1870. 



m.W ENGLAND FARMER, 



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our stay was brief, we rely on the correspondents 

 of the Advertiser and Jowrno^ for most of our fig- 

 ures. The wharf or landing, full half a mile in 

 length, is built of stone with its foundation below 

 the reach of frost, with hewn granite blocks for 

 cap-stones. Between this landing and the Shute 

 yards is a passage or space ten feet wide. Each 

 of these landing yards is to be equal in length 

 to that of an ordinary stock car. The gates of 

 these receiving yards will open each way so as to 

 form a fenced passage from the car to the yard ; 

 an arrangement which it is believed will prove 

 very useful to the drover in unloading stock. 



Thess receiving yards open on the opposite side 

 from the cars into a regularly laid street, made of 

 choice gravel and macadamized stone, forty-five 

 feet wide; this street is to be lighted with gas, as 

 well as the interior of the sheep houses. From 

 this street stock passes into sale yards, as well 

 as into the sheep and swine houses, which are 

 large, monitor roofed, well ventilated buildings. 

 The sheep houses are divided into pens that will 

 admit from 125 to 150 sheep, with every conven- 

 ience; sheep racks, troughs and shelves for salt and 

 other food. There are twenty-six double pens in 

 ' ach house, giving each dealer an opportunity to 

 assort his fljcks. Platform scales are situated at 

 the junction of the different entrances in the centre 

 of the buildings, and will admit 200 sheep at a 

 single draft. 



The double cattle yards, with sheltered roofs, 

 are in close proximity to the sheep houses, extend 

 ing from the main street, up the gradual rise of 

 land, with ample accommodations for food and 

 water. There are also tine accommodations for 

 hogs and calves, and everything possible is pro- 

 vided for the comfort of man and beast. 



The Corporation have also erected a hotel three 

 stories hiah, with French roof, and basement, con- 

 taining 100 rooms. The cfflv^e will be sii;uated on 

 first floor, 41 by 32 feet, with another room equally 

 as large for the drovers' and butchers' especial 

 use. 



There is also to be connected with the market a 

 hay barn, 70 by 100 feet. The office is in a central 

 position, easy of access, with large platform scales. 

 There ii also a brick building, directly back of the 

 office, containing a tank and caloric engine, to 

 supply the yards wiih water. An abundance of 

 the needed article is obtained from pipes driven 

 into the ground, and through the help of the en- 

 gine and iron pipes, every yard receives a suf- 

 ficient suy)ply. 



The whole site is protected from northeast 

 winds by a rise of land. Before commencing 

 operations on these grounds, it was thought they 

 might be ready by the first of October, but the 

 amount of grading, underdraining, building, &c., 

 is so great that even with the largo force now em- 

 ployed the work will hardly be completed before 

 the first of January. 



STBAW^BEHRY BED 3. 



Most persons who have land, now raise 

 strawberries, many or few. They are found 

 not only in the gardens of the rich, and in the 

 snug ancj highly cultivated patch of the me- 

 chanic, but have at last found their way to the 

 farm, where a plot of ground is made fertile 

 and devoted to this rich and wholesome f^uit. 



An opinion was common some years ago 

 that the strawberry does not require a rich 

 soil, but a great abundance of water. It 

 certainly does like the water, and we are quite 

 sure that it likes to luxuriate in a rich, deep, 

 and mellow soil. The crop will generally be 

 in proportion to the richness of the soil. We 

 may be told that they grow luxuriantly in 

 meadows. So they do. But those meadows 

 probably abound in the very elements which 

 the plant needs. 



Before the ground freezes, it will greatly 

 promote the crop the coming summer, if the 

 weeds and grass are taken out from among the 

 plants, and the ground made light and fine 

 among them, and well manured. Somebody — 

 we do not know who — has given good advice 

 below, which many may profit by in acting 

 upon it, though a portion of the advice comes 

 rather too late. 



"Don't delay attention to your strawberry beds, 

 if nctaing has been done ti ihera ^ince Iruiting 

 season. Go to work and plough or spade up the 

 ground between the rows thoroughly. Work up 

 the soil in tbe rows with a fork, hoe or spade, 

 cleaning out all weeds; cut off all the old tops, 

 and scatter a liberal supply of well decomposed 

 manure among them— nothing better than hen 

 manure and ashes mixed with mould from the 

 woods. It is also a good plan before spading or 

 ploughing the soil between the rows, to scitcer a 

 compost on and turn it under. Th«} roots are 

 greatly benefited by coming into contact with 

 such. 



It your bed has been allowed to grow "hilter- 

 skilter" heretofore, and covers the entire surface, 

 simply draw a line and cut it with the spide to 

 show where the edges of the rows are to be, and 

 then spade under the vines between the rows, 

 leaving rows about six inches in width and eigh- 

 teen inches apart from centre to centre. If itie 

 plantation is left in its present comluion, it will 

 be of no value another season. Remember, the 

 more new roots the plant forms this season before 

 winter sets in, the larger the crown will become, 

 and the more fruit stalk germs will be formed this 

 tall, and the greater tne crop another season. It 

 is a mistaken idea with many that the fruit germ 

 is formed in the spring. Feed them well now and 

 they will feed you in return next season." 



The Jeeseys Nudged.— Mr. C. L. Flint, whfe 

 has imported one or two lots of the little Brittany 

 cattle into Massachusetts, in speaking of them re- 

 cently said : "Nothing is superior to the butter from 

 Jerseys, so far as looks and texture arc con- 



