| fais) THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. : 243 
an honest neighbour ae 2 will insure; have been accustomed to the continuous presence of 
progeny, by preven ng pairing with those | their lords, if sudden! nn rived of them by death ; a we 
* kindred, which serves to account for the | otherwise, would — pan 2 ly lay > — dim or E. L 22 — fie 22 11 U rg oe 
d i 
ill-bred cattle, as 
origin of stunted, ultry. | dat 
Tah ge ve 1 8 state, gp is peculiarly likely to | € 
where though 
ocks are small ; ugh where 
08 
case of ose for e the pro 
tions would not be worth so much as a sove reign, 
eggs, and vice versa, 1 had a most beautifu 
m r x r 8 
occurs, The effect of ee “in and in,” as it the entire hatch, not distinguishable from young part- 
is called, is well to do rei $ n the | ridges, turned out to be cocks, not a hen amon; them, 
ce near 8 
— ise 
whereas a King Cha rles’s spaniel puppy, out of distant chicks and pouletg, is — by the eee 
and di istinct vat with the í “ points, t might be e worth lation of small white worms, adherin ost perti- 
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and improp 
of some of — breeds, and caused the utter extinction 
of others, whi 
The like ma said of many of our breeds of cattle | been guilty o misnomer, onfounding it with “the 
and of poultry. The same law of nature which operates Pip: or . a distinet disorder in which gaping is also | a 
Ice is mo ost 
naciously to the whole passage down pa eran gota pro 
ossings o of them, have spoilt the purity ducing in time irritation to so high a degre co as to reach 
the lungs, and very soon cause death. 
now are only to be seen in old paintings. | of opinion has long existed pita it. eriin have | i 
The house is the chief customer omer of the farm, and we 
Ser m manager 
duce to market. Tin this system was 
y impure cro; f his | carried all the pro 
reed), goldeu-spangled cock, er gere killed early established, I never knew or could make out 
gs d rn un 
of eggs for Bears stoc k, 5 also eee. us hal the is pie ape its turn often wade as a misn or disease | much ; Mangold Wurzel, 30 tons per acre; (a smal 
selection of “ rooster: ” an inv iy of the oil-gland in cage birds. But when oceasioned b y patch on which sts had 1 
mre fastidious delicacy, toka O n | the adhesion of worms in the windpipe, rather peculiar | ago sy ag last er rod = 56 tons 
usual word fi fod ale of our domestic ne treatment is necessary. ac e following abstract shows the expenses and 
fowl—alwa hy er toga of the like breed reared | The cause is the use of filt thy sour 5 og drinking money pro a of the two last years, and the 3 
elsewhere K some neighbour, rather than those from from dirty puddle 5 1 ith putrid decaying | of stock on the 3 Ist of 3 of each yea 
oon in order that the families may be distinct der e ces. The sym . 9 9 an Ee. ao 
dis neezing, dullness kod Went ruffled feathers and Labour + 4135 13 10 | £150 2 0 
Much yet r to be said upon this wr nya hey 55 of appetite. Livestock . <2 380 0 4.2 9 
41 important topic—generally unknown to or u The cure, although requiring sometimes a little — n 4 n x t 1 * x 
heeded by breeders of poultry, who are — intent momen is by no means difficult, yet it d not be Sorda a and grains 16 8 6 15 5 5 
upon the production of quantity than of quality, and | attempted at sgh nor without instruction, and a know- Sundries . es 17 0 Of 22 16 8 
WhO — —.— with practice. But a ver — of the parts to be acted on. A few grains of salt entand rates 16 0 0 sr ve 
little , if any, given to the production | placed gently into the entrance of the windpipe, occa- Totals s. . £410 £410 16 9} £437 19 2 
of ely ell. ve —— y, would soon return a four- | sionally, at the moment it opens and before it agai ening 
fold harvest, and this country would then become more closes, on the point of a feath r, has sometimes suc- Dalry iss | s ej ** 3 * 
than any other for its different sorts of poultry, | ceeded a mmencement of the attack. A corre- ania Bog d eggs "si aa — 7 — 2 11 
as it is for cattle; or as ities, such as spondent has suggested a minute drop of spirit of „ 88 11 9 
olk etage for turkeys ; Surrey and Sussex | turpentine for the same rice. But the most effec- Hay and straw... +. 5413 7 2 
for capons, and fowls of the Dorki ing breed. But the tual remedy is that mentioned by two correspondents E. A, ee 2 3 
supply of these not being qual to one-thir the de- in Number 16, April 19, 1846, p. 266, and Number 29, Totals .. .. £454 8 5} | £428 3 5 
d of our markets, they are cousequently glutted July 18, 1846, p. 439 of your Paper. I had previously a 5 
with foreign productions, which keep down prices, and | met with it in an American periodical, “ The Albany ook FL Dec we £0 „ 
vent our own bre rom meeting with that en. | Cultivator,” ca performed too by only on The live 5 5 ee year ste e consists of fire 
nt which remunerative prices always afford. | dexterous person, who sy. 03 pi secure, under | Milk cows, two or three heife Sows with their gro- 
If remunerating rewards a es 0 to left arm, so as to p ment or fluttering N fatted. ,agood stock of poultry, and two cart horses. 
