who exhibit for the йа апа == who: exhibit | owth of fungi ог infusoria ; 
the- chand 
butcher or the chandler in his horror of dni: Drainage — Your corre espondent'*O." has 
a hig 
fattened pig would be as solid as the fin nger of ч Falcon.” — and d I shall be happy to enter into & 
45—1853.] THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 715 — 
matter adopted in the article in the last Gazette. | average size, with all the other requirements demanded | 2s. 6d. per ton. They were laid in to — 
Nothing is more contagious, amongst the elass of persons | by “ Falcon," i. e., qua ality and symmetry, and, as can — were afterwards applied as a dressing to Potatoes, 
1 in agricultare, than slow movements constantly | now be proved, with all the powers of procreation. The Carrots, and A with manifest success ; I therefore’ 
рее , whether of the cattle, the i i o C 
Heh r th | 1 adopt precisely e same rule with cannot concur in the' opinion of Mr that the 
: Me ter rvation, I will venture to | pigs as they do with cows, and withhold the payment of urine of — the only portion of their dung whieh’ 
t where oxen are used on a farm, you will premiums until the sow shall have proved roduce is of value. І have seen these * nubbles?' 
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кын, — all the movements on the farm as slow as young, if she had been certified to be in farrow ; and if finer crops than the best farm - yard manure!’ Rob. B. 
those of the oxen. I observe that Mr. Stokes calculates not in farrow a certificate might be — that she Smith. Roxley Farm, Ewell, Oct; 27. 
on “ the he "feeding himself at leisure in the Grass fields had produced young at some given time before. The Draining — ies.— The wee | paragraph of 
or in the yards, without the help of man ;' but ber. | great utility of this society being tlie transfer of breeding your correspondent “ P. M’s, ” munication, in last 
used oxen as extra working s stock, at particu ular periods stock from one part of the country to the other, thé week's — — lead some ef y your rendersto 
of the year, I have found it impossible e to get sit вінен intelligence of the purchasers would be a sufficient gua- that there are but those two draining — in 
work out of them, СР keeping them, as well as the | rantee 2 all the young stock bought; and the exhi: London of which he names the engineers. There is, 
CA itore, finding it would not answer their purpose however, another company, which occasionally advér- 
| [рин pe * for which they could not find a market, tises in your columns (viz., “the Landowners’ ), and 
t having seen the pamphlet referred to in your p & praetice now so much com- — was established several years before either of 
л of seat Oct, 22d, on * The Ox as а Beast of intend ch of. Clod- usher, “Р. M." refers to—having two nm 
Burden,” I would like to know whethe ia пе author, in The Puri 7 1 ‘effect of Steam on Mouldy or ид —— names must be familiar to several your 
his enn of the cost of draught labour by four substances may not be generally known ; and as there readers. A Subseri 
horses and eight oxen, on a farm of 100 acres, during a are at the present time so many haystacks shat seem Mien is a Wheel a "Lever lt is — hard on our 
period of eight years, has taken into consideration the more а for — than fodder, it may be of service to general readers*to allow so much s to be occu 
additional cost of manual labour occasioned by the use of | some of you ers if -— ‘from vm = — by the discussion of such questions as — is a“ 4 
ght oxen instead of four horses. Youatt makes Ше Шо = + property of steam may be applied во as to а lever!" No опе can doubt but that the arms of a 
comparison thus £ s d. ren apparently — = — — I windlass are levers; | 1 a mov 
Cost of keep of eue per annum . . г. Б eee tostock, I had last year a stack of . the moving power — enen is the friefion of: 
(ndn tauro ario inn a Oats, which were carried in wet — T — | 
ds л Nr rur | mouldy, and were found, on opening the stack, to be correspondent — H.“ wa, at — of 
— ite and matted together with the €: that it w ould the leverage thereby lost. A wheel, in fact; is an aggr 
— deterior Lag — Aer = be useless to а — thresh them out, and the very | gation of levers. A Cambridge Wrangler. 
ds; 5 9 Pigs turned up hee noses’ at them. I ane efore deter’ Agricultural Retrogression, Manufacturing Progres? 
