48—~1852. | THE AGRICULTURAL GAZ ETTE. 763 
— in — Lothian; which, I imagine, arises (abore remarks” are by Mr. — ie, of Westbank, and economy — straw in those districts, as * as of want 
a great m re from the aridity ‘of the climate; for, were made at one of the discussional meetings of the of due e for manure ; and t o find vast 
— the ap — on of ‘a liquid dressing, the surfac ce of | Highland and Arten eur — ; for a report of which, — of Ute which dire neither w ell- vétitilatea nor 
the soil becomes inerusted, which is teen — for its at the —— of its oceurrence, we had not room in our well drained houses; and again, for the inereased number 
eting moisture from the atmosphe Where the columns.] of animals vastly more house: room is needed; and if they 
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— ith i m i i space than the box system offers, I fear that the neces- 
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for the mest pa uite en in froñt, aba Oct. 10, Mr. s d s ~ | thei afford. 
— — bl on — etween the rows ries at — in Surrey. Now if Mr. Davis would | Now in stalls an ane ean have suffleient room in 35 
on which Turn rnips may “be $ stored in quantity sufficient | favour dairy farmers, through your Journal, with a superficial feet; and if the stall be formed level or 
to keep the: cattle lor two or three mont ne Turnips dnn of Mr. nee an s method of feeding, it might be of | nearly so, and behind the animal there be a curbstone 
convenient service to some who are satisfied with the old as raised some six inches above the Walk behind, the 
for the — feeder. It is my — on, that when ut two acres ol pasture à amd one of meadow foreach cow, beast can very easily be kept ‘clean and dry, aud he 
— climate is _— boxes ought to be quite open in front — being the —— “ee — land required in will not stand uneasily, as he would do if the stalls slope 
my boxes being covered in, with the some parts of Cumbertan Mr. D.s nat the cows from front to back, as they do in a stable, and very little 
— © — for the admission of fresh | for eight mo onths of — yea rear are sil on on cu — straw, bran, litter will pi be required to keep the animals cóm- 
air and 7 — Last season, part of u lot of cattle Turnipe, aud Mangold Wurzel. How often are chey fortable, If it ean be proved that all the straw 
into them, and the —— into those open in fed during the day, and — — of each is required | benefieially eaten by stock, which I think it An possibly 
front. Thee i in the boxes open in front were "scarcely for one cow Is the cut straw boi led, and the bran put be one of these days, then we must keep all the exere- 
ever >) perspire, while their —— in the into it! Respecting the flavour of Turnips in — n ments under cover 3 t 5 that be — in regar 
— — were almost alw vered with little dissolved -saltpetre put into the mew milk will to the dung made b fed animals, the trial with 
perspiration. When the — — aol; those in always prevent it. J. F. 1 — made by cattle in creer) against stall-made dung 
„ithe covered-in boxes were much inferior to the others. | Farm Building, Heeding, and Manure.—In ‘your js not fairly tried), and as there would then be required 
Had this experiment been made in a more rigorous | Gazette of the 13th, there appeared three — one a large quantity of fibrous or other dry matter to 
climate, I believe the result would have been different, on the subject of Farm Buildings, one on absorb the liquid portion, Lam much inelined to believe 
as in those in the — boxes would only anure, the other being a letter from Mr. Mechi. that the system eh has been adopted by Mr. Ken- 
have been in a comfortable state of — while ‘the | Now it would seem that in the first, straw is taken to be nedy at Myremill and Mr. Telfer near Ayr (whose ~ 0 
others would have been too — My sin gle boxes are of great value as manure, or in the process of the lie üpon mats of coeoa-ntt re) would be found ni 
manufacture of — 4 —— in the second as of no value | economical, as there is no question now but the cost 
the erection of boxes,although they may be quite en for that purpose, but that it is for fodder of much more of transit from prea 8 to the various parts 
in front, it is essential to prevent all currents of air value than is — though and the system oe. n the farm, is much by this mode than any other. B. 
playing through them, by boarding up every third or | by Mr- Mechi would see to place eit much in the sa The Records of s Cuittlesfoeding at Howick Lodge.— 
fourth subdivision of the range, and also to have them light as the author of the second article referred to. I have carefully examined the ve 
— constru ected that no part of the liquid can escape, The modes, however, which those two gentlemen adopt in your Paper of the last two weeks, of the e 
— e manure in the box will be too dry. With differ entirely, one using a vast quantity of peat or — of the Hon. Capt. Grey on ¢attle feeding. 
