730 THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [Nov. 13, 
he benefits of the feeding- box. Then for consideration, and can be better effected 
one | ease, enjoying t 
3 eee 8 Wg own n we ha oath 5 in the character of the yards, feeding- -box than in the stall. If the — 
experience over tens of years and thousands of dalle, and boxes, with a still greater variety in the pe is properly consolidated, there S 
and from the experience o * thers, as 1 artments of food, management, and manure, — it than in the stall, or even the o 
in the volumes of a- well furnished and we studied | forming altogether a diversity of practice by ; e no 1 st decomposition or volatile matter 
agricultural li to give a sound ju — 1 on any means easily reconcilable with . 55 Aka off in an iar two examples is much greater 
of the so-called novelties of the agriculture of 1852 |s denes. the manuf. et world not F o an 1 generally imagined, while in the former 
men who are competent to fill the chair of agri- this ind occurs; for, from pin making up to . 11 ae kka natter “Hag into the atio- 
culture at any of our universities—who, nevertheless, | boat tung, the general r rale illustrated ta t : . — he other respects, there is no com marina 
contribute nothing publicly to, the formation of | importance and value of chemical and mechanical | between the ee of the stall — feedi 
i ini icult: jects. ience: to fall behind i in the fiare of improvement for cattle in the former are invariably ero 
sound public opinion on ae con ati the * 8 trades, not only is, but is — 8 be, mg * 3 y, together, while i — the latte s Pp wded to 
j ; lpable : and so we | shortest road to ruin. In the agricultural world, ilar reasons, temperat 
—— — © itis z — common sort of loyalty to the sceptre of science is the exception, more uniform and easily contr cited mperature is 
culpability ; and so far as our knowledge goes, one | not the rule, especially as regards farm buildings. 15 . opies are expenses and manures— topic 
Which is chargeable more frequently upon Scotch-⸗ The combustion which takes place in the e not the least important. On the latter we need not 
: Phere is a great fund of animal heat has justly been compared to the say a word, experience having already decided the 
of undisplayed knowledge, especially amongst | action of a fire, and the phenomenon which takes 3 and, Yih 1 a to the former, the ex 
Scotch farmers, which has yet to find expression for | place in upholding the daily waste of the system 1s 2 0 apts ae ee a Je oxes, if greater than tha 
e benefit of agricultural readers; and we do hope of a similar character; ; consequently, while we are t a ing sta he well repai aid by the snperiority 
thet the first-rate example which has been set all | complaining of bad times, we are burning our of the results w ich grow out of it 
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cation of an ordinary farm experience, inoneof| The grand problem of the farmer being to procure 
most important sections of it, will induce many from the soil the greatest amount of animal and THE DIFFERENT FORMS OF TENANT RIGHT, 
imitators. The following is the history of the vegetable produce, according to the demands of the (Continued from page 716.) 
process which he he has recorded. public, our main difficulty resolves itself into the| No one will dream of citing carp as an example of 
In feeding, as ordinarily carried on, an 0X | necessity of more capital being invested in the erec- | the evil that a sound system nant 
isp r on such a — or a certain sum of tion of suitable farm buildings, for the rear aring and | inevitably produces. Surrey is an excellent am 
1 is grazed for so many Weeks at a certain feeding of cattle, in order to enab ble the farmer to the evil of the want of snch a angrier 
Sat calculable for the rent 55 other charge turn his erops to the best advantage. evil of the filling its place by an irrational 
pon ‘rass land: it is “put up” towards winter The principal NN of the feeding-box ov or eren, 
and fed on Turnips and straw (a) * so many weeks | the stall, or any of the old systems of shelter ie 15 
at a certain weekly cost, depending upon the quan- | feeding cattle, is the —— of food and manure | a} 
tity of roots 7 1 pa and upon the acreable | which it affords. The ox rests better while it is geren berg up, mete! che memory of the 
nately, however, there are other di 
gland, pie ar Bas idence of a 
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0 and straw respectively; enabled to take that a exercise necessary generation, a system of tenant compensation so universal 
by bye it receives a certain all £ oil-| to health; with proper treatment, it ys a e, in accordance the d 
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f r purer as at last i 
cake hich grain daily with its — food, the expense | atmosphere than in the stall, and is equally well, | of the English law, a recognised 
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gards feeding and cleaning, and a weather, enjoying a more uniform temperature. It nature of permanent or only temporary, are calculated. 
