44—1852. 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
699 
rs, a little at a time, 
d them for two hou 
L d fill the Sar full 
op Lor He o hours, an 
of water ; by this plan the food m 4 Cua nged as often 
lease, which ever, n- 
pg aad whak they fet fal fall l the 1185 will ge up. 
You have the advantage of givin s, green 
Clover, and t Mangold Wurzel leave Your 
ttle are thus at home under your eye, 58 t galloping 
s the m 
appears to m an illo gical ee founded, as it is, 
on an assu n of which we have no proof whatever, n 
that the improvement of the sit ak due to the npe 
8 alon een commensurat ost 
sufficien for m present purpose, I doubt i e a fac 
for the following reasons. Before oilcake wa m 
used in stall-feeding as now, I have e heard 
ex 8 farmers value Turnips for fee at fro 
98. t 
m | seed-grain 
amn 
‘ot sig falls on the land may pass through it, Pa 
f off it 2” And to thorough draining, have In 
And 
aa then, have I recommended pence 
eedin ago of the land. d after more than 30, I may 
s’ experience, fk 1 fearlessly pronounce, and 
„ that whoever honestly 
Boa out, may measure his 
quart, and not by the bushel, as is the 
| He w illgrow annually 
| all- general practice i in this country. 
8. per ton; and again, we find Mr. “Mech him- 
te 
it; what is it worth from the yard, say 50 self adi tha is use 
. a 160 piss, for six months? Enough PA TA 50 ur A n alue 1 ls. n. 50 am very | | cultivate, and he may g grow the same kind year after year 
res of land much inclined to think that the Kausi in a thi aye puo wi ith lessexhaustionof the soil, than the thick seeders cause 
in this yard, two tons are equal to three tons exposed, doing r duty, and that the loss (the same in 3 by every crop they grow; indeed, their whole system is one 
The next consideration is the value of your pigs witho ut case to the farmer) is o 3 9 instead of them „|e ntinued and m we s repetition of exhaustions an 
the yard, N s you would not wid above 10 0 r 12, An extreme case will suffice w that Mr. Mechi's l ns from year to year, an m youth to old age, 
and they run 5 i about * orae S l the 8 1 position is untenable. S 27 Ani al fed on too until each 3 generation drops into the grave 
will put the yearly profit a ye 7 ga ity of aks in conjunction with Turnips and i 8 other, k other, and another, 
and that the improvement in animal proves insuffi- so on, always proceedin the same Yy 
l * Ee ger? ai tote — pe 204 o 0 ent to cover ti cost of the cake, this w leave the | and much afraid to emerge from it, as the ar 
Ties oe 150 0 0 value of the Turnips, according „a negative by a railroad would ble at being driven off the 
Manure, at the least 100 0 0 uantity. ne, in this case, would say that the and sent headlong do embankment 100 feet high. 
You will say that there is Betting put for the * of Turnips were positively injurious to the animal no, the I kno we hear nothing but laudations on the vast 
pigs; the answer is, they do not yan one thing more loss ane * the cake, and always will be, until we strides in improvement agricult has made in modern 
than the wash whey, and what grains there is made, put | arr e by careful experimen at exact amount of | times bu t are y or wherein do they exist Ẹ 
altogether into a tank and given t en wanted, cake ehh can be given to an animal with pro rofit. For I put these questions seriously, hi be pleased 
with gold Wurzel leaves; by th p you may sell is purpose, and for ascertaining the 3 values of to see them ans ered ; I mean, however, as to the culti- 
them out as porkers. e next is two men additional, sileske and Turnips, we want the follow wing experiments, | vation of grain crops only, as admit that root crops are 
their pay to be struck from the 500/.—Now I will hich, as far as I know, have not yet ing ade: — well cultivated ; and why is this! The answer is this : 
by having so much farm yearly, and Ist, Between animals fed hay, chaff, and cake bee all the root crops grown by far 
trenching 2 feet deep, if properly trenched, it will want alone; 2d, Animals fed with a aoe 2 f hay also by market gardeners, and it is on this account that 
very little drainin urface water, only springs; by | and cha ff, with Turnips e oilcake. | I rejoice so much to know that the Messrs. Hardy (wh 
such culture the farm {will be as a garden e than a we result will give their relative e EN we want. I hope, will be followed by others of their class), 
„and will carry any crops that are put upon it. J. WW. , Winchester are turning their attention to the growing of grain, and 
age Manure.—Y our correspondent, Mr. Marshall, 6 rested Turkey. —Mr. Dixon, in his interesting. w o use no more for their crops than 
of Ely, says the Croydon farmers will not the sewage on Poultry, page 39, seems 85 consider ae Bd crested skill and nature require ; and I know they 
manure, he supposes, from its not bein i-liquid turkey, $ 5 cultivate well, as they themselves have stated, the 
state, and the problem is how it can be dr become e g EN quantity $ 2 3 will req will be very small 
which deserves the attention of intelligent practical men ö of eautifal white. y aira S, e them also in their undertaking, 
of the e blem is easily solved, a about tak iles from Congleton, + ee eas “that Mr. Piper 6l. an acre of 
peat-charcoal filters, the chare kin and st them a cock 1 profit annually by his thin seeding, and 
gal val portions of the year old, a sketch of whose ves to convince, if he could, his neighbours of the 
passing off perfectly clear and free from smell ; when the made and send you etness of his system, in o he used & 
charcoal is saturated, the filters are emptied, the con- The woman who took care of buähel of seed an acre ; and in another the turn only of 
tents dried, put in sacks, and ready for i the id that many of the two quarts; and on the — * had ee a rine of 
part of the count be d in or sown broad- young ones had the crest/as fine white Wheat as grown ey 
cast, and will be found 1525 inferior to guano when hatched, 351 L oe 60 imperial spon or I “would state fall 900 1 444 
the 
ormed, has W 
ee with your corresponden 
5 as Mr. Mechi's 
amen e Times in reply to 
which w conte t week, e e of the i injurious 
gets to health which gis Mechi’s system of irrigation, 
rally carried oul iat — Sir,— Yo 
Somes i nt, A Sutfore rer,’ does not . 
