Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hard cake formed of the residue of the seed and husks of rape (see
rape ) after the oil has been expressed.
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Examples
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That various manures, such as bones, horn, wool, and rape-cake are readily nitrifiable, has been shown by experiment.
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From the seed of the wild Cabbage (Rape, or Navew) rape-seed oil is extracted, and the residue is called rape-cake, or oil-cake.
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When farmyard manure is not available, the most effective and economical substitute is 4 cwt. per acre of rape-cake, ploughed in in the autumn, or 1 cwt. of sulphate of ammonia, sown in the spring, with, in either case, 1 cwt. of nitrate of soda as a spring top-dressing.
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In relation to the nutritive value of rape-cake there exists considerable diversity of opinion.
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Mr. Callan, [36] of Rathfarnham, county Dublin; Mr. Bird, [37] of Renton Barns, and some other feeders, who found rape-cake to be worse than useless, experimented, in all probability, with an adulterated article, for they do not appear to have had the cake analysed.
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If oil-cakes be used as an adjunct to straw, rape-cake will be found more economical than linseed-cake.
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Certain feeders assert that animals fed upon it go out of condition; others, whilst admitting that stock thrive upon it, maintain the economic superiority of linseed-cake; whilst a third set believe rape-cake to be the most economical of feeding-stuffs.
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Horsfall, Mechi, Lawrence, Bond, Hope, and many other feeders of equal celebrity, have assigned to rape-cake the highest place, in an economic point of view, amongst the concentrated feeding stuffs.
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Now, if an experiment with a very inferior kind of rape-cake and a good variety of linseed-cake were tried, who can doubt but that the results would be very unfavorable to the former article?
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Mr. Horsfall's diet is as follows: -- Hay, 9 lbs.; rape-cake, 6 lbs.; malt-combs, 1 lb.; bran, 1 lb.; roots, 28 lbs.
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