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Proportion of Beef to the Live Weight of Oven. 
— — tions have been occasioned by a should propel through iron arteries and a ere 
1 — — manure tank a few days | veins those fertilising essences of our bread and m 
where Í found a regular straining apparatus in|the very life-blood of agriculture. — — Live Wei | 
pd for the of retaining the more solid | taught me — all this may be done as readily with in stones or 11 fe tbs, 
operation for ú 5 ˙ ! ookan as with ga as or water, Pray lend your | Class I. Class 2. | Class 3, 
Pie eek to superintend the preparation and delivery of | powerful aid ‘cowards el ing our towns and fertilising Under 189 Heifers ... 70 to 72} 68 to 69 
— —— to the neighbouring farmers. I our fields. It ma me be e done pr profitably.—I am, sir, your — 180 Stee „ 60 — 71 66 — 69 
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Per cent. of Beef. 
that the semi-solid manure so collected | obedient servant, J From 120 to 150 Steers — OB — 63 — 65 | 63 to 66 
amounted to about five or six loads a week, each load) Mr. aan s letter has called forth the following: —| — 100 — 120 Steers . 62 — 65| 60—63 | 57—63 
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in 70 — 2 — ois bel 86 — 88 | 48 — 
owing to its being then harvest time, the farmers could | pig, with animal and huma sre aad decayed vegetables, Under 7 2 ae et a OY 
not spare time to look after it, and so the authorities had and every kind of offal,’ over our fields. Within five It is not within the sons of possibility that any table 
po alternative but to give it away, to got rid of it. I| miles of town one of the Commissioners of the Board | of the nature of those given above, can be constru . 
wish to i as placing the of Health has been trying a similar scheme, but his to meet every case; and even with the most extensive 
Croydon semi-fiuid rinsed manure in competition with | neighbours are aware that el gre) 5 a necessity with | experience as to every one of the elements from which 
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such a ; reason, I apprehend, | sauce for the goose may be applied to the gander. | are weighed to ascertain their carcass weight, a some- 
why it is not not eagerly sought after, is the form in which | Sure rely these gentlemen should be compelled to deodorise | what larger proportion of beef should be allowed, and 
it is offered —— It will not ‘do to pon it to the | their filth before pumping it fortb, which one of your |for cows fattened after having several calves, and also 
agri mixture like the contents of the recent reports of the commissioners’ proceedi ngs shows | for old bullocks, the proportions of beef to „their live 
witches’ — “thick and slab.” It must Piy drier, | js ae possible by Mr. Stothert’s Lp * 3 sir, | weight wi 
— t E and deodorised before it can be made | your obedient servant, A SUFFERER. Oct Cross-bred beasts poor have the 8 of their 
le to Boards of Health, and it is the problem of parents, in which case the proportion of beef to be 
— - — —— — 80, which ‘deserves the — — ˖ a applied must be that to pager the ta belongs which 
mtion of intelligent practica 0 e country. i i ces we have met 
One — — ti at Riehmond = CARCASS e OF CATTLE. vi e 
elsewhere, where a pinch of some magical powder pre-| We now proceed to of the mode of ascertaining bull and 80 
cipitates and deodorises a quart of sewage, and a French- = — weight — — live weight, severally, of | which 1 all the au Sire. In 
promises to effect a like result with silicate of soda; | oxen, sheep, and swine. one instance, in fo am we witnessed a five years’ old 
but without expecting any such marvellous results as to “The weights of the —— — of oxen vary accord- | heifer, bred 34 ‘a sh 4 
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that is valuable in such a variable compound as sewage | Hide and pean big th ars — 23 to 7 st, of ae but the 5 al in this animal, exempt hide and tallow, waa. 
water, we cannot but regard these attempts with satis- — * * „ „ ia » 10 nr wit 13 tainly, in 
faction, and bid the labourers “ God speed.” re on! Feet gue 1 » 25 » proportion to her SIRT it it might be truly considered a 
it, with at eon a ton, and Wheat at from 24s. to — the pair * ave p S p Sih pheno menon. 
