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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
[FEBRUARY 21, T 
tinued breeding for many years, when other employment 
compelled me to give it up — Fel binges 185 a gre en 
I engaged with a reed 
than 150 rabbits 
On 
E 
ts by the end ‘of July in the hiie Jok: 
g yp lo ruary I bought my first two 
I increased my until I ha 
gous’ in. fol bres ding, and by the ag oor 
270 fine and aalthy, ‘when I gave over for the 
Few boys would be able to carry rabbit breeding to 
an exten no doubt that those rabbit ts 
would have oh a great profit at 4d. p? pound. — 
breed was ture between the A = and "i 
Dok pitera bbit, consequently they were large; on one 
occasion I killed one three months old, which wale 
5 lbs., and the flesh beautifully white. The buck was 
a year old nu I bought it; it wap weigh liv 
e summer of 1856 to gratify atiii, 
reached 11 lbs, 
ee 
as turned o a squar 
t 40 melee in width, at “divided into two 
ots with wire for a e x days; 
mecessary to prevent disease. vaste: Rimes Of Ndara 
tried to keep inkaa on so small a space, and the 
-effect was most satisfactory. Thorp Perrow, 
Societies, 
ROYAL AGRICULTURAL OF ENGLA 
EEKLY Councit, Feb. 18.—Mr, Mixes, M. B, Vice- 
President in the chair. 
; munications w eye laid before the Council from 
ie Rev. Th te on the stoppage of drains by 
su! : . G. F. Holcombe, on 
the combination of — power with the weight of 
animal body constantly changing its centre o - 
pes ‘paced la the working of Turni ip-eutters and other 
otion by the 
pe mpeg ey a . Charles Poppy, com- 
munications on the subject of the cultivation of Millet 
ee than at a A heros moment of what might be 
rmed auzilia 
The Chahok | adjourned to Wednesday the 18th of 
pir at 12 o’clock. 
GHLAND AND AGRICULTURAL. 
Canada and the United States—Mr. Russell of Kilwhiss 
ve alecture on this subject recently before the mem- 
bis of the Highland Society, from which, as reported in 
. e ee British Agriculturist, we make the flowing | 
tracts :—He said, 
The area capable of growing autumn Wheat in Am as 
not a large one, as the land required to tè ofa particular eseri 
tion. He had not gone far over the Wheat region of N 
America before he was led to suspect that the pore sg of 
the American climate had a great i nfluence in modifyi the 
ideas which w 
ts surface was undulating, a 
sands, ae er acetone clay. Yet the ro aieeaa gravels p 
the Gen state: so genia 
R No 
abr the oaiae PENY s of the American light ints for 
the growth of Wheat were aior to their pa nrg adaptation 
for bearing Clover, but it n became e t to him that 
w eat could be much easier rai valoda on pect re in Ame- 
rica than in Scotland. The best Wheat lands in America nieve 
of a sandy or gravelly nature. Wheat was apt to oe too r: 
and luxuriant on rich soils, which were invariably planted with 
Indian corn. The ve fact of W Wheat growing too luxuriant on 
rich ah was we — sufficient to demonstrate that it could be 
easier sed u secondary soils than wi ith us. If they w would 
just consider fi 
Ss 
—The Agriculture of | 
altogether i it would make in a stable == 
he difference in quantity of f ee — 
horde ary the ox was not h; the difference jn tween thy 
very great. s ho er, manure was nods E 
when a horse was in the field, they of course could rity Waste 
much t de as if he were constantly under oe sane 
ddered. now came to the question how much 
a cose a ‘ated arable hand might be made to prod 
they “ge ete bye farm would produce Ne ing 
he 
Vheat per so; Ba arley, 7 or 8 ane 
4 qrs. of Pea cite Gait then tell hoe mune E 
it rey ond = Field, He. satniaine dt t would manr 
yee 
aeei wi neath Am “od which the farmer r cO 
waa If 
L 
ati £4} + ase 
th 1 
, t P 
sa Ar 
ai 
were an excavation 3 or 4 feet deep, Ri pte be to 16 feat 
wide, manure shot cote “that excavation, and well 
he: would “st enter into a state of fi 
very a in autumn, and before the frosts set in tne “seh were 
thickly matted over the ground. Scotch farmers, on the other 
looked upon Wheat that was thick and forwa: 
hand, rd in datie 
on light soils as little else than ruined. aoe induced to 
sow pe for the purpose of Petree tne growth er, use, 
amon 
how 8, it 
d rni 
This was a fine illustration of Liebig’s 1 law _that time was 
ammoni he winter 
is very cold in America, and spring can hardly be said to exist. 
