188 THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. Manch 20, 
d to select the Committee of made a trial of this cultivation e- founded 
be supposed a tenant can only think of his neighbour's 1. That a Committee be appointe h on, and fou nd * 
Ci il wh to form the Judges’ Selection Committee, | F of 
benefit; after having made a fair per centage himself, a} 2, weed anim Clematis ee consist ‘fall past Presidente and Flax on light 2 — — than the — 
little extra exertion may be bestowed upon the poor, by | the Stewards of the Yar urnips.—Col. Challoner en that Mr. R 
landson should again favour the members with farther 
At the monthly Council on the 3d of March, the | pr ractical a for „. simila 
* consideration of the general question was re ce amed ; kindly given them on 
te ad £ . ion, but f 
— Re aes — Se roads, cutting hedges, clearing | When, on the motion of Lord Portman, secon ded by his R oF a , dei — 
out — — pitching yards, &c., will save much in the Mr. Le. ga the following additional resolutions | Mr. Rowlandson cheerfully complied with the — 
long run, though apparen we not remunerative. Falcon, | Were request. He considered the growth of Flax to be easy; 
e eee constant reader of the Agricul- | 3. 3 be sent in er — Apit hee ch — Liden Agpo be in good tilth, but not too ; 
e Secreta 
tural Gi „ and have occasionally dotted down a notice — n requesting * he names of persons ofi 1. I ti n 8 be well weeded, and would take car 
on what I ha d spondent, D” qualified and williog to act as judges of stock; to serve as 0! itself tin Pune at stage it teeny that a little in. 
— = —— since published some very just remarks an addition to the names sent in by other members of the wrk ould be * oe by the farmer. The 
Societ tting, too, t b i . 
utneither he no 4. * at the list of names of persons recommended as judges in the a ie ap lien 5 á — by a ! Instructions 
the iie different sorts, the Early Royal and the late bs Heese in the Council-room, and a copy be sent to each PP cientific principles, 4 
Vetch. The seed is very much alike, but the Early mbe o of osne cil — 1 ene an of | small su we arden : ney would al — ve expended on 
Royal comes into pod jus ust as the other ‘blooms, making selec an 1 e to select the judges ; and that any mem- experiments to ascertain distinctly the definite p 
ber the Society be at liberty to apply to the Secretary | ;; E : * p 
a difference of 16 days, a oi of great consequence — t of nam ao thd to * — 5 9 to the * tions of ea and — to E alternately employed in 
in sheep — also in another respect, as I always bis objections to any name on the list; such objections to the most efficient mode in the retting process. Great 
sow winter Oats and „ — with my Vetches to be laid before the committee ‘of selection niceties were to be observed in this m manipulation, a3 
hold them up and to increase the quantity. The Early | That the Stewards of the Yard shall report to the Council | minute quantities wore employed in large quanties of 
Royal Vetch is fit for the sickle just as the Oat is ripe ; — water, and sligh 
but the other Vetch bei “es more than a fortnight later, 4 Weexty Cover jas held at the Society’s| or alkali would produce a great am momit of difference in 
the winter Oat sheds itself, and is such a nest for the | House in 3 Square, on n = re of | the result.— Col. Challoner inquired t the best mode of 
rooks, then hard-pressed, How in their — — March : present, Colonel Cuatxoner, Trustee, in the separating the seed without injuring 2 straw.—Mr. 
