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of statistics, and of the interchange of sound information of the Turn'p crop; thirdly, because by such system the Over the t year’s Grass, It would receive a gre 
and | bulloeks are ve paying customers for all small grain, Beans, mixtur re with aoe mro — mie way, and it wou 0 de pr — 
now the more necessary to be remedied as far as pra acticabl e. | Linseed, snd Rapeseed grown on the farm ; lastly, because the in the land. alo mg re than ordinary quantity of 
Mr. Harkness then — = a — that, are hinge = a builocks, by e Kierus — — 1 — ng sooner, thus — 3 which it is always most 
mviction, he had recently issued a variety of printed queries, | saving ween keep, Turnips, an ay, from 3I, to 4l. a head sala ient as é ertiliser, 
upon which he had obtained a great mass of valuable informa- | And (said Mr. H.) if such feeding and treatment of cattle will any ammon a cal m i om Fer along with 
tion, that portion of which, bearing on feeding, he would now pay in England an cotiand, where rents are higher and Loap ron * ina good cob pony, 13 hands 3 inches 
summarise and submit for —＋ consideration of the meeting. the ground inferior iu quality to that of Ireland, how superior | will — 15 ewt, ina ‘au cart 26 miles on a moderately 
e would first address himself tothe matter of fact or — 1 de the result in this country where the Me A 7 would good road. z 
part of the subject of feeding ; 15 which, in a future paper, w luxuriant crops of Rape, Ma or ge Wurzel, and Rye; aud Parkes’ Parent STEEL Foax: Cottager. I d kno 
the physiological and — al branch of the general question the heed lands, Linseed, Turn and Arg wherewith | they have an agent in canton , but a note 5 — s — 
sery treated. He then proceeded to classify the — — chiefly to feed the fine cattle —1 sheep of this country? Winton ani Sons, Birmingham,” would bring the "darey 
waich — had got upon the A of food, and the e of | Should such circumstances, thus imperfectly hinted at, not information. J, J. Mechi. [See “ Hom Correspondence.”) 
eeding of various agriculturists of long experience, whether induce Irish agriculturists gravely to 1 and adopt im- POTATOES: Anon, We h e nothing to add to what has been 
„or p pin ked and partly raw. roved systems of feeding, shelter, and management of their already said. If the land is alrea y in good tilth and in good 
Let us take the details on feeding partly cooked and —— un- farm stock, ae! the accomplishment of wh > the soils and | heart, they can be put in with the plough now 4 or 5 inches 
booked 7 land.—The late | climate are so favourable? These facts, or modes of feedin f sep, every third furrow, i. e., 24 to 26 inches apart, and a 
Mr. Hillyard, an “extensive and intelligent feeder, had used food | form purely and 1 matter of every-day husbandry, or | foot apart in the ro s, oore as early a sort — a can 
partly cooked — =~ uised Linseed, * — a jelly, and | that berag should be so. Every farmer, of the most simple get, and plant in as early a situation as you can o 
given with cut aw. H — but, — — tion, 2 them and put them into practice, | Prices, &c.: S, Swedes will pay to grow at * “4 ton. 
in his — work on — . Nr; he ante test their truth. Let this be done, and the result bee Piper’ s thickset is the shortest steamed. ‘Wheat me know; 
speaks in terms of commendation of Linseed meal so prove satisfactory. Abridged from the Irish Farmers’ Gazette But Talavera or April Wheat is the best Wheat choose 
used i a il oil-cake, affirming. as a fact, th * SS an this season of — ipe 
25 of Linseed, in ture of other foods, will do APE : tim aay be asot ust as oilcake, onl 
much towards feeding as two stones of oil-cake” And Calendar ot me it is by slow 4 “that b yon on n get mh cattle to ros As 2 
fuarth , speaking of compound food, he says: “I never had Grind it up with oilcake, and get it gradually mixed in larger 
beasts that became better meat” than upon it, and he found it FE proportion, un il it is the whole of the dail ution of 4 Ibs. 
