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30—1848. 
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Peet the contrast is great between them and the intel- 
wigeon ; for — ane things, 
= on pakean Tug for.s eoncealm “Fhe e open 
very eye of the visitor, 
canning which would bs ts head | lif 
where 
ing, a fence of reeds set perpe — or something 
ue kin kind, carefully fixed, will A, 
y if it nd 
running water will be ea rey to 
supp a miniature 3 44. for samy oe 
dition of tasteful b 
P eb make m- 
fbi — 2 The re of the fittings admits 43 
variation accor th 
& person may rear them 
5 2 
in flavour, and their price in thet market k is 2 ah high | 
in reference to their size and weight. 
the 
regular pri 
471. 115. — acre for watching, conseque 
us small patch of under s z ‘that 
such 
| aed; — suits then better. 
«young, a ite fine ne or 3 ere seatter 
surface an ere 
found a loaf of Barley ey- read a very convenient thing to 2 
bave in hand for feeding various birds. It may 
— — or soaked i 
Far same 2 micile an 
Plas ane binds the summer te 
he Jos and the paia: ae pretty 
i 
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H ese 
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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 499 
n will be obtained by Goes them as aquatic 
rds, and by treating them as s 
he rane 
be delighted by it. Let him all means buy the 
“ Orn 
ithological Biography, pn ire it; for I cannot! 
ali 
rob any preceding auth of by stealing his “ beauties,” 
acquired by his talent 
and industry. The 2 colouring of this bird 
are both charmin Nr extreme, and its size renders ri 
i between good seed and such as is 
I do not 
been raised by extraordinary applications of 
me ent even from inferior seed ; but were they as valu 
ita species much —— apted to “re on inelosures; 
lers 
ing them here, or e tb in any country from which 
teal family affords a 8 clue, they are foolish, 
i of 
domesticability), “and they subsequently bred in my 
Turnip-seed purchasers in general are 
as never to inquire by what means it 2 
fore 5 S for if it only grows Dei * how slowly) 
inves 
and be correctly named, their 
antil sitet by a Turnip rot. As for the causes of 
the early stoppage of Sead growth on the * early 
fre tl 
rotting or premature dec 
they are 
in your tran, A that because the seed “ came up” it was 
of sufficient heart and of course had been 
La . How many of us can e 
searcely half ripened & 
eny but frequently heavy oron (in bulk) have 
been raised from stout N mra seed cng in 
to transfer 
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8 
2 2 
grou unds i in boxes whic h I had ace convenientl® over 
ater ;” and so, as we “at seen, will teal, and be an 
reeding * e off, never to return, the moment their wings are lo 
rock-work, £ art shells, some ss Aas . and ‘halfaa- 
old fish, would serve 
0 
to become receptive of po powers, w ee may be so 
weak or sickly as to imbibe principles as food that. 
are most a abundan t though 3 injurious, or so healthy and. 
o reject hurtful elements, and select such 
b 
8 195 the soil and manure as tend only hd 
urni ivat 
already spread over an e breadth of British soi 
and any suggestion tending to inerease its good qualities 
ht 
that, with a few yeg f care, the wood due o be received wit e caution. 
perfectly domesticated, when it could n il to s| Have not the experiments aai A nalyses of seientifio 
valuable as it is beau True, as to the latter half gentlemen discovered that the same varieties of th 
of the sentence ; for in America, where alone ordinary | Turnip, and of similar pinta 0 
olks can afford eat them, the flesh is said to be degrees of nutrition? but might not an extension 
excellent—first-rate, indeed. But,“ it is added, “ the | these investigations have proved that d of the two 
g bird r: never failed to make plots analysed of as dissimilar a ¢ 
directly for the Ohio, whenever. they escaped from the | results of the N i 
grounds, although —— * * there before, ea many of t that are attachin 
without another single circumstance being added, In ci 
. Buckland’s valuable “ Reliquie Diluvianw,” th 
bird is is by alled A — — instead of 
sponsa; but t Sip is surely great between a 
bride and a godlathe 
LOSSES AND ap eat OF TURNIP SEED. 
rnip-seed growers are aware what injury 
— 
the — — of é seed fron dif- 
pant aen I ‘inna 951 Ibs. of seed aol cre had been 
ed the unprotected, as compared with 
— 
— 
=) 
mh 
— 
the other; even where this loss occurred, it received 
( 
dance, This loss, at Is. per Ib. 
rey mere ig Seamer | 
this crop fe pay 1 that 
care daok the whole of the ripening se 
There is a * eustom of nearly all Turnip- se 
growers I wish them if possible to 8 allude 
to the A aten done to see cutting 
void ‘of —— 1 — almost valueless both for sale Ay? by 
| we and sowing. Examine one of the pods o f theee 
dł 
2 4 a Fe N H, vent et 
. | to otice of thos o are capable 2 of leading or 
ure- 3 1 5 pe 8 Z the subject, At all events 
nothing could reasonably transpire but to render more 
pe 2 ill of pade till we bestia... 
re, ing 3 
“ is on right” haye, a few weeks or even days, 
ust before being marketed (if at the end of 4" 
urnip feeding season), receded in condition, and why 
T ng 
I do not allude so mae to stall, bo. pe 55 1 
o the perfection of which we believe the n ae 
3 ‘of snare to be suscep tible, A ae 
the | of mine this year has a e 2 - 
the few plants are: 
barely sufficient for half the I recomn 
hin 34 Sujata. to trade geen a b 
spectability, or rather resolve to ee 
$ ndere 
him the quantity re p an fixed the price, 
say ls. per Ib., an plied him Wai bulbs at no 
harge, be he . cord wainer, „ tailor, black- 
— — will remain after a a proper win winnowing—a thing so 
seldom practised by Turnip-seed growe = to tho ne- 
a 
y. eo 
| An individual a few days ago visiting these 
"| secre that th — birds required “ wething, a ( (ihe 
that it $ was Healy. fo sat, though on only bagi nning to 
the rin | nore colour, or rather still green; he me they 2 
perhaps as requisite a 
eT 
in we not, by the use of Feta s ripened seed I 
f that roo 
as mey by and bye be designated Turnip failure ; may, if 
Im 
minutely, my * 
Turnip seed. fave one half tat like ting a pre 
t 
y, con arri a a 
matured size, or do they . wrinkled skin and 
s | such a withered state (if not — that they can- 
not be — te — to ne w plants those proper- 
tal of seed, & c. 
except * discontinue ir per 
roguery; they little suspect it, and though pror- 
e e with darle lantern in hand d 
. 
Sa 
es f N r, well 
may anes p art of a 9 eager 
s their continuing of the yd 
W, certain 
aneri The list of ben. names of ae will most 
bably contain the addresses of vario arious 
self-styled eat in nearly all the market to 
ell as the metropolis, Now for a wate wd 
d is from those whọ- 
elating manure dealer 
ton for what 1—why he knows the measu 
chemists 
of the self-denominated cl ts and Fes and 
A e ; ’ 
t part provisio g com 
e to be as rigidly and carefully sifted as ever t 
| articles in whi trade were, or heaven 
e secretly 
r when the injuries they 
d report, and may re 
