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ter are considerable ; Ist. There is a saving of expense | causes waste. Loose corn may be built in stacks of} or tegs since they were first placed on Ternips t ‘How 
in avoiding the carriage of manure into a dung-hill,a| any size. The larger the stacks the less expense there was their treatment altered when they were removed 
saving of a turning and one filling, and of any loss by is in building, thatching, and a. Very smali | from No. 27 to No, 40t 
has sufficient time to ive in climate of | The" lambs had the ran of the stubbles after harvest, 
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7._—From what indications would you judge thata| 12.—Deseribe the treatment of the eattle in the boxes | this session ? 
i theirrespective breeds, | The breeding ewes lived till lately upon the pastures, 
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The; principal indications which point out that land | as far as you know. ing up the odds and ends ; they havo 
draining, are, pools of water standing on the The treatment of the cattle in the boxes was, that but have chiefty had straw, upon which they thrive very 
sometime after rain. If in the Shen the green Clover was done, began to get well, The great bulk of the ewes ‘now receive some 
is usually coarse ; aquatic plants narr~dre hee n Turnips along with meal and dry At first each | Turnips daily and straw ; any wet day they are moved 
and banches of whitey-brown Grasses are prominent. | beast liowed 5 Ibs, of meal per day, and afterwards | upon pasture. 
Young*corn on wet land has always a variegated leaf, | that ew was increased ically till 8 Ibs. of | 18.—HMow is Flax harvested “ 
or plant, composed of green, blue, and brown. Healthy | meal was al y average quantity of] The harvesting of Flax is simple. the seed 
vegetation is generally a livid — 1 — wee 7 bs. of meal per day, 20 lbs. | and fibre together are most valuable, the seed in the 
to a light blue. ‘The first consideration after deter- of chaff, and 70 Ibs, of Turni Straw cha used | n, and the fibre or straw has a 
mining to drain, would be to look for an outlet for the in part along with hay, The were weighed alive low golden hue, The Flax is pulled by hand, at rates 
water, every month—some gained 60 Iba a month, som g from 10». to 15s. per To pull it well and 
8.— soil on the College Farm is not of a nature to did not gain 30 be. The average was about 48 Ibs. straight, a dozen handfuls at least are required to make 
ae what kinds of soil do require it! month. The average cost, Se 4d. per week. a sheaf. Three or four handfuls are first put 
soils whieh require liming most ý mm when the beasts were sold, including | then three or four more, and so on, laid side by sido, oP 
those which ain little of it. These are | everything, a of the — ew tras o: for tying 
the soils e formations, beasts in the boxes were Hereford, some short-horn, ————— o a sheaf; 
Dre 0 some Angus then set up in — tee 
is frequently a soils of various to rather faster in weight than either the Herefords or | for stacking, W Fax io grows fev cho are Olij 
stimulate inert matter into the food of plants. Quick | Scots, The last two breeds run very much the same. requires to be pulled earlier than when grown for the 
lime may frequently be applied as a top dressing to One Scot always did badly, however, and so did one seed, ‘The usual price paid for threshing ont the seed 
coarse herbage. small Hereford. dressing is from 6d, to 8d, per bushel. 
9.— the two chief objects of subsoiling ! 13.— Describe the system of box-feeding. How many! 19.— What isthe weight of a truss of old hay? Of a 
The two chief objects of subsoili to increase the tons of dung do the boxeson the College Farm produce | truss of a new hay? Of a truss of straw t Of u tod of 
depth of useful soil, and frequently it is an object to when em woolt What is the a weight: per, bushel of 
break up a hard stratum of concrete, or clay, to allow Has been partly answered in the above. The College 2 etches, Turnips t 
the ensthes ‘water to gaat $o doulas. boxes, „contained 6 tons each. One beast A truss of old hay is 56 Ibs. p pew hay, 60 Iba; @ 
10.—Deseribe the sowing of winter Beans, as prac- filled a box in 22 weeks. There are 12 truss straw, 36 ; @ tod of wool, 28 iba. 