a cheaper plan. 2. Yorkshire.—Mr. H. went at considerable West SOMERSETSHIRE, = 85 ag weather has been | SPRING Foop: X. The earliest spring food is 
length into the details of the modes ng of Messrs, Pkt mild and wet for the time of year, and there —— Sussomning: X. You had better preserve the nt relative 
Marshall, Hutton, and others, all of whom had formerly fed | to be as little winter as we had last year; for, with the axcep- position of soil and subsoil in your first subsolling with the 
upon oil-cake, large quantities of en cut, and straw, or | tion of a fortnight’s frost in i November, we have wally y had spade. 
hay ; but who gave up the old and adopted the cooked system, winter; but there will prob: Swepe Tuanirs ror Cows: An Original Subscriber says :—In 
which was as follows: Each animal got two feeds per day o | in sprin g, as has A coh 1 +7) late years, in which, ait Tai the late — skg of your valuable Journal I observe several 
food thus prepared—10 Ibs. of straw, 5 Ibs. of Bean or grain ap il th 1 occurred in May, damaging the fruit trees, which — 2 regarding the use of Swede Turnips for 
meal, 2 Ibs. of Linseed ; the cut straw js laid upon a clean floor, till had been pro The a a f rain h milking cows. I have for three winters given Swedes to our 
the meal mixed well up with it, and the dolled Linseed elly is ws heats, 2 en nd rp — henry — cows wishous imparting the least unpleasant taste either to 
en poured over the straw, and shovelled up thoroughly, and — = . Grass to spring , as if it was April. The] the cream or butter, In preparing the Turnips for use, a 
= 1 ole left to cool and absord the nutritious ingredients. | land has been thus rendered late — working for the spring boy cuts off the crown, ron s put a af the yearlings, 
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clade therefore that it is the crown pon A which i imparts the 
feeding was proved, by Messrs. Hutton, gee &e., to oo that it has not been ploughed up so — as could be wished, disagreeable taste * — milk, & c. 
be equally effective, at the same 2 sase; with saving | as it ought to be directly sheep are off, t le the soil t HEAT, FLOUR, BRAN, AND BREAD: z A bushel of good Wheat 
of a month, at least, in 5 beast to “marker, Sore the Immediate benefit of the fold. “Lambing is Pere will yield 48 to 50 Ibs. ‘of flour and 10 to 12 lbs, of bran ; and 
and at least one half of the Turnip formerly used, | gio owly; farther down the country ne n, however, I r. 
Mr. Hutton, in reply to Mr. Harkness’s queries, says— where many of t the horned Dorsets are tag they have begun i 
have now 62 bullocks tied up, — 5 on | about a month ago. The continual wet has been against the 
prepared food (as above), many of them © 70| fatting wethers on Tr which have looked thin, though Markets. 
stone weight. I have never had one ill aa. I “tried it, | otherwise healthy; w nge of weather they will soon COVENT GARDEN, Fes. 14 
aud with my food not more than from 70 to 80 Ibs. of mend; no — if — — of it, sheep would be The market continues to be well supplied with vegetables and 
Turnip should be given to any beast; and what I have better under over, at least in wet weather. I was lately in| fruit; age rk sedan. — * are plentiful, 
seen of this system convinces me that certainly double the Hampshire ‘where I visited a kind of model farm (near South- | consid seaso rapes r, and 
quantity of stock can be maintained with the same quan- — . — mage ed by a Scotch bailiff. I saw „n about 150 | foreign N — — dis — y T y English 
tity of Turnip.” Su and Hampshire.—Mr, Harkness quoted | g hed, with a — parting them down the kinds fetch good prices. They still consist of Beurré Rance 
the authority of Mr. Raynbird, who wrote an excellent report middle, and nothing could be be tter than their — ey The Ne Plus Meuris, and Easter Beurré. Oranges are plentiful 
òn the agriculture of Suffolk, in the!“ Royal — — Society’s plan p str raw e under | and good. Nuts are nearly the same as last quoted. —— 
Journal. n these counties cooked food is also used, either | them 1 p a cleaned out shou es i 2 — a 8 as Turnips, bages, &c., are sufficient for the demand. Po- 
