30—1848.] THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 501 
OS OES ell A RES OT STE OE a o — — u—¼ a —24 
3 i Chandler’s drill re- in Fin quantity or quality — Se m this top-dressing, yet it are ranged side by ‘side down the building. 4 „At the back of 
d pay thas those, drilled by the at a Tee t a —— uswered the purpose intended, in | these 11 Th Baud — irr — — urine and solid 
Mr. W. P. Hav of Wilef Spee and producing me “remunerating cr crop, the straw matter. T vA s then —.— T 
belongs to Mr. W. P. Hayward o ord, being — Stronger; h ealthier, to a tank TE 6 feet deep, sed 12 feet in diameter, The 
"it struck me that the method adopted by Mr. Hayward, | whilst there ie ere been at eaat 6 Sar 7 bus 1 per acre solid excrement is irea a a 
ia ; 1 tage “di more corn, and whic — r f the straw being mo © applied it to the land was by me 
show ‘the public the ony at of the ae chy healthy and much s — sample than that of a cart on which — — ced a stout from — 
growing on the; — wh ich . — left. vitam any top-dres ssing. | scattered over the land.. He applied the liquid manure by this 
I have likewise 17 — a same kind means to various crops last year, to artificial Grasses and 
d immedia the hay was Mia “off, with — most Wheat. But the great objection to the cart system was that 
recen an rom bein re satisfactory aa 155 e fog — improved and aren — it could only be made available to the corn crops in the early 
f, m A a l o lighted Its urari also somewhat different — a dressing of ordinary stages of its cultivation and it remain ence to devise 
interested in agricultural pursuits, I was high delighted farm 22 hen furm manure is applied N the fog | some method which would enable them to apply it to 
with neral as of the country, e — cannot — the fog so eg 74 when as they continued to grow. The last new system is by means of 
: . i ed to luxuriate top- wrih with guano, — stock are remarkably fond of — a foroe- pump, with hose and pipes. ee Huxtable had adopted 
Grass, and it can be e: as bare as you like. ae — that plan, and oe —— Manches e — 9 — 
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E 
i 
to 
in 8 > 8 wich each i — . man —. ir sod! Peruvian guano for non al Dickson n me extraets, — 
“other to make the most of the summer’s growth ; in the | p n pre g the land, and perhaps a in would now state the } resulte 9 755 he had peter akni — ind 
latter ially, th f grain crops were — 52 planting, I ae, 8 two loads of lime per acre into | ing liquid; me d — erop mae Å — Jast two years. 
ged Er P f k y he 1l 4 , and in planting the Pot tatoes I applied poems a cwt. | He had applied it e —— crops, but found it most 
presenting to ** 2 8 Pa 3 tore darkest per lieu of din this | beneficial to the Kalin Bae gria „Clever, — — He 
case also it answered very well and produced a healthy et crop ; | applied 1000 gal s per or liquid manure, but on the 
pas ge ir verq w where. c 
Turnip sowi bay: bo ted. Swedes looking and the Wheat ae pee the Potatoes is now looking well, wavered Grass 4 — would | be oo strong—it would dry the 
: ly healthy, altl 1 E ‘hae some complai This, of course, was not a top-dressing, — merely name 5 rop * ut for Italian Rye-grass it was best undiluted. Last 
i i i that it year vi i 
2 thian o f the fl been bus usy in 4. 5 rerig —. show that if 88 guano be genuine piri good, rr nthe s | yea: & ad sown two 1 Italian Rye- grass in Febr 
ue r 
Afte 
g Whea a ing to 5 — : 
í 5 š n over and sane 3 meadow I applied on one "pelts Kaiko 5 | he began cutting the crop the first week in May, and on the 
É e which is so successfully pract in the south ;| the rate of 8 ; on another part dissolved bones, he fed 30 cows, and a Bull once and 
e small quantity sown attracted my attention, and | 3 cwt. per pr} poor l part, gypsum, 3 cwt. per acre, e per day, from the first week in May till the first week in 
r | inate oartebe a a Sethe, ite eror Fae of 108) ee 
arian . was a remarka e allons per acre, a 
reason ; it 8 that the greater portion of Wheat next, with gypsum, owing to a heavy rain | besides keeping the above number 1 9 — fe fiv. 
