746 THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
le of observation, give conclusions series for ead profit during the continu- 
Ben Nus added up, de мнр іп a suf- of the riment. These facts tell with 
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db accurate total. The bias telling in ed great шей "Mte on all who are disinclined to 
geen direction is * in the Dtocóos of addition— | admit the pur of what is called high feeding—and 
cesses plus and minus in the sev ai so they ought were there not another 1 of the ru 
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series x 
ps neutralise one DEM in calculation, if those subject also demanding attention, whi 
ty. The by Mr. Н 
cases possess sufficient number and variety. y ARKNESS in the following | convincing n 
commercial value o overnment scheme is manner. The truth is, it is not the profit р head к 
therefore, we think, not to be lost sight cemere s but the profit per acre, that is the true test of | 
that on which Mr. Pusey more especially counts is any farm practice involving the 8 of the 
undoubtedly лузги a ae all —— labou r and the food grown upon the farm. Mr. Han RENESS | 
cost which will be rred. Sue 'ey," he says :— a vn 
“s I thi ik, im at Re es: | * Taking a superficial glance at the Tables, we would be 
mays; should no У. t 1015 d ied ot ith t think that No. 5 experiment of T : shows that the greatest 
tion of our year y узе or corn, WI a view 9 net gain is obtained from the animals fed upon Turnips and 
i immediat dep ndence on foreign straw alone—namely, 21. 11s. 113d. per head: but the true question 
meas is will yield me 
most money for my 30 — ms of Sw waa? Now, M the Logan 
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improvem: ment of 9 whieh n with the Tables and experiments be correct—and we have no reason to | 
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present. century and is strengthe with its doubt them 
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raw, without either raw or cooked me not pay so much per 
advance. -It is, 1 indeed, this “statistical "object for acre as the experiment No. 6, in which — en nag fed on two 
whisk lam myself chi iefly an | moderate feeds of Turnip, and one feed of с chop. Looking 
at the column of Table 2 entitled, 4 — per aere, at 
“If ascensus — pren elde ‘had M анна ‚ 20 tons for ango and 30 tòns for eie it will be found that 
menced with tury, as wel f the raw-food sy = experiment No. 5, as instanced by Mr. 
50 — * Pall, yielded 20i. . per acre; whereas, the feeding by 
population, ‘his rural ] picture of the lst д Меч pip art oor food, yielded, for the Turnip mone (ex- 
have bee aluable, B М, thou p 
en my e. u M gh of paying for all artificial foo od), the sum of 24/.. 6з. 3d, 
fuck must мене for the past, ат glad MA it per Er € . 5 ui to - coo = ш, бишей 
1 umber of cattle for which eac of feeding will yield six 
zs at oed crt t A Gtr 47 ES tappi | months’ green food per acre, will get a key to solve the apparent 
e rate provement 15 difficul He will then see that if he fed his cattle upon 
The e at of the many ЕВ заа 5 Swedes alone, and straw uncooked, he can but'keep 22 of ‘cattle, 
nis t Mr. P lett f t, —— with the eooked food in experiment No. 6, he is enabled 
poin т. Pusry’s letter refers must, in to keep. r about one beast — er acre besides pay ing for 
p 
the present — of our columns, be postpone ей i b Bean-me “J Thus, Mr. OCH is perfectly correct in 
ting, as he does, in "Ihe extraet which we ш їп опг 11 
for eek, 8, 
оао Ру. remar ks, that each a of M angold or Swedes 
Тнк last number of the * Monthly Journal of the * lg 
Royal Agricultural Improvement Society of Ireland,” s > EN чоп а ee vindi крадени 
is again а very bae ы. one, A diens on the | The re one additional aspect of all 
recently-published experiments on sTALL FEEDING 3 and that arises out of the fitness of. ды 
CATTLE took place before the — meetin i the particular kind of feeding, that may be adopted, to 
rm of the Society on the Ist of this month, and the — of the animal so treated. 
ed i е have extracted inanother mi ht ll appear from experiments on 
id 
et 
Page am interesting contribution to the general mass a lot of wild mongrels that feeding on 
of —— e then elicited, by Mr. food, growing naturally on the hill side, was 
intelligent steward of Counsellor more Profitable than box-feeding on yate 
Sprint of Larkfield, Lucan. And we shall Linseed, a MERE Tra but ze on 
material on w ich Mr. Ha pows eet ns BREE ROE, Hereford, or : Devon oxen. AS sar tical 
were founded, LITTLEBO was a of the farmer is nowhere shown.more LED 
successful example d the 4 fashioned. kdo. con- he os өл his management м the character »| 
ducte a 6. е M nee? manner. His plan is described the stock he is feeding. And even the cas 
as — pm TAa eee INC NN Co . M' Dovarr's Galloway oxen, — as the 
— the first two weeks gave them a moderate 8 results are doubtless recorded, must not be read 
e 9 дозоре and what Oat str B they could consume; by the farmer of Berwickshire or — a8 
e th rnips, and fourth week like ly to be ex 
увы aad cone to give ee 8 and v abundant supply of stalls, de e e y T animals а eee e ; the 
at icm uncut, up to April 2d; we then gave two feeds \ erodes, 2 re well-bred animals are consuming 
— 8 one feed Mangold, with 14 ‘tbs. Italian Rye-grass hay each produce of his f. nerous diet w 
of sa 
ill 
ales 
which will be shown г 6. the balance-sheet. "Тһе entire feeding РЕТ, іп such beset) where it it would result in a ls 
consisted of Turnips, Mangolds, straw, and hay, all uncut; I else Where. 
