THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
26—1848.] 
the bird is of a 
and the whole colouring of 
Tho ben, om the contrary, is is much lighter 
mon sort, with a tend 
er. 
The records of 5 introduction of the te Pew -fowl 
into Europe are satisfactory; n with 
s0 
has given to 
Sir Robert ro quoted in the “ Penny Cyclopedia? 
states, “The japanned breed are, I rar Bs a variety 
iginating in England. In Lord whlow’s 
numerous breed of common, . — and pied, the 
egg suddenly, in my memor, 
them 
y 
cases to the extinction of the | 
previous! ting (Zool. Proc., 1835.) Thi 
would appear E eonelusive ‘did we not know the misad- 
ventures that have to be encountered by an 
im 
For instance, at the time w 
being introduced from China a 
pense, the first known specimen AE ning 
variety, a novelty then, though n Pe discarded n 
t in Covent-garden market for 6d. ; sie the 
. ocellated turkey, — fone of the Paris 
ter surviving the voyage from the West 
killed on the Th 
to admire it. Here is one tatia of its transmissi 
to us: 
“Aeyéra de ó rads èr Gag ENA kopio- 
Kal xpévou eee 
a 
Gra TOAND- CTAvios- fag nie €elxvuro Tov |* 
arp T Tos ——— a = Abhvnoi ye rats 
vovunviais ébéxovro kal & aas lr 
inferior, and her — more eae 
ered of |’ 
d 
ave existed human eyes b 
a 
and or Clover; 
= added: to. make it easily. 
ows is all steamed, by which it is found 
— y and quality o 
churn, of with — 
manufacture 2 a to ‘short 
trial or 
‘the oceasion — 
ace 
11 
5 
117 
bled 
-women, after handling kaa butter. 
ding it firm and — in quality, declared i 
be ee before — 
w that in many counti 
bull calves; one 
a perfect picture, They get oilcake as soo 
to 
are not only full — at a period 
„when coarser bred ani: are still in all the shapeless- 
tock—the Arab. 
Apropos of bulls, at the 
T 
one-third of ee 
The — — the nures 
‘ns fer a most importan 
by mechani 
— > stock were seme splendid si short:homn tiliser in gardens, greenh 
of the late 
as guano. 
If this pre Es to be rie, ys 
rtant benefi 
that this boomer — been found a v 
the G 
me ns along one 
of the most important —— 8 
mpo 
s | What I will call the“ manure y, with per 
|| fect ease, be mixed — — and drilled ‘within 
the ey ee te process. e cost o 
— or from the — to the 
to a minimum, while London, 
otting Lineoln, 
ing in a perfectly inoffensive state 
the r 
growing the crops they consume, If ii as 
to he best 
neas all 8 had dropped 
of the French | cease 
as 
reeder. 
e of -= Spencer’s short- horn stock, Mr. orr 
o farming buy t 
. * 
— 
answer lien the seeret of ou sue ecesses. There ted to |p 
be a proverb, cc In 8 1 22 
was made of the — — as — says ie nid 
speech Eristratus, the male and femal 
valued at 1000 drachme: 2— i 
In this country the people execute —— what | b 
fo 
reign g 
re e had. the bape * a Government Agricultural 
drachma at Ad. is 311. 58. = —— — aae 
Buch as the ocellated turkey, = . deni Fg ands ‘cd 
Pee ip oi would fetch now in England, at the first 
nc ging. 
The in this account is that the 
Se exhibited, like the 
rfi 
e doors, and whether the pictorial sg see 
hung outside at all rival = the brilliant display n 
made by Mr. Wombwell 
LETTERS ON RAILWAYS AND AGRICULTURE, 
IN. LINCOLNSHIRE,—No. VI. 
agriculture has d 
B . has not done so, although the em- 
one implement ma pense with t 
vices of one particular elass of men. Mr. Torr 
of s 
1 e With as much industry and care aso on a eres 
e 
bacon ; — practical informatio 
of manures 
Rey. G. 
ture in 
our agricul. | 
attention are compost she — a cemented 
pit, ra. in, with walls on three sides. In th 
kind hed manure may be economically 
£ 
45 fahe 
mixe d — time to time a bag of guano, to promote 
de ta aie fer 
the is very soon onverted into a highly exeiting 
compost, weet fil Arr hi nway either ooh 
ing of 
manu- | I 
creme with the aid of liquid manure | ba: 
the rates for manures contained in Wake: will 
888 letter 
preparing a Series 
— — 
farm road, leading into 
ormed of six sheds, with each a separate yard faci 
her won th, all r ge into the large farm-yard, so that 
each shed entered separately. In many estab- 
ste, is ver cee 
—— with each 
mixed, — — "eae cart — 
t one 
other a place for manu manure. 
—— — ae barn, so- 
e that the straw can be most conveniently carried 
t to the feeding sheds by one 222 which is — ead 
n from the threshing-machine by the x 
rn, W 
kaam orto be crop or 
d be ready to er eit. e 
88 going on, guano, most 
imported fertilisers, is reser to * its own pecu- 
tia properties to an incalculable ount. 
introd 
of e 
the centre being free for the thres 
Y, which occupies one side of the ‘barn, 
hing machinery and 
n | the other side In Seotland it 
machine, lies in in the Power 
to market, as 
‘want of i labour — — — 4 
1 a — ag have remained perfectly sweet 
The great advantage of the steam threshing- 
it affords of manufacturing 
3 1 opposite t be 
n the manu 
is contained in a reeently published x work, 
“The Parson, the Pen, and the Pen whic the | 
ve * a minute — of agricul 
mani from 
ar 
ttached to 
S, in which the married labourers live, I saw 
mber o of eottages are at 
ber ie men livin 
è ing in these cottages 
b K ges, p 
fi very 
town a sen priy i — e 
Isby were not completed, but 1 
idea resembles the dairy farm, 
n 
— as well — 
3 there n 
e 72 But 1 “Bet Tg ar midh wil e. 
f thei horses | interest 2 22 8 
re has been con 
N difficulties ne 5 tig s mr 
decomposing mass o 
are difficulties in i load ing an 
companies can only take charge of such e eee 
by reserving trucks for the service. There 
seldom been sufficient 
ee canta 
e ine. t-soil. There rangements 
d unloading, and railway | labour 