‘ed five 
sown in these o counties is sown in spring, after coming i mediat tely after its croatia and to its caustic | horses upon he Grass. Py July a quarter of an acre was 
Turnips, fallow ay being practised on heavy clayey | quality, it poti up the — 1 Clover so much that it turned allowed to run to seed, and trom off this piece he had nine 
f bro own, which serious! injured its growth. The top-dressing | bushels of seed, which at the market price of 8s, per bush 
hand, a nat believe e constitutes the greater portion of ge acre ; with dissolved bones, 19s, 6d. would amount to 141, 8s. per acre, This was nites a pres 
utumn — N this appe curious, par acre ; and with gypsum about 7s. per acre, xe, h although third crop, and from see last crop he had threshed out eight 
tumn sown in this neighbourhood is nerally found | the guano cost me most, the extra produce wa portions that ran to seed. The land 
to be best, and * at the sa an- ogee tothe extra cost, and the Fone I consider chat it paid was then plou ighed kowa with Wheat. The next best 
tage of climate. I understood the usual lan is to e best. I have likewise tried as a top- 3 for = lt was with the — — 5 to which the liquid manure 
Be © usua: pian 15 to sow Wheat, having: applied 4 to Apki 1 ridge in a six acre was applied as soon as the ey were planted—about two quarts 
Oats upon lea in both obese: Amicus, July 15. field, 1 idges without any 9388 at all, — oo 1 plant, And he had noticed ec the plants n ever droop 
— S and in mis case also, the 8 part was very superior to | ata g at o He had applied it to 
y the part which was left undressed, much more, I 8 than Car — but not with such good ri — but for Mangold 
the — of the 1 Tuos. Dixon said: Amongst Wurzel ‘it was — beneficial. Last. year he had half an acre 
other experiments I may name a series of a a very intresting iens naene with Mangold Wurzel, and which produced 7 tons 
nature, made e by Ur. Maclean, at Braidwood, on the estate of | of ro 
Sotieties. 
ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY or ENGLAND, 
TING AT Y v 
: — 'ROFESSOR SIMONDS Lectur 1 rrect results. Mr. Maclean applied 26 different descri 
lecture — and id lambing) is one The subject erimas tions of top-dressing, th hole of which, with one pog e Misce lane us. 
that we are by no without 8 g 8 eens: appear to ge Nat dete whils 3 On Rearing Cattle, with a view to Early Mat — 
2 1 them left a very large profit indeed; t not, however, 
ve —— faint, of in fea t applied to the crop on account of sickness or ailing, but with Wilson’ nor gl of which appe ondents 2 republish Mr. 
in empt we feel so completely at fault, without a view to improve it by this mode of manuring, and to try 1 s paper, which appeared in this Journal ſour 
the aid of the excelle t di by ‘wh J what kind of substances answered bes 5 in years 
vably ill 1S by whic O | that locality. The 13 52 were used in those experi- The 3 n of beef, “ the quickest and cheapest rate, 
vably that we 9 do little more than advert | ments were, Ist, sand an t; 2d, peat Ashe plar soot ; 3d, | being the object in view, the first requisite is a stock of cows 
briefly and generally to s h points as may possibly be | clay sahen and soot ; Prong 5 on ; oth, koano; na, subsoil and — P o ualities suitable for this purpose, Accordin y, 
. y a soot ; compost and soot; soil and soot ; » gypsum ; | they should ood milkers—able to k t 1 
understood without the —— ons in question; and 10th, saat e; llth, nitrate of soda; 12th, ashes and rape p fas each—of a kind — phere en- — = 
š 22 f ‘atten 
. — ſew of the diseases and mishaps incident | dust’; 13th, ashes an gypsum; lith, ashes and guano; 15th, | readily, and to come early to maturity, and of a structure 
lying and lambi g time t | ammoniacal liquor ; 16th, sul phate of magnesia; 17th, soot; | likely to produce a vigorous well-grown steer, In other words, 
— * too often the ease tha the greatest exertions of 18th, muriate of ammonia; ‘oth, salt; 20th, subsoil and urine : | they must be good short-horns ; only havin 1 to 
1 er were frustra 2lst, urine; 22d, moss and u : 23d, carbon animalised ; | their milking properties than is usually do breeders of 
i — untoward | 24th, night-soil and diluted u — 251 th, rape dust; and 26th, | bulls. And here it may be well to no tice, dint is in =a 
reeding time; and that the fin st | sulphate of ammonia, In a part top-dressed with 4 bushels | highly inexpedient for the beef. ower- the farm ho depen 
most valuable stock were often lost iffi- | of soot alone, the crop was good as where 2 bushels of | largely on his ar t at cattle—to a — * Late 
cult or unnatural par on How tien soot were applied, mixed along with the other materials named i nbull, Itis oniy a few individuals in an — who 
was this the with z very On the part dres with no, at the rate of 4 cwt, per acre, | have the taste and skil uisite for this difficult depar 
passes. bat i iat 3 Gout r4 ot a year ata poi of 8 after deductis 3 Miot dt tef; s penGs of the ——— —.— —.— — he rd capital which must 
8. without an nv n it, t 
extent, * g op E — E — . 8 acre, eT tai ant lett — et «em fd to — of 2A 
* * 2 8 . 5 A, „ Cos . 3 additiona housing aintena 
lamb ; all seems for awhile to be going on right, but at 41. 126. Laa, Common salt, 440 Ibs., 15 12s, ; profit d. 14. On Tweedside, the breedi ding of bullo pero pies y limited 
