83 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [Jaxvimy 23, 1864) 
the sulphur being no longer of any use, I advised | yesterday, Hoe Bridge Farm rm has, for the most | feeding. And the number now on hand wo 
im to manure "his Vin neyards with wood ashes | part, been lo ng en Pens a cultivated. Close by | be still further reduced sei Howie but orti 
and phosphates. Last October he sent to me a it stands the ‘mansion bui tbv JAMES THE First, | need of main nee with th 
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produced healthy fruit in abundance, while others | original enclosure to centuries ago. But within | HrrpER would have stopped his pig feeding alts, 
close by, whic E va received these manures, | the farm, on what is now one of its most fertile| gether until his premises should be considered 
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tios dia hee now reached the period when it is| the traveller across the moor. And there is enough | than the gangways, boxes, sties, and every sepi- 
no longer opposed, and when nee as ro of evidence not only rat ily. ban m retreating rate € of the old = in which all thes 
appeared. The time has now come when agricul- | edge of the wa «ri but o whole farm whi ch oie = carrie 
turists should learn to apply it, in order to gather ha re abuts upon it, to s M ow the poor sandy nother great iig on the farm is the coy. 
its fruit, In Saxony they have already served | bre ret of m da jai the fertile field kee ng. ^ ia varying from 50 to 70 inn a 
this apprenticeship, and the consequence is that |of the next. kept as long as € continue productiv. 
the crops of 1863 have surpassed the average of| Of course the increased produ f this |y ]l kind t chiefly smallish had 
10 previous years—a great and beautiful result. | land is Mt the gradual ped iat - cent uries W when | cows, , being g bought in Suffolk markets. They arg 
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agriculture in Saxony has been due to the "judicious HrirpER has added greatly = its fertility during They come to calve at all times of the year, so that 
application of my theory in n his kingdom the 16 years he > has occ cupied it under Earl Ons the po of milk does not vary Me 
e cannot in this country regar ober general good "Ww fro e month to another. nd an average 
harvest as the result d either LIEBIG’ s teaching | the plans by which light land may rory whore te yield i is is abont 10 quarts a day—this being made uy 
or that of any other m ferti A and by which it hos igo made so|of such maxima as 26 and yi 
In 1863 we have ha dà a harvest not merely better | productiv ut that we have - call} a fewrare "i! with the larger number of moderat | 
than the average of the past 10 years, but exceed- | attentio iu On land originally poor, g great crops of |and inferior milkers dwindling to the time whe 
ing in its productiveness that of probably any | Wheat and Barley are now grown—and; nowhere|they will be ie efore a. ne pris 
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t cannot be attributed to drainage, to guano, or | more strikingly illustrated. The land altogether | covere red, The cows are fed just now on M. 
to tillage, or to practice based either on the|im Mr, HrnpEE's hands is about 500 acres in | Wurzel, grains, ( Cottons seed cake (cough), palla 
mineral theory or that of humus and the vegetable | extent, of which about 360 lie upon the edge of | Wheat chaff, an . During summ net they an 
mould. It has been owing simply to the|the moor, On this small light sandy farm a herd | at Grass, and receive. grains and cake in addition 
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we are, we $ ould not consider the RANT OT | from SUD to 2000 have been fattened annually pollards vend as much Wi 16a ier Lu 3 pedis 
opinion of a King on such a subject to any up to an average weight of 10 or 12 scores | of brewers’ — 1 ewt. of cu "Wurzel 
special value, unless he were also an intelligent a piece. Add to these, which are the principal | and 5 or 6 lbs. of ha y, make x E Thr is 
agriculturist. | $ points in the management of the business, | ration at pres ent. 
