THE AGRICULTURAL 



JKICULIL'KAL COLLEGE, 



tural ©ajettr- 



fn»l value of ci" :i crops in fanning doe. 

 ■I:'..- 

 r ^ lude daring their consumption. The 



acta f— must refer to the manure as well as the 



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 yiow operations it receives during growth be 



ato account, then not only must the m. at :,i 



-Wrflke fat winter's furrow with « 



nHow operations commenced. Hut ho 

 Mtiaate be conducted, and whatever he tl 

 rtieh it leads— whether we regard green 

 •otKU perhaps necessary evils, hut invo 



4. Each received daily 108 lbs. o 



5. Each animal ha< 



<>f sawdust daily, as 1 





i the Turnip husbandry which has enahled 



mture the more corn. There is then nothing 

 kbsard in the idea of producing simultaneously 



bad ; indeed we may safely assert that, except h 

 tn iacreaae in the produce of the former, that of tl 

 htter hai already in many instances reached i 

 tout: our annual produce of grain in Britain 



■more annually applied to British soil, and, ex- 



»U» the island, we may safely admit Mr. Lawks" 

 •Wntion of the fact that this depends wholly 

 *P« tie weight of meat we annually manufacture. 

 Z*^ tto a maximum, and we shall soon have 



l »™ still remains, the inroads on which will 

 **"t in the contemporaneous increase <.} hoth 



Jt a to this that the farmer must look fw ™«, 

 ?**: he will the most rapidly attain them who 



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Bd c t f m -° re ener ? etic ^ een cro P cultivation 



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*J* founded It would be a good thing if such 

 •^ecould be made directly as well as indirectly 



we could procure for 



> better boon, we believe, could be 



agricultural interest than those are 



>can furnish the methods and the 



" grazing "on 



They were bought for fin/., and so],] 

 for 77/., an increase which repaid 

 udance and boogjkt food, together wii 



| plants, not excepting treea, 

 wn on a hilly field than on a level one of 

 .quality of .oil, &c, being the same. The 



They can be placed i 



where energetic green c 

 the following figures, foi 



Stock account Is4.1 £12:11 Hg. M. £1411 Is. 3« 



„ 1846 1(548 2 4 1992 10 11 



1847 1467 10 1559 7 4 



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it have exceeded the payment- by 254/. 1.?. 9, 



which is rather a better result than the average 



•evious four years, but even then it does n 



.1 proportioned to hi« expenditure. Think you, in 



ghih oi ;■ M over him 



would not Kper-.iilv have discovered this advan- 

 And if you, d ^regarding this plain and prac- 



lanT lbs. t 



j but exists in the Turnip in far larger pro- 

 portions than the two-fifths per cent, to which this 

 corresponds. We hope that many farmers succeed. 



n*. &"»""B «u «»u« laim^ -o,uu SU «Tfr e st 



»vour, before the Turnip crop is ripe, to to the j 



have failed in the 



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. Position.— We have a large popula 

 irse manufacturing town ; the last 



^SJ? are the answers to it received from ,, '• Thecharacter of the soil »^ U ^S ^ 



- i I m -tits • ; loam, with a mild subsoil ; 40 acres stone brasn upon 



' - •• r, v?11 ' fr ., . ,, ., , I a white stiff, or Oxford clay ; about 100 acres a stiff 



7^ 1 We*k fr ° m three t0 ei § ht J*™ ° ld ° f clay? rather inclined to run ; the subsoil so stiff that a 



°» 15th of Jan. till the 15th of May. 

 *** dee* «*, box >' 8 feet b y 11 feet > and 18 

 " JttdUm^^times a day, alternately with 

 " 3 dry litter in th< 



littered every m 

 r three months. 



ill. There is a poultry rearing establishment 

 o, where about 80 hens are superintended 

 - are all of the Dorking breed 

 re pullets, as pullets are of 

 - sale than cocks. The old lady inspects 

 nd selects none for incubation but such as 

 e pullets, and are properly fecundated ; so 

 'reckons her chickens before they are 

 ill tolerable certainty. 1 was the other day 



* K>d,tl 



f cocks in the yard. I 