the D 
ffered ent fi 
cottagers for the largest capons aud best reared poultry, | of the w 4 2 Rat with the fring and thumb of t 
e cows and he eifers have been fed 
or if poultry shows could be established in every district, | same left h on. Wurzel boiled in a 30 pper, the 
like cattle ows, iption of | out ina a dines tion to the light, so: as to catch a clear view | liquor and roots being poured into a large tub on chaff, 
poultry would become improved, and great profits would | of the 8 anil closing a ain of the windpipe 1 8 85 made in the proportion of one truss of a 
made by our cottagers, farmers, an eders, now | ing with the right hand, quickly inserting the point of | truss of straw, worked inte ether, and supp. 0 
out of the country by foreign dealers, to whom we | the — about 2 inches (or soft straw) at warm meals to the animals h this treatment (the 
are obliged to look for our present requi dipped in sweet oil. A vermifuge will be equally effi. | cheapest we have hitherto proved) the cows have thri 
cle bearing on this subject, evidently filched | cacious, in the su joined form. Give for a few morn- | to admiration. It will be s t paid for 
from some a paper, was ied the Inver. na ac- | My land is ex ve. an = eve vend 
be a reasonable profit from 
j ings early, about a quarter or half a ioe 
ness Courier into your Tapan No. 51, Dec. * 1847, | cording to the size and strength of the bird, of 
c 
p. 845, 4 Temske hens lay all the w inter ; * also 
d points, and some which require notice. In the | half 
As Lobjeet to the rule laid do own, “Keep no roosters.” | of Barley (or other food), to be given early in the 
n is giv ‘the recommendation. 8 being sufficient for 20 chicks (more for mag a 
). Absorption of the spirit taking place by 
e concern ; 
itself for some years past, and if farmed — ee 
he could not complain. — Suburban, Teddington. 
e Correspondence. 
Hom 
Highland aye Cotter System—I cannot but admire 
the feelings that dictated your een of the IIth ult., 
still deve =a allow me to animadvert a little on it, and 
y 
Winter, when not moulting, until tbe last old feather 5 
drops from the tail, and the cocks are never absent. destroyed by imbibing 5 Moubray assumes that there 
= van the ada could no P. S. y “observ appear to be at varian 
“OCKS at one a ai same time, as 1 wild sn with the — of your correspondent * E. S. Dixon, Grin. 
: of ši . sce for which I am not sorry, a ep te e load to 
ved, ers 
du unless ear y separated from late sorters: Rene do not nea A at and are everlasting apace. 
the of other erossin e breeds. | 
rder being 225 > means (nor can be) always ob- | and our 
1 : 
— se nothing is created in vain, a hybrid, eapable of re 
ys made | rigin can be giv 
ic state, The. advice, of fouls, ot ‘which 2 are now several very — Ar thine 
Som 
several 
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on the indiscriminate use made by yourself and by the 
3 society,” of the term Highland, when 
| peaking of ay population of the northern part of our 
e 
Whiter. 0 ntry aredi pou a car esignates 
1 moulting, pairing, laying ; some species | themselves to requirements they cannot obtain in con- | Mull of Kintyre to Cape Wrath, and the entire country 
g or the purpose of i ed places, i i i 
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a tract of country, and so wide-spread a popula- 
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one at appointed times, PE the artificial domestic | other disorders may be peculiar to confined situations | Now 
don ma: ultr, 
d pamper * : 
1 highly fed throughout the year enquire. —D. S. E., 4, Union-place, Lambeth, London. 
Bart ng seen the —— 
er nfo wl, "Tam warranted in beli believing, that although 
mules incapable of reproduction. 
—＋ nd the thou h perha 3 — occur. 
ph a n, tm to haps ver 4 
mbs and wattles— . or e at a of 
mae lay large eggs, ot 
These variations are 
acres (the aariaa sen for 3 —— 1 with 
Wm. Ki 2 | 
eggs,” it i Gy Sphe the fecun- orts) will produee but o ; 
0 ss it is by the aid of obtai — —— ved all new, why may wer the like . cen = | 
4 ö ee by fates aasi — . cr eel in—often 1 The Turk 
ers can arrive at true principles. | another inetance of the difficulty of origins.) April 3, 
PROFITS sn F FARMING. 
ur letter o of Forester on the profit of a =. 
arm in a jais aair, i der d to send you 
vee 
at 
l 
my in the onmo wags 
2 nc oval 
“whose means and modes of life, whose distrietal 
5 aay take 
in journeying through life,” 
by a from any one locality, must, to say the 
least of it, be partial and un But to set forth the 
general, us. It appears as if you had 
given Doctor aperusal of the “ Facts from Gweedore,” 
to which you allude in your Number of Ist January, 
Highland 
5 e its ecti in proper i ber o 
th respect to the i s. gs intelli- | When Hy Ses well known. — ut of many milions ' of seeds, | table-forks, feather-beds, chaff-beds, and shifts in the 
ing 80 istrict, as the teacher of 
