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E 9 ne SSS ee e e e ee eee enen a > hil di the horse thai h king doubl 
e He has ee Convinced, Aom prae” [and conver onechird lad Tess tu quanti and wages f| Calendar of Operations, 
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experience, of the superior D F 
tock wears am — rmed by a gen ntleman residing in the northern part of South Devon Farm, —. — ha 
use of the single-horse cart, for, — one ie outs; b e info, an this county that = usual loads of double and single horse week, succeeded in sta acking all our ror a — 
consi orse: 30 single | carts are as follow cut down a portion of our land Grass, Our 
joe a ae ‘three horses, oo mare ployed when — Single-horse e ortega Two single- now all sown, and those already up iodine tae Turnipg 
og ed n two double-horse carts. He is no — 1 atali carts. . moe — carts. Horses preparing the land for commen rnips and "i 
another farmer, that he finds a saving of one horse in three | Oats...... = bolls g bushels). 24 bol 48 6 bolls Mangold Wurzel, Which have been Evina singled with 
When employing the single-horse cart. Should I be able to | Barley... 1 i 30 „ | men and women. Also sowing common Turn nips in rage 
prove this to those who now employ two horses in a cart, that | Wheat... 12 35 15 a wh js with the 1 treatment as deseribed 1a a Previous 
one in three, or even one in four, can be gained by the use of Coal. 9 5 12 55 18 Swedes; * uS report 
‘the eingle-horse cart, I trust this may be deemed a sufficient | p the above table you will perceive that with single ente Soura Hakens d to July 8th.—Since our last 
inducement, by ‘those who have not yet adopted the single- f doing nearly or quite as much work as 9 has — to be very showery a 
Horse cart system to do so. Lightnes — s of N Be of —.— ens in gapen carts, that 10 ce y to * as * cr m $ 855 we g prg Ea ans 
E evident wh in the business of a farm eo is is more p. market 180 bolls of Oats, while +f Bate would me end; an 15 Tees — 2 weather i 10 always 8 onth. wm 
i horse — — (weighing from ss to 8 . with, th e | saving in favour of single e-horse ‘carts 1 in n enen — poin nt 8 eultur at ty r ah 5 ips, ee Grave dae 
same strength of dra — —— 3 can one | of view; and in harvest — 8 leve — in dry weather, ’ 8 
Ja the same length of tim me, an be done with the wane 8 single-horse harvest carts will convey into the stack- have been aue hay carting when the ores. Oue hona 
rt . — ed in this district (weighing | yard as much hay or corn in sheaf as 2 double-horse carts. at other times, w agi ney — uld not be e on the 
from 10 to 12 ewt.) ; and as the use of the pogle taue cart — irst, then, I shall — the one-horse Scotch cart, such they were at work with the N ne, and cen i 
uced to a very limited extent in this neighbour- as I employ on my farm; and next, the double-horse cart, | ™ Awad 1 ‘ boxes to the yar 
‘hood, Ishall, therefore, carefully endeavour to tera Jast esti- | commonly used in this district. And I shall attempt to point — — thea y, in pot for the W 
mate of the eee peo — —— from the use of the — out some of their relative merits, advan es, and disa 7 ave 8 een harrowing and collecting the 
compare: t. onstruction. gh single-horse cart, 5 ic 
Practice and opinion a — in assigning a Beaten pow yer — — ines — viz., the coup or tilt and, dorm | where the Vetch 33 been fed off by sheep. 
of — to one horse working “singly than to any number | whole-bodied cart. The ong-horse coup or tilt me Wy) Revers: pa 8 our last report, an 
‘harnessed together; for in 3 w the er 7 which | of the et. ae its que ôr amek g= 8 5 oF — to | few acres now a meat o be sown. 
