THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
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Much be better surely, to employ the massive beam 
k 2 send «out of Britaininto — Bele 
pensate, much more benefit will be 
expenditure of harvest i although a high pries be paid 
for coal therea: 
The porous — affords a dry bottom the roads, 
and the flint a first-rate es = . — them ; 
ratice 
mi its fellow, than older — Noth apt prove 
the folly of — longer in the broadeast or the 
or 14. in soning: age than the ex- 
perience of las cf a ear. On iea the Lothians the 
crops (where Tu Bhs pe are invariably dril 
28 or 30 À inches s vide, with the bulbs 10 inches apart in 
the row) w ost luxuriant ; and generally, until w 
* a Normanton they had a fair aspect, some broad- 
they are generally fine. The nsists of disinte- spots excepted, but from this southward to the 
ted chalk, mixed with a light basel T egoa bio iio mould, Watford station had a miserable ——— and all 
Fe — ary, and paan with —— or more flints. Betw that —.— and on some 
hitish colo this, the upper | fields of Swedes in r drills looked well as dd also 
chalk a wel * on the lower formation, but on the some | saw in Ham 5 —— an 
lower there are few flints, and rat strong rly t — eetly so geen ‘thant un - ee supply 
soil. On t e soil may not be more of nutriment is within 3 es ae ender rootlets 
than 4 inches deep, but it increases in the low land to 
around the farm ing ; here the sheep 
— on rae F dows during tlie 4 and — 2 on 
fallow at night, a pra ms to 
down from th 1 i as both 
of th 
Varro and Pliny allude to enclosing sheep with hurdles, 
to prevent them straying, — for the sake of their 
dung, a practice which, 
1 ith — — ed with manifest advan- 
animals also. Large stac — 
tage to 
of Sainfoin adjoin “net each fatm, This 
pears to be a rite and to be worthy 0 
most other districts, 
i t 
Turnip. Nothin the e ma ent of the 
district seemed so utably defective, broad t of 
friable soil admirably adapted act ture of this 
lant, and on which in the season the e had 
sown, eithe on the 
Shade of the mighty can it be 
1 That this is all remains of thee ?“ 
Even to speak, get of “shade” is out of the 
question, rag he 2 N N Still there are 
ucceedin 
is at ‘fault, bat the system 
here the irni 
anure mu 
— 1 been 3 withering in the yards when the Turnip 
it certainly — have been far more 
economical to have had 
© be consumed in 
cow with cattle, pote the straw wouid be 
converted into far ri 8 ure, and sufficiency of i 
ce upon the breaking up out 
presented but a few e plants, oe one | b 
A g. | eat 
ain proof t Nhat 1 it is 1 the land or the climate that 
eat, that it languishes, be th an easy prey to 
sorts of insect life, or the pP ra Srpak of weather. 
Gages take pus very slowly in opise re ; whether 
it is so ordered sò many hum n lives are de- 
pendent on the — nets of the failure of any crop, 
it is hard to say; sure enough the leading facts, 
which are the basis of modern fd pravetiente, were well 
asce oy ago 8, such as 
te 
in nitrous solutions, all our present species of 
and others that now ap to be lost ; even Turnips 
were cultivated by t facts which, so f 
our modern would-be 1 to digest, they wou 
have more patien the immovability of others; 
; been. 
a think our fathers fools, so wise we grow, 
Der — sons 75 a may think us so.” 
J. M. B., Mid-Loth 
BOX FEEDING: 
In gpa —Rye-grass and Clover or any other 
green rine cu a into chaff of abet an . siaga with the 
aditlon of pou Lin wet made into e 
T —Seven-eighths iene: Lad hay 
with Turnip top 5 Wurzel varias cut into chaff, with 
the 85 of abo 
Make the Compound. — — Fill 
to within 6 inches, and when boiling stre 
of 
d sum 
Apalara 
| 106° 
the —— with — = 
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— are now following this plan, and that two men. 
rs the Monmouth Club have — mt 
the lead i 
10 (which may es, 4 
not exceeding 20/.—R. W. Purchas, Hon Ser, 
Woodi th Farmers’ Club. l 
THE POULTRY FACTORY a 
1 the hatchin ovens, hot 
hot w. By t el the 
day an and hens, Ales 
ducks, thriving admirably. Tue eggs were got 
ri dea ers in e surr ang cont, and 
r. Cantelo, into his 
ternally it resembles a a 
side, in which the eggs a 
of patent ete sh clot — which there 1 
stan aay: a stream of warm water from a connected s 
tern, he ee To — — 2 full of charcoal ty 
„ the natural warmth of the h 
e waterproof clock in 
egg Ke fe is a in the warmth ; ihe exactly imitat. 
