610 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. |JUxx 35, 1884, 
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The follow owing y figures co — the Bristol meetin = 
g| - die. It is best eut up into short lengths for all the nitrogen are expired by the 
with its immediate p redecessors :— minning a erm and in fact I am more and more | skin, — but itl om Lore 
pens by practice that | it pays to cut up all green manure, Here then arrive at a basis for om de 
iod S "Visitors, Receipts. | food, "f of any length. The animals" eme will hold | lations, Allowing for. nad Tittle waste, which ES 
i ire» nal T Tes ane - em : i more; it packs closer, and they get on much faster than | must take place in the mos t carefu 1 managem mn 
1862 :. Wal lis MEI KS. 817 0 with long ood. "The same remark s good in com: | half tl will ‘be left in the ep 
1861 ,.. Tru ie OE A 6 minuting roots or chaffing straw, and I know the same | and will if prererved be the. measure of the "uud 
1800 .. Dorchester’ ROMS NOT 6 90 ce applies as forcibly to strong pasture or meadow | that manure. < 
Rncoxp Dav. rass n, ud ein, season. ‘There is a trath that thè value of the nitro, en 
ims il Rater o 01 Bus no gm D9 5 ne m-saying, that a bullock of horse | manuria $ taken at yki 
Soak) a vi ae lev mesi ee ee turned out i in high feed has five mouths, that it is gat lage pu tohssing on the farm a Con 
1e +. Truro ne , ED 2. 28 18 0 I need hardly say that it is the greedy feeding an à | price. We can also generally ascertain ho : 
860 .. O— E $59 .. 13515 6 consequent]y excessiv e ra apid growth p Rye tons of hay, waa roots, cake, &c., were 
i TRD DAY. grass during the growing season that renders it so|during the last winter, the remai 
Lo : na - " 1 - s94 T : profitable, It gives us, under eng a ee of hay, | stitute the value of the dung ther te red aa , 
1862 y 1 $202 633 6 k or a heavy het: every f - s. : eeks, <a tr it | the land. The amount of nitrogen contained 
ruro v. TOS 808 10 10 gives us great crops, an orti ices Y ne E with ‘nee scuffs is also sufficiently known; | 
Dorchester . 5,080 9 | the hea avy expen nses of ploughing, | hoein ng, & | or estimate which will b wired to ine SoU gucie l 
MA RAE Fourtu ie : P th ne allowance or — from the full theoretical] 
JUN c. a cn. 988. ^. Aas b oo an , exhausting crop, because their rain-fa uence of Se etgomure of th | 
1862 Wells "U 6508 780 13 10 small and it is a very greedy drinker, and Mec have no | dung while making i in the pe- One half the qua: " | 
b Truro un vs See ` 7 5 irrigation. know , who | tity on or s — ^ the outside ales of Ls 
. 5,938 0 sow it in their corn crop, take one pr Sir in | manure, from wbich no runnings have esca i 
uu iue Den. Vtt the spring, when it has drunk- opal the unt rains, which suffered no ap re to the air, It is pro- | 
196$ |. Exeter ..  .. 18,007 .. 878 0 9 and then plough it eo and take Turnips or some other | bable, from | Professor Voelcker's analyses, that at least | 
TM NK wells Se ee RUNE. ee 108 1B X the best way where idi Fd irrigation, | 30 per cent. from this full value should be uded —— 
ua" im Tues ed m 2 T ; ad there C E Ueto growth in crop without it. I — it bas been exposed for months to the sun and | 
ay — pitts in Me refully weighed an. acre of my first cut a few years | rain, and where the — «ud. ped in 
—— WE learn that Mr, Bowrr, of Siddin ion, ago, me found it to be I. tons per acre, equal to quite ar Dis ing pond or roa would probably 
and Mr. RICH, of Didmarton, have purchased Capt. our tons of hay. The second eau i cut is um take off 10 per cent. as a steer? wllowsliee 4 where 
Gowns imm DUK or YORK, the bull that has € is ten tons ; Lu “thi rd crop is always compara- | common care and precaution have d taken, and sat. 
