THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 



< These oxen are fine large 



?•**. I-J Gazette ot April I4tn, x ou: 



* ^!f2*»> fr 001 a Gallowa y Farm ' £ 





*TZ£* buildings for the , rivaI T. 0I 



a «• "rTjujiiir is not so simple as the above 

 *» ^jdnake it appear. Those who have 

 mat""" ^TjjBiimg of buildings for box-feeding 



iL*S«m * gained <> ver the P a89a S e b y ite b 



T *T™i«M*e highest part of the 



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Till? idmit of the side walls bemg kept 1< 



"ff y Sr **• taken al0Bg th6 wal1 of 



2JL oT*e eontrary, in stall-feeding, as t 

 ZZ» space behind the animals for cleaning 

 "i* Jtafcwmft* constant passing bei 

 -jTjf there h to be also a feedtng-passage at t 

 ^ m wooosei by your correspodent, the building 



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 ^HtaAHti double set of stalk, 

 ^ 3* t nry wide span for the roof. Hence, 

 , sbai fir n cattle in bexes would require a w: "* 

 h feediig-passage between them, making a tota 

 nfc, » wiWi of 24 feet 6 inches from out to oul 

 .irth, at 10 feet 3 inches for each box, includi 

 -^between them, would be 102 feet 3 inches in the 

 ear, or, from oat to out, 105 feet 3 inches, i 

 hi stall-fcediig as many cattle would require a 

 •' '.• ItH for the stalls, 4£ feet behind the stalls, 

 !« 6 inches for the feeding-passage in front, in all 17 



■nth »otld be the same as that of the doubl 

 : «nntsbed. The only difference then in the 

 W apace occupied by the boxes is an addit 

 < fcrf 6 inches m the span of the roof. The extra roofing 



a *e extraction of the box-feeding shed. First? t' 



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 «^ei»iiaiT«d in the boxes, in which the anima 

 •j^iseiatnickbed of litter, do not require ai 

 P««* Srppswg the pathway not paved in eith 

 STwfcitt-™^ ° f 138<) square feet of pitching 



" •«*< few S™ ^ f the walls ^'"S com 

 ■?b boards, &c. Still I* belli 

 '^ally, that though a rather 1 



>P^wotel! ach *** ^Btructed o 

 S^ » to ontw^Sf ™ aterial, y Afferent, certainly 

 J* ,r ^ under 5oV grea * additi0Dal valu . e of 



JJ*» MmST' W8t ^ carts &c > * incurred 

 ^ l ^irJbf tl0B ; l . % Opting the double 

 Z« 1 ««thtew 1 a P athw »y between them, the 

 2°*<1 **■»* Versed in feeding the animals 



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(■* Paee wn perU8al of Thornton's 

 Kh*S '««.■*»« of the supply 



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graziers." Quercus. [About the pamphlet, apply to any 

 bookseller; it is published by Blaekwood, Edinburgh 



s meeting of the English Agricultura 

 society naa inauced the enquiries of a correspondent 



from the back of the kitchen or other room where a fir 

 was constant. It is simple, effectual, and cheap. In buile 

 ing a cottage, the floor of which should of course be abov 



drained, to be properly dry), lay some common drain 

 pipes of an inch or two in diameter under the floor to 

 communicate with the outer air through the wall ; bring 

 the other end into a small air-chamber built at " 

