The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1845-01-15
AGRICULTURAL
COMPOUND FOR FATTENING CAT,
TIE.

COMPOUND FOR EATTENING CAT
TIE.
! Flax-seed and 0il-cake have long beer
considered very valuable for fattening cattle
I The English farmers prize these article
very highly, and great quantities are impor
ted and used in the British Islands Oil
cake is even carried from this country to fat
! ten English beef. One great advantsg,
which the English farmer thinks he derives
I from the use oft, is the improved quality Of
the manure. Flax seed or linseed oil, has
Likewise been sometimes used, mixed with
bran, Sc, for fattening animals, and the ef-
. feet has been very rapid gain. We have
occasionally used 1axseed for cattle with
good advantage, by boiling il and mixing ii
with meal, cut hay, &c. We recollect the
| practice of enc man in particular, who, more
/ than twenty years ago, was considered TO
have great success in fattening cattle. He
boileda quantity of ground fax seed, or in
stead Of that, pulverized oil-cake, with po-
tatocs, and scalded in meal, (eiihei from barley
or corn,) in such quantity that when the
mixture was cold ii could be cut out in pec IS,
and in that shape was given 10 the cattle
while they were in their stalls.
In the third volume of the American
Farmer, is an article by Nathan Landon, of
Ltchfeld, Conn, on the subject Of feeding
cattle with cut straw, oil-cake and flax-seed.
lie saws he fattcned an or and three-year
old heifor, with less expense, even, than that
of common keeping, by the following pro-
cess. He says: ii boiled about two quarts
of fiarseed and .sprinkled on to cut straw,
which had been previously scalded and
seasoned with salt, together with some oil
cake and oatmeal, working them together in
tub with sbori pijchfork, till the whole be-
came an oily musb. fa,tened the heifer
irst-she was OF ordinary size, and in good
order to winter. | gave her about three
pecks of the MIXTURE, which she ate voroc-
iously, and in the course of four days, when
the seed was gone. she was visibly altered.
fed her regularly in that way about two
moths, in which time she bad eaten about
Que bushel Ofb0ied 1arseed, with the Other
inSrenents IN proportion when she was
butchcFcd, she weighed 5Si lbs, 81 pounds of
which was tallow. she would not have sold
before fattening for more than SIG. sold
Two quarters OF her beef for S18 10. She
cost me not more than $40, exclusive of hay
and straw she ate, which was chiefly scalded
as above.
On the first of February, began with the
OK. fed him about three months. but not
altogether so well as | did the heifer. lie
digested about one pint of boiled faxseed a
day, prepared as above, which | suppose
formed half the fat in these two cattle. The
OK was short, girthed seven feet two inches,
and when killed, weighed 1852 pounds, and
had 1s2 pounds of tallow. He cost me
while fattening, twenty-five cents day: he
had previously cost me thrty-fiye cents a.
day.
My net gain in fattening these two cattle,
was more than all have cleared before in
iatiening cattle in fifteen years; and this is
owing, think, chiefly TO the use of flax-seed.
| never fattened cattle that appeared so calm
so hearty, and digested all their food with
so much natural case aud regularity as those.
kept my cows in the same way in the
month of March. for one-third the expense of
hay. Ii makes excellent milk and excellent
butter"
To make cattle compound with potatoes or
white carrots, nothing more is required
than, after having b9en properly steamed or
boiled, to remove them from The vessels, as
no, as possible, into trough. then sprinkle
some linseed meal upon them, and knead the
whole into Il mass with the rammer. The
compound may be put hot into the moulds
and made into cakes. or used from the
trough. Less labor will be required, ifihe
reefs are removed from the cooking vessels
in small quantities, aud Incorporated with
the meal. The proportions must be left to
circumstances and 10 tie cost al which cattle
are intended TO be fed. The effect of giving
only one pound Of liasced meal per day to a
bullock, when incorporated with potatoes or
carrots, will soon become visible but il a
pound or two more were added. the animal
would laiten at rate which those alone who
Watched the proceedings could believe
~ Z. Farmer.