On tJie Fecd'uuj of Sforh untli prepared Food. 
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Twenty- five head of stock for eight weeksj at 4^'. Ad. per uoek, — 
43/. (js. 8d., as before stated. 
The mode in which the cattle were fed was as follows : — At G 
A.M. each beast was supplied with about forty to forty-five pounds 
of yellow bullock-turnips, sliced ; at 10 a.m., with one pound of 
linseed, boiled for two or three hours, with about one and a half 
gallon of water, two and a half pounds of ground corn, and five 
pounds of chopped straw ; at 1 o'clock, p.m., the turnips were 
repeated, and at 5 o'clock, P.M., the prepared food was repeated. 
At night, a little straw was placed in their racks. If any cattle 
had refused their mess, it was removed and given to those that 
had finished theirs and were desirous of more. It may also be 
observed, that the ground corn and chopped straw must be mixed 
together first, and then the boiled linseed being poured upon 
them, and mixed with them, may be allowed to stand for one or 
two hours, and given while yet warm ; for if allowed to stand a 
few hours, the mass ferments and quickly turns sour. Hence the 
necessity of the strictest cleanliness in all. the vessels and imple- 
ments made use of. 
Assuming an acre of land to grow twenty tons of yellow bul- 
lock turnips, and that they are worth about 6/. 15^. per acre, 
each beast will consume eighty- five pounds per day, with the pre- 
pared food ; from this we may calculate that twenty tons of 
turnips will feed twenty beasts for twenty-six days, at a cost of 
about Is. 8d. per week per head. 
Again, assuming an acre of land to yield twenty tons of swede 
turnips, and that their value is about 8/. 55. per acre, each beast 
will consume sixty-three pounds daily, along with prepared food ; 
from which we conclude that twenty tons will supply twenty 
beasts for thirty-five days, at a cost of 1*. 8d. per week per 
head. Hence five acres of swedes, yielding twenty tons per acre, 
will suffice for twenty beasts for twenty-five weeks. 
If, instead of swede turnips, we supply raw carrots or potatoes 
10 the cattle, they consume the same weight of the latter as of the 
former, without making any apparently greater progress. 
Regularity and cleanliness, highly important as they are in 
every system in feeding animals, are, in this method, the basis of 
success. Without them, every attempt must inevitably fail. I 
have found that the omission of this food once on a Sunday 
makes the cattle return to it with an increased appetite. Under 
this mode of feeding, three-year-old heifers increased in weight 
(calculating by measurement) during the time they were tied up, 
on an average of the whole lot, about fourteen pounds each per 
week. Two of them made twenty stones each in sixteen weeks. 
Steers consume less food, and gained weight more slowly. 
The draught horses had their allowance of prepared food on 
