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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The solid mass or cake which remains when oil is expressed from flaxseed. It is much used as food for cattle and sheep. Also called oil-cake.
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“Weel, he managed middlin 'well wi' the neeps, and whiles, the linseed-cake, but oh Doctor, he canna thole the straw!”
“It has been remarked by chemists, in this connection, that the great value of linseed-cake, as an adjunct to hay, for fat cattle and milch cows, has been long recognized; and that it is undeniably traceable, in the main, to three ingredients of the seeds of the oil-yielding plants.”
“Others still take pains at this age to have fresh linseed-cake, broken into pieces of the size of a pigeon's egg; putting one of these into the mouth after the meal of milk has been finished, and when it is eager to suck at any thing in its way.”
“It has been commonly supposed that when cattle are fed with oil-cake, the increased value of the manure is equal to from one-half to two-thirds the price of the oil-cake; but this is a rather exaggerated estimate as regards linseed-cake, although it falls short of the truth in the case of rape, as we shall afterwards more particularly see.”
“Mr Cooke is of opinion that no system of manuring yet discovered will both thicken and improve the herbage at all equally in success to the careful and regular feeding upon the grass of cattle or sheep, the animals having a good allowance of decorticated cotton-cake, or even of linseed-cake.”
“Crushed linseed, linseed and bran, or linseed-cake dust are among the best.”
“Amongst the adulterations of linseed-cake, which lower its nutritive value without imparting to it any injurious properties, are the seeds of the cereals and the grasses, bran, and flax-straw.”
“England_, advocated its employment as a substitute for the more costly linseed-cake.”
“Of concentrated foods used for fattening stock, none stands higher in the estimation of the farmer than linseed-cake, although it appears to me that the price of the article is somewhat too high in relation to its amount of nutriment, and that corn, if its price be moderate, is”
“If oil-cakes be used as an adjunct to straw, rape-cake will be found more economical than linseed-cake.”
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