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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
[Sepr. 16, 
the discussion of them w ote eb gp as little 
| disposed x “n udiate or t; yet, doubtless, they 
ery different position to the facts them- 
means desire others to 
“that they ag kamari 
sup 
uce of pe pe in aber af variety of season alone. 
ondit derstand to s that 
degree abil tity “which a her en may pos 
given time of yielding, besides the normal “produce 
the seasons, an amount NN the ace 
of eu t 155 peage Subjected, | 
nde: 
nt bearing at all 5 — 
suggestively, unless we 5 t er 
by facts in so doing 
backwar cknowledge 
be little doubt that our pravm may 
i as n 5 tg are 
sion pro e 
e 
to 8 and ie 
be naturally oer ah o. yie . 
h 
soared accuracy of pub 
ecide the questions in respect to which they 
mean 7 and it thes 
and the important per beat ial ef- 
advancement of o Were 
3 
ma 
are b 
the second or third 4 ee of Tur- ase we are su 
ts will n icient 
ase of the | excuse for us, in noticing bis re — 
pan i ‘experimen oe he previous crops the ‘adextion of thes arks, must apologise for 
Wheat, Clove, Wheat, 80 — n the pages “of | a k patie joer with a subject 
wht be ade reat ext what personal. If the rime’ ara ee 
and J. H. Gilbert, Ph. D., Ko nam 
ti cour 
REARING CALV 
To the several systems of —— ane es yo 
been supplied with, allow m a variation, in the 
method I have prac 
so that 30 yea 
be pre-eminently considered as ex- winter and spring, 
in the houses pia sheds ir 
an 
IuHa mt 
0 an 
And | since supposing a a ence in con- 
difference in pro- has been lost in that 
uce, the fo r crops menti tioned were well calculated to 
equalise ng conditi gt h so far as the growth of corn was 
concerned. t, then, expect that unmanured 
plots in Wee * a 3 field would not exhibit fur I rea 
ther differences than were really due to specialities in 
o avoid, however, the 
n 
0s coraplaint in the field. Two 
petted favourites only, during the 20 years, have been 
wintered in the hou — and both — ve been carried off 
Ae 
Olli’ iding 
roppe 
t| M ae rated from the cows as soon as the dams 
have licked them—an opera 
and of har aora gratification to t a 
ed, | new milk solely for about three 
erent part the health sad state of thriv eth After 
though the crops of the two plots had varied consider- | part of the new milk is substituted by a portion of skim 
the two edit i milk, with a ihl Da of boiled nage or Barley- 
from the flour r gruel, gradually increased, until i u 
‘commencement, 119 d a 3 plot unmanured only in weeks more the new milk is j 
mmn 1845-6, e en | 
ce 2 2 field would thus 1 emi 
pretty gee m, in different parts 
same season, yet the e of the ee una. 
— . a varied considera i n different seaso 
which, we — ve endea sured w 
fed on 
3 
ushed pra, The skim-milk is gminy left off, 
pane is replaced by Clover tea—the calves a ree 
old u 
youre owy tn init god ace Tanida Wola: tie ‘biter calves 
— — vith the clishatic eee, of the | turned 129 a ‘ary and sheltered Grass field, for an heer 
season. The following is a statement of the produce of 
covered with snow so atp as to 
because the 
o about Februar 
On 
ror. | ailing pany rings except in 
arly part of 
su 
i conviction 
ge of im- smet 
ale 
©! if we will t 
at all seasons of * or or | 
a Tho: 
he end of August — about 1 — middle of 
ation of aches oe the calf 
y learning to va alittle hay | e bility, how ting $ 
rey 
e if once comm te rent their grazing > 
e when eating, — will run enden he 
ers passing within ving in 
pe demand ; and if n 
lose eondition, — to aha d 
the Grass gets short, or rather before it is short, u 
2 cake is giv 
> 
2 
r 
2 
poe zl 1 ghs, a the rate of 1 day to 
; cach 
calf ; this is 3 till a suite spring 
Grass comes. sieney 7 
this system the aN are very h 
ome seasons a itl bro: 
in th 0 Sanie ; and 
matiistty, they attain a gro 
the first in the — 18 ghbourhood W. Dick 
Whitehaven, Sh mnaona 
D DRAINAGE. 
Tur various articles on this subject which, from time 
to woo; make thei is ee, in the columns of your 
eful Paper, are read by m Mes sre keym as 
o rer ran on i 
and ultim 3 of a — . —an — in in 
3 importini s anir 19 7 to por but which, whether 
rinciples actice, is, it must be 
8 8 
A 
® 
td 
pen nies regarding the rde of drain o be adopted, 
parae 8 — which * — bond be cut, wulle 
ons and practical parts of the subject, 
n thousands of ds are sank 
by whic ich Sata npo ou 
3 measure overlooked. That 
ffected on true scientific 
s now admitted 
9 e 
t even l 
by the operat 
that the drainage than 
ake means rightly 85 e into 
not on ac 
ard and ‘ita 
e 
the ordinary means 
J, Dindi e St. Sane IS. 
arto MACHINES. 
THR as ng the obser 
experienc 
or two, every y; and as soon as — Grass ve me much 
ring several successive seasons: | comes they are sent off to pasture, accordi eand Moat aar lately de y~ your valuable 
` Se sa a 1 bushels. weather, and remain til umn ws Pe: hielt — nd ting ing machines. J am 
. ee ee ee » | exposed e e generally do s way , wing, a 
: . ne zi rom March to August are 24 8 hand for a public and therefore ex you 
= that soils which experience has not distin- | few days, and are then urse- eo ‘iene ing k pio goo 8 g a place your } 
icultural value should yield almost lite- | about four quarts of milk per day, and pore up the subject a little further. 
en unaided by manure, a the | run at Grass wi foster-dams on very high Grass | first on — the “ Scotch threshing machine, 
„ under the same circum: bears | land, and suckled in this way till about four months old, | history and faults you have described ; the 
a large proportion to the average of i county under | when — . are — driven home and tied far in the right, the r partly in ug. 
we have particularly oticed in the papers up on e- grass, other green food, a few | therefore, without pointing out the unfavourable 
for their “refinemen and days, ‘it the 3 — emen subside; and as w y le Journa recorded, 
the deductions to which "a were led by these again they are also succes- give yan a simple statement of what a Seoteh 
1 we have recorded regarding sively | brought ‘down aaa: — into the best Grass or was 816, a complete threshing machine 
racters of different agricultural | afterm he best of it not ranking cit, ies one that 1 had charge of for three 
a h wura rotation, and their varying ein $0 — — quality. m this you will understand that I must mt 
sources of growth, may have partly laid us A few vof the —— raiter have’ the first ran over | something of its capabilities, It was ee 
mea fields ; followed | rated a six horse power machine, 
refer, however, to the | by the — ones in one tw ds; alternated, in| the banks of the Tweed The farm then ng 3 
ter, — a few days’ e loug e. pe 1 —— 0 
or when the weather is dry There were — — up 300 
. Thus th crop ann wg Ree and this was 
arch from field to field—the | short inte three women and myself 
in the rear ; inter half year, besi 
ys, according to the | market. mag to wait for the 
and — shelter afforded dam reservoirs, we eould 
ing an intervening | had 135 per, ie a we generall yot 
the pasture to the week, going an hour and a 
3 makin Six hours, labour only in. 
g foddering in ‘women, in threshing 300 
