| 35—1853.] THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 557 
of different erent manures, and have for some years done the| Chemi istry is ew 3 of more am to | tory,and have b eeu 
iik. always having my Arm fy graceful Be . your | agriculture ; and the experimental hes in the | practice. І can only aqu they Loy be r in the 
р laboratory at Cirencester, on "the following "plants use sed |spirit 1 in which I conducted them, and that they will 
— г. 5 = паа e a pre state, will be tefull ived by u^ useful to others." 
ig br — arm. — When many thousands of miles capable of appreciating their — We pate the | The third value 
distant ^ old England, I was much p to in — Pini P arrange pes according to the two great 201), but iy adis | ar мн RE of the eee 
t tur tte Estimate of a Ram breed- | classes of alimentary „эел tabularly thus :— | Kineardinshire. The object in view is tard stated Sid 
m ;"—nowt ve return about to 
convert my “ sword into a ploughshare," would you or Nitrogenised or | Non-nitrogenous 
some of your good-nat lite readers be good enough Water. flesh- h-producing heat and fat forming Inorganic matter, 
to favour us with some data for à Pig breeding Farm. NAMES OF Pire. substan eue x Per cent. 
Most of us have seen cattle, sheep, horses, &c., &c., b е‹ Natural Natural | Dried | Natural | Dried 
А a large scale, but I have never farm appropri- | state. | state. | 212 F. tate. | 212 F. 
ated exclusively to breeding and rearing ime vr 77 80 
swine. No s now pays better, and seleet 2. Wh ver, Trifolium repe — IM Za е — 
may always apres eg sa + Мег" o | 3. Yellow Clover, Medicago lupulina 77.570 | 4.481 20.00 15.949 | 71.09 
begin moderately, suppose ws ; what | 4 Alsike Clover, Trifolium 76.670 | 4825 | 2069 | 16445 | 70.49 
land would be requisite, and — should i it be cultivated ? 6. pew aes Give — — aa y ovg —.— 
For store pigs, I have dari 7. Sainfoin, Onobrychis sativa 77.320 | 8512 15.50 17.438 76.87 
highly praised, Seve been ended | 8. Vetch, Vicia sativa — Ú 82.16 3.56 20.00 12.74 71.37 
to my notice, such as the зр жаы — Neapolitan, 5 t White Monet D - оду Š —— 2481 1294 | 14899 55 
China, Cumberland, „ ап ariety known by | 11, Leaves of Е Symphytum om T an vim 
the name of its chief breeder, Mr. F isher Hobbs. н 88.4 2.712 23.37 6,898 4 
have an advertisement 0 rnal this week for a 12 “say = F ditto — 9474 0.69 13.06 3.81 72.49 
farm, I care no f what extent, from 50 to 200 13. Ita —— nn vd 
acres if a desirable one, and i y intention to get | 14. Flower im wer, Brassica онун 88, 844 33.80 6.702 58.60 0 
lly into Pig breeding ona 5 4 scale, as I gather |, Leaves of di swe | 89.01 8.61 32.43 6.53 59.67 8 
a tire уч ener dec ood sow wil 1. 7 гр Ве oleracea es ».| 86.98 4.75 34.68 7.10 5i. 1 
. gold Leavy TE 91960 | 1.764 22.019 4.984 61.912 ? 
рау ш п а year under good management than ў. T of Swedish Turnips 88.367 | 2.087 17.944 1.950 62.320 ї 
ok of dis, and the difference i in first cost ! ! I confess, 18. 1 nip Tops, Norfolk Bell 91.284 | 2456 28,175 4.740 54.386 | 1.520 | 17 000 | 100,000 
— e me, so I resolved to have the question — de- The other paper is from a series of experiments made * Economy of erection with sufficient accommodation 
t : through pe kindness you grant me permission in the years 1851 and 1852, for the purpose of obtaining | and systema c compact arrangement to ensure comfort 
unched in your columns. These are — evidenee, positive or Vin on anbury, a disease | to the stock, t ding them, 
vide felicis should stick together, and help each other, | which has given rise to a vast amount of discussion, and to save al in en 9 plans with 
may materially do by rine’ communicating Experiments, when as — are alwa, ifications for mason, carpenter, and slater work are 
results of their experience. - If a farmer will prosper he valuable, iven ; have been зея M ai es ce and found 
ust be a thinking, caleulating exper ; to do on The thi rd is on the “ cipia. of th e Landlord a ul. They pe es, stalls, and ано 
as our fathers did, though they did well, is to retrograde, | Ineoming Tenant," a subject now en e ae yards for stock, open } 
d thi -trade forbids. In conclusion, I shall say a | tion of the lature, and — continue to do ^ unti nure tank for 4000 piu ES * er, which is is 
word about implements, and their cost. I am uring a thorough reformation of our territorial made. | menti having been wh 
a plan, which those friends to wl v entioned | The paper is partly р ctical апа pues iieri cal ыр manure іп pa е last winter, са HA the 
it are pl d to say likely to b а. favourably re- | 509 tive, are quoted, proving our present | stock mig n in box: er coy 
ceived. I shall however reserve this a future com- | entail laws unfit " the objeet for whieh they Vite. (not verita wit d on ET in front), thereby saving 
munieation, merely h that it is —— on a system ramed, and — ing that when borrowed capital is the expens mping, and also a la 
which has p roved а successful in other mat- | invested in improvements, such Setting, returning ence od avi s n presume. | he steadings erected, 
f redeeming interest, it is not a burden but the reverse, | however, hav s to "гес end them beyond their 
Wheat afier Vetches 1 have always noted am any- Drains, Semin nba Ms are subject & аг and wear, аа. merits ud the whol f e for , can be 
thing e relatin icultu y ence i roposed that the lender of the last capital | converte ing boxes at pleasure. 
