On Pulping Roots for Cattle Food. 
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disease of all kinds ; still I am bound to say I consider this immunity is 
more due to the protection I afford my stock than to the food I give them. 
U'he result with me has been the same whether the animals have been old or 
young, fat or lean ; and I believe the most economical way of feeding cart- 
horses will be found in giving them a large proportion of their victuals in 
pulped roots aiid cut straw-chaff. I have found pigs of all ages do remark- 
ably well upon pulped roots mixed with meal or pollard. — Nov. 29, 1859. 
5. From Mr. J. Blundell, Bursledon, near Southampton. 
In reply to your inquiry of my experience in pulping roots for stock, allow 
me to say that I only advocate it for horses and pigs, and then only for the 
purpose of mixing other feeding materials. 
For the last three years we have fed for pork above 100 pigs in each year ; 
and, although I have no experiment to offer as compared with other modes of 
feeding, our plan is simply to pulp mangold and mix with barley-meal, giving 
at the onset only a small quanity of meal, but increasing the quantity as the 
pigs advance in condition, and during the last 11 days of feeding giving 
meal onlj^. I prefer this plan to any other I have seen, and I reckon that 
pork can be made in this manner 15 j)er cent, cheaper than by meal only ; and 
the process of feeding being slower, it certainly gives a larger quantity of 
manure. I feed a good number of beasts every year of different ages, and I 
feed them with mangolds or carrots, cut with Gardner's Cutter, as for sheep, 
and mix bean and oil-cake with the cut roots ; and in this way the bnllocks eat 
a good lot of long oat-straw. This is an inexpensive way of feeding, and answers 
well where straw is plentiful. 
I do not advocate pulping roots, except in cases where the economy of straw 
or hay is important. — Dec. 17, 1859. 
6. From Mr. E. Corxer, Woodlands, Holford, Bridgewater. 
I have adopted the sj'stem of pulping my roots for the last four or five 
j-ears, and the more I irse it the better I like it, for I really believe I can keep 
one-third, if not half, the quantity of stock more, and keep them in better con- 
dition, than on the old plan ; of course I make a free use of one of Comes's 
largest size chaff-cutters, which is driven by steam, together with the pulper 
and other machinery. I believe the slow motion of hand-power will not pay to 
use for a large or moderate quantity of stock. 
My plan is, first commencing with the grazing beasts, to cut about an equal 
quantity of hay and straw and mix with a sufficient quantity of roots (mostly 
mangold) to well moisten the chafi' ; and as the beasts advance in condition, I 
lessen the straw and increase the hay, and in their further progress I mix — in 
addition to all hay chafl'and roots — from 6 to 10 lbs. per day to each bullock 
of barley and bean-meal, according to its size ; and I have tiiem large some- 
times — I sold last week for the London market a lot of Devon oxen, of very 
prime quality, averaging in weight upwards of 100 stone imperial each. 
For my horses, cows, j^earlings, and oxen — the latter to be kept in a thriv- 
ing condition, and turned to grass, and kept through the summer for Christmas 
1860 — I cut nearly all straw with a very small quantity of hay, and this the 
oQ'al of the rick. These also have as many piilped roots as ^vill moisten the 
chaff, except the horses, and to them I give, along with h-uised oats, just 
enough roots to keep their bowels in a proper condition. To the two or 
three year old beasts I give some long straw and a part chaff", and the offal (if 
any) of the food of the above lots of stock. 
My farm is but a small one, under 200 acres. My iJredecessor always 
