30—1848.! THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 645 
ein Sheep.—There isa di correspondent weather will secure 
T Foot halt in Sheep. a disease very colour, but not, 2 as your corres ndent sa 8, marked to 14 d 
“On at this time a = g mapt the prope r treat-; the breast with the form of 3 8 i thene ga a N * e nearly all the arap 
prevalent fich se ems to be get un in, fe n ani- hens nor cocks ; the latter are yellow, precisely the colour ed. ede pns — 
fais itself DY the 1 s anima frequently to of the common red fighting breed, so much so that I — | field fep s Wenara, nished e > 
sach an extent that the poor sufferer and, but] doubted if the breed is genuine, and I wrote to the fowl fine, will be ready for wetting about the nid —— 
Se upon its knees. This is to b rho lies in nume- | dealer to that effect, to which he did not deign to repl í ats, lik lse 
flocks, even in 1 dry apn 7 When you | The hens may weigh 6 lbs., the cocks 7 Ibs. (li ight ool ede and Fee sot earl army à 2 
yous feet you find the not soft, as in the the h i er ecg f : 
i sia oft, e the hens lay 13 or 14 eggs and sit, but only one | of rain j ng 
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ee a y. a SUFFOLK Fan, Sept. 16.— Men employed this week 
seat of the disease appar, io to * e between the claws. trouble themselves to give me an answer, it ery confer last in finishing carting 1 Oats, — crop of — 
There you find an offensive discharge, . like the a great favour upon An Amateur in Pou meres . b ng i N e in most admirabl onder. 
x es. P 5 z nen have been plou mi w 
thrush in the feet of hors ow the object of my ers eet 2 ert ated 3 reading it Jette rof Wurzel and Turnips next year als 7 stables for Manzo 
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dents who are practica Ga i à the rows of Mangold W 
some of your correspon e wherein he says “ uite time this i ango — ant Swedes; men hoeing Mangold 
s „ een. e seful pub 1 aa, 282 bout be piaba I beg to m in War raeh, 0 3 Verches for 
‘on their opinions as ti est way of treating the | furtherance of his vie rls F 
4 1 find the opinions of my neighbours, whose far baren . ok its Tey Haay and — yn ack e stack-yard Š Sot ta alt ‘Beans ell eat vas 2 
flocks are suffering from — disease, very much at erson in every county in England, For This — of it to raise the Poi 
2 £ 2 0 ra 8e e Potato e. 
on the 3 Wee re! rain e sheep ne — A would me you, r Aen the Agricultural We find it much diseased, three — Nr “carve land. 
for Nature to wor ure by the ischargo Gazette and Mark Express, to publis con- affected, and the crop mji tae pea less than half an see 
a the — unless it be to cool the syst ditions, atipulati ing Wat “ail who kindly — the two-third e reat 
by administering oz. of salts t Ae each sheep . for it experiment shall forward name, address, description of being abot one. T the proportion o p Se aer 17 
22 . he discharge y neee Ete = paraa ad 5 int Ko., Fragen the 11th of October, and the result sent | us being sent to the P Ar mills, to be made into | Potatoes 
temally., 0 A mi in to you by the 1 7 ae d 
see Journal of the Royal Agricu —— Societ — viii. |f th 5 st of October 1849. I would not oon. 1846, the year of serious failure, v * 
e Ys i he experiment too close ut I think the Wh Potato cro oney re 
Pat; 20) if the matter formed between the le be drilled or abbledy and — seed e Na eee mil N ya * e nuc h eee Te ba again 
Gas s or other | “°° op; and, loo 
be not checked it will anderen the hoof. I confess ar green crop, the quantity of seed u m, 1 bushel being | tune county, and the bulky 88 Peed. of th cack yard 
am to receive this opinion; and have therefore | the minimum; William Brown, — to the Tring ra prospect of plenty, in 
wle nt this very day of applying butter of Agricultural Association and beast. We are now busy with the fallow croios ieee Ses 
| Ihave used on a larger scale tar and salt ; yp è it with W ¢ fallow, giving it the seed 
I have been Loong led to this conclusion by considering ger ee ae the inf ti rable fi win V S therefore 
respondent “C. L., my two years’ experience in rowing | to o the e with u — adv 