as above described, or in the form of jelly 33 made with necessary. This system I do no are like 80 well as the tatoes are generally 3 in * ces and other 
grain, Bean, an nseed-meal, boiled up, to stand tank plan of Huxtable’s, which is cleaner and healthier for aalading are — ushrooms are 
and cool, when it can be cut up and given to —— weight for | them one would think, . was a fixed steam-engine there, cheaper, Cut flowers 2 of Heaths, Epacriees, Mign 
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weight, equal to oilcake, and not half the expense, though as | which did — , as the and rather m th A 
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Home- ¢ Tt is boiled as above, and | the’four course; theve were besides some poorer sheep, folded, RUIT, 
then pou a 7lbs. This was proved to be ee ate sake of consolidating the soil, and a few breeding Pine-apples, per Ib., 4s Oranges, er doz., 1s to ls 6d 
pg — as good as ce and only 60 ibs. of Turnips On the subject of ma. hinery I may mention that while Grapes, Lisbon, per Ib., od 2 per 00, 38 6d to 10s 
given, Gloucestershire. — orto pone re nee a er of nindo an old “ Annual Register” (for the year 1804), which Apples, kitchen, per bushel, 2s — eville, per doz., Is to 3s 
his example farm, has followed ae sam thod, a that | prac- is a useful work for reference on agriculture as well as other 6d Nuts, Barcelona, p. bushel, 208 
tised in Yorkshire, to hia entire satisfaction. Rorfolk. —This seen =] I came upon a paragraph describing the invention of Pe, — oa ssert, p. doz., 28 to 6s | 
county, too, has followed the exa — shown in those other a reaping-machine, which, as that article has just come into Almonds, ber peck, 58 il, p, bsh., 12s to lds 
counties, using cooked food both summer and winter, with a use, and exhibited this year, it may oes be uninteresting to et, per Ib., 28 to 3s Cobs, — r 100 lbs., 805 
great s laviny ef green food — 4— Durkam.— The report enclose. —— 9 —. 2 e Chronicle, or new spaper portion = e per doz., ls to 2s 
dm is ey is to the same effect, John Gibson, d., | the Annual Register” for — «the 1804: “ A curiou VEGETABL 
actor to Lord Londonderry, having a very large number of | reaping-machine has been invented by two Americans, of the Savoys, per doz., 10d to ls 3d | Parsnips, per doz., 6d to a 
farm stock, fed upon his lordship’s home — on cooked food, | names of Dawson and Co ox. It is EPEE to be either moved Broccoli, p. bunch, 8d * Is 3d | Leeks, per bunch, Id to 2 
similar to that of Mr, Thompson, Moat Hall, Yorkshire. by men or drawn by horses; it cuts off and collects the heads Asparagus, p. bundle e, 4s to 76 | Shallots, per Ib., 8d to 104 
Berkshire.—Sir John Conroy, Bart., of Arbourfield, also feeds | of Wheat, Barley, and all other grain-bearing plants as they Seakale, per basket, 1s to 28 e arlic, per Ib., 6d to 8d 
With mixed food, re in cold water, extensively. gare ‘ow in the field, without any loss of the grain, and with a Greens, per doz., 2s to 3 rtichokes, Je erusalem, per hf. 
7 oe on to give similar examples es of wonderful. abbreviation = labour.” I should be curious to Rhubarb, p. bundle, 9d to 1s “Gen $d to 
orthumberland, Sera Meath, D — eA es, Wigionshire, a know whether, as this one now in use is an American inven- Po ae, „ iannis, Cab., 8 e, 4d to 18 
Ayr, all confirm atory of the practice of Yorkshire and Suffo ik tion, it was . ty the above-named one of so many per et., 28 to mall Salads, p. 2 to 3d 
5 2 —— Tipperary and Galway, an e Glas nevin Model years back. I conclude it was, and that it had not then reached — per F be ait he 64 w = 6d Horseltadish P. bundle, lsto4s 
5 — me — e Jarco Body of evidencó h A ad- | perfection sufficiently to be brought into use, H. E. Turnips, per doz., 2s to 8, P: ot., 1s to 18 8d 
gret our $ in d 2 imit of DE- be liking but * —<—<—<—— Cucumbers, enb on pon net, 9d to 18 
amounts Ta to t Mr. H a lained of the Noti toc dents. Celery, p. bundle, 6d to 18 6d Sorrel, per hf, 8 6d to 9d 
— 8 ec wha P owen x —— 4 ices to Corresponde Carrots, per bunch, 4dto7d Fennel, per bunch, 2d to 3d 
—.— ne? pa — — ae 3 Ba p en 8 would see. SEEDS: AL. The article 3 af you Psese Die ga p. half sieve, | Savory, per bunch, — . 
