with hay ad lib., and sometimes chaff and meals. 
11. In winter as ahove in the stalls. In summer my feeding cattle have 
all the linseed and cotton cake they will eat out on the grass. 
12. I do not use them. Were I a milk-selhng farmer I should. 
14. No. Damping the straw or chaff, as before described, is equal or 
superior to steaming, and much less costly and troublesome. 
Mr. Richard Strattox, of The Duffryn, Newport, 
Monmauthshire. 
3. Yes. 4. I use moss litter when short of straw. 
5. Xot as a rule. I prefer to feed it long, and litter the cattle with the 
refuse. I only chaff in years of scarcity like the present. 
6. Unchaffed generally, excepting as above, when it is cut and mixed 
with straw. 
7. ChaiEng does not pay for the labour. Cattle are far less liable to get 
out of health on long food. 
8. I use cake and meals, generally mixing the latter with a little chalf. 
The kind of food varies according to prices. 
9. (a) Nothing definite. (6) Varying, according to age of animal, from 
2 lbs. to 12 lbs. (c) Morning and evening with cake and corn ; morning 
and evening and middle-day with hay and straw. 
10. I have no hard-and-fast rule, but buy what I consider cheapest. 
11. Dairy cattle have only grass in summer. I'attening cattle have a 
little cake or meal. 
12. Sometimes ; I use them fresh. 
13. I find no saving as a rule, but when keep ia short it is sometimes of 
necessity to consume all straw and litter with moss. 
Mr. J. Brockie, of Golden Grove Home Farm, 
Caimai'thenshire. 
3. Yes ; for both horses and cattle, but not chaffed. 
4. Plenty of straw for feeding and litter. 
5. No. Have tried it, but do not approve of it. Not one of our farmers 
can say it is good for anything but cheating the animals by mixing the good 
with the bad. I let the animals pick out the best straw for feeding, and 
litter them with what they refuse to eat. 
6. Unchafled when given, for the reason stated above. No broken- 
winded horses on the farm, as they eat nothing but clean sweet fodder. 
7. Unchaffed. Animals in better condition, and a great amount of 
labour saved. What have animals got teeth for.^ 
8. Oil-cake and grain. 
9. (6) Only a little, not weighed, (c) Morning, noon, and evening. 