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that in coe of brush i in the cleft of the frog of the winter Beans. In the autumn of 1846, a 8 . 8 5 vantageous ospect than last year, 
desirous of kno f. eg 
for I n Saas tn — or . mos í eee in drills 12 inches apart and an interval of 30 inches | tor harvest 1 971 Be the low country nearly all the ¢ corn 
method of treating the prevalent disease yee ost wg dou w e rows, this papig Pra was as ploughed in 15 cut down, and th er proporti on is Ä 5 sale ike DEAA 
Rye.—Last year I sowed St. n’s Day 25 2 me . he narrower space ween the drills | and, ioc the weather continue favourable will b l 
week in July, and Cooper’s Broa . d 4 cae hand hoed, care = ~~ late time of sowin mid aud the by m * 1 1 pee: he dee § generally Vaags pn 
some of the former ‘iss much better than was expected, while th 
ni ase ran Mg seed bef the + * and were Ar f. A ＋ od plant ; te ii sprin the quality is very good. The meadow hay intended for the 8 
Cooper 7 4 y wre all through the grew rapidly, and where the plant was good, s E ey s put into large ricks about three N iel ago 5 
witter, and was fit to cut for the horse ther 
bar Rye n ss the end of | spread the intervals, The crop was har jista i m 1 30 aly, pr ne f high winds, we have had considerable Ade 
; y ot until a fortnight i y 
WE: Coopests waa be in lesgth, and well non ee ag Was 24 bushels per nere, weight 674 ba. ee feg daring storine. ‘This tes tedious operition 
wrth growing, from 1 po an well | per bushel ; the haulm was a very short crop. In the having to be conve pred (en Tey abe pi> r mis “of it 
Sep from 10 1 8 5 N a same field, side by side, I had sown some spring Beans, roads. The orth Ving & light crop, we are 0 ‘on at short 
pe 3 bu t e St. iaa proved quite a saa — ene being cut an supply of fodder fur the cattle rein Sa Are yap = rae prorat 
0 a foot t n at once to the # z cuttiug a quantity of Ferns and coar 
blogger) rh ae 8 of oes tee nas the same treat- | of spring Beans. In 1847, fe: portion 2 Wh res ee ts ede r sah S the la ams a are 2 
meut, I cut the Rye inte chaff for t i Bere t year’s prices. The draft 
common sa isih iis, St Jo ins D 2 ama was first ploughed and worked down with the hanan; be marketed forthwith, All the stock are doing rear ably 
sowed July 5, has thi e s Day Rye, and then dunged with 10 pacer ree cart loads of farm- | n 4 gi muir Farmer, 
can ee than | yard dung per acre, an into two- bout ridges ; Norti Essex Fanat Sept. i9—The fine weather N. 
Cam the seed be perfectly true eae unmixed? 1 | from th tre of ‘ id . past week has enatled us to br e Work 
it N ee ia ib a i e centre of one ridge to the centre of the other Be pels to a close; we have carted everythisk ep a field 
the growth of Turni it possible t measured about 3 feet 6 inches. On the 8th of October | late-soun, Outs. The crops e wich the ex n of 
+t — os be in — by nas half | the top of each ridge was drilled with a double row of Beans and igne, do nob iem eee “expect 
Weid 3 te in autum m told it Beans, 10 inches apart, tlius leaving between an interval Nene ee wil rye much oo Spal óf in this part of the 
good effect in eee N season; pe 30 inches ; in the spring, a furrow slice from each ag, thau last year, Havi yy he now fh 8 to 10 bushéls per a 
F f; A ced cleanin Reon ia: intended j 
“Artificial 1 Incubation cot idge was ploughed to the middle of the interval, the Biadelli beaters T i ios, thi for Wheat with 
this erhaps a ray of light may pe between the drills being hand-hoed ; the intention | the nse Hop intended’ for M . 4 next year. W We ci 
m from 1 8 the following LAN; was to have split the furrow slices in the interval, with | men 2 esterd tdo not ar SO. 
1810, 16 Si al Magazi for the the double breasted plough, but the wet spring and 800d 2 ected a 225 where „ 
pos D' 051 ley, of Northallerton, rapid growth of the Beaus would not admit it, it was acre wi was ie expected we chal Deans dere x Ri Bi 
prove ae experiences that her metho od | therefore. hand-hoed; the Beans came into blossom last . has been more “favourable for ‘the ha „ 
the eco 1 Barley, Oats, second s of hay, e., have garei been 
early, and 1 well, fod were 3 in July. 