tread the Vetches into the ground and rot them; there- | Chair; Sir Robert Price, Bt, M.P., Mr. Bait mond | Rowlandson had found knocking out the seed 
fore if they are not intended for food, it is better not to Barker, Mr. Henry Raymond Barker, Dr. Calvert, | striking the dry plant against the convex side of a 
sow the Oats and Beans with them. Having some spare | Captain Stanley Carr, Mr. Fuller, M.P., Mr. Ga desden, | barrel, or striking it against boards with a flat piece of 
Turnips, I bought a cow in milk, and having other cows, | Mr. Fisher Hobbs, Mr. Love, Mr Majen ndie, Mr. Row- wood answer 3 well.— Mr. Gadesden considered 
for fear of spoiling the butter, I had her milked into the landson, Professor Simonds, Mr. Reynolds So ate Mr. that farmers were not in a position to al e their Flax 
pig bucket and it was given to a litter of pigs ; but — Stansfield, M. P., Mr. R. Trench, Mr. C. Ham for manufactur Cin el Challoner remarked that 
the advice of “ Clitheroe’s” old woman, I have for two | Turner, a and Professor Wa ay. M. Claussen — told them at a forai meeti 
ept this cow's milk separate, and find the . BREEDING or ANI Mr. VALENTINE Barrorp,| that room, that the farmers had only to grow Flax, 
of the hot water, as the butter has no taste of the of Foscote, near To eee in Northam mptonshire, remove the seed from it, and then put up the straw into 
Turnips. I read last week, 20 Ibs. of hay is sufficient | addressed a communication to the Council on the bundles, when the latter would be purchased of them at 
for a cow—indeed! Some years since, when I first | importance of. abide ing to those principles which | 4 price so r 1 as to cover apaa of cul- 
came here, I had four cows, and having no fodder, I put | regulate the 5 of Sy form e stock, | tivation, and leave them the seed into the bargain— 
three out to thestraw yard, and one with a calf I -i After referri the steps which the Council had | Mr. Trench had his Flax thrashed — ans of a broad 
at home, and found she eat six trusses of 56 lbs. taken — this desirable end, and detailing the — S having a flat end like the flail used in fo 
a week of hay, worth 4/. a ton, and for her — on the ject in the Northamptonshire Agricultura ] ountries, the straw then put bt Ba 
of 12% a week she paid me less than 7s. [We have | Book Club, he concluded his communication with the pone as sold ten miles off at 3/. per His 
had cows that ate 24 ewt. of Turnips a day; but, As all | two decisions arrived at by that Club, and his own land was of good quality, anid. “well pen for 
that, we are safe in saying that 1 ewt. daily will keep | general observations. the crop ; bomen 2 gis. = seed, and 2 tons of 
a cow in“ store” condition.] Unless there is plenty of |1. That, although, in all cases, the system of in-and-in straw per acre. s Flax was of fine quality; and 
spare useless for any other purposes, I fancy breeding » not desirable in our domestic animals, yet that, | in scinpetition ane his dag bee within 
cows are a loss in the winter, and no gain in the mals properly formed have been obtained, it is of 10 or 12 ste round, had obtained the prize as 
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the oul Paces to retain that for 
ora but they are a at luxury in a family. 2. That foreing breeding e Of of either sex, either by finest and e Rowlandson „hoped tit BE 
have a neighbour who supplies a large town with artificial feeding or warmth, is high!y nne to the Gadesden would furnish the Gounit with the results of 
milk, who keeps his cows i n good order by cutting up health of the offsprin rt his trials in the growth of Flax ; the greatest pains had 
the straw, and, after — — it, putting one ya of dard oregoing r arks you may gather yat the been taken by ss obtain correct rosuli ts, by ace 
2 gray el, 0» |Search tt tn mea A i ete et PNS 
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cea exp sano was shot 0 ynrs| n Dsl of Sad snd #2 ewt, of dn; be Ha fa 
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and having a run 81 rhe pre admit * beter th, stamina, 8 e the wel in Mark-lane at b. per quarter pas a 
» Slated, 1 dug 
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Ih n that h kave e taken prizes the last 40 years, whether | Straw 3 one-fifth = Flax, ee. in the seed market 
large or ‘small, approximate to —— form, and this form would fetch 607. per ton, the crop of seed and straw 
bottom, and laid down hard bricks, Then I — beni gun is the se . aik make breed nb 8 give — of more than — 8s. pare 
round five tiers, a foot from the outside, snd — domestie animals a e da will’soon ö a —Mr. Stansfield, M.P., was trying an acre an nd half 
sibl stif wn as hard as ones, where you now breed only one. We: e the | Flax, on land in good tilth, after Turnips. gt: icult 
