514 THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE AND CT acad [Mar 28, 1864 
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is let to the Croydon Board of Health, and t Ins of the warmer sand district s in contin 
Mre sublet it to fele tenant Mr. ina RRIAGE Y PIG FEEDING. region ns of higher latitude tan 40°, irrigation iwing 
of nine vears at 5 It lies near| y D SURE px s seen SA paper, dm ‘pas ns hot seaso n will 1 be ghly beneficial. 
lave cu also, V 
| numerous re adorn Mat à t ha m seen it, I take ke advantageous, wher iy practicable, b E a 
2 d | libe erty to piste it for ther pushers ial edification Grass pastures under river water, A eciall ysk 
this jand : sof Mode 1 hl dab ilion | armer near Dorchester has now the enormous | the water contains lime solution Pape Tries a lite 
; and passing the whole (about one million | Pato of 3000 fink He bre eeds and purchases to kee op floated mud. phe mon ms. in Hol 
or more gallons a day) over the surface of the laud, | up his stock. One They are | and other low flat ond. Bat generally j lini, 
he thus removes from it its noxious aud fertilising | fed partly on Wheat.” moister countries of low temperature, suc the 
elements, and converts the filthy turbid diteh-| It certainly is a novel announcement, but m a new British Isles, summer irrigation, except ve ery partially 
water which comes on to the farm into the clear baee. I suppose iti is “ too strange not to be true.” — I | carried out, or w bas the highly nutritious dr, rainage gf 
and limpid stream which D bn t the name of this spirited pig breeder is is not | cities, pnt exhi as injurious as ver al Iff. 
The greater part of t d lies on ery | giro as e Ze — hea visitors to see such a low wed t the > loss iho 
i arm hes rival those edified by stud 
uniform and regular ES below the the E at qu of the kind and c consi siderate acides RES Tiptree Hall. gain of Mini. ier Mechi’s liquid I i 
rise I fe sir, under very pec culiar circum- box d carried out, must act in the s me direction, 
is dark enough iis ces. I vum a es family, and | loft thes t this ae » = vci infuenga compared i5 
in endir ng fi ome, | rass-tieid irrigath ecte Li 
ide! 1 iones but am sadly puzzled to det or y windmill pow A latter I nave SAS 
eep init. Itis not so y as the sewage either | mine where it is kel to pay head ? Ihave co onsulted jin, Holstein. Ir Praritió n may also in cooler climates 
of Édinburgh orof Rugby ; and 2 uS yn in part| many friends; some say, “See what has been d the health of the pop j ; 
toa iT separation of mu he solid | M prep von. what is now done by Alderman Mechi,| warmer, though to a less extent. In the 
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below the town—so oe on x e | Gehan say, “go to Ireland, where land is poten, and | ha d r, itie 
or particles in easy on ht ion are lable a to fiora ev MES Eee than in England." Some recom- | containing the washings of farmsteads, is moe 
farm e, by one ord inary plan of occasional | me nd -— ada, near the lakes, others New Sealand ór wholesome than clear water, probably from thy 
stops jitia t4 the channel, it is made to flow down | tagman; deodorising and purifying effect of earth matter 
16 : gs Em d an excellent general knowledge of agricultural | or mud. 
