05-18490. 



^=^=^^f^r^ilts of stall-feeding by agri- 



^ n Vnrkshire, and that I had found those 



5**.V5te but slightly In - i 7 f ^ a a *\^ 



tf ••^Slrf instanced two experiments made m the 

 !#«««* r"' u by H. S. Thompson, Esq., showing 



f ^ 31 d»ji, four bullocks gained in weight, on * u - 

 J^i^-eVb^afoct,' I founded the calculi 

 (fW 1 "***^) umjer the head of "High Farm 



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 f * J ; S.;> is pleased to be rather sarcastic it 



Hr Mechi as estimating a crop of Tumi 

 ^Lmcoloshire fanner, he says, 



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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 



The names of 11 candidates for election at the next 



Captain Moody favoured the Council with a highly 

 interesting detail of his personal experience in the cul- 

 tivation of the Tussac Grass of the Falkland Islands, of 

 h we shall be enabled in our next week's Paper to 

 ish a complete report.— His Excellency, Sir Harry 

 Smith, transmitted, from the Cape of Good Hope, a 

 improving " ' 



and a Galloway e 

 lulst he admits that 1 



?s 



that Mr. Mechi, who 

 lite Lincolnshire and Galloway men who 

 flt ;,. «r ton, are ignorant ot the best 

 • *-- the Turnip crop to cattle feedii 



so great a discrepancy a 



two, can be laid upon a number of beasts together, a 

 •ill such are not isolated cases, I beg to refer " J. ft 

 to i statement of " Some experiments carried on in the 



bt Junes H. Leigh," taken from the Journal of the 



- 

 result of feeding 27 beasts for 63 days, 

 lie range weight gained by them was 2004-i lbs., or 



patioute increase of weight ; for 30 beasts, of mixed 

 ., aii.ed in 75 days 9111 lbs., or equal to about 

 $ stones each, on the average, for the period of 31 days. 



Hillyud, who, writing on the subject of practical 

 fuming, gives the increase in weight which he considers 

 Awld be acquired from month to month, by feeding 



31 days. I could easily multiply instances in corrobora- 

 te of my statements, but think that the foregoing are 



ie weight to wb 





^"cultural Society be worthy of credit, then I am not 

 , 1J re PJ* terously high in my ideas as to the sum which 



Sgfi iudic <i° US and im P roved method of con- 

 f*« to his question, with whidUhis arricL'is hUdS* 

 stn'imt ■* , of Turnips for stall-feeding, propel 



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*ti 8hail b l hapPy t0 Se " a11 « f ours ' t0 L * ° 

 "^commeUiem on the land, for mu-.-h less ] 



■ 8jS. L J C0WC,I,wa8h8ldatthe Society's Hot; 



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M SlohnT^T' u° rd Cam Ss! Hon^R. H. cS 

 ^•S'd r V B f ale Browae > Mr ' W. Burroughes 



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Gibb »,jf£2 ,80D 4, M - P -» Mr. Dyer, Mr. Brandretl, 

 5»»> Mr.'FTr a n ^ ow ' Mr - Gooch ' MP " Mr - B ' 

 *• CXl rd ' r M f- £• E- Overman, Mr. Parking 



S: silaw . of & p V landolph ' RN " Prof - Sewe11 ^ 



- P^n, Re T m «°°' Prof - Simonds, Mr. Bridgman 

 J""*, M, 3L V. 8 ^ Mr - A - *J». M '- S P«»»' 



SfiSvf^lE nSTiWtaL IS Mr 

 £L foll <>*uienii lr Ho ?- Robert H - Clive > MP - 



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embryo state of the next, and if disturbed at the latter 

 period will be prevented coming to maturity. The egga 



deposited on the soft, pulpy leaf or stem of the plant : 

 I certain time drop to the ground, and inter- 

 — *■ e Boil, where generated within 