i * rsa po * the hole with mallets ; and so | scence of agriculture progressing, and why should the soloist labour, in the neighbourhood of 3 where his estate 
ng neglected? I know that the prevailing was situate, was scarce an nd as hig = beg or 148. per 
week, The 
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wanes atever ; * bricks and lime and clay, | the most profitable; and in order properly to test this, I would | larly steed as the purchasers of Flax straw, namely, 
— p, an 5 e by a common bri cklayer under very respectfully suggest to r the prorat, if they | Messrs. Quitzow m Co., of Apperly-bridge, n had 
y - Cement must be very good and well put allowing breeders to — in young stock, to be raised and fed | ford, bein mg e „ Stansfield’s residence, he had 
ed in | by th ety’s servants upon the principle laid down by the applic ed to N on a point, but ound that the 
late Robert psoas on, y weighing their food ; it would given i the purchase of _ straw, and woul 2 
ini the clay i is, in my | but whether, from local ci t 22 any m He expect * e 3 qrs. of seed to 
1 The water comes quite clear fr ree — a — on the same scien e to beende and hoped to be Sabi to sell his straw at 3l. Ping 
common pump— e form of the chest which Cline ad „f. tn to have any 
useful for the house and the stablo—eay 1 Ol. for the approaches as nearly a s Possible to a irele, 5 wih te e eee, — — ae simply to raiseitas® 
But not Dodii gold Wurzel may do for store pigs, | neither is it that apparent form wh nie h is top frequently (a | otation crop, and sell off the straw at once. He hoped 
one or — di g sows. The litter emg 3 sheep) clipped into a circle; but is that real external f the seeping process would be dispensed with, as it spoiled 
— lid ote before the time, and some of them d is an index of the internal structu L the water in the ditches of the neighbourhood where 
mall, and not worth — Sate do not omen Flax Cunrrvation,— Mr, e Woops, of Chil- the Spoti rried on.—Capt. d 
N allow me to ö poop pa near Chichester, called the attention of the | having resided. — for 25 years, and ik 
chi —his courage in giving such + ta sh and in penta a of much inquiry — many persons 1000 acres of land, was desirous, as an — 
the public shows a noble tone of mind, bee eves to | which — had eis “ae 5 member of the Society, to 
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; 3 qualities; and then his parties said to be willing to “purchase that wi where 
‘generosity is equal to 3 — = declares his j mea 1 s e on his han — sold. Mr. cata had r —— grow 
rel standing his! e 4752 statemen > i ight to : 
cannot but — thats ine! balanco veils hiin: his Flax crop in = * ar a — — = 2 
than ecessary ; Ons 
for myself, and I think for feat pire can say | One acn e m and g g ave a jiis of 21 bushels of good seed, | own use. When the Flax had been grown, labour 
4 Mr. Mechi for bray. ay 3 ong igen S on the chalk hilis “ihe Jand was p — aa | rie eames tees — r 
easure 3 „after on t cle 1 up to 
of thanking him. Delta, Hants. to have this opportunity were fet o by sheep: Y The Clover, sown. with the Pha 1 5 Atthough the Flax — were easily dispose pa 
` Flour.— If some practical man would ke th Colonel lon ae ated the 1 armer in the fine country of Holstein grew — 
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$ as g rise in th it make—Mr. Rowlandso j that 
is made an excuse for adding on to th a be Wheat kaod from M. Claussen e Mas epsit under- wc appa but found that it did not ei by 
pe 
xorbitant ies wh han dete 
ef the 4-Ib. loaf when “Wheat t * oe aa Rowlan goon) Yad tot bee penttan, bat he (Mr. the crop.—Captain Carr observed that his dn 
— secon i priae aa one Til „ re.—-Mr. N shred oe to find where they | wasfof py Hien nature, that Flax grown once in te 
of sharps and n? There mus ye his f friends would not now offer Hey M. — 7 would succeed, — once in five years was 10 
uations £o a wight extent dependant tpn iy | deon thought there wna no probablity itat tee | F 
— they know how man 2 Lr thi i 2 
oe y 4-Ib, Ae sà nak s country. Fine Flax might indeed be 
il . without the adalteration of either ete rice obtained for it. He advocated 3 h i fine as could — 
, or anything else. Fale of Flax, but thought it desirable that persons should ry an eee =e ve — seed roadeast. 
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Sotieti — — ö wa ee anagement 5 1 that the axe Captein 
3 ocleties. er b iness s bre ame. p bee ar ey with | the Flax crop in German Ys eee to by 
| recommended saps s He Carr, might, he thought, be sati 
aa ak sort OF ENGLAND. | should t the farmers within a given ¢ distriet by dhe eireumstanse of the ie 
un Fe ruary 4, promote sia crop; 
pted on b Pantin of * à its success, 
Benne of after Turnips. = ce tras of the advantages 
1 Mr. Gadesden had |n 
