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ness of Scotchmen and Irishmen have often been the | object of the latter party, the market dairyman, Í elch included in th meadows, it wil be seen, are ng 
subject of surprise, seeing that many of them do not to get an extra quantity of milk of any, even an — ion i = ge gas 5 — of our sub 
taste butcher's meat from the one year’s end to the | inferior Sergei is undeserving of countenance. His ret 23 — ee and then even in 
other; but what they lack of butcher’s meat is more object ought to be the same as that 5 by ee ke s *. ieee 5 element 
than compensate by bo .der quantity of dairy one to 5 the greatest quantity of the very best | oeur on a future occasion On th 
produce which they co 3 = we s e is ~ g er aim. ger er, as r gards 
It is not, however, an 8 tary view of the sub- e may, however, here notice, n pe er | enumeration of the several natural — n 
ject which we now propose di — For some expedients to which some of these parties resort in Kor they — and which we then pin d Ye 
time past, a valuable correspondence has been kept | order to increase the quantity, ner giving un- admissible ons in an agricultural classification 
up in te columns, and we now propose throwing wholesome food to cows—we the often never, we after this first enumeration. of 
in our own mite Teds o milking-pail, by way of cuckoed plaint of adulteration he Wy our urban | Oruciferæ, "Umbellifere, and Solanew, have these 
encouragement. friends. Out of a series of examples s taken by 0 The | botanical distinctions again been mentioned throp 
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which of them is the most deserving of consideration. skimmed milk with the first milk of the next only that we adopt a e 8 5 rops grown in 
n tice. quantity and taki not unfre- milking, equivalent to the addition of a large per our — | rotation aving reference u any 
1 et N = a n Some | centage of 5 — skimmed milk contains some degree to the na ral lesen x whit ch they belong. And 
2 ba oot ate beg Fic sb Bi 90 per cent. of water. We have still some further | surely i is — are a et es of any wall Í 
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quality: they naa ry small quantity of extra remarks, which shall appear in another Number. ea — gent practical 
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e others are oppositely situated: if they c can ROTHAMSTED AND THE CRITIC “R.” resource in tulle niin 3 j> to — thrown 
only get A 3 4 quality becomes a question of| Bur farther, not only have we thus distinetly declared | back upon the entire mass of the varied and misal 
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minor considera ourselves on the very question of gis classification, bu but | laneous facts of retical agriculture, and iP be told that ) 
Now, to obit x opposito results, such as these, we have throughout our papers adopted i it, strictly | there are no general principles upon which the main l 
opposite expedients t be adopted; but although subject to the limitations here claimed. elements of our'rotations'may be classified; but rather, 
such is the case vat nach expedients are som . following are instances of our mode of classifica- | tha ; le detail of peaa kram 
what anal rs Ay Ay other: for, on the one of the var ibis s characteristic elements of ordinary clim or other varying local e „ distinet 
Ed to 3 — n ef Jes ah fis be tations ; for it — be particularly borne in mind and paste dg eat ns be souptit, and pene 
8 actices may be had recourse to: that it is the fundamental and characteristic features of all method and all arrangement, such as might t 
first. pecul zi ds of y h a Kyloe — 2 . £ most generally adopted, and as | simplicity of eeniodption and consequent facility of apple 
ps all — — ee ee * ore —— and varying practi cation of such prineiples as really are involved. We 
Dery an al — 3 ene my an Gu — vers — — ANDIR OE — gations are specially | maintain that such me nd arrangement are much 
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: y a ‘ty ur paper on Sheep Feedin ee by some broad classification of the 1 
breeds which give a large quantity of milk, there in Vel. X. y Part l. s f the gar paper on Sheep — elements of on ur rotations, and it is wh 
are always to be Wand exceptional cows which give Journal, pa ' 277, „we say: —“ The more important | feuturer shall become sufficiently defined by . 
