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the cattle paid only the cost of the corn and cake, lea aving | is far too vague an expression. Had he stated, which] machinery, and I purchased roli a By 
nothing for the roots; but he might have stated the I hope he will do, the temperature at which it should ae’ gh as ch nd als — n parish, Aneel — 
case differently, and said that after deducting a fair be dried, all difficulty would have been cleared up. He win fi eee ‘tin this green green sant? 
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all cake empik: but then they sai prai the . The . 8 in a paragraph immediately enormous lizards that lived on this e by the Sacriang”, 
of the value e cake is to ound in the i ve- | following that on the above subject, Fele the use of | put to our use. (Roars of laughter. on before it 
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could only be done in certain loca alitien), Je might have geing ing weeds, which he trul t possesses, 5 r took a horse's le 
purchased with the 2007. more and b manure than This effect i is owin ng to o the presence of r etted hy- | it on our soil. Gentlemen, I will have a pit opened s of tan 
e manufactured. The result o 5 5 is that drogen, which is as injurious to vegetable life in any | to show you where they are. They lie ab ut 3 fet my 
he recommends a'l the roots to be consumed where they | other form as that of weeds. The same gas would also 
grow, by sheep, assisted by cake, and that the straw | be . prejudicial to the health of horses if intro- | their weight of sulphuric a „ spie 
should be converted into dung by beasts pe on it and | duced into the stable. Gypsum is the best substance | that actually my purchased manure costs me 2 
oilcake. It is doubtful whether the loss on the cake | for this fa and if pea 2 10 stable, either eee = ty — to tell you about a — 
would not quite equal that which he has e eee on on shelves or on the pav allow pans an N you that in the matter of proving 
his roots. But there is another way in which the roots | moistened, a ver 55 8 P producea By ae saw anybody else at work, I used to think ren m 
might be consumed, and it is supposed to return a fair the ammonia arising from the du ved, | but on one of my West Farm fields this year I have failed. i 
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mean by giving them to good store cattle, say Herefords, | air for some weeks, will b e gypsum—so m ch of it it w Sieur verg 5 *. 5 bailifs ons aas — 
which with plenty of Swedes and good fresh straw, will | as has aas ert by the: 8 in ibe: oa manufae- | the other, and they did not spare the dung, I ps 
increase in value during the winter, and many of them, | ture, to van * = Bae tie = d had it dressed down and worked it, that stiff clay, as fines 
i ? ' 2 , sand, We then drilled in 3 cwt. of superphosphate of lime. 
if fresh when ha into the 2 will came out in April Tha e for Ire 2—This isa problem | that is, those coprolites dissolved in sulphuri 
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— 7 not beef. t, however, mean to Say | that ia males y the wisest Beads for 5 last half cen- | said But to my amazement a large portiog 
aot not also 15 rg some so 0 or corn in|} tur ry, and seems likely to puzzle them for half a centu ury 8 field sated phe te anything bigger than this wi 
e ‘Gand by which also the manure would be im- | more, If the problem were ay . in the abstract, Beet like DOIMA T hoed up and oubeie ae held 
proved), but this is a point certainly not very well two words mi ight suffie e n tion and employment. | were all stifled, Now for the instruction, I had — 
ascertained. y object is to prevent the growth ke As to the former, most appea w to be agreed, that | dibbled, gar dener’s lines beln ng drawn d of the field 
roots being discouraged, which I am afraid might be the | education shon ld be o given Sach , separate or mixed, | o the other, 2 feet apart, and holes hoed out 1 foot apart, 
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a m ar, general or agricultural; as to the phosphate; there I had excellent Swedes. That manual 
into money by selling them, or by fedh ig sheep on | latter, share Ties the hidden rock, Jaid down in no chart, cost II. per acre. When you get a stiff clay, 1. mal tenes 
the land where grown. Store igs will also generally | so acted on by storms ane currents that no compass can | of the § jer him h ‘eit do pbc Lar —— c daughter — 
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complain again of bacon being r We r now e, yet, as stated by the te nib M 12 a a 2 shoud — 2 
have any of that deseri ee formerly we had, ‘Bear ds Lor rd Lieutenant, un of these has been applied by the . and ehil y ae 2 ung into the 
2 close of ay or a cured, I ‘attribute landowners to other porn s. Even if these had been | holes, 8 — 155 ed on the t 100 and ‘ten ie e gro * like 
