during the lad Four Years. 217 



told me that the same experiment ivith Lord Spencer s, on the comparative 

 feeding properties of sivedes and of mangold, had been tried with bullocks at 

 Woburn, and ivith precisely the same result. He also told me that, whenever 

 he wished to push a beast on in condition, he changed it from swedes to man- 

 gold- wurzel. The farm -yard is a vast assemblage of buildings, with sixty 

 bullocks, chiefly Herefords, fatting in the stalls — partly on linseed, which is 

 ground on the premises by the same water-wheel which threshes the corn. 

 The flock is Sussex Down, but a part are crossed with the Leicesters, for one 

 generation only of course, all the lambs being made up for the butcher. Mr. 

 Burness stated that for this purpose he thought the half-cross was the best, 

 as the meat fetched the same high price with the Downs (a halfpenny a 

 pound more), while the Leicester blood gave a greater disposition to fatten. 

 This noble farm is certainly a model of light-land husbandry ; and I did not 

 discover a fault in it. I should add that on these 1500 acres no waggon is 

 used. The harvest is brought home and the dung carried out upon single- 

 horse carts ; nor in this respect is there any departure from the practice of 

 the neighbourhood, for I find that in Bedfordshire and a part of Hertford- 

 shire the farmers use nothing else— so that the advocates of single-horse 

 carts need not go so far north as Cumberland in support of their innovation. 



XIV. — Account of the Meeting of German Landowners in 1841. 



By Henry Handley. 

 Having been requested to furnish an account of the proceedings 

 of the " Fifth Meeting of the Society of German Landowners and 

 Foresters," which I attended at Doberan, on the Mecklenburg^ 

 coast, in September, 1841, I shall endeavour to give a general 

 statement of the objects and arrangements of the Society ; but the 

 difficulties attendant on reporting communications which have 

 been received through the medium of a foreign language will not 

 only abridge the matter, but, I fear, diminish the interest which 

 I could wish to impart. 



In the hope that I might furnish a more elaborate description 

 of the proceedings of the meeting, I have waited for the publica- 

 tion of the Transactions of the Society, which have at length 

 appeared in a somewhat voluminous form ; but the subjects 

 discussed at the greatest length are not of a nature to be very inter- 

 esting to British agriculturists : such, for instance, as the distilla- 

 tion of sugar and spirits from roots ; the niceties requisite in the 

 breeding and management of merino flocks ; the extremely 

 minute tests applied to determine the quality of wools ; the breed- 

 ing of blood-horses in Germany ; the management of the forests ; 

 local geological collections, &c. &c. I shall, however, give such 

 extracts as may convey an idea of the character of the discussions, 

 and a debate in full on the merits of the different breeds of dairy- 

 cows. 



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