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27—1 852. 
Whittl Mere, formerly a lake four = “ae breadth. 
— — — * earth, fro o 5 feet in 
— with good lay — — forming a —— 
soil. In some the Huntingdo 
* lay; t is a portion of 
silty: land, and, bordering the oe the peat is 
mixed with brown clay, the whole being ge 
The H LE area of 120 
almost entirely drained — agian which 
their water i main drains and 
rivers. intersecting the district. There are about 
20-engines, s some o of them very powerful. The greater 
nshire fens, ee | 
dep Some parts | a 
ne- and 
0,000 aeres, is 
throw 
Wheat. In each parish there is a 9 fine old pasture 
land, though a — deal has of late years been 
verted i into 
After — hurried notices of the general husbandry 
and drainage es we Aena sn e 
other subjects: of in — nnec 
and endeavour to — — the land 3 — 
how it has become what it is: I. A. C. 
Io TCS 
APPLICATION OF LIQUID. MANURE IN: 
YRSHIRE. 
CANNING: Park, Mr. Tevrer’s. Fa 
Sa is a sm 
—— but this Bo not so comme! 
being supplied with oilcake to enrich the ma 
rate of 3 Ibs. to 5 Ibs. per head — 2 and . — 
are 80 — as stores,“ e fattened on the 
— 
2 lage quantity of —— ra — — Leve 
m À 
per a 
— oa Level, a breadth of peaty 
tween Wisbech, Lynn, and Downham, 
good ’ è 
stated that a tract of fen land near Downham, which, 
before = pee ec the Ouse outfall in 1621, was 
almost alwa —— r, was or sale for 
18000, — — — oe; it is now drained — ell 
dressed with e ays — — a — rent of more 
than 1300“. a year 
West of these se fens, — south of 
AZ 
— mana seee ble e quantiti 
d. The country is liable 
by breaches in the outer barrier bank; 
— eana ng occurred in 
year 1613. bee the Ist of November, late in the 
yi; —— used for irri 
“Wisbech, are 
rable — that formerly p — l 
is 
s| Grass ; 
Bell, — — ma Mr. Telfer, — the dairy, and 
nut mats. The — — s- perfect; and the air 
human 
sweeter than in the majority of. the dwelling-houses of | excepting two or thr 
For 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
III. 146. per week, or, per annum, 608/. 88. 
n con- formed me 
receipts for 
‘or the 
and butter amount to} 1150, 8s. — 
y su ht or 
ine cows, and would have been Se let at a rental of 
Board of Health, 
Rie 308, awacre: Mr. Lee’s Report to the 
NOTES OF A RECENT. TOUR: 
THROUGH nape RSHIRE AND NORTH, 
TSHIRE.—(No. ILL) 
— BRIEF ‘notice of 
man beings. 
It will be seen that behind the stan 
Tie Cattle 
ter 
cost a the. tank 
rse power, is used to id, 
sd, | for — ye Oats, chopping hay, pumping 
water to suppl cattle, &c. The 
mall extent of Rad romky requires the engine to be-oecas 
comparativ cay 
g ion surface i 18 flat, N 
and, as the 
and the * to which the quid n manure has to be 
ied mall, the engine, whe pable 
vo work. of che farm att 
gallons per da 
tity of the and laid on at a —— n is about 
x00 llons pn — so that the — furm — be 
overed in 10 if required, so far 
the umps is — ed. Iron 
extend from the — — thr 
in the —.— already des 
ost the of 21. . per acre F S 
gutta percha, makin n ength of 150 * ape and 
. 
oe 
res sing 
rented mi ise “of 1060 
rent and 3 — the 
Barley or ses, 
rst course is paar the —.— beneficial s 4 
— is 
for eve 
ry crop (Cl 
he crops are heavy, and the Mud i is fully — 
to bear ‘Wheat every altern 
On t e meadow: land, pion ‘of the aftermath: is 
e 
time, the annual amount of working expenses w ald be 
The following appears to be ost of car- 
Bask ae 
4 i and hydrants. we we re 
Distributing hose-pipe, Ge. i 
Annual interest on 210%, and wear and 
tear, at TE — cent. ... 
Wages and fue ots 5 
mount, divided by the number of — is vont 
18th ild. per acre, when spread over the whole 40 acre 
e liquid manure is applied to all kinds of er 
fer’ 
— eee y 
ing s — its 1 
said, t amount to from 30. to 
heibannen Telfer's farm: is stimula: 
crops 2 
gallan 
as — 
and that i 
or rally, no part of the — should be stinted — 
tion W. the burdens- and short- 
ropo è 
comings’ which effeet the la 
22 bee three eee 
penetrated : thi the agency: 
worms, is raked off and applied again for litter. The- 
manner by sheep 
fields, they lie in winter under 
ee man, nor lightly interes 
ould leave the law as: it is. 
at the of 
ctl 
3 is that the masses 
stent with a —— 
if there be d 
re enormous. In 
a sisa riek of —＋ on n the head-land of a field, which 
t —— aasre À 
nation and 
— preserved by his 
he peace — — district, tor: whieh he ge 
the — of the ord of t 
—— ‘ood as . 
state of the —— eee, 
and short allow 
g 
a 
night, the sea broke-in, through the violence of a north- the 
east wind g with a spring tide, = 22 of pro- 
perty from the-deluge amounting to 37,000 l. So wide 
was the —— the waves that, — thousands 
‘ P swept away, vast quantities of Grass. 
hay, and Corn were lost, ndreds of ng-hou: 4 
— d t; nur people- drowned i 
` beds. There is now little danger of such an > 
on ee —— — IF this is, ho upon the pre- The u rieult ; f 4 
ö stronger t 3. inches. Al wever, eaten 
Tigre recent inclosures. x — the whole marketable produce of the farm is ‘fairly wil find that — seemed cal cts stern 
large distriet is chiefly under arable culture, , Producing | represented by the milk and butter. ia — — — ot mionra 3 — 
crops of Wheat. more common As to the 9 value of these, Miss Bell ha —— aecann an . — 
ee de =o ine fallow, sometimes stated, that — men —— — vod — —— ed, for ‘exarnple, has taken off: 
4th, Wheat; pat 9, em Ee pt Band or e 130 we — 9 een ty and third; and to this amount of reduction, no doubt, the 
is sown to; 2d, Oats; 3 „Wie l ‘ous, — are for butter wouldfitherefore . be | land p t; in „lower their 