the ns return, and all the | Those five last-mentioned substances the greatest poik a ae persons, — er umbrians, by dev 
‘symptoms of a second oman * exhibited This | Per acre of any of the 26. The parts rinm with soot, mixed | tbeir whole attention to his department, are able, rom year 
‘arises from the ee fgg materials, yielded on an average a profit of between — to furnish a class of bulls which are steadily impatving 
uterus, t l. per acre. These profits seem very large, after the | the general breed of the distriet. The con ry practice is at 
y an inversion of he | 57. i 
y 0 contra 
— — which is , twofold— mechanical by bands, so | — have 2 deducted, the reason of which is that Mr. this moment compromising the character of t i valuable 
g the back and around the b of the | Maclean has valued the hay at 7d. per stone. This does not, | breed of cattle in several districts of Scotland into which they ` 
ri have been M wiser this 
tact, an X e 
stimulants, such as warm ale and a little ginger, pre- | effect of Special Manures,” as being a t important which he uses for two or three seasons, and then repl 
paration of ammonia, or the ergot or spur of Rye. It valuabl ument, he havin ih carefully experimented in | another in like manner. This bull serves his own ad oat 
vas a curious fact that the littori w ly efficaci top-dressing Wheat, Barley, Oa 2 Grass, &c., the results | those of Pe binds, and some of the- nei hbouring villagers > 
L 4 as only efficacious | of e * has very clearly show Both Mr. Macle ean and | and thus, though his own stud be limited to six or eight d 
Kary in cases of 5 ur, A cow should have from Mr. m's experiments are published in — “ Transéctions — can select from the progeny of his own bull as many calves 
to 4 drachms of it ; and these remedies should be | of ps ‘Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland.” — s he a — to ae is — — has them more uniform 
repeated so Sp — the animal niay be thoaghe in EADING ¢ — Manure—its e and best the on —— —.— — nad — is itno aie — 
Jeopardy. these stimulants the Pro r ad- 5 of —.— far the greatest influence in giving character to the progeny, 
use eae es; and to this 8 a BLE eee . me scientific details oe ass tor = and increasingly so in proportion to the vf rity of his breeding, k 
tl the tincture of opi Sis strona Pic ies hus tained in different substances, and | it is evidently much for the advantage of the f. grower * 
— th m, Strongly | also of the fertilis ing constituents contained He the urine of aif. are no reasonable trouble and expense in obtaining a bull of 
bated the ee of bleeding, o — in any way re- ferent animals, stating that the urine of the } horse contained theres h purity, and then to select his calves with the most 
l ‘the animal, as almost certain to | about 12 per cent. of ‘nitrogen ; that o — w, 8 per cent. ; | scrupufous From overlooking all this, how often 
destroy it. * rotracted aha : pig, 2 per cent. ; in that of the hare, 2 „ Which was | m ay lots of cattle be. een, on the best of land, too, whi 
P: ur it was essential to pre- tof ch can 
: aining, to which the richest of any animal. These e constituents in the | only be fattened at normous expense of food a: and time, and 
ie 95 whic * too many — had manure, if not arrested by some —— b owed tol a — all, are so — “ <n ualit o reali 
fallen Victims. e own divers cases of i ted | run off, were entirely lost to the ‘ane lie Mr. Wheble then | pe alinea a Occasionally ak fw bets 4 £ the tight 8 
. h 8 easts of the sort 
Uterus, many of which had been sip ety p i reinvertt briefly noticed the manner in which the liquid manure was now | seen in an hye 1 ing ahead of their fellows, to — 
dy careful) carefully putting back b the: h Be the most generally applied to the land, 8 by the horse and extent ot 4 a- piece Ay . market value, show what 
what it might, one thing he pe ~ and e 701 85 and 5 — = y on 4 esta te of Le Lord ind as Falkleod, in Scot. — er skill or attention on the part 
very anxious to im —— and, some land ha en improved in value from 15s. to 50s. | of the owner. It . 5 ve all the cows t 
upon all as of the utmost i nee—never to pres in | per acre, by the adoption of the late improvements in agricul. betwixt Ist rare Ist April. If 5 earlier, bey Win nos 
too great a hurry to effect the delive fa foot Th ture, He exhibited three sorts of hose for the distribution of | almost d he Grass comes, and calves later than this wilk 
labour might be ry of a fœtus. iquid manure over the land, of the respective prices of 13. scarcel with the rest of the lot. When a calfis 
oun SoA yeh and = IJ. Do not be per yard, 2560, per pan; an er ap e ra ae dropt, itis immediately remoye it 
anxious anything more ture, | of Coley-par arm, then n F. tble ith — — — f straw (this being what th 
— — had * : Neer inju ay eer ig y 88 ats Pepe bani mad — — road ＋ — ae do the * her tongue, — allo , and th placed in 
r f 5 / 1 ö is prac- | a cri e calf-house amoi straw, n Ff 
fore Mo OA occasions : and again and again, there- tical” application of it; but, before doing so, perhaps he io its own mother’s fit re f op ee ‘veg af a 
+ 3 ould enjoin on all breeders the necessit of | m — be allo wed to preface the statement with a few gene. | pu — — t what is ne animal. 