Vegetation is completely held in check till May, when summer 
bursts out at once. During the season in which the 
Pará, in Brazil, on the probability of large deposits 
guano alon the Atlantie coast, of Sout th America, 
of saltpetre o on bars sides the Cordilleras; as well as the 
l ce in the district of Hullage, not only of crys- 
talline beds of commen salt, covering an area of 4000 
Sguare mies, but a positive mountain, on the Tiraca, 70 
miles N.E. of Tarrapold, in Peru, of the sam salt, only 
slight] with gypsum—the water communication 
between localities and the of or 
team- 
ing appara Mr. ly of 
a wt = his Egyptian Peas 
commun ns having been received Aii w 
isiin ensued on topi 
to them as well as to the peri 
the best mode o ot applying uid manure for green crops. 
the action and effects of Alsa water-drill, r 
the advantages of following that drill by the roller and 
gpg red in not exceeding the proper amount 
with | the water drill; and the advantage of a 
fall's itp! y of the superphospha ate. 
5. On the economy of applying manure to the crop, and not 
diffusely to the soil; and — ss repo prt me in the 
r-dri ill, ithe t applied too 
"4 nstead of poses a y to gus crop, 
he re turn to many of the older systems of manuring, 
de On 
"£ On 
3. On 
eter 
7. On the best means of facilitating the d i 
_ ; over the land. E raught of drills 
socust Bean, and the peculiar aaa of 
elements which renders it a fattening food for cattle. 
orwich Rice-cake. 
Whea 
grows, the rains, according to Dr. Dwight, an tn fall in 
thunder-showers, with a hot and moist atmosphere. Under 
s h conditions they would easily ong e th 
ould advance with vigour a hat le 
ste 
of May and June in Canada: with the lukewarm weather of 
the pato mome in Scotland, co nd they Siula, hot fail to 
recognis elements that rendered bo of 
Canisdian farmer very different, with respect 
ote our own. To show them t 
m 
could not be sown in toting in any part of Americ ne 
they were sown, they had tendency to seed that 
spring Wheat that he had s 
messee 
ally “from “190 to 300 acres. 
the land was well cultivated, 
ee of Manur 
Lon —We a ve 
condensed re a ch 
rt of the discussion o on n this sübjeci which 
as opened by Mr, 
farms in four different wawi 
| adopting t Pg ole principle of open farmyards, surroun ded eu |t 
heds or r buildings ; by cove red farmyards, 
These discussions led to the communication of 
much experience on their beari: 
from irom Me. Miles, ee, Dent, MP Lord C 
GES 
amoys, 
anu nure; by stall- feeding; and, lastl Yi ko 
Under: the trst, th the See eat erg culty” was the large 
water which a in peri f the year fell npon $ manure, 
ad not t been introdu: y on 
uld bë no doubt, ae fee covered | 
receive 
ie -feeding. 