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терау {һе ‘veranda э oian, for . E qe any, wis that | “SYSTEMS” IN DRAINAGE. 
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the finish as they — ich were as sound up to — Tug article in T" last Number wes The Key- 
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‚ The other instances quoted were those of se fort 5 eee eurer пирана 
t it me un 
vete of Log: Mr. Eron - of. Harley humble ‘opinion upon the subject ol land drainage as 
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an grain ee. — cime cient opportunities to observe in the 
— libe liberality. And it may be thought "hath wide practice, 3 dis be permitted to жашт баву —.— 
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“was an сурону of of: MN the two — vich Some egree of — that they are entitled to ei 
Я пне ne у some of those | fair consideration, 
Hin the discussion same season and It appears to me, then, that there is too much of 
de the ае of mere locality, “system” in draining, as in many other things. We 
4 F. TLEI Y А all ‘tk rere) 
and е 1at the shortest Way to extensive rep , 
at while in ra fes е5 is to adopt some peculiar 
7 ‘system ” or mode practice; . ; - 
cameo] sionally sueeeesful, hentia a er a 
— „(Turnis at 8s., and. -Mangolds at 10s. J question whether the deck in public are — EXT 2; 
а ton); e in the instane ce of the great losers вве: e yet in drain. 
latter, — 1904 100 days = 244/ in six ing, as their Urt gen are by other professors of 
— « ae deducting Turnips at t 65. Mangolds “systems.” In this there may not necessarily be a 
at 8s. а + and other food in proportion ; the purely ве selfish motive; but it may arise from the eir- 
former, too, being the Increase upon a lot of very eumstance that a practitioner has accidentally dis- 
uneven ven animals, weighing between 3cwt. and 6 cwt. — a “system” which is perfectly suceessful on 
haine ‘when first tia 105 and the latter upm his particular field of p and that ihe — 
averaging. about universally “applicable = 
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o appreciated, but with all due deferenee to 
able to bring them to bear where they 
be most applicable, татыу нде... 
м ope I do not misunderstand t their ; 
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ccm drainer, operating upon a limited ‘field of 
practice, should fall into the error of ‘su 
system generally, or universally, маен неа 
ddiin ing ko paris, rend. e? "n. practice-o е ai 
one which it may, at some time, 
client's interests that he should adopt. mE 
Depend on it the landowners of this country will 
pursue the most certain and advantageous course in the 
dr чучын апа onde gr of their 1ey eon. 
cumstance very rare 
any but those Who are sontes engaged in eo ucting 
such ау for ge concern at amount 
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баан. will furnish the best guarantee 96 
and efficiency that а proprietor can have. 4 p. 
Engineer. 
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farmer, is extract uad m the Wort 
© Baldoon, 2 b^ 
Dear Sir, —I Sei m uch pleasure in ans 
inquiries regardin ng.t es 
making. There is a little d 
change from the Dunlo 
ears 
ress— 
the cows, 90° to 100° y anii to put iM sua е 
rennet as thickens the milk in 15 minutes. - 
or ripen the cheeses thoroughly after they 
for this purpose they must be stored on a 0E 
loft, or the store should be heated 3 7 
“ By close attention to these three nieht 
jc. cl material setis Ve ipei airies 
ints Mr. РЕ may well state that “never was there 
во divided a house as the fraternity of drainers ;” and 
Ie endeayoured to explain above. But it 
ч ае should no t be so; and it is high time that 
ng i ha 
ee —— immense variety ‘of You will thus see that, t 
зе experiments, ‘circumstances, should forego очно igi of: liis par- it is not m y to mak 
"basis and so far ticular system for the practice of any, isle yide whom- | We did so the first year and made 
1 b -disgo ^or propose d), that — and sold . A 
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cen я | engineers should be neither — nor т реј 
different eircun ic? unfortunate result of publicly ees ina 
that the same truth comes out in the case ER en 
Colonel MDovarüs own eattle when the different Ae, is, that th 
lots into which they were divided are compared Pk in it, r h If in error. 
with one — Thus lots 4 and 5 on ‘Mangold res seems to me that it would be better for Fre up pro- lin 
Wurzel and Tu ps alone, aud I" e 91 engineers both the latter 
“au ange and straw stand highest ee thé whole |а 
