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It has always appeared to me an out of the way

a practice, to feed with oil cake, in place of growing; ei ess expensive, and equally good, not to say better, tate oft food at home. I should prefer the linseed itself; ies i and there is an additional reason for a preference, e alls when the article can be grown upon the farm. The In bot jinseed may be boiled to a jelly, and mixed with x will not bean, or any kind of meal, and chaff, cut from clo- Ts Sweat: ver, or saintfoin hay. I hold it to be deceptious, enfatten or rather plainly unprofitable, to use straw, in any , or me, shape, as food for fattening beasts, where hay can ns soaked' be obtained. Many good oxen, after the summer- exposed grass, are made fat with hay, of which, from twenty ‘In spite to thirty pounds a head,.suffices fora day. The ts, sure old English method, of making beef in winter, was would with hay and oats; nor is there a better, in a cheap helter,\- time for oats, and upon land where large crops of d expe- them may be convenient. eS given The various kinds of food, with which bullocks ul wea: may be made fat in the stall, have already been de- ached, scribed; brewers grains, it is well known, are ap- ry, that plied to that purpose; also malt-combs mixed with advan: meal. Turnips or cabbages being the chief food, keep it is very advantageous to allow one feed per day not in- of bean, oat, or barley-meal, mixed with cut hay. + of Substantial hay of tare¢s and green corn, will not be forgotten. The beasts will drink plentifully twice on long,‘i 55:::: an fit An attentive feeder will easily perceive when a beast does not improve upon his meat; all such Ld should be disposed of in good time, at any rate; ihe hn that they may not, by. useless consumption, hang as one a drawback upon the aggregate profit. This ought 9 aiid 55 5- It

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