a small quantity of rich milk; third, even where qu uestions connected with such an inquiry relate—to | sufficiently understood by the practical man, will 
cows give a large quantity of milk of an ordinary the conditions required for the growth of Wheat be able, in the exercise of an intelligen ent observation, 30 
quality, nm rich milk may be obtained from the|and the allied Cereal grains, which constitute so | to adapt t his practices to the local 5 T 
and fourth, the quality of the milk may | material a proportion of the saleable products of the him, as to secure, to the utmost perii w las v 
be affected by the quality of the food. On the i and — — nature of the —— stion — from — . Šasi aya — ay peuse 
other è w expo he growth and sources | m 
quantit individual Kylocs a > . — of restorative Matera of of 755 crops—to the growth Bu t to recur to the e classification which we have ot 
55 5 5| of the important plants of the Leguminous selves thought it convenient to adopt, we wo 
5 family, ‘oth ae aoe Pet 8 8 their ie at Leere it happen os E any oe z 
? : seeds, perhaps to be sold o arm, such as our istinctions and 
quantity of inferior milk; and lastly, brewers Pens, Ke o., pail those, such as Clover, “Trefoil, Vetches, Phat ve we have referred to are not fully insisted We 
grains and such ‘Tike food, will produce a cd 65 wht ich- are supposed to be employed in the pro a ile, ara al to any candid and intelligent eat zig 4 
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quantity pe frome quality, Whatever may be the d distinct and emphatic declarations on — 
breed of e stances involved in the consumption of food by animals | our earlier papers, and the consistene? Wie vum i 
Pend twy parties Te interested in this separate | upon the farm, whether p — ome or foreign growth. our later ones, are not ber as amply to “ 1 
of the quest are private families on the one In our 1 * On the Amount oË bierg iven off by | what sense alone he sho ould read any suc we waiting 
hand, and d airy — who supply towns on the Plants during their gon * (Journa of Horticultural | expressions. Surely it. is expected st that in 
other. The ae of these not o say i wish extra | Society for January, 1850), 2 ++“ The plants for intelligent readers on 5 his meaning, 
rich milk, and are able and willing t 0 giv ve any | —_— r my Siew — Wheat and Barley 55 of the vb y mrs every 2 Ee ee 
nale h natural order Graminacem; wit ns an eas as 8 e reiterate sia 
3 “fori #, bat ps awe aii: e corn plants, and Clover as a fodder plant, from the e trust nothing to the context, or to dee 
1| Leguminosæ ; these several plants, moreover, oceupying | tion and candour of his reader as to 1 
and not unfrequently » when this — been incurred, : ige ge his 
somewhat important and characteristic positions in a in terpretatl ion of pes an when taking 1 Weir 
they falls short of realising their expectations One course d gar oc = — crop — also have been | whole, and the w s themselves therefore, 
has got a Kyloe, Kerry, small Devon, or Alderney taken, & r paper in the Journal of the manifest spirit A. e one or 
cow, which yields extra rich milk, nothing short of Royal e wate Vol. XII., Part l, page 5, The writer “ R., however enrefully selects 
London cream. The fame thereof soon reaches the | our classification of agricultural crops is as follows :— | two'stich passages as 
ears of oth ers looking gat J for this sort of thing, con- 1 "We have taken Wheat as the type of the Cereal-crops, from their context and from our mo 
sequent]; their stalls an AE Re swarm with Turnips as * the type of the root crops, and Beans as the r 9 
i this Thid ian breed; but in the selection, representative of the Leguminous corn crop, most fre- against us; ut we would as 
too many of the exeeptional individuals | quently entering into rotation.” And further, in the te, his wish to to Kae, a roe 
noticed e been ineluded 5 so that d CTT i D 
á ds as the sweetest and zichest milkers after | 92 des these, others have — viz., ‘ame on | shortly follow tJ, Bidk; 
AO W. e a A here the of Clover, &e.“ waits 
dil... We recollect * | ae over, &e. (To be con 
small Devor Were beler which setually did ge „ eÀ 8 5 the Gra- ee 
ric but the breed 
the Leguminous corn crops, that the een n 2e. 
being so very general kee characteristies of the plants which Home Co . deal in 
valuable, calves were reared and suckled on the these respect! ely. wore are sg as one ansfer of Land. have been a good dea the 
Pe ye The first milk was set apart for the | the adoption of them in a classification of the plants iy tess remarks at p. —.— prae p” the 
e by the milkman, and a calf put upon two when gro 9 kisa — if on eritie would | of land to be expected from the rè This is a subject 
cows to draw off the remainder, and doubtless maintain that t there is nothing in ommon in the func- ties at present attending its s transfer: 4 
> tg udders were emptied wi ek a moment’s bes ae a in ed geome of the several members | of peculiar interest to | yuan’ 
rhaps, cheating the“ house; 0 one e as such, and as contrasted with those 95 to the impro gland, feel 
but young “ Butter-cup ” throve beantifally, so that | the other—here we would at ones join isene with him i state of the law in eat we Berne 
the law of my lord a and kis er was like the In reference to this eee we refar d here obserye, in — they would derive more ‘real ben 
laws of the Medes and Persians; consequently our ee that. we shal soon forget the scientific | facilities and the vast — ee ‘od ss 
— wyr A eee os facts and their practical | obtained on its seeurity, than they vil yer Axed 
to those around him, Mian having carefully the imposition of a duty on comm, * — 2 
Er with a number of his untrymen, our grow- | cording to a sliding-scale. And I i 
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and expense resorted to. In the first, either from | ducted to the experimental Bean field, and had then — injuring the feelings or poe 
erings or individual cows, exception s to the — to him the history i eee 
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our experiments t give a very just vie ut I am 
second, by — a calf to one cow, and milking | nitrogen and carbon fixed in the Wheat and in the Bean attending the prevent y iage in — te ebf 
the other w ly for the Castle; or, if hee was not | respectively, in relation to a given amount of water wione aifer 
afterings ‘of the small Devon | Passed through them during their growth. But — should have thought it Dae os vate 
also. — — milk under such cir- ve have thus contrasted the general agricultural cha: Hambu 
— we Nell subsequently notice. In an Tce ritten of the Graminaceons grains with — of 
‘in the “Lancet” some short Leguminous we have always in the 
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