392 On the Fcedinrf of Stock icith prepared Food. 
have often proved failures. Why they have proved so he is not 
called upon to show. One tenant thrives on the same farm on 
which another has starved. One man feeds, and another cannot 
feed, cattle. Probably the same reason may have influence in 
both cases. 
But that cattle and other stock may, with ordinary care, be fed 
upon food artificially prepared in the method here described ; 
that the saving in consumption will more than repay the attendant 
labour and expense ; that an opportunity will be thus given for 
consuming inferior corn of unmarketable quality at home with 
advantage, as the cattle thrive well upon it, and the sample taken 
to market is rendered better ; these are facts beyond doubt. 
We now proceed to state, as briefly and clearly as we can, how 
the operation has been conducted ; to speak of the food, its prepa- 
ration and effects, and make such remarks as may from time to 
time su££fest themselves. 
On the author's farm the food is prepared, and all other work 
connected with the svstem performed, by one man, except the 
grinding of the corn into meal, which the foreman takes and 
superintends, being done at a corn-mill. Dean's linseed-mill is 
used for crushing the linseed, and Clawdray's chopper to cut the 
straw. 
The best artificially prepared food which we have hitherfo 
found is boiled linseed, ground corn, and cut straw, along with 
some raw turnips, given at intervals. A heifer weighing from forty 
to fifty stones will consume, daily, two pounds of crushed linseed, 
boiled in three and a half gallons of water for two or three hours, 
five pounds of ground corn, ton pounds of chopped straw, and 
about eighty or ninety pounds of yellow buUock-tiirnips, with a 
little straw, not cut, placed in their racks at night. The cost of 
food thus prepared from the following statement, in which no 
charge is made for straw and turnips, and in which ample allow- 
ance is made for coal, labour, and outlay of capital, appears to be 
4*. 4d. for each head per week. 
Cost of prepared food for twenty-two head of cattle and three 
draught-horses for eight weeks in 1844 and 1845 : — 
2688 lbs of linseed, or 48 lbs. per day 
192 lbs. do. not used on Sundays, deducted 
2496 lbs., or 46| bush, of 54 lbs. at G*. per bush. 
4.38 stone ground oats, at 1 \\d. per stone . . 
8 weeks wages, at 135 
1 cwt. of coal per day, at 155. per ton 
Interest on outlay of 50/., wear and tear 8 weeks 
13 18 0 
21 18 11 
5 4 0 
1 1 0 
1 5 9 
£43 G 8 