ag ss gentleman that in segs п of — in such shall have the . of all others, thir ze essay of 107. * On Drain-tile and 
Weite. c one half cut up for cattle, m afterwards use in t is the bl ther | Machines" follows. e paper gives an 
manured, the other - left for seed, and n anured, | expedien d to encourage a the rent machi which have been laid before the 
and sown wi t, the crop in that part giuva sicd investment of i Iture, one of the most ehe Ыы T 8 bine and therefore we sha 
was by far the best. 1 told this to Farmer pue es, who important of Mr. Caird’s propositions as Commissioner n it. The and sixth 
ed heartily at gentlemen farmers ; but about 10 for the Times, such as а ificati the Hypothec papers ; exhibit tabular ists P ploughing ma 
ears afterwards he inquired if I remembered a sto w of the sister country, limiting its operation to the | see mpetitions, and the last * Proceedings 
gave him regarding Vetches, and how he ridiculed my an produce of th farm, thus affi g tenants also e by Dr. Anderson. i gs Р is 
info: Now, says he, I need your friend | an TET x: as capital more лый: by means | thus а valuable one in both departm 
was right, and if you will look at such a field you will of cash with their ba nkers A maxim 
see an example of it. How candour, and | theory of — is * suggested, i. e, hat la — Tun second volume of qood new edition of the 
how seldom do we meet with such an instance of it! instead of letting their farms under value, i in the hope of Britannica is ri articles of 
tory lead is inquiry: if the land be so | tenants increasing them, increase aves, | rural as well as general i «A culture " by Mr. 
much benefited by sun and air, how isit that the shade | and let them accordingly. Practically, i is ed to John Wilson, and * Agricultural md " by Prof. 
of the Vetches — — — doubt take the statistics of the away-going crop by actual Anderso two — of sta merit, e 
drop, but putting that against the eoa t of m how | weight and measurement, and regul the rent opinions of the ucation, "rem 
stands ; the balance b between shade and icine. Reed — i the out-going tenant — 3 to er as they do from a — сбыта ae 1 farmer, 
,b 
Py Leni of Vetches per acre, and t they vill stifle 
ugly, 
neration for i increase, if an 
r decrea 
Were such the law, i in the absenee of stipulation, it would 
Pene n the land, and be a very profitable 
Foes. 
Vebiews. 
en 
ck — = —— and Transactions 
B Society. W. Blackwood and Son, 
ure, and Transactions of the H 
cultural Society,” co 
the latter seven, which we shall briefly notice in the 
order they a ar. 
The first i is a continuation of the subject of * -- 
ntages of each being. — ox 
w walls of stone or brick—* jerry” 
x improvements, or else bind — tenant by s strict covenant 
d 
so, а course which w 
ord, to execute the per- 
ments, is thus avo ide 
measurement of the  away-going сгор, or 
e тео crops of yearly te 
volves a very important statistical | — rine, for 
one such A turns y reduced to practice, it would afford 
— ta for determining the intervening periods 
right, in common wi 
ем devin hs 
settle | wit 
per shows the fiars [average ices in 
ih papse and the fifth, tables toin od — 
Figures are al ways an interesting 
y. 
The Transactions open with the usual preliminary 
notice to Vol. VL, showing the state of t 
which is highly satisfactory, vi with one solitary exception 
oreigu — e. 
: nm 
аз being DCLLCL 
1 
paper із one of а long series, 
а 
clades 4 with — observations on various 
second is a 2 — able oot giving a "reper 
pee view of a series of experiments Meg 
tables— 
third, 4 ; the. fourth, 9 
experiments 
improvements 
c: 
have asily "otherwise com ed. To 
ot have 
topie of 
3 "e with zine, fe — 
насен is * The а нас nem e an 
ns tw 
—.— — З 
Food М sce 
98 ^ Finger Thirsk, | 
ue nt 
tale бш М.М, „ Milburn, 
nger and Tse in зке ан дау 
been 
enter upon the auis of the several v ere- 
fore resent narrow limits ; 
i 
| knowled wf of manures, as they 
| affect our sols crops, The Dae га so far satisfac- 
mpi ma 
ind с mar 
wo fifth, 13; and the si sixth, 
14 we 
Ment ae A to be quoted at length. 
* But the mere possession of capital does n СЕА 
man € being а farmer, nor > there A virtue inher: 
ina to insure his succ To these must be added 
probity, knowledge эйе - business, and d in pro- 
tions are t 
to | secu 
education (in def p sense of that t Ve) and are 
no d for without it than good crops 
without good h be cme — instruetion 
A.. 
, form ^ armer's 
a saunas "but Чо this — Ve added, possible a 
fashion to ask, 
classical curriculum, It has 
* Of what use are Greek 
Bere fi to а аен" ^ ed, 
apart from the benefit efit which it is 
to him, in common 
ture of language, and 
Б 
dep statedl 
ade e proficient in every von of work perform 
farm, it is a good professional training as far as it go 
e more common one—at ards the 
of farmers— which consis ts of Көе 
about 3 any stated Li mut , attending f fairs and: 
e fe and — 
prise any on 
—.— h s lads often prove incom- 
petent for the — of life, and have to yield their 
f 
re vigorous men who have dra p the 
efit of * bearing the yoke in their youth. Unless 
are kept at bongo either M rer or of body, 
uring sta confine- 
ment to one place, an e to their su 
riors have ceased to be — — is little hope of 
