NovemsBer 21, 1857.] 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
795 
be the Bw of the day; ad A parara 
followed; our bull would be t | 
and thus " iias the district mae at 
e 
ach calf. 
give more than a fourth of a cow’s milk to e 
cak Li nseed cake 
t|Then they have Linseed 
because > we 
of course, int s cake, Turn rnips 
to and. Mangel Wurzel, and this carries ikas on until there 
e sufficient pasture to turn out to. : 
calves in better condition ri Ae se I am fortunate 
i 1e calves 
A 
ether 
e | heifers are bene to Ha 
at the age I have stated, and th 
oxen, go nea fat at three years 
rd to shee My fi i 
with 
arm is light “land, resting 
and unless 
co 
more judicious than ahpa such circumstances to givea we qpr - t 
liberal price for a really spoons = Willoughby Wood, | upon t 
Holly Bank, Burton-on- Tren I bel 
hin ne beyond it 
an 1000 a ae ithe farm; at this 
— ei ; andas their condition 
in this room, one of the judges, 
me ‘the iindwens the other day to select 400 ew 
wi z him to say whether they | 
as good condition for stores as rd ewes he | 
Then comes the question of food. 
hi pee ge to contend with, like shee farmers, | 
THE MANUFACTURE OI E OF MEAT. |I ne 
I wisn to direct your attention to a ae epartment of | M 
=, which I think much ss a at the prali | there is 
day, and which yet is more per ton pressed upon | id m 
earn than almost any o | 
tion— 
yosten, hy a manured 
ne poin 
orea load very 
ay it before 
P| 
f 
4 
E 
uch the 
= is nies i sold for aan 
pan market 
; but even now "a 
wer ie 
s “question satisfactorily ? Unfor ne i it n 
icultural taana in this inferior Tey for i it 
~“ ceeuee es ack : 
5s. per 
ae ae not t the beara 
vot in the sha beef | 
iioii 
ep his 
eae na might produce ney more 
beef and m ; and | | 
w what i one 
and which > tame coil “doubt j 
well sithentinte 1 nam 
| on: there and in in 
we hitherto have 3 
f it the Cannock Farmers’ " Club. | 
amp- | 
saa a provincial townsis 
re recs sin gular 
Tt is said 
I CBSERVE a letter in your Ga a of Oct. 31 from | 
Lo sins. The 
e statistics of Glasge Mr. Burcham, a rinten dn k a unknown to me, and | 
o knowledge of m e it from his 
| jor habe 
isih 
w ho | 
a] | has “tam 
Pm 
= 
he is; “it is not so— 
GUIDEWAY STEAM AGRICULTURE. | Mr. 
forth ;” what I do pean is “ 
fi 
nae ways, dividing 
land in of 
at e 
os 
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left of the line of onward lve 
is is the meee: = ch I claim in my patent, and 
whether the inventio ea good one or not, the claim 
ing just read you 
Edito: tes, * of Mr. Halkett’s rmai Steam 
peer ti I discov ver from Mr. Braithivaite’s (C.E.) 
Br gn 
2 . 
CHhePewmre inf 
forrin my pat —“that Mr. Halkett has patented 
his urn of tilling land and s = ae machine, 
which is simply mn iw ny — done 
known @ 
much e peter ys 
oc pers in in Nork lk. 
prea mo there; we should then have heard before this 
at had reaped for = last 10 years by stea! hi 
pes drilled ma eed a me 
ower, ever thoroughly und 
original, or was anything else ser: a reduced 
” (ters this), A wy above 
< nde may think that I am an I think 
“sincerely ho anger. 
“ Prob m “excenton may one day do me justice,” 
T may y I hope that they will, and do 
persons however ag a say, so 7 Sistine: 
denies having copied Mr. Burcham, he 
nve some of Mr. Bure an inventions, 
Burcham’s system ? they ask. 
oep is there in it to Mr. Halkett’s ? I distinctly say say, 
t is impossible for me to refer your readers 
e scattered over many volumes of 
was the custom A al the month who has n as | his. letters, for they ar 
faili A a half-fed ox ' ME entions it accuses me copyin p l Ga 
upon the salted carcass of which they would li . I beg to say that nor have | en lg nie in 
round, and it would form the only bu a single idea of my rentea from hin. IT beg to sober, the discussion 
. That w the case in many say farther that I am not in ser it of solemn the 
in the north of England so late as laration befor gi to that as is not true. | public as of any value, or even 
msider for a moment the consump- “I do solemnly and iioii declar” a declarat need tion mapene: show how completely this is the reverse of the 
at the present day. I hear very fre- -a I aan aa a cannes fee 
“It isvery well to speak of the increaseof stock, invention tion I Silow will be of great and i in the details I have in no way copied or reinvented. Ls 
for meat ee e?” Well, what piti animen “thet 1 3 am a first and Lane inventor | anything of Mr: Burcham’s. But as this: ; 
dupon at the present moment? thereof, to the best of my k ppan ha belief, and 1 e length, allow w me ina fature letter to enter 
that it ie upon the g m — this declaration, conscientiously believing the into this subject; while I beg to say that I would not 
perity of the country. Long may it conti e to be tru enter bs it at om were it not td value of a patent 
y department industry at the = am obli a ‘to | for ee ne eg ne reno may jured by an uncontradi bee want ; 
sore andsworth, 
ers as a rule get aim to such a t in my patent, only I use a plat- 
money in form; in the same way that I make 
with the best of food. That is a plough, although a mp S se see wren a large 
demand continue. “Do platform any more ap ew thing. Every 
‘that demand by our supply?” If in cart or chariot is a platform on feiran and Garrett's 
ong ae railway carriage sup- 
us wish ported on a few sitios ach end isa plattorm of 
— alatan. T have Desteod E ngth. Sir J. walle in hie patent shows a plat- | so 
nara steam culti mar one to Mn many imple- 
‘been anx E E amount of stock ments are attached, an ae mit and endless 
Erain, what no time has exceeded 450 acres. pails romm the sai the 
anxious acd so a 
or to use in any ees saloon 3 years ago, there is e platform to 
a of calves sate Bored from carry the engine and windlasses of large dimensio: 
35 is year. n the with the operations that I I do, | 
| same 
iiis I admit, but oe s from a whether Pp im hoeing, drilling, or comminuting 
ara is one reason. n why, Tas the soil and t the same time artificial | 
services of the 
that I 
ee r 
Circular 8 team Tillage-—1 am much obliged for the ee 
difference of plan between Ms. Halk sve commented on thè 
Halkett’s ae gge ay” 
um im 
iuiaaii aback on reading in your 
pn 81st :—* Wedon’t believ 
is likely 
requires in those 
but I now discover that your ; has 
Herer senn remainent 
r labours of the field? 
