On the Feeding of Stock with jvepared Food. 
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One lot was fed as follows, costing Gs. lOif. per head : 
*. d. 
Linseed cake, 3 stones, at 13W. per stone . 3 4i- 
Turnips, 980 lbs 3 0^ 
Labour • . . • • . 0 5t 
Per week, fur each head . • G 10 
The other lot was fed upon prepared food : — 
Linseed and onnnid corn . . . • 4 4 
Turnips, 49b'" lbs 16 
Labour, &c 0 5^ 
Coals 0 6 
Per week, for each head . . 6 9^- 
The two lots were sold at Bedale market, on two different days ; four 
being taken from one set of beasts, and four from the other set, at each 
sale. The cattle fed upon prepared food realized 21. 6s. (id. more than 
those otherwise fed. The time occupied in feeding them was 8 weeks. 
By the first week in April, 1845, all my turnips were finished. I 
then put si.\ty head of cattle on prepared food, and found the plan to 
answer remarkably well. Of these, about twenty were in a very forwiird 
state ; they were allowed to have prepared food after the rate of 5^^. 3d. 
per head per week. They made great improvement, and were all sold 
by the 9;h of July ; several of them fetching '20/. each. 
The fold-yard cattle, cows, and young stock were allowed one meal 
each per day of a weaker quality of prepared food, but a full quantity of 
cut straw. The cost was 2*. 4^/. per head per week. In this way their 
condition was improved ; and the whole of them, when turned to grass, 
did as well as could be wished. 
My attempts in the autumn of 1845 were so satisfactory in their issue, 
that I put up a new apparatus on a larger scale, and having been using 
it since the 1st December of that year for all my cattle at Sowber Hill, 
which were generally in a forward condition when put up to feed. Up 
to this time, twenty-nine fat beasts have been sold ; and seventeen more 
are coming on, and will bo ready for sale before grass. 
At present, I have twenty-eight head of cattle tied up to stall-feeding, 
at a cost per week per head, including turnips, of 6s. ; twenty-four in 
fold-yards, costing 3s. 6d. per week per head ; and si.xteen cows and 
nine yearlings that have prepared food, at a cost of 2s. per week per 
head; and, in addition, hay of inferior quality. 
I have also tried the experiment with sheep, of which I have already 
sold thirty. Forty sheep and sixty hogs* have prepared food twice a day, 
with turnips, and are doing well. 
What I have seen of this system convinces me, that certainly double 
the quantity of stock can be maintained with the same quantity of tur- 
nips as was consumed by the old method ol feeding cattle. The manure 
is of the best quality, and very soon fit for use. No manure I iiave 
vor.. VII. 
* Sheep under a year old. 
