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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 





Farmers' Clubs. 



United East Lothun : Reports fo% 



Jr. Howden, LaVvhead, of his experimen 

 wo lots of cattle of ditiux.-.t bre, Is, for 

 tiium of 10/. has been awarded. The s 



that the Turnips had suf- 

 ill think the plan which I 







ffifift?$ 



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spring of this year, and sown with Or, v .' 



Oats. Before harvest the effects of the drains were 



crop on the deep drains w; 









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e *° J 0U1 the reply f the Duke of Leister?— ' 



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^^fen/ this Proposition"' tlfe C 'Council hav< 

 *£f 5~ThrUh g eC e o S u°nc Ut l i0nS = 



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^^ed.-^n,^ 01 ' 011 of other business, the Counci 

 Dubhn Farmer's Gazette. 



lowing Table* exh 



inds of dra 



thrown away, having positively hurt the crop materially 

 into the bargain. (Signed) George Hope. 



of land, drained every 16 feet with ebb drains. Since 

 then an old stone drain has been discovered running 



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result from it useless. (Signed) G. H. 



The sub- committee beg to report tint the experiment 

 in question was conducted under their inspection. L - he\ 



by Mr. Hope, from time to time, and that the terms 



prescribed by the Society in regard to their offer for 



the [run nis 1 ve 1 en stri 



sub-committee are likewise of opinion, that the said re- 



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The following is the report by Mr. A. Howden Law- 

 head, on Fattening two d>jff\ re it hu f£ ut J 1 ''^ 



cross of that breed, the other polled Angus, Aberdeen, 

 Galloway, or Fife. Keeping in view the object sought, 

 at my request a friend purchased for me 10 polled 

 Angus cattle at the Falkirk market upon the 14th 

 October last : soon after which I bought at Jedburgh 

 10 cattle bred by Mr. Elliot, of Gatebousecot, they 

 being a cross of the short-horn breed and above two 

 years old. By adding a short while's keep to the price 

 of the three years old° polled cattle, the cost of the two 

 lots was exactly the same wher * 





wedes, the weight of which w 



efore, to the Tabuli 



a lot of cattle equally, giving to one \ a!f of the numb r 



half Turnip-, w,*h 10 lb<. of h ay ("our own produce),. 

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 (Signed) A. H. 



Fattening two different lots of Cattle :— 



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proposed by Mr. Andrew How' — »" 

 ment upon, of I 



though we co:i- 



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continued on Whi: 



-horns began to get Swedish Turn 

 particularly state.: 



i field at that place a number of brick 



isats^ b« i ^r\ <*% h t a f 



| about 4 inches in diameter 



U"S about 



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« The state of these drain-. 



(and the account of these is useful as an instance of the 

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 ,uted and attended to, may 



