51-1847.! 



THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 



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THReSSSS MACHINES (Four horse 

 T^Ttf lo»d« of Wheat-straw per 



inr agricultural <£a?*ttt, 



sj TI'i7dAY, DE CEMB ER 18, 1847. 



con a point of the first importance, which was 

 S referred to by M. Dezeimeris in a past Num- 

 «rofthc "Transactions of the French Academy 

 d Sciences :" — " Every where and always the pro- 

 •xeofafarm is proportional to the quantity of 



(HA in the country, i 

 tamz is miserable, a 

 tacxiel and perfect tl 



pet what is requi 

 f the worst? J UI 



obtain 1 ton ul grain beyond the natural proc 

 of the soil, there ought to be an increase 

 weight of stock of 1000 lbs. In order to b»._ ou 

 wHi a b Sted S f l t0 the hlgheSt State ' : 

 means of imported food (such as hay and oil-cake) 

 as will be equivalent to the increase of grain 

 required. As the green crops lucre* 

 year the same amount of meat will be produced, 

 but the importation of artificial food will gradually 

 decrease to the point at which the internal a ' 

 ternal resources of the farm are so balance 

 secure the largest amount of produce fromthi 



thus appear, be increased 2400 lbs. abov 

 "natural" production — i. e. above the qi 

 which the natural supply of ammonia would enable 



me that the principle, whi< 

 ed to exist, be fully understood for 

 ice of practical agriculture : — 

 hat the amount of meat or live weight of 

 produced upon a farm, should bear a fixed 

 relation to the quantity of corn exported, 

 Tr is Mr. Lawes say " "" 



iwfcctly bears out that of France. The i 

 to keep upon his farm, the 

 alio is he able to grow. 



Mr. Lawes has thrown most instructive light 

 iround this result in his valuable paper on Agri- 

 •■' ' hennstry, published in the last Numbei 

 :. - 

 abIIj explained the proportion which necessarily 

 «n»fc between the quantity of meat made 

 C2 7 ° f c °™ grown. Perhaps the ] 

 waot bis paper— one, too, to which he 

 ••woy the results of many experiments— is the great 

 '■portance of ammonia in a manure. Tr 

 «*» ingredient to which the crop has 8 

 «w elements of its food being present, as they 

 "J generally are, in sufficient quantity) detei 

 •Jut\-of max J™, of its produce. It is all tru 

 Nnlv f t 1 ?- flounshes under a merely natural 

 iSLinr substance . but the very idea of Art 



urvwhe ln ^ ddltlon to the natural, are 

 » rLerel "^^ farmer desires to reap mo, t tll „, 

 ="B ; ath Vna, " ra | produce - Th e effect of the am- 

 «alr(« »p K d a PP ears from the results of 

 *W«e "'of Jhe AWES - q "° te8 . t0 b ° * ]m * ] y 

 •"w- it m l P m,ts characteristic !■■..- 



"wch? S rpH7 e f green . Cr °P s m ore luxuriant ; the 

 "fflrSL °f a » Tain cr °P ' 

 ^ DOu ; seeds of leguminous 



T ^»«aJt S sTn m0nia may be a PP lied ' 



characteristic features 

 in its 

 periments shi 



• 

 ^;ongoe 8 n to U8tbe 



dded to YhVsoil. ~A 

 would expect, 



■ «e ii • alance the Iosp> 

 2" And it is on .1 e Turni P cro P> from the 

 & sbllt asmall nJ- 01 th , at , in the '^ding of 



• tin the<rm„ u r rn, P husbandry as an instru- 



nS 1 C0 "'ain 1 lb '??" In th f manur e ; 28 lbs. 

 Z T m has tan'crK f, Uro .g en ' hut an average of 



2* "o* U m l g 5 lbs - are returned to th* B 'Jl° 



Ph J tf all th!« e a P assa ?e exhi 

 *ed_ t«"s on the point with 



required 

 :orn. To 

 of stock, 



expense, he would natural: 



n irreen crops, in order to 



most profitable conditions upon which his corn 

 could be raised, his chief attention would be paid 

 to the economical supply of food for his stock, in 

 full confidence as to the consequence* i 



y of keep for stock, during the coming wint 

 branch of ftgrieoli 



suggestion really calculated to produce a better 

 economy in the manufacture will be acceptable to the 

 farmer and useful to the community. 



For there is a great deal of delusion on tl 

 feeding stock : the profits appear larger than they 

 nd, especially In those 



d, is apt to pre-occupy a good deal of the at- 



: m of food for man. But it is 

 -«-- We more closely 



mon to hear t 



raft! that is rea 



by the man li- 



the land. By 

 nploy a large 



attending fairs and sales, while th r Vi 



d and expensive, the small margin of clear profit 

 ill the rest, in a small herd, after toe ™luej>f 



:•■;,;.■■•■""-:■ ' -■'■■. 



large as to small herds, because the liabi 

 larger scale. This remark is of course pom 



to the injury of the laD 

 ie public at large. Bui 

 be fully . 



an be 

 manured : and only then, 

 rder to understand 



V- r . ! ; 



be readily imagined. Far 

 •, the food has become ecu 



liirdly, what has becomi 



i body, and the breat 



the bottom)— una again exposed piece 



fallow in August for the sun r.i d vund— lth< r :• 



process pretty commonly adopted by tne • 



eofthebest-manaj 



+ m remedy consists in the box-feeding " < ; '" ™ lkd > 

 of the larger cattle, and the * 

 *'— the walled tide of a shed, about 3 feet wide runs 



•. • •-. 

 due out a foot or a foot and a half deep, and the sides 



:':. :,-; ;:■-:,- ■ !i -- 



above the surface of the ground : the bottom enouiaws 

 pitched, or laid with 



v |i> '.• : 



3g the whole length 

 s nailed upon 



ratt- the cattle, 



which are left loos< 



: 



the lest compa< 



lass, and is so I 



i truth of this, the firstlanyeecape i 



