Novemper 28, 1857. | 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
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lose the chance ver maromi litter before the cold. weather sen > compares with his fat. And tbat fat is almost exclu- | of the ground are actually under crop, but these 
in o be sure, t e Royal Ar ona Lang me parh d vosed of parbon, derived principally from the atmo- ifthe on oy ue, th war“ Be in arisi aba a. agle 
West tof Eng gland Soc wimni s offer a pen 8 no spe e = which need not necessarily be restored, provided fia eriv P 
x g six months old in Fens di or s uly; kasoe.. conse- | the manure made in producing that fat be appia toi the. soil, | occupation of the aiaia, both in terrestrial supplyand in 
a Deki nip waded d aA tae lee to reimbibe from the | aerial they take in the food of thew Bvery 
i ust be comfortably clement weather | atmosphere the same amount of carbon.+ With tolerab me P ‘ z% 
Eol llen rags or cotton waste, and dolhed E in Jersey jackets, | land, rote no lack of Sobel, 5i fi ad ‘oie do better fh than | atte knows that space, air, at ligh ah - veneer 
which may be obta ined from those union workhouses where | cultivate white pan Serenti; oh "a = a — dairy, | Pensa closen: plant in all our veg ep 
t useful accomplishment of crotchet | confine his stoc vely to me his | aon A ras s Whea t an exception ? There is no doubt a due 
work, and mer aoe rar oe baking, 4 bas geting; wanes, |e Sates sell off both Wheat and me ky, eu at Indian € eee and his is a veil yet to s not Mr. 
+ digging or mgiy rec practi as Barley, but vd 7 
farmer not to stoned too early in the spring on ey pas late in the aa o ry to the bushel, mog peon of eve dds eal i i Smith revere ‘ound it in W heat growing as well as per- 
autumn. The latteris by far the most seriouserror. You may aiy oe i to add 10 Ibs. to ron Bed of a pig I | aps in — r Lois kens eedon culture? Is not an 
a your very oi y pigs = . econ mb o, md oi they have found in + bores t , wta av i = certain better the chances of 
have a summer's run before them, m a. litter late in | Corn produced: 4 
ao dom worth rearing. Your sow about to farrow P ke more oneal obtained? J. M. Goourff. 
should be separated from the herd Sede if O before p 
ae a pena A hat 
aae room for the little pi 
mother lies down to suckle 
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_yaluable breed an er young, I hav pe Men thing; ’tis at 1 thre h mi cred: fifths of the | enter into the p his dissimilarity, which I had 
placed the young, wrapped in i a blanket in a cask half-filled ground are under Three rows of corn are placed | pro o se former letter to y The point 
ba pert N riaa nr AE rame yaa phd p | 2 foot apart i eet; now is it not evident that | which is the pe da I allude to is the carria Lee 
enough to avoid being lain u suckling her young, in five feet there can only be five rows men upon p tegen ae Sie chee of 
the ag should ne exceedingly w pea nap “She See temmrne t we have thre s, and there mes ae Mh re T ha tent, after en Ameo T nea 
out o gi stye fora little exercise for a:short time y, ev ma space for two rows Tore ; thus two-fifths a pisos ut 13, o pties tol De done by mya tus, “ light 
eens hok w hours after parturition. they anill-ds rend agin only is unoccupied; how then is it a half palo Again | platform: ‘oe be y ny pl ane 
old they s should, where there is a dairy, be supplied with | every row occupies a rine kA inches on each side of its labourers An the pm ar “ny purpose o weeding, 
I il-cake may > “advantageously boi ed i in the food, both | line, and three rows ke all 2 feet inside and | transplanting, or ea ing ‘ny ‘her light operation 
for mother and and Fa In Bacay otk a Ebourhood. a, ‘hey the young 6 inches on cach, pad id or y: a feet ; if the roots are | of hand culture.” On t observe that in the first 
separate the ‘mother and young be on a Sunday | examined, they will also be found to y this same pee the operation is a perf bagatelle in ia maay 
morning, with the view of the sow rh Sey cronies yt prs the space, that is, 6 inches fi Sod akii 2 of pim Yet te n considering, the ponie er and adva ge of 
earliest possible period, about 17 weeks from the day of weaning. | fallow space is still equal to ne arly 3 for the i Pakoti as a whole; andae ne m 
D too id her aar “will food oua but when cigs is fallowed to the line of ead “9s hiss ake former. letter, I make n tent to. any 
yee in ig, she rem uN op in good conditio: ing extending in the first inst a breadth of | operation o implement, whether n d. My inven- 
L mean, not merely fattening, but | 23 feet, Br hg working of these Coates diminishing tion is on a system of guide-ways, made of 
paper of unin ek: age sagt Se of its | gradu raed a breadth of only 1} foot, but a partial | rails or other hard-way materials, while Mr. Bure 
pig A-theb eri uae fallow fae forded ceeds this, for it prevails between the | has nothing of this kind in his invention. 
