The Stock-Feeder's Manual: the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stockCameron, Charles Alexander, Sir
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The Stock-Feeder's Manual: the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock
Cameron, Charles Alexander, Sir
Feeds; Livestock
locust-beans and Indian corn; and suggests the proportions set down
in the tables as the best adapted for lean cattle; but I think about
two-thirds of the quantities would be quite sufficient.
Feed per week. Per week.
lbs. s. d.
Rape-cake at £5 15s. per ton 8 2 10-1/2
Do. do. 10 3 7
Mixture of two-thirds rape-cake and
one-third locust-beans £6 8 3 0
Do. do. 10 3 9
Rape-cake, locust-beans, and Indian
Corn in equal proportions 8 3 2-1/2
Do. do. 10 3 11-1/4
An intelligent Scotch dairy farmer bears the following testimony in
favor of this cake:--
I have tried pease-meal, bean-meal, oat-meal, and linseed-cake,
and after carefully noting the results, I consider rape-cake,
weight for weight, at least equal to any of them for milch cows;
and if I give the same money value for each, I get at least
one-third more produce, and the butter is always of a very
superior quality. Two years ago, I took some of my best oats
(41 lbs. per bushel), and ground them for the cows, and although
I was at about one-third more expense, I lost fully one-third of
the produce that I had by using rape-cake. I always dissolve it
by pouring boiling water on it, and give each cow 6 lbs. daily.
I have tried a larger quantity, and found I was fully repaid for
the extra expense. I generally use it the most of the summer,
but always during the spring months. A number of my neighbours
who have tried it all agree that it is the best and cheapest
feed for milch cows they have used.--_North British Agriculturist_,
Edinburgh, February 29, 1860.
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