are removed from their * paren which the shafts are j by of cc rod that | horses have been busy preparing land 
This loss ma be accounted for i in n three w nce | passes — the Wiser we She! ends e shafts. The stat or Sy hear se &c., which we do in the 
Sante be acted upon ; horizontal ine of draught shafts mee are to the bo: ae by means - the — at the front dh aring Ek ie fine by oe in my we a 
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‘from the object 
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and 8 pulling—for no one will dispute fact that ond of t which fast s the body to the slot-sheath or rafter Pioch it, t 
ou can bring your horse to the poin nt fro en whio h he | cross 8 joining the sh afts. The si ide “boards, Ty top — n collect and ca rt oft the we Grass ; a 
draws, — power he will exert es it; that is to at are fitted si 80 XE to take off at pleasure, as requi On wi tiy and work fine, and collect erates as before. We 
when he is at once attached to the body to be moved ; ; bee: rawing th — the front end of the cart, te fore e part =" ede 7 Sik ed the land to that of de ep ploughings, for dem 
-every exertion he makes is at once e communicated to the premna 8 body the shafts, while the end sinks, ing the land previous to the final ploughing or seed earth, Or 
and therefore the horse produces effect, because his force and 80. allows the Toad K be deposited on ia oi he | odd ho 855 — have deen horse. hoeing. 9 = and also 
is applied immediately to the 88 Again, in a horse pri 1 have described is 10% os. aye the | Turnips, which we do in Pov following — the first 
in a horizontal position at slow paces, there is a loss, — — — eran wane find, in practice, the adapted i — ne eii TEN shar close on Mind side of the 
1 believe, varying from one-fifth to one-sixth of his power, and | for the general purposes of heitsid, owin ree the grea swe withou urying the plants; at the seei 
i as it is known that a horse can apply his strength to the facility afforded by the body being moveable, p at once dis — — * pass the * close on the other side of the 
5 eset effect and advantage when the line of draught is from harging it This point i one of ¢ nsiderable i import. thus — — 5 small space of land where the 
point of his shoulders to his hocks (which is an angle of 18 ce wher oe “e 1 of 5 growing ved; we find this plan possesses 
degrees). as in the case of the line of draught of the plough. only $ for short distances, and the N load deposited at one tages —— the — plan of N the — hoe mon AAE 
Again, the diverse — Aa of either horse greatly E place and t ; but, e other hand, the disadvantages | rows 6 the eo aving 
` er, for seldom is it, indeed, that you see | — A the body of ‘the. curt mo eing immoveably fixed | the rows of plan each side, it accelerates t the growth 
‘two horses so —— matched in te mper, pace, and size, that to the shafts, as by the description before given. It will be | Young plants, and leaves much less 8 to be done by the 
‘foes all times take alike an equal and continued — of remembered that the body is fastened to the These d ü bs hoe. We 8 hand-hoe our 
the burtnen, for as ey tod frequently — = gre that good horses | means of a lock, consisting of a bolt and eye. big enough for harrowing, otherwise we like the of the 
wor! selves h, whilst an old — wear the bolt smaller, and the eye larger; ee — — harrows across the rows of Sane ‘before hand-hoeing, 
jee Eep leave to act the rogue. te generally ad- is a — — motion between the shafts and — 5 kg — labourers have been sede. aden — — 8 
, I think, that a horse can exert his powers with the | interferes with the motion of the hor orse ; and it owed — aking, stacking, and th g ay, ate 
ease and effect orking singly than when he | that it b * urious Whererer there fs an — be- of our late meadows, where nats "a an excellent crop, 
draws in unetion with another; for when alone he has twoon the gie n of the cart anal ‘the shafts, * for instance, 4 5 improved in bulk by the late heavy rains 
earria 2 1 are hung on C springs, are notoriously the wor elp here alluding to what wi | 
an anme: —.— — er he is greatly embarrassed by some | to o pu d ate in the Sapte expressly called horse eee meadow Grass the great improvement pro the 
— re or behind him being quicker par te be — heavy powerful horses to drag them, while lighter tation wt opun 8 which we applied in the 23 
— then hic himself, — — — A —— d by the animals are able to drag much — weights in carriages of April last, 3 ewt. of 
greater or lesser height of her. ft horse has a that do not admit of this motion. This objection is obviated, as of 5 — Tend, which seldom in any season ‘prods 
‘double share of the work, * 8 — 2 “tat ty of both bay be seen by the description a shall give of the dormant- than half a ton of hay per acre, of very poor analy bt A 
horses imposed uvon him to perform ; for, when turning, the bodied cart to which I g ecided preference, where the Jear that part which — the guano will give two tons of 
i d in — — he = d hay per acre, of excellent qu alig full of white Clover, &t, 
~ prod a farm and the e leading — of manure are to be r 
has the retarding of the two horses’ load, and a asion- | oo es a wade tance of ma iles. The body is fixed im. | Whereas the portion not hailey guano upon it does not, even 
— Aang not —— see, at the same 8 me, the: trace horse moveably to the shafts ör blades, and the horse pulls at once to under this most favourable — , produce but little more that 