Caution and at this i terisi y s. They were all well aware that the value of parga fortcnght, fei’ sail is the —4 iy tol te uitabl it, and 
We earnest} 2 ma 8 depended entirel ne d the kind | of th | receive ben ¢ 1 
Y wish the Profi r may be induced to 5 epended entirely u e quality an kind | of this it should receive a liberal allo but 
Publish th; ra si 5 of food gi to animals; and that if they fed highly means shoul used train * eat lse dake 
With hws in ing and um S, | excrem Id more valuable, whe iquid or solid sliced Swe u e readiest w 
coloured illustrations. Having made some few hag ws remark — should next | put a bit of cake into its — — immediate] 1 Ae 
: A these it is g ing its 
Rothing, With them ost e A conceiva ble e case * endeavour to show jo he the best es hitherto | milk, as it — then suck g a ng it can get hol 
false — * as as it adopted with respect to the e and | applying liquid | of, By re ing this a — — Placing a few pieces in 
8 is called, is b brought un manure. The W 1 f Norfolk, | its trough, it. will usually take to this food freely, and, when. 
lof overcoming the de breeder, as well as the the — box-feeding, was one mode. 7³ besa ky the Dok xes of a 98 this is the case, it should have as much as it can eat, that 
difficulties therein detailed. mporary nature, thee — Larch Fir with hurdies for the | its allowance of milk may be diminished, to meet the neces. 
— idee were used, and these boxes were properly littered with | sities 2 the „ e Ne 3 —— cum Kamag | in succession, 
F straw, and the Pat are then placed in them, and the ex- This is of t tance is always m 
# —.— 01 ubs. crement allow accumulate to the de at — 2 or 3 feet. A to oe are W aa ing ibi ae: milk by way of 
‘sid worn: Effect of Top: -dressing—Mr Emmerson | Under this fna’ all 2 * is absorbed e litter, and, — ping — quantity, ipg an a nnn ‘et must be resorted to 
itak 3 — nothing i t, no ammonia” — * to be : ge pag tir witli the new milk is perhaps the best 
year I an d some in consequence ros ermentation ing arrested, — —＋ of late been much used for this rposey 
Fring, and-thinking th sr which looked very poor in the An otter rine ~~ tre quence in Mr, Warnes’ system was that of | un 5 English v veterinary surgeon has — — a 
it, I, oper den tly, applied PA Same might be — service — using scalded linseed for food for his eattle; this he also grows | a very dec ion that its vse impairs the digestive po 
iano ere out 3 cwt. of the best Peruvian on his land; and it had n stated that if the Flax-growing ofthe. animal and ce Sore se es to disease. The sours 
Ba art of it, and left 
— any application whatever, The 19 — n part system was extensively adopted, all the poor-rates of England riably found house, where porridge or jelly of any kind 
part With ano, y — silt ch was slg would be saved. The next plan of making manure was by a | is por — * Lz 1 is proof sufficient that i 
— Door * Harak ob. 8 7 undressed erfect system of stallage for the animals, in which they must } the consequence, An egy put into each oe 8 
a Aang rves guanoed part turned ept tied up. At the risk of his being thought egotistical | and mixed with the milk by stirrin pith ai hand, is 
or crop, in comparison to th h 1 5 E 
ane not test by ‘weight 3 1 other, and he would describe the plan of his own cow-stalls, The stalls f help, and never does harm ; but, with this pie, it is 
ure improvement are 4 feet in width, into which the animal is placed, and they | to give tre milk warm and un * ted, however small the 
