466 Practical Bxperiences in the Preparation of Food for Stocl: 
[For Schedule of Questions, see page 448.] 
Mr. Wm. Strattox, Kingston Beverell, Warminster. 
3. Yes. 4. Damaged straw. 5. No. 6. Unchaffed. 
7. I consider it bad economy to cliaff, and I never use a ctaff-cutter. 
8. Wliatever description of corn or cake can be bought or kept back 
from market to best advantage at the time. 
9. Various, depending upon the kind of stock. 
Mr. John Treadwell, Upper Winchendon, Aylesbury. 
3. Yes. 4. Use straw for litter. 
5. Some is, and mixed with hay ; some is used whole. 
6. Both mixed and chaffed if you have some that is not so good. Y^ou 
can get stock to eat it better ; and mixed with other things it becomes more 
palatable. 
7. There is less waste, and it enables you to mix the best and worst hay 
together, which, with meal or cake in addition, makes it more profitably 
used. I think, in giving dry stock whole straw, they will reject the worst 
and eat the best, thus doing better than if they were made to eat all alike. 
Of course, they require cake or meal with straw, or they wiU not thrive 
well enough, or make the manure good enough. 
8. American linseed cake and decorticated cake, often mixed. Meal ia 
made of about one-ninth malt, two-ninths wheat, two-ninths maize, two- 
ninths Indian peas, and two-ninths barley this year. Of course this varies 
according to the price of different articles ; but I always use from one- 
eighth to one-tenth malt for everything — cattle, sheep, pigs, or horses. I 
believe that it is better than any condiment ; it keeps stock healthy and 
assists to digest and assimilate their food. What surprises me is that 
farmers do not use it more generally ; I have used it for years for all kinds 
of stock. 
9. (a and J.) Answered in Xos. 8 and 10. (c) Morning and afternoon. 
Hay first and last ; roots, meal, cake, and chaff given about 8 to 9 a.m. and 
3 to 4 P.M. 
10. I keep my cart-horses on hay and straw chaff, with an allowance of 
1 bushel ground maize, j bushel oats, and h peck of crushed malt per week. 
Hreeding dairy coics get 10 lbs. mixed meal per day in hay and straw 
chaff, with long hay ad libitum. Fattening dairy coivs get 5 lbs. mixed 
linseed and decorticated cotton-cake, and 5 lbs. up to 10 lbs. of mixed meal, 
with mixed chaff and long hay, with two-thirds of a bushel of sliced man- 
golds, per day. Fatteniny beasts get the larger allowance of meal as well 
as the roots and cake. The dairy cows are fatted off after their third calf, 
or previously if bad milkers. In the summer mixed Unseed and cotton cake 
is usually given with the grass, about 5 lbs. to the breeding cows whilst in 
milk ; the fatting dairy cows get about the same allowance of cake and meal 
as in winter, with a little chaff, only they do not eat quite so much meal, 
5 lbs. meal and 5 lbs. cake being about the maximum. Sheep are fed 
according to circumstances. Swine have what meal they will eat when fat- 
tening ; same mixture as cattle. 
13. I find that I can keep many more cows by feeding in this way, that 
my grass land very much improves, tiiat my cows milk well, holding their 
milk for a great length of time, and when kilied fat the butcher gets an extra 
quarter in their loo^e fat, as they generally die remarkably well, often turn- 
ing out 15 to 20 stone (of 8 lbs.) of loose fat. 
