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444 THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [Jury 1, 
the iera ot seed iso regret so equable climate of Eg and that excessive humidity, | either of brick or stone, ons la i 
eT strument bys which ie o deposit a certa certain | and those frequent variations 80 8 to young poultr y, | roofs and must be heated by cast ir 25 . = 
quantity of ol, ry certain dept e- | are as — of o ete be a sufficient ceilings and walls must be finished with Roman . 
eee be not been invented. "But 23 last answer to these queries. go opal ositive informa- | in Aet to keep the houses free fr m vermin, wha 
„led, I believe, ose e, Dr. | tion, I would refer your corr en to the let edition are apt to g 8 when heat is em ved]; ea à fie 
Newington, wrote to me to say that he had invented | of Sir oe Wilkinson’s “ Topograp bes,” in to bs divi ded in 15 rtments, the first for ata 
such an ins uired. Upon this I deter- which, at p. 248, the e Egyptian we — z eae | eggs is and r second reediny A 
ined to give it a trial; but I had no land fit for deseribed, illustrated by a plan 249 the third for ducks, the fourth for 8 
Wheat, but een wheated two former | he says 4e Exce e heat or — 7 are Saat preju- furnace is to be built at one end, with a steam boit 
crops ; 10 to wheat it again, then, = be the third time. | dicial * this process and the only season of the year | hold 50 0 gallons of water, which will heata house 
Bat, after reflecting on it, I determined to do so; and, at which they ucda is from 5th sheer | 80 feet in leng he first two partments tena 
ingly, I replied to ee t say that Essex | (23d Feb.) to Jöth Bacamordeh (24th April), beyond have the steam pipes passed throug both rooms, at the 
should have the honour of introducing his instrument, | which time they can scarcely reckon upon more than bottom of the walls, for hatching chic d toe 
and that it should be done on my land, though for the | two or three in hun I ham not one of those, if eggs, and they must pass once round the other tyy 
third time Whe. I also requested him to have the | such there are, who think a farmer can realise uch, rooms, duc id: geese requiring less heat. 
instrument so made as to dibble but exactly 1 peck of |as a general rule, by the old-fashioned barn-door fowl, | boiler must also be so constructed as to steam P. | 
seed Wheat per acre, and this having d but if, as stated in the Agricultural 88 of p Parsnips, Carrots, and herbs, which when cooked and. 
between us, I endeavoured also to find out a drill which | 9th of May last, fowls — 2} lbs. each, at 96 mixed with milk, Barley, Oats or Peas, meal d 
would deposit exactly the mune quantity of se o a8 | old, can be reared by Mr. Cantelo’s proces at an Ae produ chickens other poultry, Ty 
to give each a fair trial; in this, as every farmer | of 10d., the xperiment is: worth trying. Corn might make the hens lay all through the winter, mix A 
must know, I had vey great rnare but. at -length a | thus literally be sent arket as profitably, and as oyster shells and slate, or decomposed schistus with 
ner, w lets out a drill, told me that he would independently of the corn merchant and miller, on two their f. the lime in the oyster shells is necessary ty 
pes to effect what I W „ and drill but 1 peck an acre. legs, as, according to echi’s receipt at North | form the shells of the eggs, and the slate improves the 
Accordingly, he brought his drill la d I| Walsham, on four. If of yo orresp quality and fl „Ih rag hens are found lay better 
him to set the ters 12 inches a we | adopt Mr. Cantelo’s system, it is to be hoped that, taking | flavoured s whic bred on soils formed fron 
s with clay, and set 1 work, | into consideration the present arket price of corn, | decomposed schistus or 1 nite. By persevering 
and I left the field immediately after for the whole day. y will give the public the result of their experiments. | the above plan, a sufficient quantity of ore thts 
At night my 8 Sie e th ntity of | — of the Royal Agricullural Society, June 19. be Sheen to e ly London a 1 
x of l peck an acre, which} p Figures.—As a subscriber to your Paper, 
a litle disappointed both nd myself, but, as the which I take in for information and knowledge, it is of 
quantity approached towards rationality, I could not the utmost importance your reports of facts, as 
com is was done early in er, and at related at divers societies’ meetings, should be correct, 
the e of that month the dibb er ht to me particularly as reg rds res of the 
by my friend, and my man dibbled the remainder of the English Agricultural Chemistry Association of 10th 
field, except a small plot, at exactly ck an acre, and | June last, v. Huxtabl ted to have 
in the le of Dece had the small plot dibbled said, that a manure, known as the refuse of seal ski 
by hand only, without a machine, at the rate of 5 quarts | was put on the railway for him at 1 ton. As I | owin 
. observe, also, that one part of my field Jas am in the habit of buying this manure, and am cha arged | lar 
d, and the other part had not been dressed since y one who, I a sume, is a respectable tradesman in 
1845. Such, then, are the facts as to the se my the Borough, J. per ton, and —— I understand, pay 
for the third time in succession with Wheat, the | the same, I felt astonished at the price reported in| s 
th minimun 5 tity of seed being 1} peck an acre, and your paper of Mr. Huxtable’s 5 y Is ita mis- 
y um 5 quarts. take or misprint r can yo orm m Wers this 
d w hat havo Jeen 95. ee Of the "ere! | ma ba. e purchased lor 18s. pe ave 
È erop is now before noticed in your reports of the same nature, when 
interestingly bea aye Of that dibbled by Dr. een gures ar N an pt facts which I could 
paye eap pond the whole of i it came up a eauti- i 
ake, and in statements where figures are most essen- 
tial to be eorrect.— C. W. 
