458 Practical Experiences in the Preparation of Food for 8tocTc. 
[For Schedule of Questions, see page 448.] 
Mr. John Watts — continued. 
10. Horses get straw cbafF, with some hay, and two hushels of crushed 
oats per week. Dairy stock : hay, if possible ; if mixed witli straw chaff, 
2 lbs. cotton-cake per day extra ; straw chaff scalded with boiling linseed 
tea, and pulped roots. Fattening cattle : as much as they can eat of chaff 
scalded with linseed tea, about 100 lbs. of swedes, 4 lbs. of meal, and 4 lbs. of 
cake. Breeding sheep : roots and hay. Fatting sheep : ditto, with corn and 
cake, about ^ lb. each. Stvine : grass run as long as possible, with a little 
dry corn. Fatting pigs: pulped roots and grain, with barley, wheat, and 
other offal corn, ground. 
11. In summer most of the cattle, horses, sheep, and pigs are out at 
grass — except calves under a year old. In winter all are brought to the 
yards that room can be found for ; some remain out all the winter, having a 
shed to go in — a plan which might be practised to advantage. 
12. Not more than can possibly be helped, and then for pigs only, having 
generally a fair supply of roots or cabbages. 
13. If dairy cattle are in loose boxes or open yards they often waste a 
great deal of hay, if unchaffed ; but if they are tied up and have proper feed- 
ing mangers they are very contented with imchaffed hay, and thrive quite as 
well, saving the labour and expense of cutting and mixing. Fatting cattle 
would be better fed with chaffed and mixed food, to get them to eat as 
much as possible. 
14. For years our practice has been to steam the chaff used for every 
kind of horned cattle and horses, with boiling linseed tea thrown over the 
chaff required for twelve hours' consumption. The chaff is well mixed up 
and the steam confined, which in a very short time ferments and gives the 
whole mixture a very sweet-smelling Havour which the stock very much 
relish. To this is added the allowance of roots and meal for the respective 
classes of cattle to be fed. 
15. For fattening cattle, two-thirds hay to one of straw ; for store cattle 
and horses, all straw, should hay be in limited supply, as is the case this 
year. 
17. That good use may be made of both hay and straw which might 
have been damaged by weather daring harvest. 
18. To all kinds eating hay and straw. 
19. Always to very young cattle ; quite agree to it for old ones. 
Mr. F. K. Moore, Littlecott, Upavon, Wilts. 
3. Cut into chaff, mixed with hay ; say one-third straw and two-thirda 
hay. 
4. Wheat straw for litter ; barley or oat straw for cutting into chaff. 
5. Yes. 
6. All hay is chaffed, either with or without straw, which is a great 
saving, and doubly pays for the extra laboui". 
7. Hay will go much further ; sheep will eat it up cleaner, and lie down 
and rest afterwards. 
8. Best linseed-cake, old English beans, meal, pollard, malt dust. 
9. (h) Half lb. per day for stock things, (c) Morning and night for 
fatting sheep ; morning for stock. 
10. Breeding sheep : cut hay with little straw, small quantity of roots. 
Fattening sheep : cake and beans, with a little meal, two or three times a 
day, with cut roots, cut hay, and uncut hay ; also a little green food. 
12. Brewers' grains are very good for breeding ewes if procurable daily. 