 back of the grate generally used, either separated fr 

 it by an air-tight strong iron plate or by good brick wi 

 (so that no smoke can pass) ; from the top of this s 



brick size, or less up the w*ll at back of the chimi 

 (separated safely from smoke of course), up to a pli 

 in the floor or floors above where you may convenien 

 form such opening, and whence the air warmed in I 

 air chamber below will constantly come out. If 

 opens into both rooms up stairs, you can easily si 

 one opening when you please, and throw the whole to 

 which room you like. It might be carried to a room 

 on the second floor if needed, or into any adjacent 

 closet or place for drying clothes, shoes, or wet 

 garments ; so that a workman might have all dry by 

 morning. This plan, or something equivalent, is often 



room above. The aspect of the cottage, 



saving first cost for others. A good, cheap, prac 

 work, on good plans for cottages, with good plates, and 

 on simple or useful cottage comforts, is much wanted 

 price, not above 5s. I know of nonesuch. R. A. Sidney 

 Artificial Gypsum. — At a recent meeting of th< 

 French Central Society of Agriculture, M. Moll spoI« 



the crops to be obtained, indicated the applic 



iiently remunerating. As there may be localiti 

 nd where a knowledge of the process of pr 



ns. Take I cwt. of well' slakl 

 ed lime, and add to it 11} lbs. of sublim* 



oxygen having been absorbed, the 

 into sulphuric acid, and a sulphate of lime or 

 gypsum formed. This artificial gypsum will be found 



common chalk, which has not been transformed into 

 sulphate, but this, instead of being a disadvantage, is in 

 reality of great benefit, as its admixture with the gyp- 

 sum keeps the latter in a state of powder, and prevents 

 dening. The mixture of sulphur and slaked lime 

 >e slightly moistened, and every part by degrees 



lannre. E. H. 

 Pig.killing.-\n refe 

 >t have noticed the 

 W. H. " if I 



a nobler object in view t 



I me, I ought to have a motley coat. What aaony- 

 ioub correspondents may think of me I care not ; bnt 

 inform them that I am not blockhead enough to 

 ippose, and especially not to. publish, that pigs could 

 ith certainty be instantaneously killed by merely 

 locking them on the head. I wrote no such thing as 

 knocking on the head : although I do not happen at this 



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me cm the head it he can find the language in it 

 he has attributed to me. I described a mode for 

 ion of the life of pigs, ai.d 



one which I have seer 

 r times. Death was 

 niggle. Nor is this 



:erned, and I feel quite < 



I could appeal t 

 r as I myself am coi 



How does Lime act when 



he says, " Uuicklim. is very beneficial to dissolve 

 vegetable matter," "in the ground," as I understand 



this I have serious doubts. That lime has power to 

 decompose vegetable matter, and does it too, I by no 

 means deny, but that its doing so is genera! 



spate in all cases except that of peaty soils, 



incapable of supplying sufficient food to any of the 

 ited crops. In these soils the accelerated decom- 

 position of vegetable matter is beneficial, in all others 

 it is the reverse. It appears to me that this will strike 

 every practical man as a fact, if he will only consider 



organic origin, and why he esteems one manure above 



another. Does he not apply them in order to render 



land more fertile, not for one season only, but for a 



>wers \ Surely he doe 

 tat, by hastening their 

 rial i Why the more slow 

 Jtter, for then they will be 



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pidly effected, many of the substances they contain 

 aporate, others become soluble faster than the plants 

 n assimilate them as food, liable, therefore to be 



even go farther, and 



, and tne good effect of the manure is 

 Perhaps I might even go farther, and 



lo good to nothing. Perhaps this may be dis- 

 and regarded as a casus belli by some, but I do 

 lesitate to say, I believe it myself. No; farmers 

 rest assured, that organic matters decompose 

 rapidly enough without the aid of lime, else there would 

 ' such a lack of manure on our lands as there is. 

 to live by farming myself, and a hard enough job 

 it, but if any one could inform me how I might 

 the too rapid decomposition of the manures 

 on my farm, I would take courage, and hail 



-feeding.— The evidence given in the Agricultural 

 Gazette, on the subject of box-feeding has been, with 

 two exceptions, entirely in favour of that system •, 



i against it, are so decided and so emphatic, 



ounds for the strong assertion he makes of the 

 practice being unhealthy, because the cattle are always 

 wet, cold, and dirty. It occurred to me that I could 

 easily test this fact by putting an animal into a loose 



ow. The floor of this loose box was flagged and 

 sloped towards the door. I gave orders that 



g should be removed, but fresh litter should be 



lightly spread over the dung as often as neceasary. In 

 this state the cow was kept for three months before the 

 manure was removed. Now then for the result. The 

 sing flagged and sloped, the urine might have been 

 »d to percolate through the litter to a certain 

 I but it did not do so, the litter soaked it all 

 re was no bad smell, the cow was always clean 



•ss of her coat gave indubitable signs of good 

 This experiment has completely satisfied n» 

 v U „. «. oox on a dry foundation (even when sunk 2 feet 

 below the surrounding ground), must not be wet, dirty, 

 cold, or uncomfortable, and that it is a system well 



■ in the supply of litter ; and aa there is al »ay s a 

 pt to look after and feed eattfe put up to fatten, 



