£34 
FEEDING CATTLE. 
7s. to 10s. 6d. per week, in cake only, to which add, 
5s. for a hundred of hay, makes 12s. to 15s. 6d. per head 
per week, and 1 s. per week more ought to be added for 
attendance and stall room, which will make the regular 
expense near 15s. per week, or 2s. per day each beast 
is the lowest average. Hence it appears, that if a 
beast were thus stall-fed through the winter, from the 
beginning of December to the middle of April, 20 
weeks, the expense would be 14l. an expense which 
but few would repay ; or if a beast were laid in early 
in the spring, and grazed through the summer, sup¬ 
pose 32 weeks at 3s. 4l. 16s. and 20 weeks on hay and 
oil cake, 14k total for a year’s keep, thus 18l. ids. a 
sum which, with the price of the beast, could hardly 
be expected to be repaid; some cheaper mode of fat¬ 
ten ning must, therefore, in general be resorted to. 
Mr. Lech mere’s feeding sheds at the Ryd, are open 
behind to the yard, but the yard is fenced in, and none 
but cattle stock admitted, and hogs and other intruders, 
are kept off by the man in attendance. The cattle are 
tied to boosy posts, at from four feet and a half to five 
feet, from middle to middle ; before them is a wooden 
trough or manger, full two feet wide across the top, and 
before that a foddering bin, four feet wide ; the cattle 
stand in a space about nine feet wide, the whole shed is 
therefore about 15 feet wide within, and at every four 
feet nine inches, (the other way lengthwise of the shed,) 
is a tying for one beast, and a pump is at hand for 
supplying them with water. 
At Timberden Farm, Mr. Lechmere feeds capital 
Herefordshire oxen, and has different sheds and yards 
for them, in different stages of fatness, and they are 
classed and arranged according to their condition in 
this respect; they are all kept at grass in summer, but 
when 