h they are erd 
mated, and hundreds thousands of chickens ii 
aten perieotion appear, These are i 
moved into other dra ppa 8 
bongs to le when they are removed anon 
= machine called the e which pa 
and over. bi h is ! 
to eseme the w 
— pressing 
s are provided 
fifth Linseed meal to four-fifths — 
the meal 
partment 
fowls of ony age, sa to the coop in which t 
: fattened for ta 
2 a strong jelly. Into a large tub put about three 
a 
Thë in r has, I believe at great cost and labouyi 
brought the Ene to practical perfection, and in 
bie muclhlage v 
of apks chaff, ading o nough of the mucilage to 
well 
0. it 1 to 
a small proportion of the 
er corn upon each layer of the chaff and 
also Swedish 
z | pretent juncture, extremely eh for fattening, | i 
ock, 
ring, or e store 
g the 
2.) 
will eat, a little at a time. 
pound, leaving po the night, 
ust be wel 
littered twice ad —4 
“go 
ur. a (ee and poultry for the m 
ye 
ay. 
| mated that 98 — of poultry a 
for a e Fe of only 10 or 12 willen rica 
ay and cleaned out every three or four | 4 1 2 every 
Poultry, pro 
duced in — — oe — — cess all the year through, | 
that it is o sary to have a stoe art with, 
that the affair ant on, Fag en to give fresi 
ritain; 8 
an a 
r ë co) 
not taste chick heir lives, 
which would be about-8 er 10 chicken 
0 eve 
of pasture of the doii she existence of which in their mo 
) | t ths, Food to be given a little at atime, the tro ( 
E TR ago ptak a! is certainly an * to be cleared every meal, ell cleaned every Wok Barle and * — ide ot 
; — s paa 3 be diminished by so| Utensils required An furnace to hold about a arters rt dat 
doing ; ps flied nE — geet a E pong — be 40 gallons, 2 iron stirrer (like a small mashing stick), 4 — sain 3 ee wih y timated 8 
Turnips, r iron bowl w Bo dl : 7 
when it thin, on the hill tops, b pone — 238 mene shels- 
1 f N ps, by Barley, stone cistern o 160 gallons, ‘ao gti A Spo arpa 
and en seeds, 8 3 = — two or three — 5 bushel basket, chal ine — wi eri 1 r ete ges ar a amy — 5 
cultivation. 0 cee — nothing of Porania 1 8 i Sere hi id ab e 1 vih pe henee tas hs Paghi of pouliry for 131 belig 
N n s k o Ho ut a 1 „, not to speak of 
e 5 re a geo = 3 for itself ; but tions for Linseed before and after Dia xing — 1 — ped © speak of the in 
shoul oer oe + — = ge in = o . eat have a curb of wood 42 . — ‘is f — T whee T ti stated may 
e si eep, slo 2 seen ) hin act 
— portion n ploughed op, Manyad m advantages wonid 5 ‘lea igo P si back; this will prevent the mucilage — ual open this day within a'sixpenny 
n — ndon. It is neither u n 
* rsigned having had the pleasu > i vertis A 
ae ow wo white Pade 1 se pose 30% would b be . lege in Je * last of vitiGog the jnne Mr. Warne — | A ede 2 ere wpa Ae 
mer pi piapia ee — 8 ue snd 3 poe very 5 condition of his wattle his contrivance Sst ag gma Britain and 
a a s m m. i 
* kept as A at a and cattle in addition, farmers should benefit by 7 — to be ‘ie sai a S he sak aby ried - 1 1 
} i most econ l plan of cattle ing; t sak da ie 
feels it 8 ee system — publie as pos- — 5 1 amu a ae at 
of the grea es of bo i 7 
the value of the menue, which s ould be — ot peerage TE St ae 
from the boxes, and eit ughed into the land at 
ener made into compost heaps peep making a bottom Home Corr espondence. 
crop | o A abont- one — Sac — clay, scouring of The“ Tour in Scotland.“ Since your corresp' 
4 8 sera —— mould ; then lay | “ Veritas,” avows that “he is not to the least 
— ne te € ung about ‘aoe feet = treading it well, to connected with grieul himself,” hi 80 
prevent entati whole with earth | dictions of my iohs would not hav 
11 3 28 — be — 
about oo a foot thick in * state e it ae 
till within three w e it is 3 
carefully mixing 
the whole together. He lias also the 
stating that several members of 
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ä elabe te tls — 5 — — 0 
but since, fortunately 8 of your correspon? 
whic’ does know What ‘He wittes” algat as given bi 
flat contradiction, and 840 nge my state 
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