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Mr, George Wright — continued. 
6. Yes. 6. Whole. 
7. Straw is most economically given chaffed, and inferior hay too, as 
much would certainly be wasted : but best hay, given whole, I find eaten up 
clean. 
8 and 9. Grain, (o) 2 bushels of chaff to ^ peck of grains ; (6) 4 bushels 
of chaff and 1 peck of grains, and they pick a little grass when turned out ; 
(c) 6 A.M. and 4 p.m. ; stock are turned out from 10 A.M. to 3 p.m. for 
exercise, excepting in very rough weather. 
10. Horses : One peck of oats daily, cut chaff, and a little whole hay. 
Dairy stock : In winter 4 bushels chaff, 1 peck grain, 4 lbs. cotton-cake ; in 
summer months only grass. Fattening sheep : 1 lb. niixed cotton and lin- 
seed cake daily, and green food ad. lib. Swine : Whey and barley meal for 
fatting pigs ; grain and wash for breeding ditto. 
11. Generally speaking, most of the cows are dry in winter, and are kept 
out ; some half are in milk, and are fed as per former replies. 
12. They are had fresh every week. 
13. (a) I find a great saving in chaffed food for consuming straw and 
inferior hay, and cattle thrive better oo a Uttle mixtwe 'tbao on only one 
kind of food. (6) Do not fat, 
Mr. T. H. Hutchinson, Cattei-ick, YorUUre. 
8. Yea ; all the best straw. 
4. Inferior straw and moss litter. Moss litter I consider excellent for 
cow-houses and for drying up liquid manure. 
5. Yes. 6. Mostly chaffed. 
7. Less waste ; the food is more palatable ; cattle fill themselves quicker, 
consequently have more time to rest and put on flesh. A mixture of pulped 
turnips and chaff does not reduce the temperature of the animal's body so 
much as a large feed cf sliced turnips does, and heat is equivalent to food. 
When pulp is mixed with straw, the latter is softened by the juice in the 
turnip, and is made much more digestible. 
8. Pulped turnips mixed with chaff and chaffed straw j linseed cake and 
meal. 
9. (a) The pulp and chaff mixture depends upon my root crop ; if I have 
plenty of turnips I use more in the mixture, (b) What each beast will eat 
without waste, (c) 6 a.m., 8 a.m., 11 a.m., 3 p.m., and 7 p.m. 
10. Horses : Chaffed oat straw, ground oats, bran, a few roots, and 1 lb. 
linseed cake. Stock : Pulped turnips, steamed food one meal, a few sUced 
roots, and a little cake. Sheep : Turnips, grass, hay, oats, bran, malt combs, 
&c. Pigs : Offal corn, ground ; sometimes with boiled potatoes. 
11. In summer cattle graze in the pastures, getting cake if required for 
the butcher. In winter they are housed and fed as above described. 
13. By using pulp, chaff, &c., I think you can feed 20 per cent, more 
cattle, and they will thrive better. 
14. Having a steaming apparatus fixed to use waste steam from my 
engine, I can steam food at little expense, so 1 generally cook a large steamer 
full daily for milking cows. The mixture is composed of boiled linseed, 
crushed oats, malt combs, bran, pea or bean-meal, and chaffed hay. When 
I have roots to pulp and mix with chaffed straw I do not consider I gain 
by steaming, excepting that I like to give milk cows one good feed per day 
pf the cooked food, In feeding cattle BWch depends upon hi^ving proper 