i edin x 8 s e, per bunch, 
— pi — the system — aut with food Altogether raw. Bap Cream: 4 C what | Spinach, Amb ieve, Is tols6d | Parsley, per doz. bun., 28 to 3s 
z e following notes (said Mr. H.) are taken from the repo makes his cream go s siima th potent 17 site 3 a Onions, p. bunch, 3d to 4 — per bunch, 9d to Is 
of most experienced agriculturists, feeders who have sent great dairy for many years, a she informs me that it is at — Spanish, p.doz.,ls6d to 3s | Basil, p. bunch, 3d oe 
— of cattle, in the best condi ere to the fat mark 4 by | but the wind that occasions it to be so. W. mative, per score, 9d to 2s arjoram, do., 3d to 4 
— —— fi 2 eight à of Turn e and st traw us — — 3 pee — sed ground try common Bore—the Beet, per doz., ie ‘to 2s Watercress e 6dtols 
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the feeders: ae 3.3 Robb, 9 ulla, C He allows | Beans as a Fier Crop: A Small Farmer says :- In your Paper co —Farpar, Feb. 1 
to fattening cattle—of Turnip, 18 stone ee (iat — soe hey of January 31, under the head“ Oam Land,” — Seo: Hollzwell, be 40 ; i Eden Main, 1 15s. s, Bå. del Hastings 7 tley, , 
a day) ; four pounds of Be Be — meal, ste Faget mend Uats as a crop on newly broken-up apart or pasture | 138. ; Tanfi . 10 16 . ps : Wallsend 1 — K 3 s: W 1 a 
without any limitation. Turnips given th lay, 2 land, I have seen a Bean crop succeed very well where Oats | end Haswel 34 s Waits oF ind Ton — Shit * 5 205. 
Murray, farm steward to the Earl Fitzwilliam, allows as many have failed. The subsoil was a rather — clay; and the Stewarts, 16s. all ees, 168.— ps at market, 
3 Foy Bele) cian eat > er 5 — saas 5 crop am 2 aua K kdt at — per acr POTATOES. . — MONDAY, Feb. 9. 
. uch chaife r straw, also, | CHICORY : ee last week’s Notic The h ival 
as they can eat ; and, after being fed for two months, six or | Devonsnine DAIRY MANAGEMENT: Annie says, “I shall be | coastwise Niro been 8 —— “but the s supply by rail has 
eight pounds of oil cake per day. Mr, James Rutherford, farm much obliged it ‘Sarah H. Westmoreland, will inform me | been very considerable. consequence of the mildness of 
steward to the Earl of Durham, gives as many — and as — — but makes one time in her small | the weather r, and the — — — We cannot quote « ny 
much hay as cattle can eat, with about nine pounds of Bean ooden b, und yp Poe is the „ and depth of the | improvement in prices. The following are this day’s rates 
meal and oilcake per day. The Earl of Derby, 8 Hall, rub. She states. that 17 1 are made weekly, but does not | York Regents, 70s. to 80s.; Scotch do., 688. to 708.; ipa, 55s. to 
Lancashire. Mr, par gdh farm steward, makes say how much she makes e time. I have followed her | 65s.; Kent and Essex Regents, 60s. to 80s.; Cambridge and 
ie 2 . d 5 ea eding. — Are Gillison, the erent in and a highly 9 approve of Ary pin, but I cannot pee Wisbeach, &c., 60s. to 705. 
a oo ve ves similar | the cre or three warn of an 
report as to the general . of ecding in Lancashire, ho I use an oblong tub, whieh i is washed wih as water eee Fe Feb. en 
i Stevenson, Turns stones, Hexha an Northumberland, —— — it 8 suk = make 12 Ibs. of butter — 2 week. Prime Meadow oe 3 * 768 90 to Bho 
or 4 lbs, of compound int made of e and different kinds — mirnim s —— 5 Fg ac ees k —— Infe = rditto... a7 23 rout salt bie o TO 13 
of meal, straw u and in unlimited quantity, Mr. Elliot, | Daalxack: Rusticus. t ascertain the difference of | Ron Ses 2 a , , 7 5 
A a ve, 8 feeds in a similar way to the level at your outfall by at t the head of your drain by a pro. | Xew Hay 8 75 com unt Aub DM ARKET, Feb, 1 - Coorzz. 
