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a _Mar ?, 1857.1 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
315 
FARM NEAR CHELMSFORD, ESSEX. 
state of the weather at the commen: 
present moment has taken The Wheat generally 
op healthy and vigorous, and ep green colour, 
with one exception good; and that upon a 
last year v 
was fed off by sheep and lambs folded in hu 
successive periods of time, TT that at the time of plough- 
ing for pas „drilling the Wh oats there was not 
of Grass, the w 
so closely “at it t resembled a fallow. e Wh 
on this piece h failed, the aha E paih 
eaten nearly es thong S the plants. Early 
it was heavil 
plied with Turni 
each acre drilled i 
nearly i a 
E As no other Wheat har paagis = P oni upon this 
past, this loss 
re, 
ill success ; but as the 
carried we 
i: very promising and 
been told that the cause of fai 
Rye-grass is because both p 
but in “this experiment Wh agern, Menier Wh 
remains a good plant, but Wheat succeeding 
_ is a total failure 
In San By at now in Rye- a portio; 
ye-grass a po 
of 
seed was English seed, ais of 
i moisture in Ee soil to 
faa fa oe: of his em 
and — almost to have a prescience of coming bleak 
weather. 
*s horse-hoe has been “ipsam sd at work w 
of th n hoed once 
and some portion twice over, although drilled only 
6 inch uccessful result of the horse- 
the dry state of the 
ce; when th A it is superior to the 
common hand rag is it leaves the surface free an 
untrodden by t t of the hoe oe heh have also 
commenced oe Pema tid and Beans with like su 
t. 
Mangel Wurzel is still especially mea but we 
tate that it is fast drawi and 
tainly secure a plan 
would effect if sown is hand, 101lbs 
ample per acre when perly 
of lambs has a been great, but little loss 
formed the late 
is haapaa better than 
s more valuable in the 
spring, w ecome of val 
as the spring advances. ear 
ai yar th ap having had on 
our sim a oE with the exception 
other 
he oft the a a a: Wheat before quoted have not any o 
misplant wha 
Potatoes a “of ‘limited Forel in this district, but 
have been got. in exceedi well. 
now from 3 . per week from the previous 
advances ; stthoogh flour has declined. consi 
i of 
employer 
genteel market ged plentiful in 
taken and 
pong, doa 
after | privation oa cou ete labouring classes 
AUSTRIAN TREA' OF THE MURRAIN. 
[We referred last week to the three forms of cattle 
disease prevalent in meng lung disease; 2, malig- 
hal fevers ; 8, true cattle murrai: 
oraina of and several affections 
say, s 
guano are then sown — having i i 
together; the ridges are again ys affection of the lungs ‘has 
per 2 mori drilled with 4 Ibs. rd ia ceased. If there is any tendency to putrid 
and about 1 cwt. of _ | fever, care be taken to prevent too great an 
duce a quick vegetation of the plant so essential in its | 8¢¢umulation of food in the stomach, the digestion 
ly growth; and be aided, the skin exci to action. The ‘sick 
before from 4 to 6 inches in er animal must be fed with scalded hay, Potatoes, Horse- 
_ If Mangel is n next jg | Chesnuts, and d i d balsamic medi- 
 Temove the soil about an inch:in n depth with alight he wi om cines, combined with for. If the inflammation is 
y opposite drops four or or five seeds with or without ta | Very severe and the breathing greatly oppressed, blood 
i bii ie. ari in mod uantities, and mild pur 
tives given. At the outbreak t and catar- 
catiealy into Tet 
+ | necessary. tices ma common vinegar,.| [Pass 
o | and clay, may he applied to the head and a and the | ‘liseasé, proprie 
rT or istro f| State; but the sum is so ri 
ba with heif'a-drechm of tartar 
whole body w with vin ye. 
there is oo cara alipata; injections of salt or soap 
must be given. The int loyed. ar 
several doses of saltpetre—each consisting of half an 
© | ounce—which must be given every two or hours. 
If of two or three oun ’ salt 
| the meat is not 
the the 
prohibited, but noone ie allowed to 
ani dlt the Seal of cattle ‘Which hive reached 
ss 
e ag mooni). M. 
ed either of ewes or lambs sal- 
The pripa of labour has Eai ls. per week, varying |s 
e backs of the q e 
| by it. 
stage of the malady. § The ee ee 
sro a a not consider the disease oe Bog d 
nant rrhal affection of the lungs” 
(2) 1 The “lung disease ” combined with is not 
only a more fatal complaint than that above arg 
b says a learned 
disease 
loss of time. If the vi 
abate, the venesection may be t proper 
attention must always be — to the constitution and 
e of the animal. s a mixture o ripe or 9 
Laurel oil, and canth caer iad 
behind and below the shoulder sabes: and a late 
which has been anoin with the salve in ee 
passed yn the shoulders (withers 
ends that the ihoa of 
uld be rubbed 
ust be rub 
wW 
oil, -0 aa ala 
alf, and of strong spirits of 
a M. Merk 
was a specific 
ag complaint, but the Vienna physicians and 
veterinary surgeons of the presen 
be of the sam 
e p less powerful medi 
substituted for those ce eerie If, on 
e who teni 
munication with the peri AE rga farms, haml 
of bei iven out to graze, the cattle are fed 
on the ama and it hae been observed that parra i 
to dry food always produces a good 
m iomh s which are still hoal The sick cattle 
ve their own attendants, ee owed to 
r The careases of t 
ie must be buried in a a deep pit with the stra 
which they had lain. If t A a 
skins are for a time to be put 
assumes a very 
S Faget 
sins Cte ae 
than that the best and -most . is to 
every animal on the head as soon as he is attacked 
The “Löser is here called, 
ah been brought | into the oeni by cattle 
ng from the Danubian 
or 
Principalities, and we continually read that 
beasts from those 
the im 
tion of beasts En ho 
soon as it is known that the 
other side of the frontier a cordon is drawn, which is 
not raised until the disease has enti If this 
Government finds it to of 
killed i 
the 
i y small 
sick cattle are driven away and sold to the next est 
rc. a. before the Sap gre sd aware that the 
oe- if a > butcher on 
killing an animal finds it to be 
inform the omg: Tic he is Babi toe fn dt. 
for each offence cere hia i he only 
