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of food principally used for stall-feeding here are hay, 
corn, oil-cakes, and linseed ; the best kind of hay in 
this county, is said to bring on cattle neatly as well as 
grass. 
The species of corn used are barley and beans, 
ground, and given dry alone, a limited quantity per da}', 
at stated times, with a supply of water for the animal 
to drink at pleasure. 
Where oil-cake is given, hay is sometimes cut with 
wheat-straw, and given between the meals of cake, 
by way of cleansing their mouths, as well as to correct 
the over richness of the cake; one man is supposed 
sufficient to attend and take care of twenty head of 
oxen. 
The season of stall-feeding is, during the absence of 
grass ; three meals of hay per day, and two of cake 
between, are generally given, with water always with¬ 
in reach; the quantity of broken cake given at a time, 
a quarter of a peck; but it is sometimes given oftener 
per day; but care should be taken not to cloy the 
animal. In regard to the progress made, an ox is 
expected to get fat in ten or twelve months; and, if 
bought in May or June, after the summer’s grass, to be 
ready by stall-feeding, for Smithfield Market, by Can¬ 
dlemas, Lady-day, or May-day, according to the 
disposition of the animal, and state of the market. 
They are seldom, however, kept the whole of the 
winter in stalls ; the most forward bullocks only being 
stalled the beginning of the season ; the rest being fed 
in open yards, or, perhaps, with hay only in the field, 
and the forwardest of them taken up as the stalled 
bullocks go to market. 
If the last stalled bullocks are not finished suffi¬ 
ciently for the market before the spring grass is fit 
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