se bone oa pow than fat. „Therefore er withhold lines of corn y raga their height: sh De poi > Bong Ted us| [think that I hiye thus said Barda to repel Mr. ae 
re Tops. bu y a | cham’s charges. eth np wits Bure seein wi 
“eight tof cil-cakcey and eae hate ve them 0 Oats ana Ro n pra or- strange mistake jak a n n only a half crop, for ba] | to let the matter bus but ther at the which 
a me Sg os ‘the soles twelve p prone merely be kept in | gives “to it 6 fe e tilts at in his last lette eT, ty that is the e question of 
npa: co con wialtatiaf as oo be strong and haaliby. z thy. -Every | At the Witham maring on the 8th Octeber, 1 Lord the econom I gladly t it becanse 
vious 
= wt & at A a doa on gi Toss. Pe Xo a ya "without ft is ee a dis: Rayleigh ale also. na crop of a. ga satis “43 Bd ody hay be | I stink that 4i eons which will interest the ro soan = 
E ‘Na at: the ces omii Decem! od | of und in four years, or an ave of | his letter :—* As to ent rai steam cultivato 
rab alge 15 to 20 mem pa that aeda ng but 21% bushels to the acre each year. Why, Mr. Smith carts” (trucks they rather) “torun upon on farms, 
vpeta HERIT aken in plied shed ahdi thes aaier | ay vag over an ag Lord Rayleigh thus gives ie is quite out of the Korn and h absolutely 
when they please > In winter, t the G rass failing, the pig would p oceasion to a very fair observation that as only one-half | needed ett’s plan, is wholly Ransome 
turn may ground in gerha of ‘i oak msiben tod is upon nepotes | of Be, gro is T crop, and that whereas by horr pi. | tee my m ofc In sige 
we feed hi n November oD aoe, p T| manure the whol k oa going on in er this Stine for the reflection of inventors, namel 
them e months old, and from peA preysos ns paste! a | way he would starve the te by cultivating only one- that nothing permanent, w first cost is per high, 
advances they will have 1 s, after that. het summer's | half of the land, and thai ma be pe lay out | ore I yina — it agricul ‘ 
zun, on amat apai the end of Pe year pelea g eg money on manure an full crop, as e Lois-| operations are hac aLa T 
eedin, pene A E TEE roed Weedon — ea country moa be marvel and could entirely tó differ with Mr. Wucdiet: there is nothing 
or delay of Pepe: highly-bred a a og ee oe to breed at at al | pak go oti the growing of half cro not the Fa which is more grateful than the earth for the labour 
E. the completion of the poouna Weedon Pi mip Mr. Smith asserts that his. crops aver- |wh hich is put upon it. But it is the cost of labour 
panai for Wia market. I don't w ocio = og padan: 2 agep arg ate pisi rtheav verage of y neighb peie aa tivo, Se in m; aperire amounti to 3 acre annum 
it may be right Yarden and sheep ‘whi do nos | | acre for acre in full ¢ n average w y horses, and to 57. or 71. 
eat roots af state of nature [and have to Are mmer i pa as S 0} ylei igh?’ experim re ea done by spade nint for farm crops, and to 102. 
sh ER ian A er a om A i ot e : deeply | | fore a ‘Biers. rr his ee s land i is capable vot Jialing or 152. when done for market den —t 
fake a cake or root to a stream to wash them—down they go | broadcast or in rows of with the difficulty f superintending and seeing that 
all. I question if earth be not a proper condiment | of Wheat to the acre E Smith in T7 7 gb eae of | these operations are hoiscw performed—which delays, 
o a sucking- pig's ye a My orders are for the swineherd | 1852, page speaking of his one acre experiment says, | deters, and preven arge amount of 
`. eured two ki nio sisih y arer peje mia ia apenaii weeen | “I have already had shag on the on soo of land for | put upon the age “the ci vena of which is that a 
nd superphosphate seo. chap: ga Renie TA ot Sp Fee eding], | three suc ian ssive year fir r I took n 0 | lar e proportion wh y the earth is 
My pl hed C s or Mangel I | account, but I have poneatoly eioi the pro as ‘of | | age of ce i is mp ti fei aught forth. And it is. 
