JOURNAL 
OF THE 
ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY 
OF ENGLAND. 
SUGGESTIONS FOR STOCK-FEEDING 
IN THE WINTER OF 1893-94. 
I. 
How to meet the winter is a problem which can never have 
caused stock-feeders more anxious thought than at the present 
time, after the disastrous spring and early summer drought, 
which must always render the year 1893 alike memorable 
and exceptional. In due time it will, no doubt, be desirable 
to write the history of the approaching winter of 1893-94, and 
such history, based upon experience, will possess the value of a 
permanent record, access to which will always be possible. On 
this occasion, however, and in view of the fodder famine which, 
in many districts, seems imminent, an attempt has been made 
to anticipate the trying time that lies ahead, and to place at the 
disposal of stock- feeders various suggestions, the adoption of one 
or more of which may, it is hoped, serve to alleviate the distress 
which the winter cannot fail to bring with it. 
A characteristic feature of the recent drought was its 
unequal distribution, not merely within the island of Great 
Britain, but even within the limits of England and Wales. In 
the paper entitled “The Spring Drought of 1893,” which 
Mr. G. J. Symons, F.R.S.,has contributed to this volume of the 
Journal, it is stated (p. 354) that the area over which the 
drought has been severe is that south-east of a line joining 
Cardiff to Hull. If there be laid upon the map a rule, the 
edges of which touch Cardiff and Hull, it will be seen that the 
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