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not remove this ; but it can be eifectually removed by the use 

 of chloride of lime. You can get this from drug-gists, whole- 

 sale, at 4,(1. or bil. per lb. Dissolve half an ounce in 1 gallon of 

 water, add a tea-spoonful of this to every g-allon of milk 

 (unless the taste be strong', half a tea-si)oonful will be suffi- 

 cient), churn at least twice a week, and this ap})lication, I 

 will undertake to assert, will remove instantaneously all bad 

 taste from the milk, and therefore from the butter, care of 

 course being- taken that the churn and all the dairy utensils 

 are previously well sweetened. You need not fear the use of 

 the chloride; in such quantities it is perfectly wholesome j 

 and the only evil of adding- too much is, that you will g-ive a 

 worse flavour than that which you seek to remove. The 

 second benefit produced is, that, by keeping- cattle on boards, 

 the manure is fit, if required, for immediate use. That 

 which is dropped in one day, by the use of ashes, may, 

 if required, be drilled the next. It was in this fashion that 

 40 acres of stubble turnips have been g-rown by me this year. 

 Look at this root, it weighs 2 lb. its green weighed precisely 

 the same. If the whole field had been like this, the crop 

 would have been 32 tons i»er acre ; for the turnips were 

 drilled only 14 inches apart, and singled out at 9 inches dis- 

 tance. They were not sown until the last week in August, 

 after one ploughing, crushing, and harrowing. And why 

 did not the whole field give roots like these '.'* There are 

 only a few of the drills containing turnips so large; and 

 these are found, where, through the unevenness of the ground 

 a double quantity of manure was uttered by the drill. In- 

 structive difference! If I had but shown more faith in 

 mother earth, and intrusted her with 2 cwt. of guano in 

 addition to my home-made manure, then I could have invited 

 you to come and admire 30 tons of wheat-stubble turnips 

 per acre. Oh, if we had but capital enough, and trust 

 enough in the soil, with God's blessing, what a cliflerent face 

 our fields would wear. 



I will now refer to my sheep feeding on boards. I con- 

 sider this method to be now perfect ; in French phrase im 

 fait accompli. Mine have done this year admirabl3% -^ ^'^^ 

 state the result of two weighings of a lot of six of those 

 sheep, which were selected as fair representatives of the flock 

 in the house; they were weighed at a distance of three weeks, 

 under precisely the same circumstances : — 