tised on the College Farm. What is the advantage of b average weight of corn per bushel may this season be, 
sowing them before winter ! 14.— What is the best time of year for young calves | Wheat, 62 Ibs. ; Barley, 54 Ibe. ; Oats, 80 I f Beans, 
The winter Beans on the Farm were drilled at to 1 How would you feed and shelter (1) a | 62 Ibs. ; Peas, 62 Ibe, ; Vetches, 63 tbs; Turnips, 50 ibs, 
the rate of 3 bushels acre in rows 22 inches apart. calf intended for breeding from, (2) a calf intended for 20.— Describe the journal, ledger, cash-book, and 
The advantage of winter Beans are considered to be the butcher at two or three old? | balance-sheet of a farm. 
that tbey are less liable to blight than spring ones. The best time for dropping calves int for the ‘The journal should contain an account of every 
The ‘sowing before winter divi the Isbour of the first Grass of spring is in April; the calf may then re- | tran on. All purchases and sales, with road wet > 
and forwards other operations in the spring. salt t-te ie aky te time, and be nu with its | lars, and reference figures to the ledger and book. 
11,—Describe the various methods we —— mother’s milk. A calf intended for breedin The ledger should contain separate accounts 
What are the vantages of each? are should not be en It would be a between man and man; 
the supposed advantages of using carts instead of waste of food of no service producing a h classified Dr. and Cr 
gons! What can be said in favour of large and of offspring stock intended for breeding, require 
rieks ! What in favour of thrashing by machine or by plenty of fresh air and ex A calf intended for | corn, &. The 
hand the butcher at an early age id of course be contain 10,000 
The various methods of eutting corn are by sickle, fed and well „ and kept continually going on. aceounts the 
seythe, hook, and reaping machine. The advantages of Fat at best being Lut a shape of the di 
cutting by sickle are said to be neatness in the operation, disease is encouraged the better, by any means, It is | of persons 
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rally ends. The advantages of cutting by the seythe | amounts to 7 ox would con i 
are that the same number of han s will cut down, tie up, 2 to 3 ewt. of hay per week, if fed on hay alone; at | amoun corn of each kind bought 
and shock more than a similar number would with | t prices that would amount to 7s. per week, ‘The | bought, artificial manure, tradesmens’ bills, rent, 
sickles or hooks. All the straw is got at one operation, ox certainly thrive much better, however, had he | rates, labour, Kc. The balance-sheet should also 
and thus another advantage is gained ; there is nothing half the Turuips and half the ha e have that the farmer is owing, or that is 
more to be said in favour of mowing. The a es | beasts consume 16 Ibs. of cake per day, and the matter | The valuation of the stock at the year's x 
of the reaping machine upon corn farms suited to of 15 lbs, of hay. Animals will thrive well upon this food be put against the stock at | 
rf aphasia that if it does all that is said but it costs too m In short, a 8 mal | sides added up at once show nature of 
of N saving of expense will be effected requires a variety of food to growth of all his 
12 j g Sowa he corn than by any other means: | parts, the cost. one kind of food | Cirencester, Dec. 18 
ath lh ba that 10 men and two there is too one thing and too little of others ; 
horses ld cut down, tie up, and shock as many acres so that an excess of what is useless is passed away in| Dec. 18 —At the sessional 
re Leaving out of account | the excrements, and is a palpable loss. gri College, the 
the prime | the machine, which would not amount 15.—How would you feed dairy cows through the at the head of the classes in the 
6 the labour of the | year on an arable farm? How many calves does a cow A 
‘is of little value on most corn farms | usually breed t Priory, Derbyshire. — 
harvest, the advantage of the reaper would be The cheapest way of dairy cows on an arable | Worcester.—Natoral History 
and indirectly of immense importance. | farm where there in summer, is doubtless to | nary and 
There has been no surplus of labour in harvest for some graze generally. There are however, in very | Civil Engineering, 
years past ; so that the reaper effecting a sa in | hot, weather, they might . of Ul 
he down the corn, &c., d allow more to in the house, to prevent their running about, and 
So taal oe Se op erred pace which | milk. This plan we have seen — opts ——. * 
often been neg in harvest, thereby i at intervals. In winter, white Turnips, el, Home Correspondence. 
loss in the foundation of all or Carrots, along . r what your corr 
fattening beasts, so in a measure with milch cows, the | making? — end 
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