Deduct for increase of value 30. each per year . 12 A: to try t ect of steam; so cutting up grain sion; Limerick — is now over seven Р 
2 straw — J put the chaff i into а pan (belongings — a society for the encouragement of i 
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Showing a balance of 117. per annum in favour of oxen, to а Stanley's ссы appara wi and passed the steam industry and do c economy was formed in mo 
If, however, the two horses could be worked by one | dur ugh it. The —— ued was at first very and for the entire county — Limerick. The county 
man, and the four oxen would require a man and a boy, | fusty and — but * minutes this became Limerick, in an agricultural 1 point of view; is 
the cost of the latter is clearly chargeable to the oxen, | very sweet and fragrant, — on the pan being emptied amongst the finest est in Ireland. The eit; of Limerick’ 
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balance of 27. in favour of horses, des the gre | ici of the ay. I in Trela t in Great Britain, in a trading an "M 
convenience of being able to editio the same breadth | i up this ——— by cutting: up the whole of mercial, if not in a manufacturing’ point of view. Thé 
of land with half the number that would be required of t e Oat stack int ff and steaming it. The horses county of Limerick had always to trust to corn- ii 
oxen. J. P. T. d remarkably fond of it, and throve well upon it. beef, mutton, pork, and butter producing, to meet he! 
= I tried a similar process this year with equal success various demands; Vet, singular to state, that this, the 
upon flooded hay. The Grass was cut after the flood finest.county in Ireland і | 
cT Correspondence which ‘had lain it for nd | | nad 111 
ast year none of this manure was to be 
got as usual for oum spring crops. We consider it not һай subsided, and was dried, more for the purpose of stranger still, that in the cropping of lands round the 
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backs as a caustic, and the dáiiaged ad. recover | of the muddy hay, e att v more like river weed lages in Ireland, not excepting Skull, Skibbereen, § 
e ds by its fertilising properties. Some say gu than anything else, cut into chaff and steamed, having riff, or Clifden. Some of your various readers may be 
e, exhausts a soil, &c. ; but 2 ewt. an | previously had the silt knocked out of it. In this s case, now anxious to know why things appear here 80 para- 
ме fr Wheat and Barfy, and 1 cwt. with bones for also, I found that the muddy smell entirely disappeared, doxieal. The answer is easy of solution ; and I here, ав! 
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aem in the v b ev "sd a finer da better the best gotten’ bay could -— у smell emitted during heart's core,” must 
for Swe us. | the steaming being very similar to ibat produced by ves, downright ignorance—not so muc the ignorance of 
Major Stephenson (unhappily Juitted rr earth) was | brewing, When the — is eel and dry, it — for | the labourers or the rent-paying farmers, for they were 
one with us, in these trials, and: Chris эм з. Hants, | some days this peculiar fragrance, How far such food ignorant because education was denied them, but the 
misses this fatalligent solii farmer ; Seh men are а is nutritious I have not yet fully einst; hithert о T ignorance of the owners of the soil. I commenced by 
loss, he had his men well drilled as — as his corn, have found horses and stock do very well u it, wit stating that more than seven years ago am agricultural 
and he did good amo bet the laboure rs by t these and prefer it to either — or Clover — It — was formed in Limerick. Chance brought me 
such like agricultural instructions. T at good old proverb,“ Make [eet = one of these first occasions, and 1 clearly 
,n ot sense or reason even has guided some hay" while the sun ines” —À like many other good foresa he failure in the distance; yet р by no means 
id yield —— e encroachin ng зевай of | — —.— eee a failure as Ї ‘saw in — a 
a = trial of this manure, of 2 2 ewt. an acre t Jee must cb appear in this homely | Limerick, w agaim brought me n the 20th 
Barley crop, produced an increase, upon the field sown, puise, w “Make hay while is — boils’? At the risk of | ult., till bal ü vem I T had heard dae if anythidy af the 
of four sacks of corn’; the usual yield was six or my credit, I must further confess to having a stack of | society i pr — Som — t months ago the local 
