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On Pulping Roots for Cattle Food. 
Moody^s, manufactured by Carson of Warminster, which divided 
the roots into mere ribands. We found such decided advan- 
tages in this system — in the economy of roots, in the condition 
and thriving of the animals, in the diminution of the litter 
required, and in the nature and quality of the manure — that we 
could not hesitate to recommend the adoption of it to our neigh- 
bours, and particularly to our friend Mr. Edward Bowly, of 
Siddington (author of the intelligent and very useful article 
on the Management and Breeding of Cattle, in the nineteenth 
volume of the Journal), whose farm adjoins our own. He at 
once adopted our view of the matter ; and, after a year's experi- 
ence, he informed us he was satisfied that it enabled him to keep 
one-tliird more stock on his farm, all other circumstances re- 
maining the same. We considered this testimony warranted us 
in calling more general attention to the subject ; and we did this, 
giving the reasons on which our views were founded, in a short 
paper which we sent to the Journal Committee of our Society in 
1854, and which appeared in the Journal of the following year. 
Although the chaff, to a certain extent, adhered to the surface 
of the thin slices of the roots effected by Moody's machine, we 
considered a more intimate incorpoiation desirable. We sug- 
gested to some of the implement-makers the want of a machine 
which would reduce the roots to a pulp, or, at any rate, which 
would effect a greater reduction of them than could be accom- 
plished by any existing implement. No attempt of the kind 
having been made, we recommended to our Society to offer a 
prize for such a machine. They did accordingly offer the small 
prize of 3Z. This produced the only pulper, which was exhibited 
\)y Mr. Phillips at the Lincoln meeting, at the cost of IIZ. lis. 
This the Judges reported as having well broken the roots, but as 
not producing a perfect pulp. We saw that the cost of this 
would be a bar to its general use, but it has been much simplified 
and improved ; and a machine was exhibited by the Messrs. 
Woods, of Stowmarket, at the Warwick meeting, at the cost of 
4/. 155. only. We infer that this mode of feeding has met with 
much favour amongst our agricultural brethren, from the fact that, 
while only one imperfect implement was exhibited in 1855, 
sixteen were exhibited at the Warwick meeting in 1859. 
The first pulper which accomplished the work satisfactorily, 
and which was exhibited at the ordinary price of the cutters in 
general use, was Mr. Bentall's, of Heybridge, in Essex, '^lliis 
we procured, on the representation that it could be worked by one 
man. We found it an effective machine, and within one man's 
power to satisfy a very small stock, but certainly not enough for our 
fatting bullocks, usually 24 in number. We got a second handle 
attached to the spindle on the opposite side, and our feeder and 
