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Humber, — and, extending across arrow, proceed to- wool — ee aa 3 follow — railways | to the ere gave one ton of manure, and one ton of 
ward the south, leaving Market Rasen < on the edge of | a e i uilding stone, | straw, near ten of ure. 
the ney boundary, and Louth on the eastern extre- — “There is — reason oe ive why the} Im may mention à kind of farming in practice in the 
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mity, and rolli 1 e br adth until — colonial produce, wine, and spirits consumed within a west of Scotland which is found — 
near Spilsby oe sight = "the Fens. One part | paying railway distance should not enter the county by well for both landlord and tenant. It is for a dairy 
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stem commences at Barton, — arm. The propr cows 
pie a atte eeedi New Ho mand, the priee to the dealer and consumer. If this be so, time buildings, and all dairy utensils, with food for the cows. 
nly will b l foll summ winter. much for each 
„in — — of more ons 
If the number of ships b: — cargoes continu 
2 proportion to the extended lengths of rail- 
ings ; he will probably bu y éry An — food from 
proprietor, who stipulates that he is to get the dun = 
l This system — 5 to be extende 
ith t it is of great benefit to a poor class of tenants, — 
until it — RPE Spilsby, where it bends toward the | ing in ms conveyance of grain to Tastes and the deep | never thrive on a regular farm, but on this are 
west across the tail of the Wolds, to avoid the Fens. 
The fish caught ip deep sea fishing off Grimsby emt 
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which the prineipal corn trade has hitherto gacl asm I anticipate, the combination of railway communication | the —_— working well, as each fara tomeg 9 —— 
i ivi and perfect dock accommodation, with indefeasible local | to manage which he will do best. The following are 
1 — restore Great Grimsby to its ancient pre- some calculations on cattle and dung. 
eminence as a port and populous town, the North Lin- To 20 stots at 71. 10s... 2 Os. Cd. 
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Ten acres of Turnips at 10... 100 0 
1500 stone vot'm eadow hay atid 25 0 0 10 
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with = Ss Liverpool, and all the Cheshire and whtoh will ensure health and profit from me * the 
re cotton distriets. | London lay-stalls only breeds death and disease. We 
Thus it t will be seen that while the clay land and shall see the time when even the refuse fish weeded 
and pasture o a orth a has he from tons sent daily to the metropolitan and midland |, 
benefit of one line of railway, the norihern Wolds are | counties, will be regularly transferred for manuring 
Tossed at either — — ae n by the junc- | corn land or garden ground. A communication with 
tion of two lines running parallel to each other for a — clothing factories of Yorkshire will bring down 
considerable distance, not more than 15 to 20 miles woollen rags, vulgarly called shoddy, one of the best 
apart. Many of the Wold farmers would have been glad — for Wheat. 
to obtain a line from Market Rasen, which following I hope I have said eno ugh to draw attention to an 
the present —— through Caistor, and ereeping experiment which, although it has often been tried 
along a gorge in the hilly ridge should have so de- before with eminent success, has never before been 
seended to 3 Grimsby, thus affording access to pas- tried on a district where it will be so easy to watch 
ture | a more — line for their grain. | the effects of ample . railway communication. 
* big tons of dung at E s. d. The above 10 acres in £ 3. d. 
6 62 10 0 —.— sold at 18%, 
To driving 130 ca 5 per acre . . . ina í o 
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24 miles, at 5s. per 
aa and tolls ...... 55 0 0 
Leaving a balance of 107 10 0 
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there k no traffic to es; aran such an undertaking | I have been minute in deseribir rg the —.— con- 
at present, although at some future period it is possible | n * in order that in ten yout’ time any one who has take a full ton ; as Potea take part of thie 1 load at at 
a -road over that course, worked by horse power, ( rea himself pee least direct to the field, aa. would have rt from 
for coal and farm produce, might be made a useful | railways have done for North Lincolnshire. the dungheap in the other case, the charge ist — high. 