pul ere the shafts, which are fixed immediately both to the load and to usual, either in quantity or J. Our shepherds have beet 
‘the horse in the shafts nd these er-drawn the axletree. ‘The dormentbodied cart has its body similarly | learing and es | ya sheep with fly powders, to prevent the 
ments, as such scenes. isiy be — ed — 2 in . epti Qi chats sha boltre, ae — tide sper * without this the sheep often 
this town, in two-horse carts laden with corn descending such Ling art requires no bolsters t, instead théreof the shafts, disfi 
a hill as Dean. street. Again, in cae — — pou either feeding the’ — 2 hg present tis with = in racks at 2 
are prolong ed 8 8 the ce of, and servin 
nen — ian other — tt — — most of the et aig of the bene the oa y being immovably | Wi hange o — — — — ay-t 
powers to atural erte erer 1 hafts. — rice of this cart is 10l., weighing from z day each o a 
of the —— attending the use so of double-horse carts, 75 to 8 ew pos nveying loads long distances, this cart is in- hoeing and Dg, weeding Carrots, . — Couch from ie fi 
‘The use of the 8 cart has been introduced into this | finitely hed k the ag oe “ge The greatest disadvantage hay-making, e Quicks, and pulling Docks 
ry limited — ; ain I trust I shall be attending their use, arises n The ata Thistles pasture la tak be 
— * show, r by comparison of the statements — — ers, com- in discharging a load from — as, at each time, the horse CECT 
n — Sarsan r Be = — ng Poire of has to be loosened to permit emptying the load. Those carts Notices to Correspondents. a 
period of fixe ye 4, the unde i * Se — it ‘Ag | Seemed to be very generally used among the railway con- Composition or Woon AND Han 3 22 
ges it possesses. As | tractors now employed in town, — in their baiset, — = ub, human hair — t he 
an eee 8 the — ih of — — carts over double- dispatch being of consequence, their ir using this description of | on 
culturist of — di 1 -y of a well-known agri- | cart a — — that the —— ed in other respects — r Soluble — and — * „ 
— sa aia T wean * m mber of our own clubs whose be found sufficient to — for the loss of time which Oxide of iro . 30 
e ee pe — 8 : ay bi — 3 Er to the shafts, Insoluble pe Ry and phosphates and silica 2 
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heap, an rowi 
manure lightly up from the cart on to the manure heap, for, 5 i 
Aeir sati a 72)32 6 32 6 says a an intelligent farmer, in a 2 me, I do not approre | ber al ‘ 
Liy Votlowed in this — , team A 
and spreads his cart oT Sane e E to the preria of 2 |i and wheels. Of the harvest or Scotch corn cart, which con- Mix we 
mile, will go nine times, carrying 25 cwt, ea ch time, hee. — of open frame-work with boarded bottom, it is light an till March or April, when you can apply it. 
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coup cart and hay frame. ‘Of the double-horse coup cart 
Leading out t i 34) 27 0 which is — — Sam ae Bh in — — it will be — 
M Ie * — 5 oe —.— 
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Pe — be deemed suf- Snakes ate very destructive in a poultry-yard; 
‘ one mars- — 
with double-horse carts, at 93d. pe 1 country cartwright in this neighbourhood— pe iragar verse hes isa 
a E — u E aoa The cost of a double-horse coup enre is sis Z., that the hay being in some ft in co 
Šik itto 10} tolle the pi aa does not consolidate, and ao — cesar 0 
8 win be ones fully acquainted with the 8 of undergo the process of “sweating,” W {Is all this 
Showing a difference in favour of single-horse cartsof 5 6 3 dhe double. ng cart used in this neighbourhood for certain degree to the formation of good ‘8 ; 
carts to lead out the above will require 44 days. ou — vere, Šo. By above estimate— MüscLE SHELLS : Sulphate of Lime, jy al, 
Doub} do. do. D he cost of long cart is We n £15 would make good lime, That is all, or nearly © 
By the above calculation the difference in favour of the Weight — ditto 1 ewt, contain, perhaps, 1 or 2 per cent. of phop AA 
amounts to 44 per vent.—a large sum cer- | I. — ne sre W whe Sk ae shell fish wo ae good manure, and Provoni 1 
B and, from the above details, I think it will be conceded prices are as enough nitrogen to furnish, during 1 
that the trace i chat The cost of dadran ooup cart . £17 10 cent. of ammonia, — 
P The cost of long . NAME or Paane 47 0 C. Trifolium 1 
13 Rage may think ti the latter estimate above an average, | any seedsm fessor Tow «pemet 
i g my calculation of the comparative statement of cost | New Soura War J Denwa: h 
— * double-horse carts, e taken the former. On Agriculture,“ for i general 2 . — ai ; 
a employing three pair of horses it would require culture Grazing in New South 
i application of it. 
HAY. Ter Load of 36 Tenses ae 
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Sts} New Hay . 
mn a Inter e Clover +. Mee 05 
£45 0 Rowen 2 8 w 7⁰ 
w 42 0 “nea LAWD xex, Jul 
Total £87 0 Iterar ess $70) fis 2 2 
Deduct single-horse carts ... 71 10 New i Clover 
0 HOPS, PRIDAT, Ji J 
ATTENDEN and Sar m report that 
Three 
l f Mi double-horse Carts, 
Three double-horse coup carts, at 151, 
ditto long carte, 
g d . a Savi £15 10 Messrs. 
’ Dea Three additional cart saddles — 1 b Duty earlin 
ar, Baton toed roads Wik aa Poor * : te E pente — when single-horse carts are employed, 80 that at Jou wili will Mids = Kents, p. wt 8 Yearling 
— of putting on a load of 18 to 20 et., — this Ska bo even a saving in the the single- CATER aig p Sama s = 2 = 100 A 
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