36s. a quarter (as it is just now in the Isle of Ely), it is k collop e „ 4 „ (To be continued.) 
a matter of life and — = — —— —— Heart * a ” „ 15 
inerease the price of co t least by means of Liver, Lunga, pipea spleen », ” 4 ” k ” H 8 7 
economical fartilise r to ‘produce a —— quantity tie it, Stomachs, entrails, &. eter! ton sect n — 
— pace. Marshall, Ely. h rarely, th i ht. T the hide d 3 22 ‘word 
* See add the — a correspondence on the same BP oc vet pe iston ely, the ttn 7 he your correspondent J. Prideaux has stated. It is mow 
from the columns of the Times 101 perp ete — — oe 
question of; —— manure is so important in a state t from about 234 stones to nearly dome own rmon 
national, sanitary, and agricultural point of view, that 1 31 alah iat wee instances to shay 63 stones bat, be done with the refuse, as he called it, of the a 
am induced to trouble you with the results of my six | asthe minimum of every item of offal is never, and the with the exception o cere everything else wasrich in © 
— —— of its use. The È — of 1 i rarely, to et wi > cane. the * n aay — — 
green crops is very largely in »j dati ch ight f offal will perhaps be f — Sig ong , 
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d Wurzel | six acres) is estimated at 40 tons | offal of the pei Taf leanest, and that of the largest tey omiy in 15 —.— 3 a “ — 9 m 
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en À applied was h solution of various che various ay breeds of British cattle will be found of sa 
human ordure, deca ——— kaa every kind eee sold at 4l. or 5. per ton. 
appoin ted by th — — strong manure i ry | vated. and im improved wi a view t —— proportion of | the company was formed, and establish drying plates 
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——— — e — 28 otic my but which have not received that attention to improve-| burn's, who very kindly showed me all over his ex- 
daily consumption of water for liquefaction is 40,000 ment of-a n 2 iir 
gallons, which, fortunately for me, m y bog-spring supt supplies. 2 hose breeds may as week of tan, with lime and other things in proportion. 
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Ferne First Claes will thus include— The Durham oon — — 
animals will destro ee e tender te in The First us — getirid of it he put up an press, re- 
hot dry weather. 1 z ͤ —iX—— —ͤ ———2 
application of town sewage to agriculture. A 500-horse and Devon. The best of the . wet — pirea Akron — 
ine would raise dispose The Second Class— some long-horned | engine. is tan, wi assistance of a little small 
— hee i n Lancashire, | coal, which he buys at 9s, per ton, keeps a 20-horse 
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a conduit 3 or 4 feet in diameter.“ Welsh eattle. manure 
Martine steam cylinders would, if they could, at so itoi cattle of Argyleshire, | process of burni arning, Mr, Hepburn told me thatit required 
Fun affair. The whole storm water of 88,000 — islands of Scotland, and various breeds of Ses — — — aa ane pai S at 
acres in Lincolnshire is di tain cattle, stinks 
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800 horses, f and the great Bedford Level, some 220,000 By compounding the effect of condition with the mixture of all sorts of gases, I was told that hardly any 
120 0-horse power = a few wind- | properties of eal to the different breeds, the following | Cholera ago. I have beem 
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i ulty, then, can there be with so small | proporti of carcass weight to the live weight of t east naming a yards skins 
12 surface as the area of ne metropolis ? edna are are * result of 8 1 and have out and miles in of no — bakia * — he of 
is true, you must first drain nbd minds of prejudice ; been found satisfactory in pra 8 ee pa ‘hill 
l tains. Bermondsey 18 ot sorts of 
- must, like their ear Boe, be drained, Per cent. of Beef of the Live Weight. Sere g —— — 
q ure would do mischief. There Condition, 8 : 
gal be permeation — percolation, natural or arti- Class 1. | Class 2. | Class 3. and every other — — - — — 
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those Fes And are now ready and almost praying for Prime te very fae 2 — 66 
Precious streams which are now poisoning our | Extraordinary fat . 67 — 72 
Islands at home, if we choose to As there is, however, an objection to the foregoing | splendid manure which lies in heaps 5 
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E apriorie 000}. annually, condition by the terms made use of, the following table | squeezes sixpence 
y, a steam heart of 500 to 1000 herbe rse power of — — — r — Aina e —.— —— — Bia of rich — 
in condition haps, 5 > „yard ; 
Generel Boara r Hah as Information issued: by the in some pros ta 9 difficulty y which applying | this 1 — 3 his master 2 
328, dre Agricultural | terms the former table trarily may i home, know i : waggon-load : 
ori it fe eee Seg 5 ashes, and oily matters, but no tan. 
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