. The book of the farm : detailing the labors of the farmer, steward, plowman, hedger, cattle-man, shepherd, field-worker, and dairymaid. Agriculture. REARING AND FEEDING . CATTLE ON TURNIPS. 499 byre of its litter and dung with the graip, fig. 257, and shovel (fig. 149), and wheelbarrow, and spreads it equally over the couit, sweep the gutter and causeway clean with a birch or broom-besom. Having shut the byre-door and left the half-door into the court ^'g- 257. open for fresh air, the cattle-man leaves the cows until he has supplied the fattening and young beasts with turnips, which having d
. The book of the farm : detailing the labors of the farmer, steward, plowman, hedger, cattle-man, shepherd, field-worker, and dairymaid. Agriculture. REARING AND FEEDING . CATTLE ON TURNIPS. 499 byre of its litter and dung with the graip, fig. 257, and shovel (fig. 149), and wheelbarrow, and spreads it equally over the couit, sweep the gutter and causeway clean with a birch or broom-besom. Having shut the byre-door and left the half-door into the court ^'g- 257. open for fresh air, the cattle-man leaves the cows until he has supplied the fattening and young beasts with turnips, which having done, he returns to the cow-byre, bringing litter-straw with him, and gives them their allowance of turnips for the first meal. Cows in calf never get as many turnips as they can eat, the object being not to fatten, but support them in a fair condition for calving; for were they fed fat, they Avould run the risk of life at calving through inflammation, and the calves would be small. It is not easy to specify the number or weight of turnips that should be given to cows ; but I con- ceive that ^ of what a feeding ox would consume will suffice. (1216.) There are three ways of supplying cows with tur- nips, either thi'ough the openings of the wall at their heads, as at 0, fig. 10, and through the dooi", fig. 9, fi'om the store in the shed s, into the trough c ; or with basketfulls, carried by the stall; or with barrow-loads, wheeled along a passage at their head, as described in (45), and emptied into the same trough c from the same store s, as seen in plan at /«, fig. 4, Plate IV., by the back-door into the byre. (1217.) With the willow-basket or skull, is the most com- mon way of serving cows or cattle in byres with tuniips. It is about 2 feet in diameter, with holes wi'ought into each side, under the rim, for handles, and costs about Is. 6d.; but they the graip. are apt to become rotten or broken after the natural sap is dried out of the willows, which is generally in a few
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