supply of of litter 6, all of which involve an easily receives its food in quantity and quality a its as requiring a certain number of years in order t 
ined weekly expenditure of money; And > and yall ee demand, and eats it without remunerate their author. If the tenant leaves before 
a anure is ready for use up arm. | ing it up into a greater increase of weight, while it 1 > — * 
The ght d : | according to the number of years of that period thit 
ant en 8 a nye ely recorded, is less 9 for 18 Se ni the produces a| have gettó un. Thus, if five years be the period! en. 
u em in— the to 
ler easy it may be t to this, how manyi p ent exi d therefo: ħall ti b divided 55 to five r 
— 8, an ore we shall notice expense of the coped will e divided into ny 
well detailed xt the of its having been done obo We them somewhat more i in detail. if he leave at the expiry of one year after the wor 
igi th that — . th wth of young executed, he will apt fois Tra cost; An 
opinion on these very points—the c beef and | cattle, or the prog ress of fatteni ones, more than pt of two years he will be entitle uroo aaa 
the value of manure-—that not one, ee believe, has | excitement gh 8 kind. Th p-s * * See the ox ree . to ee eg of four iea 3 
The e number of years during which à si similarly propor 
| tioned allowance for the various descriptions onsof ** 
ment in common use is given, are as follows:“ 5 
For drainage, where the te vals als —— finds ar 
e — disturbance in exam- | five i 
carries hi : 
Over two years and witha herd of about 40 head of 
feeding oxen, the details of bis experience and the 
results of his experience are exactly given. For those which 
mptom 
from whieh it 3 ring to get relief; but as 
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of his communication. e have f z 
referred to the whole in general terms more for the : 101 . 3 
purpose of urging his example upon others than for 
the * his perf for it is not u quently taken as the index of 
S 3 0 — imine * 1 laying on fat, instead, o on the pontang, of consuming 
we may do hereafter in detail ; ‘meanwhile w So easily is the system affected by ex- 
would just refer to two omissions in his statement wae, that that produced by li * ia guifieient to 
of cost, to which our attention n drawn a counteract. the laying of fat to a very great 
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yet definitely Read; for bones, 
wance. 
The one fundamental 
: a therefore, in — es ihe å 
: 4 in incoln ire diftlers 
de former of which we presume 0580 degree from a en quantity of food, not ö 
addin: 
re only must it rest easy in Fits box, but Tight also must | eolnsh’ 
cee oe oa 5 
ext advantage which the feeding- box in 
15 ble Ee di distinction — ber that in 1e mir 
payment for actual Peer tt is am 
diminishing with ee year; a 
esses over the stall is that . enabled to take 
rm Burnprines is at all times an certain degree of exercise is ce to health, for porary one, dimin 
e, but at a eriod When cattle are muscles grow exactly in proportion to the amount of | ° 
exerci receive, and this degree of exer- hed 
se s doub ashe the hous oi th owing cattle, | ™, 4 — 
"of the ox is one of those questic the size of the bone is not unfrequently affected in oaly 
. is wofully at at variance with science. W the stall, and, were it not for the relief which — It can, 
our cattle are turned out to ‘spring, there obtain at Grass in summer, results would be mor iB 
is 2 any difference in practice, comparati conspicuous.: But the case of the confined ox is by those hort 
ng, from the Land’s End to John even worse than this; for muscles . do not and Surrey are denoun 
but At present not only do provinces differ | thei lecular constitu- | ruinous, that 
j ] are liable to ir mo! 
tat hig two ees 3 can scarcely tion, impairing the qu ity of the butcher-meat, as 
1 th 7 5 stalls of many a butcher practically exemplify. 
na a e the maxim at Smithfield—that symmetry is 
: an index e quality. 
a doz Fe of en promiscuously feeding in an | ess is equally essential to health as exer- 
25 some of | than differing widely in consti- | cise ; . Ithough charges have been brought of 
from the others, cs hence requiring to be | against the feeding, bor, hat the ox is more liable mentioned that, althoug 
unless with a particulars, it 
nee, in one exa pie e we 
This cireumstan adit 
piece of evidence we possess, OF 
fnot eral ag 1 
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te eone audi ion in particular instances, it only calls where it is — compuls 
kor the use of a little more litter, or even of the it on their esta W 
ron bac wat sA currycomb and brush, which are much neg lec ted by | Yarborough, a very endete 
cattle | the 8 for rubbing promotes the c peace course | baa 
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