454 Practical Experiences in the Preparation of Food for Stoch. 
[For Schedule of Questions, see page 448.] 
Mr. J. Brockie — continued. 
10. Horses : straw unchafFed and swedes, as much as they can eat, and 
1^ bushel of oats uncrushed, and swedes uncut. Dairy stock: straw and 
hay, mangolds, and corn. Feeding beasts : turnips uncut, straw, and corn. 
Breeding ewes : hay, turnips, and grass. Feeding sheep : turnips, corn, grass, 
and hay. 
11. Out-of-doors in the summer; in-doors in the winter. Turn out to 
graze in May, and turn in about November, guided by weather. 
14. Have tiied cooking for two winters, but shall not do so again. Stock 
did not do so well when tui'ued out to graze. 
Mr. T. DuCKHAM, Baysham Court, Eoss, Herefordshire. 
3. I use all the barley and oat straw for feed, not chaffed, for cattle. 
Oat or wheat straw chaffed with fodder for horses. Wheat straw for 
litter. 
4. Not any. 5. For horses only, 
6. Hay, chaff, pulped roots, and meal, for fattening cattle and calves, 
with a little hay in the racks at night. 
7. There is less waste of hay, animals consume it quicker, and the food 
is more readily assimilated. 
8. I never separate the chaff from cavings in thrashing. My store cattle 
and breeding cows live exclusively on two feeds of cavings mixed with the 
must from cider-making during the season, followed by pulped swedes or 
turnips, and supped with barley or oat straw. When short of roots, or the 
cavings have suffered damage from rain during harvest, I apply linseed tea, 
boiling hot. 
9. (a) Peck of linseed to 20 gallons of water. (6) As much as they will 
clear up. (c) Early morning, noon, and six in the evening. 
10. Horses : clover or hay and straw chaff, equal parts, with crushed 
oats, bran, and linseed tea. Fattening beasts : hay, chaff, pulped roots, meal, 
oil-cake, and a little hay at night ; oil-cake early in the morning. Breeding 
sheep run the pastures until within a few weeks of lambing, with a few 
turnips ; before lambing they are on turnips by day, in lambing-fold at night, 
with an allowance of fodder. Fattening sheep : folded on roots ; linseed 
cake, hay, chaff, and meal. 
11. In summer fattening cattle have cake in boxes on the pastures; fat- 
tening sheep, cake and corn on clovers. In winter: Reply given in No. 10 
query. 
17. My breeding cows and store cattle, kept in the way described under 
the heading ' Mixed Foods,' are always in excellent condition and very healthy. 
Using the chaff with the cavings induces the latter to be all consumed in 
the manner described. 
Mr. Robert T. Williams, Waterloo Farm, Fromefield, Frame. 
3. I mix a small quantity with hay chaff, which I buy. I consider it 
improves the feed. 
4. Straw for litter, which I have to buy. 
5. Yes, with hay. 
6. Ilay, given night and morning, unchaffed ; cliaff as the second meal. 
7. I steam the cliaff; it creates an appetite, and the corn (meal) is mixed 
■with it, and, sticking to the chaff, there is no waste, I find also that cows 
