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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
[ JANUARY 31, 1857, 
a situation that makes him independent of any 
profit that may be derived from such an invention, pes I 
think it a pity some friend had not reconciled him 
Mr. Evans, and so between them have brought out ne 
ask srg h 
of a heavy crop of Turnips on a field with oilcake 
added thereto ; ae — ra cop. would produce r 
as 
s-common plough, as Mr. E. professes to have and a 
ect parer in the same opena especially "for one 
horse ; that he has tried it on his fa 
where in S 
to perfection is the worst wish of A 
espondent “ E. S. D.” 
dea i E vhs the Black 
ecg it ai 
as the sa 
appearance that ree 
fiavour I did n to other sorts, but should 
your corres nt « GRP who was inquiring 
after E a few, he will have them on communicating | 
efuse salt fr 
. per Pieced a considerable 
made any comparati 
ley with or without salt, 
; but though the ge eneral 
shri of the tacos fae in the neighbourhood is that it 
is ith 
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See 
os nop having: aleo fn p 
of cut Clover per hea d daily. 
Under such treatment he may safely ri upon a 
er. Under such circum 
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give some 
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of which I 
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fiiis 
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et 
the nort 
emee; i a not 
vy that I beli 
alm. 
that, at all the sta 
of | te -barcmete 
hern counties, | 
been a lied the durin 
would have “4 been 9 de 
covered, desertin ture exce 
to lie down on, and they nibbled the salt-watered yrei 
fine as a jawn me a lesson which I 
shall wth forget to apply e rag own pastures early 
arch. W. Ferrand, Jan. 
Treining, eto the pe 
try is yan encouraged as a 
improv 
in 
ffordin 
reed of fowls, there is aia 
a not received that attention 
which its rv 
S advance self-training and g 
ouths. Mr. Houghton very parys in the late Crystal 
Palace Show admitted rabbits, and it is with m 
these animals oy wish, with C2 our — 
few remarks eg ard t 
rabbits for Be being ma 
i bean pra i ey p Paaa, ada aa self-traini 
offer 
toh exhibiting 
d out the inferior 
sttantiats to ar ding, great 
aan and proper ae caso hee i 
in the second—althou 
| separat 
a culca fitt yo 
ray y “aie of life” ’ which their destiny may prs them 
to. — to 
belonging t ared by la 
e? If classes for dene e objects were added to ou 
"t 
armer to study the 
ng an <p improving his stock of rabbits, 
&e., by giving it that care, though 
pes yd of judgment, ry peres to cleanliness 
to insure to him the best — of triumphing | as 
ba his ie be a and com the show 
eman 
whilst success would i 
being obvi 
rabbits is applicable to them. bbi 
requiring very regular feeding, attention to quality of 
food, ; t cleanliness, and being confined—chiefl 
ely—+ 
for mye trainin 
were found to 
has been used in cattle feeding wi 
Societies. 
Scorrisu Mesronerocraat.« —At the half- — meet- 
ing of this Society, Dr. Stark, the > Secretary, th 
a paper on the object of the A 
tati 
ssociation. It is expected 
rvations will be made with 
r, self-registerin m and minimum 
thermometer, Mason’s hygrometer, ‘snd rain gauge ; 
that the direction a the cores will be noted twice 
bservati 
ie 
raped a very hea of sound 
The Grass and Da age 
cane, aes 
Barley. 
ron what 
„which I 
a mistake to 
per a and ture 
has keng b tt leafing, flowering, 
spro! 
the young Clover, I | grain cro 
| 80 strong and healthy ¢ at jof the ergy 
attribut thei 
whole jinquiry—as, for instance, Ue 
depar 
uting, earing, Tipening, an 
n of the 
ps, &e. 
Itis very capers that ar different parts | 
sheep should be 
on to one or two limited 
condition of 
kind of er 
ry. 
This is its or io 
it ng our |m 
urther 
is | m 
rou Ca exis obvious that the ends to be accomplished in rearing ajo 
table use its pna will anden be against it, as also the ral i ize are improved s 
ish 
rom the! | country —_— Itural =s ae appropriate incentives | 
| would i embryo fa 
on. 
vale of chem 
en read | ma 
A 
the 
found who would |i 
points of the 
the air as to | the 
3 
electricity and ozone—or, a still more fertile oo 
ve Peoria and a Wace, 
dale, at Tweed, 
depths, bo 
ermometers, = 
eert from the su 
all the vais, 4 we 
eiee of pra 
limit 2 s 
them 
in yon takii - 
ope in time to be able to 
ctical value. We do 
e now come to ye a few work 
on a subject ia to the bearings of m P 
agriculture in nd, So very Tittle i is pices th 
effect of ser amerejea phenomena on agria} 
at almost all which a been published me 
I have able to i 
not sane investigation, tis 
roved 
r e sam 
that the nh wi 
for raising white c de 
green crops, This a aie pray er fall of rain 
west coast, however, is just one of ~~ ied not ye 
proved, = even though it should turn out that mm 
rain did fa e west ee its boii ‘ofa 
be gais neutralised by the greater force of the 
agricultural statistics in oir | 
abov 
aia 
i 
published, vm ob b 
taken ol 
as to green crops, the — per acre 
the - coast will bear 
on i west. 
t. yök 
ten which falls ir in a. distriot t, end pod time 
fall occurs, on the uplovio of lime or mineral s 
as manures, The Met ae br whieh pi 
present pnas prove that very differ 
rain fall in districts even closely säja 
time of ie year when the greatest fall occurs i 
i r t of 
ey h 
and the most conflicting statements „a to 
g pingas of the ne grea atest pe 
nother has e 
his crop and hurt t anv Farmers 
of the evils of eventhined lana but, strange 
when such Tak Jer ee examined, the lime 18 
found to t 
what I putes. to pii iren is, that what is 
sons is also true of oo aie a in 
EOIR EEE ORTAN E E AES 
both ren agenta. Abridged 
griculturist.- 
5 0 tne A RR OSS 
a „Mr. John Alison, upon lease, 
oe erecting hom — 
dra as the whole, dunes S per F 
a of building and draining. ‘The 
and the tiles, 
feet, width "ee on 
4 rs pi at top 18 
cutti from : ble that ioe 
dista oe haved porated paar pee 
clay, al 40 to — feet on i ee 
cost 24s. per 
6 fee 
| 
— — 3 inches 