‘gut ip s smal, and m abe! in “in the proportion 8 Fi ew of br i a | the las Eiis P bpi and the yield has been the same in | the smallness of the cost at which the separate 
any other meal of th o peculiar nourishment that is ttd for both cases, 4 gaere Spee we of tillage can can be performed 
gron animals ; the bran I mix well with the cut roots in a PE E z5 system, | 
P aE on a prick foars Doing. ping th pain o ia e oe cos roe 0s ded 
i i as it còo e roots wi ha ye" tn 
ore of ve than slicing, to produco fermentation; but ae- One ton 12 cwt. of straw at 21. the ton 3 40 
i eX) 
. foolaamd mixing the liquor and t the Erren gas mike rpduees ihe- Total pe att of — Gr haa n ey S 
: a ioro profit,’ which, of co erai pays wel forti e fuel. Ee Deduct oa 
4 confine sows to this m Toka £706 
Í except when in pig anemer not t feed tt them n nore highly 
i ts are 40 peers on re i aan oak rmsd breeding, Ty myself, ~ proprieton eke this acre oot Wheat land 
4 ny “ne and pra i 
i will pay, ARIKA Tenet t as well as sheep, for being is worth 71. Again, page 73, ° ‘Nothing oh m 
if summer on Grass. I put u 16 pigs, wei h- | De ae ae y purpose than this four acre oy 
: Abani 4 stono toh, one half on Carrots and bron, tho oer | and in page 74,“ Ë amm now enabled to E Wheat on | 
on and a cwt. o 
í produced wae anys an increase of 90lbs.—deducting in each my experiment on the four ore ah kakaa T 
case one-sixth for o ting theremainderat 10s. ascore, | which I entered in Octo tober; 1850,” -an © i 
-and deducting 5s. 6d., the value of the bran, one lot paid me | « Twenty q and ¢ of clean Wheat (exclusive 
AL 128. a ton , the othem1l. 6s. 6d. for a ton of) of tail)? We have no talk of half crops but o 
Mangel. ing this period they consumed above 16 1! ars ad clean. Wheat -onfi 
daily, and increased in weight upon the Carrots 100z., and | 20 -quarte a 
> Upon the Mangel 8 oz. During a second period of 16 days they | of land; four acres only. 
_ Sonsumed daily 251bs. each, and increased upon the arther, Sion catia half crop on an acre exceeds 
_ 14 oz., and upon the Mangel only 7. This re of bran and | 4) whole erop on an the 
_ Toots, preferring Carrots when to be had to ma. average w. Me Sraith st ft ion 
_ continued when pigs are aes Lois Weedon. Mr mu ae pag ines to 
Indian, or Barley, or Oatmeal. Frequent ges of all kinds | moiety of each acre is thus n Wheat and the Siar jg 
of food will admit the following process :—To learn how long ty fallow ; and the average yield of that acre is | way it leaves the 
yOu can increase your meal with Ad ger bie er your pigs pigs 5 vga wi jvc ing od eects ger ë e | co ted, scape where i by Eb the rol roller; i its 
‘Weekly, and set thei ponte | : : ; an 
‘fost. : Last year T put up 20. pigs to to fate n upon roots, and a | execution, and sur the average yield of a whole | way of mixing art sol egy wk “tte! 
large i raot tity of Oat and pS peng meal. the on plan,” and page 9; Mr. Smith | pulverisin: mgr cleansing tha land, to the e higiena state 
$ tooa tet fortnig tt > coe = the Oak i oa: the eee have succeeded: my © of garden cultivation, and fr A ap 
i con i 4 € T . : . 4 3 ini i ) + 
Ta the third period of three they ‘cost me 10 guiness, cece pate eh a ei ingson aene) ae pines. 
While the value of their increased weight was but 8 guineas. 3 r half pet oahigh average pro-|at a gr reat : 
__ What happiness fora farmer to think he as bestowed Sguineas | duce from a whole acre, Pag 
` with sawai n v Triund thoyak shoul vet mh real ed} Tt path ec how ne 
- With soft soap, a i ld y be genian Tanie oE 
, frequently a th isan under any circum- ground is occup 
_ Stances.*” A pig put to fatten in a aca a clean state need 
Rot be Ne fo the weekly washed t Professor Voe Voelcker says, “horse-dung and_sheep-dung are 
about equal, then 
Pag) 4 T walks off to market with his whole | 4s manure. 
= @@rcase—bone, muscle, fat, and offal. an immense 
! ingredients ` 
hei 
n cow-dung 3 ‘la, ogee: Fat isofnovalue | | 
tion be entered into, and paying. 3l- 
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