FEEDING CATTLE. 
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ther with what hay they will eat, of the best quality, 
which may be about one hundred weight per week : a 
man will easily attend twenty or more ; the price of 
oil cake is subject to fluctuation, and a little mystery 
hangs over this part of the business, which the gra¬ 
ziers are unwilling to throw open, under an idea, that, 
when the high prices they sometimes make of a lot of 
capital beasts, come to the knowledge of the breeder, 
it may tend to raise the price of lean srock; for the 
breeder of Herefordshire, or long-horn, or other oxen, 
is rarely the feeder of them, but generally sells them in 
store order, to be fatted by others. 
But I think, when the expenses of stall-feeding come 
to be detailed, it will by no means have that tendency; 
for upon paper those expenses appear so high, as to be 
enough to deter any one from the practice, unless he 
be encouraged by a reasonable price, both of store 
stock, and food for their support, and for making them 
fat.—Mr. Lechmere informed me, that oil cake in Lon¬ 
don is sometimes so high as 20l. per thousand, besides 
carriage down ; and yet, that he buys most of his cake 
in London: this, if four cakes be given per day, will 
amount to 1 Is. 2d. per week, each beast, in cake only ; 
but, I believe, the price is oftener about two-thirds of 
that sum, and sometimes only three cakes are given 
per day ; but when a beast is meant to to be pushed 
forward, double the usual allowance is often given, or as 
much as they will eat without danger of cloying them. 
Thirty-one cakes, he informed me, weigh about a hun¬ 
dred weight, hence 1000 weigh thirty-two hundred 
weight and a quarter, which at 20l. is upwards of 12s. 
per hundred weight; if the price varies from Si. to 
I2l. per ton, and 14-lb. average weight be given to each 
beast per day, this makes the expense, for each beast, 
7s. to 