seed. | m 
he Gen 
‘A ‘ates portion of 
that 
Saget of ane ik 
was preferable to pice ied the mana 
exposed to the action of § sun and air, In whatever jam vet 
one. as possible, 
the sid ff cleanly, and the surface S 
with abouts a es t aim ea. well b 
any escape of gas fi pocaibie. Many practical farmers main 
tained, as he had before intimated, that ihe best manure fi 
Turnips was decomposed manure. He granted that such was th 
case; but, then, it was produced at a considerable loss, Ifit- 
must be appli ied in that state, decom: 
wer 
he wae y it extracted most of the consti 
manure, Since the recite of guano, h 
artificial manures, a pic df 
me ae been saved to By ing 3 wt. o E gum i 
er, apply 
cost say of 40s. fius acre, and pros a little calt, an excalet 
red. Now, as regarded tle 
diret 
exceed 
ted of rang, Wurzel could be 
application guano, it had Pooti shown ae the 
fi u 
appre 
in procuring thoa, jot p deal with ar bi ee 
= i iini whom they worthy. He 
that opportunity of refi to th . He now came to box-feeding. airi 8 of manure sent to him as Torii by mani 
Mr. Pusey’s aipee ¢ vs “pln ie Pont the | certain dimensions (say 10 feet ng. w ie nat the ® accompanied with a request that he would be kind 
bso i Water. Dri made by Reeves, | *?imals were pi in them ; floors were sunk 2 to 3 feet below | State his opinion as to the result ies Having tri 
‘tbury, He had — y 2) the level, and by means of raising the trough in which the | Ment, and found the result satisfactory, he could no 
, ts effects with that of | animal fed a large quantity of manure was produced in a highly | than report favourably: but har was the 
and found t with 6 = of conce ing was resorted to in ithe fattening Why, he was afterwards blamed by farmers, W 
. the w. drill of first-class cattle, and Sensequently the errs - s pro- | in consequence eeing his name appended to & 
as as pro- suet a of a highly concent ter, | they had bought manure which produced no su 
w e dust-drill only | Now, if that were st oved from the cattle = by day, | been deseri truth was that the manure sent 
Pusey had ded follow- frequently the case, n gea entered into fer- | that whic afterwards sold were totally differ 
s Eijer ts :— t much of its e pro perties was Jost, | (laughter). This showed = necessity of cantion ing 
of two drills, he detere | WPeTeYeT, therefore, cattle were Ted in stalls, it was necessary a cial ian nres. There ought in all ċases to bo S ; sob i 
the use of the dust-drill riage bn ota cart the manure and spread iteve and over the surface, so that there o the sonsticucat properties of the 
8, paa mu lar admixture of the best with the inferior por- then’ the eer come ig responsible. iyin 
i tion. much care could nas pe | ne hs on the spreading, M y said tha t the guano of Peru stood ii r 2 : 
rary yom the | it were aoe down in heaps very much injury would arise to “i sa ition as our coal or iron; and if we visi i 
was better diffused in the | manure itself, as would popped, in the subsequent op. He had | Germany, or any other manufacturing country on the Con 
now to consider the quality of good farm-yard manure which was | We constantly heard talk of the tyranni nr 
4. whet tke expense of about. 4s. the various methods in use. He foun nvestiga- | Great Britain, which was as much as to say that we 
a by the dry drill mas sere ‘spate: the ne aot yh tad tion, that a cow feeding on 100 Ibs. of Grass gave 71 Ibs. of solid to undersell them by production of 
‘That the the water-dri Il required’ mu g arar and liquid deposit. An ox would produce i} ewt. while feedi articles than themselves. Just like that was 
bi Toress ips and Mangel Wurzel, and wo uire 24 te guano merchant, and neither tbe Government nor 
parsha eae 28 Ibs. of straw dany j in all, about 150 lbs, of solid and liquid | could do riche ee T ae 
Sonat within anure would d by an ox daily. This was in winter pational es it eee » Whi 
ald the |; An ox, if kept feeding continually on Turnips, corn, and hay tinge he English agri riotturietf 
* nos , e had never yet: medii ited to do, 
for Turnips, such as is en winter, ut pe A n eae Pi mi other iucres’ which weak Rot as we aise guano 
: n summer, about 7 tons hus it would alto-|°f the course adopted. by the Peruvian Gove 
experiments during heir | gether t tons in the yard. In_box- | Messrs. Gibbs, their ae ie was all “ bosh. 
testimony to the value ae as Da eae al 2 A of straw sily, M Mr. „Esin in (Beds) s to Ma 1 
; : i mths a single ox o d 
as ascertained eb Pusey average weight, say from o 90 stone of 8 Tbs. each, would in, and iow fe ie more on the the ‘following springy 
na : z manure; the pi th 
Mr. Miles added, that | Pe 33 cubic s if it were pres ge kept in a box for the Sandy of workin mE ee a i 
, hole y king the sara 01 
ie on Whole year, A well-fed Ae w uld give 94 tons applied 2 or ewts, of guano to it per 
. ' 24 tons of straw; worked in, he neat = tho 00 one 
