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e to restore to our 1 fields the elements — have | seems satisfactory as regards his own high lying soils. He 240 lbs. of boiling water ; this is straw 
the ocean, — at ood wasted or neglected, causes pesti- | stated that he had kept regular accounts of the expense of and hay equal to E to 50 1 shel ag Neopia ee aie — 4 
Jost, and the would, if pro erly diluted and * to the bis farming operations, and could 2 that his whole aver- hil Ys * 8, rn; 
Jential va > rtilising than the streams of the Nile. In| age expense of executing such improvements would be covered whilst one arte — 4 ally po e boiling mucilage 
Jan e, if the calculation of science be trusted, there by 127. 10s. per acre; and that he had found himself repaid | over the chaff a r perso and beats it with a 
— refuse of a population of 3400 ae ä ve pean and interest laid out at the end of we: first | beater till the liquid — perfectly ab absorbed The 5 
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enough of 93 thus placed at our feet, 17 1 that . than 28. 6d. per acre—now wort rth from a H 30s. of feeding an ox in the n r here described i sa 
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gren thoy — nasi the farmer; by kindness to the labourer, N As he (Mr. Roteh) “tay the Aral ins and pied the from the use of the compound over the oil cake are 
oar gt e employment of of British skill and capital, I believe that | lime to his tenants, to encourage — reese out such a | very considerable. The oil-cake costs, on a erage 
T „we shall maintain and advance not only pren of e they would, cour se, be in pocket all from 101. to 121. per ton ; — the ee eee od 
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t P car agricultural pre-eminence, their own outlay sooner than the a of the five years.—The 
var national, = Chairman of the — having called upen MI. Rotch to | can be manufactured w either Pea, ee ie 
3 how, and = what soil, he had grown the Carrots which Indian corn, or Rye — at from = s. to 705 er ton. 
‘nb ral Clubs. had that day carried off the first prize, zp peer AAE Again, from the various grn which have bee . 
a . ground (situate nearly 500 feet above the level of the sea) wa b aire lf f the feedi li "i i 
HARL The Game {Laws.—Resolu- a deep moss which had been wedge-drained, It had been then y practical farmers, o the feeding — ities of the two 
tion: “ whe p an excessive preservation timed paeh ily, and white cropped to pulverise the soddy £ articles, the advantages are in favour of the compound, 
egards the owners, occupiers, and tillers of face. It then green cropped with Potatoes, and jimed weight for weight. ‘The utensils required — manufar- 
of game as T 8 8, again in the: drills. It was again white cropped, growing 70 | turi h d 30 40-gall 
il well as the ublie in genera are now so bushel ie f W A urng e compoun are a or -ga ion copper, a 
soil, as P 5 shels (of 39 7 ) pe z acre of Oats. hen in stubble, and the r 8 A ar 
well known and admitted that the Club feels it can offer ground firm, I out upon = ros 35 to 40 cart- lesas of hand mill for crushing the Linseed (cost 50s.), a half- 
nothing new upon that point. It is disposed, therefore, | common Aae pd ener ber I then caused the land | hogshead or two, half a dozen moulds, a hand cup, a 
its attention to a remedy for the present to be spade trenched 2 Lary deep, the old eee, —— three pronged fork, and a wooden rammer, the whole ef 
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k W Sad h f Lege kept on the top, and t ut down about 
system ; and with this view suggests that it is unjust in nches. Before putting in the crop, I carted hich ma 4 arkeek nex 
rinciple to raise a revenue from the permission to de- fre ise iiss „and s of the best rotten dung 1 Pag, and described the Messrs. Davey’s system of box feeding. 
