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FEEDING. 
to receive them, they are sometimes transferred from 
the stalls to the fields ; but this is not deemed an ad¬ 
vantageous practice, nor do they often come on well, 
unless the cake be continued to them at grass. 
When oil-cake has been advanced to an extravagant 
price, some spirited individuals have tried linseed 
itself boiled to a jelly, and mixed with flour or bran, 
and it is said with good success; linseed oil is also 
said to have been used in the same way ; the principal 
objection to linseed jelly, is said to be the trouble of 
preparing it. 
The market for these cattle, which are mostly fed 
in the south of the county, is Southfield, whither they 
are driven in about eight days, the distance about one 
hundred miles, at the expense of about 10s. or 12s. per 
head, salesmen and toll, included. 
The above, in part, from Mr. Marshall.—See; 
Chapter XIV. 
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