pigs, and other animals will die What be 
the 5 
of birds’ dung annually, to be store our 
gre 
when 
| have all of 
rt as a sufferer myse 
- aay obliged to any. s 
ould inform me, and al so my fellow- “sufferers, the most 
sam 
8, 
weten ote also th 
ge fell off or 
ol jers.” 1 
inches 
, bare quills, 2 a si 
ilm 
On sprout ted Wheat 
us more or less o deal w 
a grent extent, Ts sh hould feel most 
ur correspondents who 
cal 
into — Some t there are who say,“ 
* Why | not t make it 
r fatten 
form 
fold ! I aŭd, 
all quantities, 
from three quarts to a bushel, and though my crops are 
not yet threshed, I have a small et with one of my 
churchw tha 
ho w delighted J am when 
peniaga among na ripening grain 
— anywhere among my thinnest t seeded, and e Bind 
* root, es 
mete 
many a 
a 2000 to thei of as fine Wheat as 
into malt ?” others, “ Convert it into food fo 
cattle at pigs, and also poultry.” 
to mee calcu 
Beforey 2 1 exam 
orown.+ 2 
ti ast 
I shall requi this year, or the quantity of malt Tor my 
next hareak 8 5 (and you ean form no idea 
= * native thirst of the Salopians), 1 3 ae 
o have, not — y your opinion upon this vexed 
of any of your intelligent cae 
ho so frequently and iat ig contribute to your 
net “interesting Gazette. 
ing.—I AE Meon . Hardy have 
published their ste and I kei tad them for it, 
ne oo aa oa in agri- 
by m ho really know 
reaches its destina 
manure, pees when it reac 
to scent our country, Is all this to be ee ip or is it | 
h 
ee onas 
ii 
to 
only n Hana has 
y tons, are vain attempt 
at aa 
onfirmed by the hi 
HAIN ott oO mo S 
pia 
will at once 3 
smell; aai but for this allwi TE karsan our 
1 ed gra sp would lon e have 
ae Sed cities and des ge * ee populations, 
may be more nice than as you 
Sade ar article remarked peg "the Trish 
Sir not often the most poisonous. I am, 
00% 117 9 servant, J. J. M chr, Tiptree- all, 
Stall-feeding of Cattle. —As it appears to me that the 
pira Jately published in —.—.— 3 oursial, * 
pesti- 
he 
e 
aught — that fees sof acid by the dozen, and gypsum | 
zing, an and 
in 
rize apn ee an oniony y knife, or other 
div 
report, i ivi 
impo 
the agri 
a. development, is to 
aded state in which it phy xisted. Cannot Grea 
h to suppers 75 fo Se 
it would, r farms w 
t is a farm 
? 
at there are 
"o ia li 2 ee divi viding t — country into very 
mall farms; but t are as many in favour of such 
ivision; and = chief of which is, that were it so 
cattle, an 
me on societies 
patio 
eaply as t 
are fallacious, and likely 
tivation 
TAE 
the Turnips, Now, , with great respeet, this | 
wherein the lands co 
tional 
yp p Pitie with the readers of 
rnal, w are ware I have often addressed | 
i ook I pet . . or intemperately. 
early knows, a determ ined and 
ing of land ; but 
tivatio 
„I may say, scores of letters in which I. 
deeply and thoroughly, so that 
a 
on | details of the sion Wa 
trary, Thus 15 pecks giving irre 
2 
m be forgotten that . friend w. a farmer, 
t a e ee and his farm is, in 3 of it, what 
ae: Engli 's farm ought to be, namely, a garden; 
and cou 
Societies. 
Wirtsam LABOURERS Fite 1END.— The 4 repi 
of the orotate of the annual dinner siety 
abridged from the yey oe Chroni 
Hayle i ish 
| e 
at a 
be interesting as 
put into his ha 
different from what it was ak see s eare 
2 ony one at s not enough, The paper 
as as follows 
ite: 1852.— Trial o three ridges alongside each 
a e Nov. — Nr brei Beans; ; broda Stared 
and harrowed, but not ploughed for Wheat, 
Wrienr. 
wrrenrras 20 BUSH 
Stones, ~~ j ~~ ex. 
200 
1 
t yield in measure and weight, 
ie * bushel, pene Per arti — Fem the reverse of 
before, —.— lew of salt was 
ack 
SEED, PER Acre. 
Bush. 
45 
50 
50 
pir 
1 
Pecks. 
8 
$ 
Bruch ed 
mirige rita 
triad aed Ate. 
3 3 — 
The 1 the result of e 
Mr. Dixon: That is not thin sowing 