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tunity of mentioning that I find it highly — e fying it, and rendering it more bulky for removal to the | posed of somewhere about 9000 figures, they fail, in my 
to give them a mixed, varied, and more ‘nutritious diet | land, and the other mixing the liquid — — portions.) opinion, to convey” the — on required, or to 
—ů — that it is of much — ving the answer the question so often as 
corn or cake a e whole to the land by pumping it — pipes, and dis- farmer to grow Tur ips to 
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h —— in this manner, consumes only about half the to be economieal in the reports of the general Board of eonsumed as food al weer en though he ta 
Turnips he would otherwise do, and fattens much more Hea core aes Deficient: in public spirit as —— are who j Hi 
n e, more . the manure. In attem ting to set befo ne a 
quickly. If the grain or oileaite be given alone, only a Hare tie means of giving information, it may seem | statistical statement of facts connected with chic impor- 
‘small | . 3 the large stomach of the ox can act | doubtful — if it be a — chem to do so, and tant subject, I am surprised Capt. Gre measure 
er. — im: mixed * — some other batky chere are few indue his manure by so indefinite a standard z a tart-load > 
i nt contained in the food is — renal y Who the — on feel their own want of ene = he 
d a 0 1 gins eat 
aah letely assi — p —4 — — —— E half. The manure being so important an ‘alitnent in the 
nage, for the capacious paw mch of the ox being filled up others who have not the time to sit —— indite 
i the cut straw, he does not fall on the Turnip with their own everyday transaetions, an re are very added 
such a keenness of appetite as he would otherwise do, many who are not aware that they are — any 
n thus there is a great some of Turnip also. Nor | practice which differs in any respect from what is 
* 5 0 straw a very expensive “affair, adopted by their fellows throughout the greater part of 
I find that a good ‘straw cutter’ cuts the straw into the kingdom, until by some chance they are — 
1 inch lengths as fast as we ‘thresh — threshing into a hood. I full — 
y believe that what 
sat the rate of 6 or 7 qrs. of Oats per hour. Whe vou have ad to — — — en bent (as 
—— is —— the steam engine, and is Cornishman, and the stem o ; 
— 3 straw-barn, for receiving the more of unireulated knowledge above the ee pursuit. His due Sts 8 feeding 
‘tonal mds are eq the threshing-mil only two | to be perfeetly correct, and I think there d pager ng to his * hia — t, ee ‘6d. per 
additional — required for the straw-eutter. Thus reasons why »we'might expect more of the rational rom | stone of oot While’ it has bee * sam 
— te —— (every —.— — ot does —— —— the latter. The wealthy English farmer lavera n 5s. in the mar We will take 
am cutting the has, until a very recent date, at least, had no institution | th 
sto be used as litter for several of the boxes, — "to open for him, except the old grammar-school and the the sith meat f te Hao =. see hing os A i 
te more minute subdivision of the manure will universities, where an education of any kind could be | we add to this 43 per t. Pan f beef abe 
say advantage. Tt-willat 04ztzh | hud, atid they were never calculated to'it him either for twill be 0s. d7. pol stone e 40 We total tebet 
i one Te y es aa 8 144 ge aiak rs r hd 
— spreading 2 atte — — —— 4 —— t wieg i ana tose 967 weeks” straw for fosd und lit: se: „ or 
‘gent — 1 Beans were who from their p yI — Sed sei — a bring te balance owh 
Peach one of u lot of 60-eattle. For several months they | proficients therein, have been placed even in F ent fot iasi and 
pore —— — — , apis even inva’ worse 1952, the stell fed beer costs 4 6. ‘Ted. per stone live 
did well, but abou t coats sitions ! The Seottish tem b education s i 4 1 
— a — m9 — ee epost — — arnam — — on * this 45 ber Wat, ‘aid the walt beef 
thie taht dae hi E] 421 ous? at antenna: Thin 
8 Eut couph, and iat length one or two Suitable for farm mers, and, indeed, for: all the ordinary 4 4a t total 
::: .. of ‘life, because it dents with physieal science in Cost ot ten wee e res $ 
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i — — b le the true nature of the nity of ing y — e ne Cornish patel mn Total cost „% Al d e 7 
—.— : — - —— — —— — — — or. Ry beasts sofd 8 * il 0 2 
bat the liver — — D— — and — . vdleeyseew ih ana dave | 
— a “accumulation of ile. This, I ‘believe, } y and ers of the country have in 
er in a great measure from the “bruised Beans ‘not him not to lose sight of — — Tn feeding the latter lot of beasts th 
deing mixed ap with cut straw or chaff, or some — — would appear that your opinion is much in favour 412 tons of Turnips, w 
«bulky and iy — Por the nutri- of the “box- system, both as mne most | 9.3 but ir he deduets the, 
in i was evidentiy in too con- healthy and much preferable as the mode of eonvertin 
A d a form for the stomach of the ox properly to the e into manure Now as compared wi Wy the im 
Arbon ity and thus not being fully digested, funetional feeding, I should feel disposed to with 
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l r y be that in those — — where 
oliver. that the one that —— — jargo balk — straw is tionally sma and ‘where the "number | the. 
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MP by the r „ Aras frequently be pulled this sort to come to an eneral : conchisions > the iderabl feel l i 
would = or —— is soft. — it I think there are 2 w instances, without — | them: gair = r — z 
7 s ame ‘arranged, that going evextreme of eating all the straw,’ either “Report of the» Inspectors arms; dc. Premium 
— ‘of — instead of t being injubious, the system of Mr. Y. or Mr. — the number — raad Soon —— er — 
ee. After th ie — to “his ——. of cattle kept is such that the box system could not be — farming) of not less than ——— ‘acres, WhO 
‘im ‘quan tity of . „because there would not be u sufficient quan- shall have the same in the nentest and most exact order 
Abe instead — dier of straw for litter, and this would be found to be and under the best course of management, l. (Tnreg 
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