462 Practical Experiences in the Preparation of Food for Stoclc. 
[J^or Schedule of Questions, see page 448.] 
Mr. Clare Sewell Read — continued. 
and malt. Dairy stock : much the same, only the cows go out for grass 
and white turnips on the pastures, and have mostly cotton-cake. Uwesha.\e 
to run over stubbles and grass in winter, and pick up the turnips after the fat 
sheep, and eat straw-chaff until lambing, when they have better food. Fat 
sheep have whole turnips and swedes, hay-chaff, cake, malt, and corn. 
11. The cart-horses are kept in the yards all the year round. Dairy 
stock are housed at night in winter, running out whenever the weather 
permits ; have always cotton-cake in summer. I hardly ever have any fat 
beasts in summer, and the young stock are sent dovni to grass marshes by 
Yarmouth. 
12. No. (A record of the way in which grains are stored round about 
Burton will be found in oui* Report of the Prize Farms at the Derby 
(1881) Show.)i 
13. The first year I commenced farming on my own accoimt my cart- 
horses had the ' strangles,' and I allowed them all the long hay they liked. 
They ate and spoiled so much in three months that I have never \ised any 
long hay since. 
Mr. JoHX Speir, Newton, Glasgow. 
3. Cows in fuU milk get from 8 lbs. to 10 lbs. of fresh oat-straw uncut ; 
diy cows as much as they care to eat. 
4. My litter is principally composed of thatch from gi-ain stacks, potato 
or caiTOt pits, &c., straw being too easily sold here to be allowed to be simply 
trodden under foot to make manure. I have tried moss in the byres by 
nailing a two-inch spar along the edge of the gutter at the cow's heels, and 
filling it in front with moss. The body of moss was, however, too thin, and 
the cows kicked it largely into the gutters. It was, therefore, discontinued 
as being too costly. 
6. No. 
6. Generally imchafled, unless it is wished to boil or steam it in order 
to mix it with meals. 
7. Chaffing has no advantages miless it is wished to mix it with meal or 
cake, or for the purpose of using up hay which would in great part not be 
eaten alone owing to bad quality. 
8. Silage, oat-straw, hay, cabbages, cut clover, tares, in season, all as 
grown, and unchafled. Brewers' or distillers' grains, mutton pea meal (dall 
of India), decorticated cotton-seed-cake in meal, refuse maize-meal from the 
starch manufactories, linseed-cake, bean-meal, malt-sprouts, &c., all mixed 
in whole or part with brewers' grains. 
9. 
Present daily ration up to 
April 4, 1888 
Dry matter 
Starch 
Albumin- 
oids 
Oil 
6-53 
3-2 
•11 
•05 
30 
11 
•2 
•06 
3-5 
2-9 
•29 
•02 
2-2 
1-08 
•39 
•08 
^ lb. linseed-cake (American) .... 
•4 
•08 
•07 
03 
3-3 
20 
•8 
•05 
2-2 
1^5 
•4 
•13 
2113 
11-86 
2-26 
•42 
' See Vol. XVII. (2nd Series), Part 11., page 462. 
