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FEEDING CATTLE. 
of 1-tlb. weight per day of hay, and one hundred 
weight of turnips, to each beast, would be a good al¬ 
lowance; this, at 5s. per cwt. hay, and 6s. per cwt. 
turnips, would be about 8s. per week each beast, and 
with the labour attending it, they cannot be cheaper 
well fed. 
One principal advantage of thus stall-feeding upon 
an arable farm, is the improvement and increase of 
manure; for, in point of profit, it does not promise 
much upon paper, for an ox, or heifer, thus kept 
twenty weeks, will cost Si. and cannot be expected to 
improve more than the expense. They are, however, 
thus supported from a small breadth of land; the tur¬ 
nips, for twenty weeks, would thus be seven tons, 
which, in a tolerably good crop, would be produced 
on half an acre; the hay would be 17 y cwt. at 112lb„ 
the hundred, which ought to be produced from little 
more than half an acre also, besides the aftermath ; 
each beast may therefore be reckoned to be fed on the 
produce of little more than an acre of well cultivated 
land; the produce is, at this price, well sold at home, 
the dunghill increased, and the land thereby improved, 
making the whole a good concern, though not appa¬ 
rently very profitable, when reckoned on paper. 
At the Ryd, Mr. Lechmere at present feeds only 
the short-horn or Yorkshire cattle ; 12 were in stalls 
when I was there; one, a large bull of this breed, feed¬ 
ing for the butcher, a large thick and heavy animal; 
a second, a young bull, hired for getting stock, at SO 
guineas for the season ; and ten cows or heifers, part 
drawn from his own stock, the rest bought from job¬ 
bers ; they are fed with oil cake and hay, with plenty 
of water ; four cakes per day are given to each feeding 
beast, weighing about fourteen or fifteen pounds, toge¬ 
ther 
