THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 



the rate of 1*. 6d. per cwt. Your'c 



pressing. If he distrust analysis, let him 

 cake with oatmeal, which contains from 6 to 7 per cent. 

 of oil, and the greater richness of the cake in oil 

 will be sufficiently obvious. Whether, as he surmises, 



• a nt « - 1; t i i _: n four to eight cobs on a plant, but 

 is one- i the whole spike of bloom appears to be fecundated, and 





temptation, but if mixed in any consic 

 would be easily detected, and the grea 



that the value of Rape-cake as cattle foi 

 been very much overlooked, having hi 

 only as a manure. From experiment 

 tailed in the last Number of the Jouri 



duced in mixture with oilcake, i? may ! 

 the dearer cake to the extent of from c 

 half. This is worthy the farmer's cot 



husks of grain, may be ma< 

 without any appreciable ( 



want of being made public. And they have extended 

 the idea by forming a lendii 

 books are made accessible to all. This \ 

 purpose might (tended to the 



nnected with agriculture, and 

 thereby furnishing a lending library for I 



Royal Agricultural Society of England, . 

 means that are necessary, and also the ram i . 



the purpose into effect. It would form a 

 very valuable addition to the useful labours of that 



ever has been, proverbially a poor one^and whSlly 

 unable to usher their idea, 



me?it3 h of P "Jhe S wo n r g k iS ^V° S"^ T 



OOtky. dm-equently, many most valuable ideas and 



wholly lost, and condemned to oblivion. 



.ngement be adopted, profits must be 



bibliopoles. And no hypercritical observer must be 

 his ideas, or jostle his pre 



idea, whether narrow or liberal, crude or refined, free 

 or dogmatical. Discussion would be engendered, errors 

 would be detected, and truth wouli be settle!. ./. D. 



Indian Corn— In your Number for M ■■-. 

 of this year, I asked Mr. Keene if he won I 

 from what varieties he had raised his new hybrid, 

 called by himself Forty-d »j 



has. I also stated that, in my opinion, they would 

 by the Messrs. Page, seed..,.. 



eases Nature to produce new 

 varieties by the aid of man's ingenuity, or her own 

 freaks, she not only chain- 



the seed produced by the same also. To what extent 

 Nature may be indebted to Mr. Keene I cannot say, or 

 why, as a solitary individual, he had so merited her 

 good graces as to have been allowed to bring into exist- 

 ence a new race without either her permission or 

 i consequence is as I anticipated, she 



ig of the three kinds 

 ays 





Three weeks ga 





is bulk yielded by the growth of this 

 cheaper rate than we can fatten them at 



title farmii 



. 



be length of the i 



od they are joined t 

 tly give a diagram ■ 



AGRICULTURAL IMPROVEMENT of IRELAND. 



In correction of the Premium List at the late annual 



in Dublin, we have to ex- 





Robert Boyd, is sXated^bouTa 

 Comber, and closely adjoining t 



»SEitSfi 



rich Mr. Boyd wfc 



wfdfs! 3 D0W CarryiD S & P roi "L4c^ 

 -Wheat, after laat Je „. s ^ 



sown where the Vetches 



Clover and Rye grass will thn 



■■'■■■•"■- 



is note I . ," 



ird VS Acres.— As * 



•ks. one-half of this 



of Wheat. _ This 



consumed by the cattle ; of tkmnl 



the seed, whilst the third cutting will be emir 

 sumed by the house-fed stock. The remaining half i 

 been occupied by winter and fprag 

 - 

 The 5 acres from which these Vetches were remowd 

 are carrying a crop of Turnips, sown as the Vetda 



Fn„rt/i \?, Acres.— In this break there arelOacw 

 of O ,;s ; ori finally 11 acres had been sown withO* 

 but 1 acre missed, and it has been ploughed down, aai 

 the land sown with drilled Rape. The remaining 2 aaa 



■ : . 



sown with Rape. * Such is the arrangement of the crop 

 Stock The stock on Ballywilliam farm consists, at 



of this, 1 have to state, that Mr. 1 



is entirely in Grass and the o(he, 



taining 40 acres, is worked on a ^.f^ 

 course. These farms are, howei 



employed at Bailynickle are kept at **£$£ 

 are reserved entirely for rearing young •**•*},. 

 fattening off-cast cows. The crops gw™° n .1 



ice is suppneu «»">- — 

 iintS winter and spring -*-* * "£2 

 ock of cows ; but, during the 8um ™ e ' ^ntt 

 stillery is idle, he is entirely ^P™^" gonl e part* 



stillery, about 1* mile distan i iw^ w0U iderer*Jj 



... ■' ■'.",■'■ • ■ ■■■ ' 

 ; h e farm. 'But, instea d of to-g J^jj.- 



j draw that which forms part < 



variety of Quarantine, and rostrata. Now,' I ■ 0> a, Aylesbury breed. : ntl ; tJie assum£j ^ of 



ov*r all others cultivated in England, that he r , ' ;;',' ',£ l ' re ' food) Snd that during a limited porW» ^ ^ 



to appear to merit particular a 



