FOOD FOR CATTLE. 
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the bottom of the steam boxes, is greedily drank by the cows Means and ad- 
before they begin to eat the hay. vantages' of 
J ° J feeding cattle 
I am > with steamed 
Dear Sir, * 00( h 
Your most obedient Servant, 
ISAAC FRANKLYN. 
Ox gale Farm , Edgware Road , 
IFelsdon, Middlesex, March 16, 1812. 
To C. Taylor, M. D. Sec. 
Estimates of the difference in expence of feeding twenty-eight 
Milch Cows on grains , &c. and on steamed food, each me- 
thod tried for one week. 
Feeding with grains , & c. 
1. t. d. 
Thirty quarters of grains of eight bushels each, 
at 4.9. - - - - - - -600 
Cartage, &c. - - - - - -2 10 0. 
Seventy trusses of rowen, or second crop of hay, at 
2s. 3d. each truss weighing four stones or 561bs. 7 15 6 
L. 16 5 6 
The above is, within a fraction,. Is. 8 d. per cow per day. 
Feeding with steamed hay and rowen. 
/. 
s. 
d. 
Hay steamed, forty-two trusses, at 39. id. 
- 6 
9 
6 
Mens’ wages, chaff, cutting and steaming 
- 0 
15 
0 
Expences of fire - 
- 0 
7 
0 
Seventy trusses of rowen, at 29. 3d. 
- 7 
15 
6 
L. 15 7 0 
This is, within a fraction, 19. 6fd. per cow per day. 
The balance in favour of the steamed hay is 189.6c?. per 
week, besides the better condition and value of the carcases 
of ray cattle, the great increase of milk and superiority of its 
quality. I deduct three pence per truss from the present 
average price of the hay used in steaming, on account of 