e present excellent p i — bacon to be owing -e er appropriated, it is to be ERRESA that there are magic, (Cheer e next subject I 
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e sugar. | perhaps not as than three mi 3 1 3 all indi- Scale. ä was oing 7 nn Pon grand 
illed December or ae nt, some starving, for whom wanted at the} a s gutting heartily feed of has redeem out on eats 
January. hen the flitches, &c., are cut up, the ribs present time. wi agricu ent e do? The weather, it cuts the land all to peo 1 
3 e are left in each—about 16 i whole rents of the Bye hi are only reckoned at 14 work pm and tried to ten 1 e Tang = 3 1 
by 12; the saw should be slightly drawn across (but millions sterling ; if these were even doubled by an 
not to cut quite through), 3 8 r the sides to improved system of fanai, as divided amongst the Elm, bored by a wood bonte machine, "inches 2 
be flat. Let these, and the hams and face, de 5 three millions, there ould be less for each than The carpenter ee me 7d. a yard for ve bought 
slightly with salt (a handful or 5 and s in an in- 100. ap a or 4s. a week, a pitice which is scarcely | forcin pum was then made ge car p 8 
‘clined eich r drain for 24 hou ea 8 suficient to keep the gaunt wolf hunger oai the Lines yrs it runs 8 
from them quite cleared a awa ay. Ons iaae fro door. any plan of amelioration the | fn g 
5 oe We use 4 or 5 lbs. of salt, well dried ; eis * i never be lost sight of, that itis managed 1 thus :—I have got stumps place about 
6 oz. of saltpetre, 1 3 1} lb. of moist sugar, good | nearly the whole Se his to be ‘maintained from | forced up these st 
West India ; and 14 lb. of bay salt, pounded, Only | the land. What would Eogla and be without her manu- | placed at such distances that the water cart hasn’t farther to 
roma | more sugar for the hams (about 1 lb) and for — 2 a splendid ruin. The öle aad would be | &° than 250 yards to be filled; and the economy of the matter 
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ity, with a little more swamped with poor 8 as is mies e now in Ireland, | then I get a boy with two pony water-carts (for if you haves 
ve well altogether, and let at lere the rates hav n known 0 exceed the rents. = rge water-cart and a large horse, the weight of the animal 
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the other daily for a month (the hams ditto for six h 15 i i that a lad pumpi tls. a day—a lame lad mind—takes 12 
. ankruptey would e Even if the agriculture of pumping at Is. a day ‘eka ete 
wee nea Eor are then hung at the ae ot the ans 3 were to be raed a — — it is in os country, pooper 2 e Masia a ure elde manure fi 
toan e same difficulty would ; that country would this e of land was diluted with 18 hozsheads 
building — . from the ook: eos is vires stil be like England ab a de. We may see Well, e is the man pumping, 1s., the pony careand boy, uy 
and smoked by a constant fire for 10 or 11 days. The n from a partial stagnation of trade in Hogue, and a ian that enon son of the labour. Now ee. 4 
~— ` e oei chips, &e., and it is never allowed to ats 5 C nee being unemployed, what want, and if Italian Rye. grass is watered with liquid manure 2 * 
at all, but is kept smothered by sawdust, wet what ery, what discontent, what dee have cutting, it will grow in an incredibly short space of time 
pet or wet leaves. When brought in the hams are | aris «ho what does America owe much of her present | recollect when you mow down arus e Sara S 
up in large linen bags, so that they are 1 5 loose, f and 3 but to her surplus population jn the last 1 eee „ 
pa a strip of linen or calico is affixe lo er | being ced off upon her back settlements; wit . this, | frost, for it is that that does the mischief- — 
edge wages would be reduced and all her resources nar wed. | shall cutit again 1 foot high. If you pete li pr 
dropping, as it will do i mp weather, for they ar oe 1 dee possessed no such outlet for her surplus |“ the 8 = . 15 in this e t 3 u, “this arose 
hung up in a high passage, at the e na of which is an | population, no enlarged means of giving them employ- 1 tippy ” ’ 
oor generally oan The pac xing up in ike | ment, her case would be desperate ksi a wire Dorset = t very bad English. 
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y require the bags to be changed occasionally, to with the richest aes pat bert effort nie season, but what did the lippy season do for the 
them dry, and they are never left a moment out of ar 55 made to effect a permanent good. Law, Raw- that I cut only twice? So I gett 
and they come in at a time when all sorts 
pee at 1 1 forgot 1 to state, that sometimes at the close of | storne, Penwortham, Preston 
get rather dry—viz., in the mo 9 a 
pean xmas ace ON n eight in gold then, for you cannot vaiu worth 
preteen hes isa higher Ah 5 h treacle instead | Sotieti | somes in at ala, 10 e monti th of August itas 
* her flavour. E. P. M., Leicestershire. — ot ie if 8. its weight in gold—at least it is for Alis. 2 — August. 
