496 Suggestions for Stock-feeding in the Winter of 1893-94. 
it would be far more economical to sell even at that price, and 
spend half the money in cake or corn instead. My flock of 
Shropshires has invariably done well under this system, and I 
see no reason why hay should be a necessity for any other breed 
of sheep, if it is not so for Shropshires or Radnors. 
Ewe lambs, 150, will have grass, a few roots, and \ lb. of 
cotton cake until mid-winter, when the cake will be supple- 
mented by \ lb. of bran or malt dust ; no hay, straw, or chaff. 
My fattening sheep comprise 250 tegs. I have found 1 lb. 
of cake and corn per day with about 16 lb. of roots to be a 
fair daily ration for a fattening Shropshire teg. I never give 
hay, though sometimes a little chaff with the corn, but it is 
quite unnecessary: 1 cwt. of roots and 1^ cwt. of cake and 
corn will feed out a teg in twenty weeks, during which time he 
should put on 32 lb. of mutton. It is pretty easy to calculate 
the feeding capacity of one’s roots on this basis, but I know of 
no reason why the corn and cake should not be doubled. 
Certain it is that some shoiv lambs are made to eat 4 lb. of 
cake and beans per day before Christmas. This, I should say, 
would not be economical feeding, but in a season of scarcity of 
roots, I am very much inclined to think that a ration of 2 lb. of 
cake and com per day would be economical feeding. I cannot 
say what saving in roots the extra 1 lb. of cake would cause, but 
my impression is that fully one-third less would be required per 
day, and the animals would be as fat in sixteen weeks on this 
treatment as they would in twenty weeks on the lighter feeding. 
In the first case the sum would work out, say, 1 ton roots 
7s. 6d., 1^ cwt. cake and corn 7s. Gd. = lbs. In the second 
case, say, 11 j cwt. roots at 4|d. = 4s. 2d., 2 cwt. cake and corn 
at 6s. = 12s., total 16s. 2d. Thus we have a fat sheep costing 
Is. 2d. more, but against that there is the saving in roots, 
8f cwt., worth over 3s., and the extra manure from the cake. It 
appears, therefore, that the higher feeding is the more economical, 
especially when we take into account the value of the manure 
from the extra cake feeding. This seems to me to be the line 
for those who are short of roots. Another 250 cross-bred tegs 
(Radnor and Shropshire) will “ run round,” having a few roots, 
grass, and \ lb. of cotton cake and malt dust — in fact, kept as 
the Shropshire ewe lambs are kept. So much for my Mon- 
mouthshire stock. 
I have now to deal with a considerable stock of 100 young 
cattle and 1,000 sheep on the Cotswold Hills, about 700 ft. 
above sea level. In this district hay is universally considered 
essential for ewes in lamb, and for fattening sheep on turnips. 
The latter I have proved to be a fallacy, having successfully 