seven sacks, but generally the former. The old yeoman Clover which the —— in July got to before it was papers teemed with adve isements, s, апа — dead walls 
м III ; in tha it is i mo | ov — ich placar: 
addition EF. * dry. Son hay," i.e: here “ Artificial bottom; but instead of turning this directly into manure, “ the great Munster far, ” to be held in Limerick about 
5 э for which i id of steam, | 
Gloucester, of © Paleon,” i in your looking forward to making Christmas beef of it, by the | agricultural exhibition to take place on the 20th of 
Gazette of the 15th init; —— g the pigs at the Royal way. How far does mould, if not in too advanced a ee gerne — notice & warning was given to the 
p ty’s meeting at Glo ucester some severe remarks stage of growth, troy the nutritious qualities of “m tee," as it is called; of the utter 
naging co — 
e, on the over-fattening of the swinish’ multi- Clover! Fermentation, which presents to — m — * failure of the е exhibition, if post to so late a period, 
; and a — t ation given that in the ear in which it occurs, ima state better adapted for digest and the a es certain to acerue . aving 96 
1854 it will be necessary to classify exhibitors, those is s supposed by some chemists to be = sedes to hé exhibition held — day before the fair commenced. "E 
ng ; may mot mould, by a show did ebme off as I told you, on the т? dit ) and 
2 — o a pra man, 21 — 3 process, leave the Clover in a more such a — w I have never seen at a mere 
iting advi the breeders of En land, I thin k | digestible state, and therefore in a more nutritious — village exhibition in any part of Ireland, even wher 
* Faleon ” might have remembered: the Royal | dition, if not su бегей to extract from it too much of its such things were in their infancy,’ within the Јаве 30 
Society’s meeting is not — either-Tor- or ine goodness as that I saw im the great city’ 
; but lard and 
ip seems to have forgotten to suggest an thing into a difficulty by drainin th estate af bis employer 
like a practical remedy, as he also seems to have едра; on the fashionable up-and-do d-do n system, th A 
looked the effect that — be produced by stuffing which do not 
‘animals to repletion. He says, “It was interesting to | correspondent, w — equ g* €: С. refers p 
touch some of the pigs—the finger was buried in wort, to a paper by me; in the last number of the “Journal | 
ike substance resembling: — and the coun- | of the Royal Agricultural Society,” on the cheap and 
lance:so buried in blubber that it was difficult to v div | efficient system of draining so 
tinguish the head from the tail.” Now, to my mind, | 15 years; by Lord Berners, at Keythorpe, and om the 
the effect that would be produced by over-feeding swine geologieal conditions on which its suecess depends. If 
would be quite the — of this ; the back o hly | * C." will communicate with me as under, in his proper 
Limerick. Аар the short-horned 
у Cand, Which- has been attempted to be ee esponden th him; and if I find the Keythorpe there was but one e of — and the got 
Нан — ee " the estate under his care, I have no | € i as made an Irish bull.) Here — 
fi. Lind dati in pigs of the small breed the — doubt I can put him in the way of carrying it into i 
rdi d only excluded two, i. e., one boar and one sow, | effect, so as to save from 30s. to 50s. am acre for bia g eh 
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pon reading: the remar F —I have j our journal of 
visited this gentleman's farm, where І found the over- | October 22 Mr. Hutley’s remark om the application of horned dark 
fat boar had been in constant use from the time of the sheep dung to fresh-sown Barley, which he says pro- No 
meeting to the — eg 
— aor Boo. oie of faz ws as was e ever 1 med! ing the g 3, 
exhibited at at any of the Society's Бей From the | of Kildare, i in Ireland, whic walk, | section 
CESS ‹ ‘this exhibitor at Exeter, — quein. | мез is well known as the celebrated: racing ground. On 
and from the great is land very large flocks of sheep are kept at certain 
A for his stock, there can sige doubt! essai x when we ran short of manure, it was our 
inj ce was done him, и-н two of ice t to gath these “nubbles 
considerably more than an [4 in baskets, and for which we » paid at ‘the rate of about 
еек oin dition ; T rem 
calf, she was the only cow in the yard worth; 