Tenant Right, Gast wish m express my thanks to 
three writers in your 4 
not a sensible gentlem: give his name and 
„and thus add more weight to his communica 
tions, I I Iso an articl 
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= | business be properly attended; Mr. 
m | book, published 
nts’ r n, and J | states that eg poultry e 
am sure the latter are the more mi ous evo- | old for 3d with bought ‘0a, r rot i 
luti All the lawyers in England could not draw it they ave “the run of a yard; and t 
up a tenants’ lease that could be a ans 1 believ 
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take a one e-sided view of the 
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chickens can vie cheaply and profitably e u 
e Mr. ’Cantelo’s 99 85 ments, 
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oe a which I assisted him to inako are per 
would be bound b it, as the tenant e uld, a ime, that point, and on almost every other; it is no 
where it was his interest to do 80, evade it, and, if requi- | tryin from him the plume that he was 
site, break, & without effects ;” he coul always come upon | first to discover the blood heat of the feathered tr 
the estate of his landlord, though his landord, even when | be 106 he nearest statement I have seen to 
is — cwas s entirely ruined, could obtain no compen- found th er day in “the Li 
sation f. re my opinions, | ledge,” published by Baldwin and Cra 
and if any 85 wyer can prove Pista to be wrong, I wish | Animal Physiology, page 53 ; it i 
e would do so. I will n a mem of any agri- heat of ducks is 107°, and that 103° is e 
cultural club where te rights are adyocated, any | to apply in hatching out chickens ; the precise 
e than I would bea Chartist bird writer is of the t vi 
rity. 10 
ded sely the same subject as “ Falcon,” has add essed to and | eggs in a retired shady place, pressing 
prised ore a board of guardi the s of last | hot and covering them fro: 1 Y eto; 
‘ef 2: year, Itisrathersingular also that “ Faleon” and I should atmosphere with her et which are non - c be 
ugean = e both gone s ly * t that we have | they act as a screen—if cold, for e helion, o 
from the la „and Mr. e may convince himself by obtaining a co y of the r | shade, and hence the tem e ; 
lect that he him ane to eae ¥ laid before the board ia q f course, he must | on a spot on the top of the eggs, and 10 170 was 
army of Lee, but that he write for the name of the union, arag I shall be | space around them generally ak from the 
and left the place in a much more {thy — ee e happy to give him if he would like to know it. I wish and in this is to be seen the great merit of the byar 
nd it; surely, therefore, he ean Mr. Mechi “ Faleon ” would also give us his 8 . iad is mis- | incubator, which 5 iaa t 
valiant Re n as he is, if he failed George | Called stall. ſeeding of cattle ; which he knows is a n s is quite correct, 20 times 24 hours 1g 
ag hid 27 | plan of aps. cattl da ey sunken in the earth | precise time to r e 3 yes 85 i er, f 
I need scarce] | eane re tree or ſour times ina year, | 20 i s 360, are k i 
and pro ope T need s a ts AD 88 f . If “ef Falcon” would write down this nasty e ngeon W ‘beyond a . doubt, that the 
ad of one. I adii 20 yay I earnestly hope, every and modern abominatio would confer an additional | hatch 0 8 broo a year, and ee. 
; i who is the least sceptical as to the ieee neee U Gols irrational, as well as to his en 2 to believe that “with properly hea 
: , will nd see iimself ; | atures. —George Wi very large proportion of them can be alen, 
1 an Poultry. — —The es method of rearing | reared ; the e greatest expence will be in 0 
2] aud: feeding Se says Mr. Charles Whitlaw, I the highest prices will be obtained in the spring, 
had from a Captain Dunn. “He had received some | for it,— W, liged to 
hin froma the 3 and likewise imported all the _ Probabilities of ‘the Weather.—I am ob 
ere kinds of “ag he could ge m that and other Praga _— Observer” for calling geen 
2 s, in order to improve nd cross the ed. he con e in in the op 
ter man 8 nee, he found that the breed 
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