p rty which cannot be identified ; and thinks, dressed the Carrot ground again, say at the rate of 20 cart- | Their boxes are about 9 feet square, sunk 3 feet (2 feet 
‘ prope - loads per acre, worked under the pulverised — — say from it i id i i below the in on 
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therefore, that no license should be required for that 6 to 8 inches. I then drilled the ground, putting in about 
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secure to those who maintained them lege of | which amounted to eri 15s. per acre, ¥ rh Big a p apy — o slide upwards, as the manure accumulat 
destroy in them.” The above old- . 5 held | 2s. per load, and paying 8s. 2 se forthe guano; and I was undern Messrs. Davey 
its annual dinner on the 22d of December, when a very offered a few ‘days ago 40l. per acre for the crop. The expense | the — and fed in this manner for six weeks u 
A pee „of working the land was not tens as the moss land was Saturday last; and there was scarcely the sli 
agreeable evening was passed under the presidency (in | easily trenched with the spade. The ground was now in uri y last; h ener ering” 7 i 
8 of the chairman, Mr, Gedney) of the Secre- eg — and would yield a great quantity of Rye-grass | Huna arising rom the dung. rom the constant 
tary, Mr. R. B. Harvey, mg’ only alloy being the re- aud Clo r for soiling — the ene which were not a hun. treading of the cattle, the dung becomes so consolidated 
signati tion ty these two gent , of the offices the dred yards o eg ch facts, corroborated by my expe- | that at the end of three months, when it is removed, 3 
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have so long held. r. Harvey stated that 7 inability of improve ement, judi ciously and euergetically executed, wil | © generally cut with a hay knife e a cakes about 
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were now admitted as sound ; and he trusted that as it the Grass—or natural state—then, to wor the ground into | feeding, he wrote to Mr. James Daubuz, of Offingtoa, 
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z 2 p order for Potato beds—manuring and „plenon next limin i 
had been one of the first in the field, it might be the | before back. 8 by white erop. and 9 — m Worthing —— pursued’ the da gah eee 
to expire, so long as there were practices to im- These operations were arduous and expensive, and betes in | Mes Mr. Daubuz's AA Pye eats 
prove or principles to advance or defend. These senti- | many instances not —— tenant, unless he was encou- eight Devon oxen at Barnet fair, on the llth of 
ments w. cardial res nded io by succeeding |.725° with a lease of 19 or 21 years, and received — aid as | September, 1846, at a — including expenses, of 
y y 8 | Mr. Rotch afforded to his tenants, viz., lime, and the expense | 981. The le were examined by a Cornish friend 
N and after a vote of thanks had been passed to of cutting the drains, Mr. M‘Cullech said, that independent of mi — indiff 
eee for his — frimer, and highly valued | of the expense of the drains and lime, the expense of working of mine, who e em A very ma erent 
Ee chair, and to Mr. Harvey for those of = into 8 . or state i pulverization was lot; they w. very moderate condition. They had 
X è very heavy upon the tenant. It could not e lished, in hen 
the weren the a 1 — to the appoint- hak: by the — without extra horse or h aa labai ur, unless the sii of * ne stubbles od ee — Nov nara a 
Spee mente to fill the vacant offices, selecting ‘for | other departments of his farm operations —— neglected, It ey were ppt inte mee And Jea On tno * 
the former ards urrant, Esq. South Elmham | was one thing for a landlord to improve, and — different for | compound, manufactured from Linseed, y, and 
Hall, and fort the r hie Ma Pane 9 ts Dix of Dickleburgh. * tenant; and to effect improvements through the latter, land- tail Peas; commencing with only half a cake per day for 
n > rgn. | lords ought togive great encouragements on mirr ir CHARLES each ox, and finishing with pes. g ~ 
uisk, Colmonell, 6th Oct.: The Im- Frxavsson remarked, that the question, properly corsidered, T 3 ed in thi < 
provemen ent o ＋ Nese an ša get ial. hould not be viewed as either a landlord or a tenant question, es per day 8 hey consumed in this manner 
Mr. Roren, of Drumlamford, said, the description of land but whether land, such as was condescended on by Mr. Rotch, | the 15th of 
in the high districts 371 that parish, did admit, in his and of which there were vast tracts in the district, could be | Tail 8 7} e at? 245 20 è 
28 of profitable improvement, by means of drains, lime, profitably improved. If this were once settled in the affima- Tail Peas, 72 drs 13 10 0 
d culture, which 3 hats according to his experi- tive, the landlord or the tenant, or both, would come to see Linseed, 3 qrs., “<< PPeTerelri eee eer 8 8 0 
— — such land, or rather barren moor, worth only their respective interests, and to co-operate in a fair an — — 
from 23. to 38. per acre, into good grazing and fair cropping reasonable way in effecting the improvement of such waste 230 18 0 
land, worth from 25s. to 30s. per acre when sown down, A land. He 1 the soil in question to lie high, in a cold | Besid bushel of A hay, half a cwt. of ) 
sommon opinion used to prevail in this district, that moorland climate, and to be of a naturally moorish nature. If sucha 1 10 2 0 
that bad been ploughed and cropped, when 1 e e ee of Ee would pay, surely there were many other son per day. J 
would not pay to plough again, and put through a ro tation ; in mproved tracts of superior site und circumstances, which 
peer that such oley onee broken up would naturally deterio- would pay better. The length of lease, no doubt, entered into 
— 8 told some years ago by 5 farmers, ne 1 pt as ee ak paras. gd then, | They averaged on their sale, 21/. 6s. gag the oat 
A 4 ort of land, w i what leng ease Wo r enan improve 
or 15 inches o , with’ a V uch lands upon? Next, would the Government drainage — 1704. 10s. 4d. Mr. Karkeek went on — 
* nds” of this kind cae: was the 
heavy crops at the fi i ; — ey, advanced to the tenant at 64 per cent., with a long that in using compounds’ z 
would never crop well again. 8 whole Pe eS of lease, be adequate encouragement for him These sone fair | additional advantage of being enabled to consume profi- 
N cit soils went to disprove this noton. Hs had questions, still, as he remarked before, the main question was tably on the farm, a large quantity of offal corn which 
in} uld landlord hi orced 
= usion, Mr. esers. Davey had 
a s qui approved n growing their own age on some of the land — 
Had the land ot worte a 3 orked as the present, Tut rice a that th tenant -3 oe reclaimed by them from St. es common. e 
„ ut? Quite the y Agu 
ataie his last crops were his Bg e tea 238 had | should take an enlarged and = al vie iew 3 the * meet pere ſour and put into Linseed and Clover in a. 