ob — T or e Reber Don g ‘syed amg oer = — 5 for which you will need a levelling instru- Primio Mond tow w Hay 5525 70 — 65s to 72s 
. A . Lawri2, „Dumfries, gives lim me ee e 
one 150 lbs.; uncut straw, unlimited in quantity ; hay and Dasinind: a We do not believe it would be of any benefit to — or pea r 1 26 3) 
Lord Talbot de Malahide: tie Mön, Gee de, arene Scab en Carte coh aay” “x. Stra ole mse cade Gk A. Ea: 2 86 e Josva Baxrn 
ala , the rey, Howic 00D FoR CATTLE AND : traw cut into cha ere one . 
k r Northumberland, Mr., Gibson, Straffan, Celbridge, and linseed soup poured over tt, requires to be supplemented with Fine Old Ha 1 3 Tan : 8 
— me others, had reported similar metaods of feeding with | green foed, in o: der to be goo . food for milking cow N "y H 5 1 — „ 
These raw food and Turnip, about 17 to 130 lbs. per day. Foop For r Constant Reader. Beans may be givin Patai a TR i Clo 88 Een 775 7 
i Shed ae e instances adduced by Mr. H. of the system of soaked and crus hed, as well as if they were 8 in o — ee s 3 3 
calls ia ati a tay 8 * oa Taai meal, the pest oft eas hand dibble is an excellent imple- a pric ee e 5 
ment—the best o HOPS.—FRipar, Feb. 13. 
elo ya canted fod or login ram 1 Prom a | d! | Meee, Pattenden and mie apo teit the demand for 
. an ae on irg tween 28 in n ag: — hog salt o : 4 on and in the — faite in their saturation Hops continues — oor oe som 
; hi eed in Class I. 8.) , mig e cr staining with the peroxi 
poy * And 1 ae the oil-cake and meal in Class JI., amount. a ing „ We sh honld have little doubt of its maa useful —— 3 3 15 Today little has been don 
5 Ibs., or nea 2 haff and hay, there was a balance of an 55 to Lucerne, but should have even greate t the dormant state of the yarn — 
5 per cent., in favour of the partly.cooked food | confidence in its usefulness on a san ay. than on a calcareous ctw vith ‘caution. 1 In low os prices have 
there was a balance in favcr of tre Gerl Id, of Turnip, ag e . tity — ä rons — —— ate 
N ein favour of the cooked food system of 70 Lime : Tyro, Maiy cases of reputed injury by over-liming have | owing to t mali quantity, prices are firm.—Although tha 
aé may be, with e result thus arrived at co ds, as near turiad 3 out nalysis to exhibit a deficiency of lime in the transactions in our wool market 22 the preceding week 
son, Mr Pd — experience and testimony of Mr. Thomp- soil: and the fertile 3 soils of England seem to show that | have only been of a limit the tone of firmness in 
Cattle. from h n, Mr. Marshall, of Yorkshire i over-liming, strictly speaking, is animpossibility, But though, | the prices of the better classes of E nglish wool continues un- 
and brou relies 1 70 stone weight, were of first-rate uality, directly, over-liming 2 not have been 8 it is pos-i- | diminished, Staplers finding their stocks of them reducing, 
others bed} kd hest price. These tlemen, d ma ble that indirectly, and by its influence the texture of the | are unwilling sellers, unless at an im proved price, and in th s 
, iin en the raw f an—gaveit up upon a| soil, infertility may have arisen. howld be disposed, it | r: solution they are confirmed by the impossibility of re placing 
dears, to waste * 8 con after s = ming wwe resolved on in your case „ 10 pply it in earthy | at similar rates from the couatry. Stocks in the bands o 
4 straw; 8 first as being econ compos a top dressing in the autumn of either the third | gpinuers are by no means heavy, and although in the present 
secondly, because it saves almost o: ne half or r fourth ye ycar of the rotation, that is, over the young seeds, | p sition of the trade they are reluctant to buy wo. lat current 
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