n their tc ds during the past two years Ene yin capil [3 d at ot month dnd the ze E ficient straw used to prevent exc Y Therefore 
The oa go money, pe is another illus- | as t exhauster of moisture it soaks |107 every ton of hay he would allow Irem = 100b, 
tion of the high prices Barzs's blood comm undi. u the autumn rains, and keeps the land dry enough | & 
Y c, or 50s; for every quarter of Barley , &e, at 
or feeding, which it would not be under other circum- | 4 per cent, B per uM 
SEWAGED ITALIAN RYE-GRASS. Sil am e js one remarkable property or power Eper emnt, an or 35.; for Beans, RE 7s. the 
Mts longer I farm the jhore I become impresod atl ø this eds which is not possessed by Clovers or 5 per cent. 
with the vast importance to the farmer and to the smother or. kill p young pnta T town di : the — oilcake, — 52, the = deducting 
moot pl 2 tg of this Grass when | spring, and hoed or harrowed in, you are v to have | from the whole 10, d per cent. as vas for any 
Conil "= UM ^ Bani, dts ed - a crop next spring, eene puny, and then it may look | want of economy in rA diamante. is cf 
eating heavy seeond € up v when th 1e corn crop is removed, fel ve incr E will = Rac no ai whether be 
no other much as they can eat of th's vati em] d irt two cuttings; after that o yard. Les 
ly epring and the first two mide ; after e and pigs inthe yard. Less V rca weal 
Grass (112 lbs. Se up by steam power into | it understorm every week rather than be requisite in the case of fi rc 
c Mant impe ^ oe alent r," said m horseman to rad Mabey E ihe very wet it will struggle to run to the dung is usually ploughed in get them, and 
e d y i ere is 22 food that will keep our | seed in July and August. During these critical months | little loss a occur. It would also ore to vey — 
horses in hong Te ys ion as d This is quite true, | for green food wise farmers will fall back upon a heavy | € xcessive nurings, where one had ] 
sac by Tatas aa ode an Mra Tii esi ary mati Sf. n | crop Y yug D out in Lar! or March on | been taken off, but Am not isse. e 
e-grass con t. 3 wsla piece of land heavily manured an @ deep trench | manure. was shown a previous letter that — 
of dry solae Gh [y n er day, A aeria, vi n ploughed Ny ly ja i we natural actual productive power of wh'ch & 
acea t Cabbages are just the opposite of It — | was 1 Vues se 39 Tesis Cray, yo yeast, WOME 
j— «A » free from ety Fann Tm they luxuriate in heat, provided the dim been | require one year with another 40 Ib. of nitrogen to — 
also got} about tT hend of calves, yearlings, and fat | 4 deeply d urbed and fled with — and manure crees — crop to - ry Suppose on any such — 
bullocks fed in winte efore. They are however very grateful field an excessive dos 100 1b. of nitrogen had been — 
them off their cake, ‘if we allow them all they will eat | for sewage; Fees pays better M it except Italian ar pina &^ a good € Au of five to = ap ers, t 
of it. Rye-g I was very much struck to see in my | still would remain the difference between the 40 or 80 
It also makes the very best hay, if cut at the right is go last autumn several so large that they Ib. of nitrogen so removed by the crop, yen the 100 pot — 
into the soil; thi remain an unexhausted manure | 
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time and got up pies It certainly pays me better | touched -< other, 
"T corn, and I shall gradually increase my quantity | I found there was a little leakage iem one of my |! 
npe wA sewage by washing in guano, &c., | subterranean iron sewage pipes, and i act line | this will be more apparent when we e 
feeding a € of it on the land, for I find | with the sewage ed an enormous Ens = Celbi the application of the above method of valuation to 
e folding ewes upon it, allowing their lambs torange| Nice cool Cabbag hot weather are the very | actual farms, in connection with a somewhat different 
rotation o the method of manure making. 
