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after all the writing 15 ~— made about it for the mix with liquid manure, and the Chronicle shall be) luck where 10 per cent. of 1 sheep aya annually — 
ears, it tarr 18 o be a very simple affair, informed of the r — alcon rge sheep farmers, bot in England and Sco 
But should this system aa 0 rove correct for all soil Churn.—I purchased a Drummond churn, bei eing | reckon the loss o . ** — s very mod 
et situations, then it will eventually be 3 that = attracted | by i its —.— appearance and the promises of There is a bit of this old Saintfoin ploughed up, it 
kets of the landlords and tenants have only been | its performance. hese I have not been able to realise. ms; what is that intended for — For Turnips. That 
ed e 3 and the land remain He te opera A4 e on churn, axe 2 agen =i oe is represent ted is ploughed very thin, so that it ma y readily, and 
upon by a future e who wil bine “science to produce but „a little than 6 minutes ; in| the earth be sepa m the turf for — It 
with were ” Richard Smith, Westacre, Droitwie every trial w ith n 1 me 1 10 require a little e more than 30 ; will be stifle-burned soon. 
— Your corresponde = 5 a Constant Reader, in fact 2 is in ya respect inferior to the barrel churn “Iss eee a good thing e doubt of it. 
who 1 kindly notieed my r on the above which is used | You oblige me much by Stifle-burnin g appears to have been followed in this 
subject, is, I expect, not aware "y the tool used by my stating the sitai of your wn —— ence, or that of your | district for several centuries past, wi best effeets. 
oeing the Potato land. It was friends, . the parties are so 3 that I cannot | Burnt ashes are reckoned worth a halfpenny per bushel. 
planter's mattock weighing 5 Ibs., each stroke sending | but suspect that there has bee my Six hundr ushels are frequently burned u an 
too neh to the soil, and by the pull turn- part, rather t on th rus. | acre, and produce more manuring e 
ing it over. Notwithstanding the greater time this Poultry. One o your eee compla s that | Turnips than 12 bushels of bones. Six hundred bushels 
would take, I am not satisfied but the man could have | the committe oyal, Age cultural N ‘should of ashes, at a halfpenny a bushel, amount to 25s, An 
done at least hal h more th ma iave given their highest prize in the poultry list to the | acre of stifle-burning seldom costs so much. Burnt 
of this kind, published in your very useful and interest- |“ Dorkin g fowl,” and thinks it ould have been awarded | ashes fi od nure, en made from 
al, are, I doubt not, beneficial to employers | to the 48 anish breed.“ Had “the “Spanish breed ” | calcareous soils, for any kind of crop. Ashes, alone, 
and employed ; showing one what may 8 been selected, a “Cochin China fancier’? would have | produce Turni last year as any other 
ted, and the other what is really due for his day’s | troubled you with similar grum me ngs, because his|manure. Their theoretical value is reckoned eir 
pay. * favourite breed had not pre These men soluble heir power attraet and 
Flaæ.— To bring this subject to a close, which in a proclaim their individua ack sig do not absorb ammonia, one sceptical as to whether 
previous atl could not be done for want of space,— | represent the general opinion. The “Spanish Poultry ashes are of prac ctical value or not, might be con- 
I must observe, th . M‘Dermott asserts distinct] ,| Fancier” refutes his arg: ents b saying “ it is easier to | vinced that they are so, by going hrough the country 
at p. 238 of ‘cha Royal Agricultural Journal, that, Flax, get many good Dorking chickens than one d white- | and o rving ho 1 p e, are in their 
“when properly managed, is ting oe as | faced Spanish fowl.” ely this is a igh recommen- | spare time, in paring fragme: all p 
e 
and ha 
* added, 
Dorking is unrivalled at table.“ ore m 
An ept as an amateur, game, Dorking, 3 
and 
m fowl. For beauty of form eral 
to 
‘ tere: pliment to the 
county in wh will be h 
iy orking fowl | lay 
—— 8588 0 anish—the heaviest 
34 ounces we apee, The birds are kept in s — 5 
and remote yards, and there is oa o possibility of e 
founding the eggs 15 the two bi po 
In th rting “Magazin ne’ 
the year 1803 
o their sO a a If this be admitted, i 
se for exam 
bo 
splits the meee into 
der the 
it. royal stables of Sweden 
d 
the one plant will exhaust a certain i or- |, 
: : sol i * 
ring 
sheep of any other age !—Y ca 
care 
ta 
remains till fully satu- | “But what 
i , | succulence of the r foo 
e 
the 9 paragrap h :—* g 
m, „ by w 
experiment, directed some barracks 5 2 9 
on the Swedish plan.“ 
Bebiews. 
| A Guide to the Royal Agricultural College Farm. By the 
Farm Manager. Hamilton and Co. | 
king 
been sou 
ht f : 
weight 1 by either kind os a dag egg) being |i 
ng sand fo 
oey for tiles - bricks. 
h such cases, and 
or burning, 
o to baer me to apply to — aun of — 
e 
Again, as ee through the museum, the following 
remark is — 
y — be all very well so a miner, but to s 
armer who works 5 N n th ce of the 
it pirangi nno uc servioe— can it 1—It has 
already conferred ie ervice to the agricul 
interest, a oth i in a dire en and an indirect manner. 
discovery ei coals in l 
iscoverin r mortar, hes sand for glass, and 
I en of service in many 
will be more tg more, as it is under - 
od.“ 
Miscellaneous. 
merican on Machines.— Harvesters. — Under 
this division, 15 paten gra th 
an o pportunit 
7 
is -gadtiphalog will go 
sha 
ose wigs! aie ve 
ecuted 
supposed to have aa ar at Field No. 27 „old Saint- 
foin, where the lambs are Which have e been weaned. 
taken that lambs do not scour, &e. When 3 
— * they der particular and immedia 
38 1—If the lambs me py the 
y pes filaments, which, 8 d u 
of ra — on. The 
Philosophy of this * pans will be 
y com cee n all its bearings—and they are 
by the 3 reader. J. 
very valuable 
hin the count 
here t 
i kely to be 
nie e N indi- 
t can oh 
s | employer's care is also 
should be, is done. 
of 
ine e to yek 
y. 
ohart of I Aw 
e par rty | senti 
nage than | Wal 
There must be especial | Saw 
close 
herd pois ani a quick N 
as F as e and atten eas EA s 
Fs T see 
1 
hat per centage of lambs usually die eee 
nded ; however, 
Proving if value ona small scale, when hen pulverised, to 
For th bed alive, 4 or 5 cent. derate called a ar in binder, 
pai ty for the fir t six of saa We | rotary cy: mounted on ip rear end or extreme 
have been lucky so far, this year, in hers less than —_ Le A 1 an Ae . 
e nt. since the lambing co t year we aia 3 3 r is sup- 
. — p ares It is bad | when a certain weight of 
grain is received into 
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