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FARMERS' REGISTER, 



POWKUS OF THE ARAB HOSE. 



From Fraser's Tartar Journey. 

 I am templed to mention to you one feat of an 

 Arab horse, the property of a person who has 

 more than once been mentioned by me in these 

 letters, Aga Bahram, and which has not, so (ar 

 as I i<now, been ever doubled. This animal came 

 from Shirauz to Tehran, 520 miles, in six days; 

 remained there three days, went back in five; 

 remained at Shirauz nine, and returned again to 

 Tehran in seven days. This gentleman told me 

 that he had once rode another horse of his own 

 from Tehran to Koom, twenty-lour liirsucks. or 

 about eighty-four miles, between the dawn of 

 a morning near the vernal equinox, and two j 

 hours belbre sunset — that is, in about ten hours, j 

 This, too, is good going : but Aga Bahram had 

 always the best horses in Persia. j 



MANURING. 



For Ihe Fanners' Register. 



Preface. — Aiihough my name is not known in 

 the communication headed, " Farm-Yard, &c." in 

 February No. of the Register, page 126, yet I 

 was mortified to find my horse and cow yards, 

 and intended piggery, so illy represented by the 

 cut, Mr. Ruffin has a multiplicity of business to 

 call his attention, and the most important should 

 claim his direct attention; consequently, in this 

 matter, no apology is either wanted or required; 

 nor should I have adverted to the subject had I not 

 a desire to lay before the public my manuring 

 operations ; in doinir which n)y yards will again 

 be brought into view.* 





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In the month of November last, I carted from 

 horse yard a, 82, and from steer d, 160, in all, 242 

 heavy ox-loads of manure. 



On the first of December, my steers and grown 

 dry cattle were yarded in rf, and having more pork 

 hogs than usual, yards b and c and another were 

 appropriated to their use, whilst the milk cows 

 and calves were shamefully made to find their 

 own shelters through the winter. On the first day 

 of March, my cattle were turned from the yard, 

 and two carls and ox-teams started to draw out 

 the manure as follows: 



From horse and cattle yards as above, 



lor corn ----- 242 



From cattle yard cZ, for corn - - 318 



" horse yard a, do. - - - 92 



" hog yard b, do. - - 82 



" hog yard c, do. - - - 78 



" hog yard additional, for corn - 63 



'' ox yard do. - - 30 



Saw dust, chips and scrapings, lor oats - 79 



Waste straw and hay, on galls - - 42 



From hog yard, tiir beets - - 11 



600 bushels ashes saturated with marine 



salt at the rate of one percent., lor corn 



and cabbage, equal to - - - 120 



1160 



Let it be remembered, that my milk cows and 

 calves were not yarded through the winter, and 

 that my steers and dry cattle were likewise not 

 yarded during one-half of the feeding season. I 

 wintered also 220 grown sheep, which were fed 

 libei^lly with hay and cut oats, all of which feed- 

 ings,of both cattle and sheep, and beeves, (whicli 

 lilt tnis moment had been forgotten,) were on 

 grounds requiring manure, and supposed to amount 

 to at least . . . . 740 



I am now ploughing down 25 acres of rye, 

 and .sowing millet and peas to be again 

 ploughed down, equal to - - 500 



Total manuring.? for 6 laborers on^e year 2400 



My crop of rye is much injured by rust, (and so 

 far as I can learn the disease prevails,) otherwise I 

 should not have plouglied down so great a portion 

 of the crop. I am pleased with the millet, both 

 fir hay and improvement. All my hogs at my 

 place of residence are yarded this year, it being 

 the first of my experience in this practice. They 

 are littered with leaves from the woods, and green 

 weeds and grass, which in part is their food. 



The reservoir D, E, has been excavated, but I 

 have not yet taken the time to remove the mould 

 to my yards. If not deposited in the yards with- 

 in a sliort time, it is intended to be spread on the 

 meadow M, M, next winter, after which the mea- 

 dow will be cut vvi;h the coulter, harrowed and 

 rolled. The reservoir G, U, I, is also full and valu- 

 able. 



The ashes mentioned, were mostly obtained 

 from the burnings of timber on newly cleared land, 

 every five bushels of which, with one per cent, of 

 salt, I consider equal to a load of dung. 



Last winter I made an effort at carting leaves 

 into my yards, but the weather proved so unfavo- 

 rable that I only got in about 100 loads. I have 

 leaves in abundance, at the distance of six to eight 

 hundred steps from my yards, and hope to hand 

 IVI r. RulTin a good long tally next year. My oats 