his ly deepened and improved. Again, with other parts of each other half way, and go heartily together in the accom- 80 a tbat of 
rlands, which lishment of improvement so beneficial to themselyes, and to last, The crop of Flax was a fair average, | 
was, after draining and di 8 p pe 8 the community, wherever there was a reasonable prospect of | Clover was t. But, leaving wing of Flax 
in his second course of cropping and obtaining better 2 such obviou 5 as had been referred to altogether out of the question (althou there could be 
ies than he did on his first going over the le ground. | “h at mene AT. a, WOE O i no doubt that it might be profitably cultivated, since it 
reat » how does this happen! How ‘6 this brought a und indi us in the county), th x 
‘Same fost the matter thus: The old ae b y en 1 A 8 k 
i into the district was, after liming, to aud Farm Memoranda. a question of the e eee e ee a 
vatil the black — 5 le di it would grow white erop, and TYWARNHAYLE, NEAR ReDRUTH.—The following ac- un eee of -bent 5 
a pound, was rendered one 1 — toa count of this farm was given by Mr. Karkeek, at the nee by . asi == county, or by 
mixed with n theplough brought up t be cold, inert, red subsoilto be | late annual meeting of the Cornwall pe So- importing it, for e , ormed into 
the black matter, the till mixture overcame or | gj st ina with some of the farmers’ home productions, 
poisoned an any little remainin fertility in th the su nor which | ety- Mr. Karkeek stated that Mr. Trethewy, Mr. 
then refused to yield further white crops ; 1 ud was Tresawna, and himself, went out to Messrs. Davey's — 
rn out,’ and left to grow or to graze as it best | farm, for the purpose of seeing the method of feeding Rebiews. 
ent of human ingratitude. How, under such | cattle lately introduced there. The farm was taken in 
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lands be es ex 3 N e anes, ST pipri by the Messrs. Davey, but a few years since from the Pi pae : Pei By f. D, Ri 17 and ayes —— 
— ge Mai whet course do I follow, and how do I get such | common at Tywarnhayle. T plan consists in feeding 71 5 y H. 
es My e Mag hp bp nad grain, green crops, and | cattle in loose boxes, on a compound of Linseed and , ice the watessl tues 
from 60 to 70 bolis per aer 0 3 3 meen Rye meal, prepared as follows :—23 Ibs. of erushed | T his is a cheap edie oa volume, ving th re rs 4 
deb or trench-plough for a Potat P.: beds. “fn Linseed is gradually mixed with 21 gallons of boiling | of the hog, describing its ome es in the domesticat 
wen Ergin = > some of — bet red arg to mix in ater in ; after which, 84 Ibs. of Rye meal | state, ree g its —.— x pia —— bre — g and seni 
and the black earth and lime, = fal * an handful of salt is added; the mixture, having er A er on the asea 
3 red soll, D Poena a good cro af 28 Ber or been well stirred, is in moulds, formi i hich the animalis subject. W tract Howing 
¢ lime and atmosphere, becomes itse sel? a valuable and fer. 7 Ibs. The quantities of ingredi above men- from the chapter on feeding and general mana : 
and aie a out euch a system of management | tioned will make 36 cak be manu- who pig - . sines 2 
77CCC00000ꝙV0ß0ß0C000000b |facturod by a man and ewo girls in abont 
were better in the se nd goi One of these cakes, with J ewt. of Swe urnips and enable provide ir marnte- 
Ae a ie of my sown out Grasses to lie out bo graze for | bushel of straw and hay chaff (whieh last is also mixed | nance and fattening from the produce of their cops. 
the prosent momen they are fresh, 75 = the aal clean, and good a Linseed padig , is give an ox in six meals They erefore, es iy — there is now a 
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provine wa care noo op geared a ashe ite = Mae day. ethod of p opari the * and | general failure of the Potato crop, crop with Beane 
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ent py a tenant ? i Rotch's reply upon this fe] — 18 by eee 12 lus. of bruised Licseed in nes Barley, Buekwheat, Flax, Parinipe, Lane Cab 
