1849.] 



THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 



T2\tr*w. called manure, aDd a pile of faggots, called 

 Ehjr He is a small old-fashioned English farmer, 

 JJ^ by steam-engines, root crops, and artificial 

 Jri'earned experience, which only requires an ac- 

 SSce" to compete manfully with the foreigner, and 

 J, hope successfully. Let us suppose the subject of 



h,| 2d°of F tEe* t r 



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Why he i 



ienTweThand 

 r«th£ neigh- 



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 be brought to 



Farm Memoranda. 



LDOON AND AUCHNEBS, WIGTOWNSHIRE.— Mr. Caird 



,;;.,.,, l.y his pani'ililet entitled " High Far:nir.<,- 



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,nd advocated by Mr. i 

 f July. ge He now 



The writer of this was n. 

 er to satisfy himself of tl 

 " 1 by Mr. M'Culloch , 



for the drains necessary. There were, say 130 acres 

 Wheat on the farm, all good and some of it magniticei 

 being fully taller than an ordinary sized man. T 

 Oats, about 50 or 60 acres, were a very indifferent crc 

 the clay soil not seeming to suit them so well as fro 

 the rich pasture might have been supposed. The 

 were 40 acres of superb Potatoes, the principal varie 



the latter, though mostly on clay land, being a goi 

 braird and lo.ikin- well. The Beans, without beir 

 particularly strong, were healthy and growing. Tl 



old pastures, with the exception of a couple of fiel< 

 round the house which were never ploughed. M 

 Caird has a dairy of 100 nice Ayrshire cov - w, c iuit< 

 50 in one byre and 34 in another. These cows are 1 

 it the fixed sum of 10/. we believe, for each, to a perse 

 technically named a " buer " or " hoyn. r,'' who has t! 

 sole charge of tin m and the dispo^a*! of their produc 



And forage the stij ulati 1 .pi : t.tv . f J m.s < f Tii 

 nips and 10 bushels Deans for each animal. The Beat 



ot help recommeniing Mr Caird to alter his 

 '■ ploughing from the old-fashioned Bystem of 



ie to subside when the drains are placed 



the Wheat and other 

 The farm lies along j 





[y,and over and above we found t 

 4 cwt. of Peruvian guano per acr< 



>f green crops on the farm. He has a dairy of I which is more than 

 »jm,and brings up 40 calves annually, Belling 



" Caird was s 



The whole o 

 a Turnips during > 



ntion, though as a lo 

 » Kid to be particularly large. The 

 *»sat present being converted into c 



- Boil begins fa 

 'rhood of Newton-Stewart, win 

 "dhming of moss going on. 



J$y- A ? he ^Proach to the farm house from th. 

 if the Bladn ^ * *"*"* driVG al ° Dg - the wooded baukl 

 !S P 7!?^^^UrS^ f ' Jto top o" Z 

 *"h ttltef n ^ inbowered »n evergreens and surroundec 

 of »n an-; y aid out grounds. It is close to the mini 

 "*°w fir • ansion n °use, and almost within a stone'i 

 D °re bfty b C thC pic f ures 1 ue Minnigaff hills and th< 



of Mr. Caird. the 



*** Seklk Cn , l0ng known as a crack farm ' the 



y 100 years ago having begun to 



N*'ty of ^ 8C r tific Principles. It is now the 



SbyMl 6 ^ 1 ; 1 ° f G»»W» and has been 



s it h r d for eeven or ci - ,it - ve:trj ' h - 



•oughly drained. It con- 

 Scotch acres, of which about 



his part of the country ; and 



uce bay was through i 

 1 principally of rocks ii 



, - ,- . - 

 dyke, as said to be given by the learned professor of 

 •vjs a fence of 

 round bullets,so piled one upon another, that all stock are 



selves ; indeed, you might put your head through betwixt 

 the stones in almost all the dykes we saw. Along the 



erops did not 

 indicate much spirit i ' 

 field we came to be' 

 Grass. The first < 





eater part ot the secou 

 ain. We have seen i 



rhe next field was old Grass, 

 and offices. The house itself 



ltity of fertuiaia* 



dloch's success. 



>, heTa7 the" 



nearly 80 acres of Potatoes on the farm, 



them looking more vigorous in the growth 



than any to be seen in the Lothians. Perhaps we 



U a first crop on the moss. 



. 



• ■ moss. The second year's 

 crop we thought could not be excelled until we saw 



! '" "'' ; ''-\ " ith a dose^f 



years in Mr. M'Culloch's possession, which was 



■u:. 



Sds! a The whole of Uie'fences had been take™" 

 iding one on the top of the bank, which was a steep 

 ent to the sea-shore The bank being sand, 10 feet 





rgeat portion being a moorish sand, a part 



mere sea sand, and about i 



red land and moss, the whole has become produc- 

 ts by Mr. -.men*, and 



• . : 



his merit. H^ha? chine a 



been done before. The soil and t 



favourable to the growth of green crops, and he turns 



to give a balance sheet of Mr. M'Culloch's doings, but 





Mr. M'Culloch* 



liberal spirit as Col. M'Douall 



urd attempt of laying down the manner of crop- 



ping each field for the next 21 years must be no longer 



of. Instead of Mr. Caird's pamphlet being a 



lort distance from the road, they are j do their 

 After going through them, we could j return is 



> far as to say that even v. 



I has carefully enumej 

 y Mr. M'Culloch, the 



. M'Culloch, he kindly showed us over every acre of aitaan , 



his machinery, the better to enable us to judge of the soil already ; and regj 



"'M 



- 



I plan of the offices give 



Atlantic by the grouj 



from the full i 



ever witnessed. The byres are to hold 400 head ol 

 cattle, and the expense will not be much short of 

 5000/., though nothing has been expended on mere 

 ornament. There were some excellent fields of Wheat 

 on Logan farm— most of it ran the risk of being too 

 strong. We also saw some eight or ten beautiful pure 

 bred Galloway cows, and one or two good short-horns. 

 One curiosity deserves to he noticed, viz., a fish-pond 