The VV annual meeting of this | Fe der noad lee tol zee eee 
with perfect success in a family who are large users of Society, 2 folowing ‘speeche s were delivered by Rev. Hill 
ae 2 when be spoke of =A bar 
bacon. To the quantity of salt required for a large | A. Huxtable and C. W. Hoskyns, Esq. "Mr, Hill, the | plai ure you feel that w 
„ å lb. of coarse brown sugar is added. The flitches | ¥ winner of a pi offered by Mr. Huxtable for the ‘pest = y Pean To evry Seats inspection . 
are alow the. one upon another on a stone vas = be to| crop of Turnips had stated the particulars of his pete N i eee 223 la 3 employed before, them 
aliow 8 5 te Mhie ee Seat ees ell and management, ai e Rev = a ee 4 are now 15; pk: if whe — i and prot z abiy ex 
rtnight. he ices, after rom the observa e whic r. Hill has e e, by you see, | there are now 355). expended, and profita = iong se 
bein gentlemen, the may make of these prizes :—we get a isa national question. I hope shall n 
ued . he dried in Me kitchen, are pac d in a pretiosi aiken ana he tells us that his aie Fest Bim fritter — 1 ee pe erson 115 
box, wit ye £ lean, ry heat straw Tewi but IL. 4s. 2d. an acre, Now Til tell you what my manure cost, | or triumph. God forbid that T hold fail to ie G J 
th 3 d kept in a cool, dry place. 11 your enquirer and herein I rather differed from the Judges when they talked ance of — subject in a national point of view; * thes 
will use this plan, I will guarantee his never having to with me onthe hill. They said I ought to charge the value of | not be e. Now, with regard to the expense” 
omplain of reast f 1 A the farm-made dung. This I never do, upon the simple prin- you mas „ I have had to try wh 
glee fii y bacon, or of its not keeping. A | ciple tht in valuing my crops I put a price neither on my done for. Ihave had my cow sheds al! 
sized fliteh will require about 3 Ib. of coarse brown | straw nor — th therefore don’t value manure. Straw is | three times. Thave had the acs s 
sugar, J Ib. of common sa „ and 1 oz, of saltpetre, | as it were dead s —‘ dead!’ I should rather say it is the | going to alter it again. But: pe u are to 
straw t be perfecily dry and free from d H. great supporter of. ou farms, ‘But the artificial mauure I used | this experience, and you will be able to f 
—In reply to 3 g P „. y amp. £4. | was composed of 2 cwt. of dissolved coprolites in half their | Jowes st price that it has cost me. J was Y 
that his D . M. am not 1 Abad d 8 of satptrayie acid and seven put-loads of dung mixed hear Mr. Tiber r speak about capital, and say it oe nen 
t his bacon should be fermented. Whe e malt | With ashes. Coprolite means a dung-stone ; that is, in other | same thing whether you give a man capital o ort * 
dust became damp, heating eR be the pri que words, dung turned into stone, or fossil dung. It is avery | stand i 1 stead of capital to him. la 5 
and the f the h ? | remarkable discovery that has been made, Liebig says as | you that some persons whoo oa ht to know 4 
8 24 the bacon ld b tly what is de. 8 yo e pe g 
bed, , Nol u e A y wha s €- | England’ owes the strength of her eee oe ‘and her | land fords. are małe a use of my 
olts. [T sty = subject | power among nations, to the coal mine which exist in her, $o | known that I have 85 tats by agriculture ; 
appears — to. have been rucenty dis it will be discovered by and bye i unpopular and Pa ct use o 
Bacon. ou corresponden zi taal f her agriculture to = fossil deposi oan fossil bones which say that I hare poh 3 e tenant fa 
ford,” is not sufficienti sign g à pn among the s‘rata of her soil.“ Now, so far as Turnips | his money without a proper $ — A R is po 
y explicit in his directions for are the sine q 8 8 good a e this is the case. These | distrust your landlords pr you ni 
m to t of the being acted upon with — Swedes were p eee due to these dissoived things are casual. M uate 
88. i be hung ng stones Prix obtained in great auaa inina is my accounts, an 
the fire” friend toma nine, Mr. Lawes, impor one for, When 
fire has them 225 own neighbo 