The following is an account of the Potato that A M ti is Bspeo are employed in| The sale of milk, in this way gene 
cul e, and that the labour profitable, is often made a loss by the attacks 
rried out under the direction of Professor bil vel i 10004 and 11007. per annum, | foot and mouth disease. The h herd is replenished | 
NaraELIand Dr. ZoELLER. Three fields of peaty | and it is plain that we ei here a very remark- | as often as required by pur chased cows, and iti 
soil— tourbe pulverisóe"—were set apart for it, | able specimen of vigorous and liberal farm | rarely that any fresh V ilitions are made in 
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boul ig is box day Ce, 1) 1 ) ware z The food is three times a day put in their troughs, eed and bed, the pedites always of 
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leaf of the Mulberry tree is no oper a healthy delive ved, by the London and South-Western | and sup sain that 300 eros 0 Ibs, of mui 
it is because the exhausted soil where the hid X the Woking Station). They ae i make 
tree grows is no longer able to supply it with the uod scores’ weight when bought, | 100 Ibs. of bacon ue e 
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lament of healshy gro ma. Thi; Madoni Hi“ | Barlay; spoiled Wheat, Indian Corn, Peas, Beans, | gallons of milk each, and putting tne gallon d 
ment of Lombardy, owing t og $6 s wand Ai of the Baak-whest, and Lentils, purchased m * Tape; ari icit apr value to 1 "m s 
1 are oking, ground and mixe e 
een il — — n ii v uacua in the proportion of one-half Barley meal, | 200,000 lbs. a yea a far 00 aoresA 
t of an impoveris and the remainder mingled and varied according manufacture of 100 Ibs. "ot meat per Mes 
the market prices guide their purchase. The food | bably quite unpara llele d 
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THERE i a drearier waste than Woking is prepared in large tubs upon the barn floor, to Of course it is made possible only 
vara m within A the limits of the t A black which water is laid on. hs given fresh and quA TM te it, ves 
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ow tpe heretic dcn a — —| rid ll alike at the e average hand, the immense quantities 
Ling, and here and there a Furze bush, offers the | rate of Pale a peck M ob per zi Three| made on the farm, are increasing 1 s 
very poorest promise to the agriculturist. And yet | men do the whole work of eig oe Keeping ness not only of cattle food, but y^ 
close upon the edge of this waste, gradually winning 500 hogs, which has been the usu T on | Crops. e land is cropped for the mos 
way within it, lies a farm whose produce a handat atime. The average gr ‘of m or | the four-field course—but Bar. is somehma 
on w acre, more than | bacon A Fue AS lbs eek each. "They are » Wm i r - is taken only 
quarters Basler, 30 b ur arley crop, 0 
Man - — " dens ora En condition in|stubble being generally put 
e did last Frida: along the very which they had "been bought, The last weeks stubbles are sown down 
M of are dcl e then nba. Mie k, indefinite, |in the fattening process, when they sleep|or Trifolium, followed by Turni 
-— gloomy through the mist of a cold damp |and rest most, are the most profitable. And | Rape follower A Peas and pes ni - 
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day, nothing could exceed the contrast when ready for the market they are sent) deeply p plou manured 
oat e g by truck fo wholesale bacon curers in many |P. olougües. — od by Barley. 
plant of Rye, the clean fallows covered with piles parts of the country; We numbers going| It is the practice, for all root crops, 
of Mangel Wurzel, e earthed over from the frost, | into Gloucestershire to the manuf of Messrs. | deeply with four hors 
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HILLIER N, near Nailsworth, pes Vuoi the land thus gets a furrow abou 
in irs columns. So long as the carcase is worth | every other I The MASA 
thi parated merely | n n lb., a tko meal oan bo bought hired—and has worked the stee 
by the h hedge from the u ter worthlessness, aad: riedt 1 and 8 8l, per ton, the business yields | uneven slopes u 
feet, the hope- | a a t. i 
and ther thin bar frm rw healthy plant of |] 
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to 1 e to 30s. 
Ee ea waste m by. hich on so large a seale of rich feeding is very | the provision of coal and water, has 
contrast, which must be even greater at viluihio, ut, on the other hand, disease as e being a case su 
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crier edge ap ees in the stomaeh, which destroyed large | White Velvet-ear, Talavera, an 
cultivated land is not the work or growth of | numbers, to put a stop almost ei to the| Wheats; Chevalier and long-e 
