EXPERIMENTS IN THE FIELD. 



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Examples. — The following vvrre five ex- 

 ti-aorilinary fat Uvo-y ear-old Leicester wether 

 sheep, fed by the Duke of Nortliiiniberlaiid, 



and slinif^litered by Mr. March, of Greenside, 

 neiir Gateshead, in the county of Durham, in 

 January, 1846 : 



1. Live weight, ■ii 



lbs. 8 



3 or 24-' 



1140 

 •72 



17-434224 or, by table, 17 



Actual dead wt. 17 



lbs. 

 6 



22 U 



or 22-8751 

 ■72 



16 6i 



15 12 



16 lOi 



16 



The quantities of tallow severally yielded 

 by these five sheep were as follows, viz. : — 

 Nos. 1 and 2, 1 st. 4 lbs. each ; No. 3, 1 st. 

 2i lbs. ; No. 4, I st. 8 lbs. ; and No. 5, 10i| 

 lbs. : showing 1, 2 and 3, very good provers; 

 4, au extraordinary prover; and 5, but an in- 



Et lbs. 8t 



Live weight. 9 3 or 92142 

 •57 



15 



13 12 



78 llj 



different prover. 

 were quite ripe. 



78 lOJ 

 The fleeces of all of them 



The following was a two-year-old Leicester 

 wether sheep, in fliir condition, killed by Mr. 

 Robert Story, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, May 

 21,1846: 



Bt. lbs. 

 5-252094 or, by table, 5 3^ 



6t. lbs. 

 Actual dead weight, 5 2 



The following was a ew 

 tween Leicester aud Cheviot 



re, half-bred be- 1 William Hav.'ksby, of Newcastle-upon-Tyiie, 

 3t, killed by Mr. I in April, 1846 : 



St. lbs. St. 



Live weight, 6 9 or 6-G428 

 •51 



3-377828 or, by table, 3 5^ 



St. lbs. 

 Actual dead weight, 3 6 



The foregoing examples are not selected 

 particularly as a test of the accuracy of the 

 scale of proportions laid down, as many in- 

 stances can be given for such a purpose quite 

 as close to the actual dead weights as those 

 above ; but as the particulai's of the live aud 

 dead weights of the first five are recorded in 

 the public prints, probably furnished by Mr. 

 Patten, the Duke of Nortlivniiberlaiid's agent 

 (vide Newcastle Journal, May 16, 1846), they 



may be referred to ; aud as both the live and 

 dead weights of the last are registered in the 

 book kej)t at the public weigh-house, in the 

 butchers' maiket at Newcastle, it is also an 

 instance on public record. The examples 

 given above will serve to show the applica- 

 tion of the scale of proportion to sheep of ex- 

 traordinary u-eiprkt, to those of a general 

 character, and also to sheep of a very shabby 

 description,. [Tlie (Loudon) Plough. 



■'EXPERIMENTS IN THE FIELD.'— In the publislied procecdinps of an AgrieiiUnral As- 

 eociation in England, attention has been drawn to the refuse matters of bleach-works, as well 

 as to other waste materials : and experiments have been suggested for testing their value to the 

 practical farmer. A letter has been received from Mr. Pringle, at Ingram Farm, near Lisburn, 

 in Ireland, describing some interesting and successful experiments of this kind, in which the 

 waste leys of a bleach-work were found very advantageous, in conjunction with farm yard ma- 

 nure, in promoting the growth of turnips. The subjoined results are deduced from the statement 

 in the letter, as having been obtained from the experiments tried ; 



Bulbs. Tops. 



Dung alone 17 tons 5j cwts. 8 tons 14 cwts. per acre. 



Dungand guano 26 " 18} " 8 " H " •' 



DuDg and waste leys 33 " 1-2| " 7 " I'j.} " " 



"The interesting difference in the weight of the tops, when the leys were used, appears to be 

 connected with the large quantity of alkaline matter contained in the ^aste liquor ; and. so far as 

 the experiment goes, the liquid seems to influence the? growth of the plant more in the bulb thaa 

 ia the leaf— a very importaut fact, if farther trials should confirm it." 

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