colnshire lines will provide: x |to be expended in October returna j 
1. An iparok odk „,, OO conte fron p. 1083 D NUN ~~ Tto Joss from death or accident, in March, whereas’ for 
principal towns and centres of population lying on both] Cnemicar preparations a acknowledged to be | dung it is not paid out till after the article is got, and a 
sides of the Wolds, between the Humber, Spilsby, and | valuable assistants ; but far yard dung is the main | month’s credit „ In my o dung can be 
Lin f rai i support of the wa ; as doubts hana been thrown on the bought at 4s. 6d., and Potatoes sold as high as 25/. per 
vithin carting distance for all the farms lying within a — value of dung, p i 
circle of which these lines may form a centre—a won- —— substances, I — red to Johnston’s lectures, | © 
derful change to the many accustomed to nothing better | who states that in — the effect of the same 
road conveyance. — = sx tances before mastication and after, the | tage. Pro 
2. A direct — — with the metropolis for | weight of dry dung oes 25 eee less than the | to have sufficient s 
the district commencing xe — = Erara g Great — of dry food eaten; but vegetable matter is supply the winter, at least, use 
rimsby in — unbroken line to r by way of sensibly active as meen ter it 
Lincoln and the main line of | the —.— Rosier when — — body of the animal, than if applied to the be oom together with the stable dung, and 
that is completed. land in a — d state. In e auimalised, a 
A direct — by means of the Midland, . substances undergo certain changes. The | able dung-heap, which can be? added to by purchase of 
Lancashire, and Yorkshire, on — —.— the Great lungs and skin give off carbon, leaving the solid exere- dung, by giving Potato nd the 
2 Railways, with the manufacturing districts of tions richer in nitrogen and saline 3 it whieh | cotters, or on 
Yorkshire, n 
4. A — * — communication with Lincoln, thee erude om. The: state of combination which | pita py © is in a bee district may sell the greater 
m, rby. g in the excre rial pro 
5. The means of — exports and . fe effet The q ity of — ung = gent on the on the tansi 4 to the soil a allowance of the — 
buting — imports of Great Cue, — lines — 2 | fo use of oilea du their ¢ 
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Thus — Lincolnshire will snaps mind — at one for which the animal is fed has — — 
and the moment complete communication with | cow, for i instance, appropriates m f the food * ‘given 
every railway i in the kingdom. It will be interesting | than an animal which has not such | a deman nd upon its Home Correspondence. 
ànd instructive to watch the effect of this new power | system. The manner in which the ij Unnatural and Injurious Ovër- feeding of Breeding 
conferred on a county hitherto flourishing in spite of materially alters the: vale ue as a manure ; dung rapidly | Animals.—At very many of the meetings and 
duc insufficient means for the conveyance of its loses weight by tn exposed ; the moisture evaporates, | ings of the i vice-presidents, and members of 
— to the best markets. Up to the present time Hull | the volatile matter escapes by ferm ion, rain and | council, as well as at the and country 
been the port both of i and export for North | wind deprive it it of | its most valuable — ip = meetings of the Royal Agi iltural 9 and, in 
Lincolnshire; but as the loca position of Hull is very | time the straw is half rotted the loss amounts to o short, a at most agricultural societies, you 
erior to that of Great Grimsby, and as the artificial | fourth the bu bulk ; if left long, little more than the weig bj ; it most gly 
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— only in the 24), there can be no question that on Be judged of ; for — found to contain all — — pis of breeding. In the face of these instru 
— of the railroads, incolnshire and mid- | gredients of the best dung. This suggests the propriety | what is the general result! Why, that pane yu 
Great Grin trade of Hull must be transferred to | of saving it, and pumping it over heaps of vegetable meeting after meeting, the premiums are still ph to- 
Grimsby, while the trade of Hull itself, which is | matter. The quantity of fresh dung to be obtained | a most unnatural and (to “gre g stock) very injurious 
— the ie or v be st stimulated and increased. It is from a given amount of food is said a e anug. : Fat is 1 -A carry + Baie 
pinion some agriculturists of t sagacity that | weight of food, and the straw spread out; tha palm whenever p in —— ition against rati 
— free trade will induce — skili ＋ a up | to — for every 10 ewt. of dry fodder and bedding | and fitly fed animals of every class and description, and 
eg: of kinds of grain, and confine them- “ce a 20 to 23 eur of fresh dung may — that are in a natural and much safer condition for 
to Wheat, and feeding cattle largely in stalls on ted upon; but if Turnips or green food are | breeding, both as regards themselves as well as their 
water, less io de almost i eable— 
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grain from the Continent, of dry dung. Six co 5 : li stock, a 
— bones, cake, and other foreign — wns d gire about 1300 lbs, of fresh — R was in neon p the premiums, take into 
eae £ German | stated in your Paper that 1 ton of Swedes, according | aptness 3 