kin aol 3 housed in fair conditi ion; and but very F Tittle is 
crop, an 0 out ot this part of the re adit 8 have 1 — 2 
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the ‘yield m avery A0 dude 40 bushels per acre. The | by carting Barley and Oats, carting the second crop of bay 
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planted tilln peas were in blossom, what the yield may |; ; 
0 ; i nips and Swedes, harrowing in Trifoli iter th 
be, I cannot state; the haulm looked well until the aneia (we ufually s sów from 25t 30 Ibe, of eed d per acre); also 
ry of August, when in a few days the leaves pon ghing a winter T r ploughing, 
urned black and dropped. The Wheat Be preceded | d 51 foughing sie i land” es for the Wa able Tor 
2 oug 1 e Po crop, an arrowing the stubble Lur- 
a ecg em was salted with a view to check the growth | pips with ws, which we find well adapted for ‘this 
and stiffen the e straw, s rtion being left not salted to work: The e mån e making Hr th gp as the T 
not observe t briefs Ani i are now quite fit Gots die Ey: iad 
3 : É ; 2 bourers have mowing 0 arley; the 
ä the pe ae! I Brina — difference in second crop of 3 Grass, in which we notice the same 
ere attributed to | striking and decided difference in the produce in favour of the 
koming ha 1 guano as we did in pea first crop, thereby 
lack of salt; E. curtis Sales Isle of Wight. 
x trimming, and 
Congar —— e Turnip hoeing, which seems 5 likely t to engage their stdedtion foe 
where our 8 
BERWICKSHIRE MERSE 2 — sree 7 3 clean 
have been employed in reaping and carrying; * has | from weeds as we like to see them; in consequence, we intend 
bi en favourable, so that most part of what was cut 1 week to hoe and peg oe weeds ea le third time, without which we 
carried ; cannot expect a tull erop. shepherds are but little em- 
—— AND GALLOWAY, Sept. 14.— Harvest operations | ployed with the sheep, but 2 a part in the general work 
satisfa riage k during the last 10 or 14 days, GN: arm, We continue Ao feed our fatting ewes with Beans 
the weather beir ing exceilent, every appearance of a bene d oilcake, and with two changes of pasture Grass and 
white Ciover per day, We would here remark upon the great 
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inua From ae 0b and in quiry, 
I am satisfied hat the crops hitherto cut or secured have suf- |a d b > 
fered nothing from the weather—the grain and straw being a > e vor san land pasture, which, 18 
both so Along the alluvial ormi. ana holms of the months past, was covered with Moss and sour Grass, but now 
rivers in yE Err. iy and in the first class of hard lands, 50 looks most luxuriant, with an abundaut crop of good and sw 
wine crops will be, as near as may average ; and th % : ed J 
may be also said of the stewartry of Kirkeudbright @ and Wig- past fortnight by hay making; but also by couching, hedge 
tonshire. Inferior soils, from the cold and wet weather of the | trimming, and pullin 4 
early part of the season, may in cr . be rather below | STIRLINGSHIRE Canse Farm, Sept. 16.—The aren since 
an average, e Turnip crop has ast week’s repert has been the oe e have en- 
ug | equal to crop |j oyed this er, i "o en eee ae ve 
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average 10 former years. The ee e — es not 
res geg indeed, marge rural police of che 5 county ats es i a crop as we haves es been accustomed to, will, 
rts which are 8 in Sense of the Dumfriesshire jour- we think, turn out fully as well as was at one — — 
me 1 ible tie nals, from which it ht be inferred that the Potato scurvy is Oats all stacked, and a fair average crop. The g ae 
in China rf . h parti ial and e e trifling. The truth is, the eros, of | our Barley is still. in the field, but what is — 
ably Marked with a = Pave their early kinds are generally diseased and severely affected, e | had the benefit of the recent fine weather, we thin K of as g 
al of 1 i oA be et affected. The a quality, aud looks — 2 the sample, than what u. 
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progress of the scury “sy to depend mainly on the period of hou ~ 
planting, and the — — of the kind of seed. In Wigt igton- | perior. The greater part of our gan be! cut me . — 
shire, which is s generally enny, „ Potato country, ea scythe (perhaps better carte as mid nd’s scythe), w which 
disease is quite common ‘The stewartry is we conildet speedier mode than w th hall mon hook, 
is little if — i eo Pi 
i- | lowing “ed bee its e eo es À 
he | better, Fro formation and n I do not | Barley seed) is any way vhen the 
no reply. M hens expect o! Barer jepe to be raised for human food. Some | ing well. We think the scythe possesses also t vantage, a 
handsome, of y are not | intelligent agriculturists, growing large breadths, have told me that in about vent pepe jess time the nF 5 
a bright bay | that not a third will be ät for human consumption, From 10 baro-yard. Our neighbours g distri 