outside the e abd the day, answers well; and | beau ideal of atii food toanimals. We pass them 
I thatany food that will put condition on to dere Sa Bentall’s pulper for our incat stock. They 
milking ewes must be first — a very valuable meat and especially milk-producing | b; comparing tbe few returns o 1 
As to profit, my horses at DAT week are paying eon EA Mechi, June, 1864. a f tho effect of thefmanure made from it, with which I 
me (each horse consuming * €wt. per week), abo = been favoured, by showing how near the actual 
98s. 4d. per ton. As = — fully 20 tons at the e ices of several of these substances correspond with 
principal cuttings, it requires no conjuror to show that WHAT IS “ CONDITION ? "—No. III. their feeding and manuring values thus arrived at 
it is a profitable dan. earting tting] — IAM aware that in nor the theoreti value of a (which is the best criterion of the truth), and to 
up and feeding out costs about 25, to 2s, 6d. a ton. e 10 per cent. deduction made above from 
The cost of an acre I put down at 137, 14s.; I miss the | far mers ; t ifI d aft the full v e at aS and fair approximation t0 
cheap town sewage. But there is another and very conclusions arrived ed true in po ri I all the actual loss. J. D. M. 
lm cob r4 rond of on of the nn — Rye-grass | recover it again, and "is s I hope to do cd prece of ————————— 
—the after ition of the land on which it grows. | neighbouring farms, Unfortunately the data upon 
The first year of its growth we mow it and my it eh I oo now to proes us M been suf- CATTLE IMPORTATION AND CATTLE 
off; the second yerr à i is fed with 5 sheep, eating cake, | ficiently investigated, ve I have had no DISEASES BILLS. 
ke) and irrigated. It supports during six months 16 | access to any -= of them, es shall beg any one who| Tae SzrroT COMMITTER or Tun House oF Co —— 
following 2» to read a | MONS v ich these Bills are referred, sat againon — 
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to the acre. ks these r 
anes a biennial we break it bl si 1 ien. en pit n the Royal | T: the 14th, Mr. T. 
year (it being plant) i gaz shie a oa wri y — a y: p Jen aans d dry 
wp, and find unmistakeably that those fields so treated 1 Vol. 1847, to whose : 
occ dem en power any | a oe iore earch T o aa Rete tontiemation Warwickshire, near Ragby, oo pk ger 
other fields on the farm. is felt for several years— | of . In tbis article he has shown that in a apan he over a meeting 
that am ar becomes — more The food given to icis Prevention Bill was sc and a me 
improved by the saturation and of our valuable, i.e., supposing given to | Diseases Prevention * 
aries aon rough it. At presen at high prices of | an animal to be ;vholesome and fattening, its effects | decided objection dt month 
meat and butter it sana, under the circum. | will be in proportion to t @ nitrogenous constituents, | diseases being included, and he believed tha - to bring 
stances I have mentioned, pays best to make the other, or oily matters which enter into id inter- 
meat, although the very making of that meat position, being generally in excess. He proceeds to e with the trade and enhance the price of ment b 
enables us to grow great ESA and Pulse crops | prove from well-conducted experiments that about reducing the number of cattle brought to market. 
when we break up the Grass, If we wish to continue | one- -sixth ppt of the nitrogen consumed is carried off by difficult say w penalty should be 
the land in Italian Grass we should sow anim re s t — weight e other five- upon in the case of sont poti ia, even when 
nually or biennially and also some white Clover. kufia init Ya ri rom this one-sixth he | diseased beast was knowingly sold, for the animals 
It would be interest ey know how peni tons of | calculated A intenog rs: - Arpa We will| must be I in some way. m or 
ld produce a ton of beef or mutton Fe for the | now consider urin son of the residue, It} was, — he found one of his at 
I value it at "deii the price o a has Mar aed a portion, aos p the Bat i it to a fair and sell it at eae 
i the price of i, beca fivesixtl which were i: incorpora the | but "if there mie fe a — he should ne 
tter oe: aL 
is a | —in fact, was wasted in the same way as the ri very iip, and in perot ot thi he mention os 
a herbs i vires 5 lbs. for its production, and retains} where purchased 13 oxen arre, ; 
ind the 1e er | but-1]b. in ite compositi when ripe This question, | which became siiankod, nih, but though P 
with any stock, Sie pede which was taken up ult, me been 
ti yon let an to seed, or or get | settled by the ee igo "of M. E eiset, a 
; z calves. or | gentleman, as reported in Royal Ayen Agricultural i, 
en | ac FIND TU. He has determined with sufficient. 
up | accuracy for our present purpose that uer Sick Gta of 
