472 Suggestions for Stock-feeding in the Winter of 1893-94. 
well-fed, as there are so many small turnips and so few large 
ones. But the farm-horses, which have been accustomed to an 
abundance of long hay, will find their rations terribly contracted 
in that particular. There will be very little hay to spare for 
them on many farms, and they will have to be content with 
small baits of oats, meal, or cut hay, and large allowances of 
chopped straw and corn chaff. Many of the mixtures which 
have been suggested for cattle may be given with advantage to 
farm-horses, but there must be a large expenditure for all kinds 
of horse corn. 
The breeders of both cattle and sheep who made great 
sacrifices to keep their stock during this trying summer, in 
the hope of realising better prices in the autumn, may, we 
fear, be disappointed. The East Anglian farmers have little or 
no money wherewith to buy store stock, and, unless they are 
very cheap, will not purchase half their usual quantity for stall 
feeding. The few winter graziers who are blessed with plenty 
of roots are apprehensive that, in consequence of the abundant 
crops of all farm produce in Scotland, in the north of England 
and in Ireland, and the exclusion of Canadian cattle, lean stock 
will be too dear for them to feed at a profit. Very fresh bullocks 
that are nearly beef have already risen considerably in value, 
but young and poor cattle aud store sheep are still very cheap, 
and likely to remain so. There is such a large area of the 
kingdom that has not half its usual store of hay and roots for 
the winter that every holder of stock will be anxious to sell, 
and comparatively few will be in a position to buy. Norfolk, 
with short straw, patchy roots, and half a hay crop, would be 
mad to be overstocked, even if she had the means to jmrchase. 
Suffolk is rather worse off than Norfolk, and Essex is in a still 
more deplorable condition. And yet every reasonable effort 
should be made to winter as much stock as possible, for there 
can be no doubt that, if we are blessed with a mild winter and 
early spring, both cattle and sheep are certain to command 
much better prices than those now current. 
It is hardly possible that the last half of this cruel year can 
be as disastrous to the farmer as were its first six months. Al- 
ready the “ fore part of the back end,” as our Midland brethren 
appropriately designate the early autumn, has greatly improved 
our prospects, and if the weather should remain open and moist 
till Christmas there is likely to be a considerable and continuous 
growth of grass, -which may enable neat stock and breeding 
sheep to be kept at a comparatively trifling cost. But while 
hoping for the best, we must prepare for the worst, and to 
enforce these views this paper is written, though I feel sorry to 