pursuits, having as ong stu di ed. and wat ched the _be st The nd va xis to the improvement of thy 
systems, while I the life of | vegetable mould by irrigation not being generally 
i He a farmer, to which I can bring a working capital of a | judicious in the reped and cool climate fa the British 
easily effected. Much of the water sinks over the few thousands, Isles, „at least unless hot wi be obtained by d 
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the one case, and by final inftratio ie iu the o the er, « “ How to Farm Pr Sfi secording zs ass the | nities. To succeed in this the judicious farmer, having 
both the water which ‘flo ws water farm Fro om t this I| his improvements protected, will look around him and 
sinks, reappears in the d lad ng the ri b is opportunities. He will pursue an emy 
edge of the field. "Chis Po carries it to Ti g| farm ona rae ned OU be likely to pay well? I| rotation of crops, have always heavy crops with the 
which lie upon. a lo el—so that e sewage | mean to grow crops to be exclusively consumed by | produce as much as possible returned as manure; 
breeding sows, selling off their progeny when weaned, engen ee di clean : and careful poe eg stirring, 
or as ge p ter as possible, while some should go to} especial è nir and | 
; : es ; | market *roasters." The various dup corn crops, | roots ots plants may penetrate “deep oil; 
ged he f. i "i Ith, x l ae pulse, Grates and vege etables should be grown on ae cure large manures where aoe r pe = frie ‘large 
may be char upon the farm ; but alt e d egal | farm, and properly p ked E bile vid us | manures cannot be. obtained, a judicious selection of 
à me were | taken cise Gat iy id by Seer he | sorts of offa 1 may be advantageously purchased hee small 
à ealt ne ther were | feeding say 200 use plenty of cake with feeding stock, and especially 
guilty of when aly a wall iesu and had been} -If Co abbett w was near the truth in saying a cow could be | havi Ms os land laid down rich of manure. Alo 
used, d has yet been proved i pu Sir Aog kept on one rood of cultivated ground, then I should | in the case of light sand, wr uH ground if good 
against GE adit nae farm. The land, x to know how many breeding sows one acre should TUAM an be obtained near. On à bene bom 
laid we p bere ty „is sown with Italian Be keep osed of comminuted Pues und on 
the latter case, | There can be no doubt Pig breeding economically parts o e ~~ est coas a d wer irae z fcd t 
i the field | and jndicionaly manage inged. i ee I: then arises the | manu I have | kno this car 
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ang iust 3 - is it most profitabl sk dus seaweed, whic eos however, oo 
Fea hs need zu S "s ry day oai n A tly — — of "— — — — st of| | the coast should do his utmost to secure when drifted 
“| Ireland, and one in Hants, aimed large tracts of | ashore. 
short i the, cya, teins eld ie tmu pe a t land by aee e Mechian system of purchasing| As an illustration of utilising in oppor 
corn largely to fat pigs merely for the manure; but|I may here state the method pur ued by one o »4 
pu " pes gout fom "pour Eee as voee his, oaigh part of my plan, is by no means its! sons in Holstein, to improve mods re ari sand 
i UL CE de r = Thin sailing n Ripa i e, I x 2 ainly ida grs ie Mr. Mechi | of his . ground, w where TM his ustod. Ha te 
n I o | wou Se NL pudding," an to ld had bee khe da ren 
tip. a xa m Grasses take its place.|my land, I must also have a yenit. profit by Aia able portion of Md x 
». ever, hitherto appeared to be the} each sow. Carices, &c., upon a As uation “of pe or peat eth 
best policy to plough the land up as soon as “go the whole hog” with the worthy Alderman | and where ‘the. dam up water of mills prevents 
Rye-grass fails, and resow. In the third | 0m draining deep and clean E "liquid manure, paene and ee = adopts the plan of stripping 
year accordingly it is grazed hard down in the | large ne — — ng all stock, cooking, warmth, off, as he requi , the surface of a po ortion of the 
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- — ib, dppiyin ig the s liquid manure, — sward t a Aftan of the peat earth. This is taken 
p ass |: e tale na = Mm : x — to S dry sand fields and is M5 d a 
i : | landlords willing isten to all this, yet I believe the | cattle and horse manure from the farmstead, an 
Th ie koe gae xig = eoe of the | time is ing when stich things must be done by|town manure from Altona, about two loads of the 
of the water, and of these some | landlord tie, dier an encouraging lease, which | peaty sward for one of the manure, anda large hil 
irrizati feld whi manly ss and | very few will grant. Agricola. formed, fully 5 feet high, of the compound. Ths 
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plant, es TA the rough management which | In the cooler portions « of the temperate zone there peat, — tho $e and t 
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t ich I vegetable mould when much exhausted by i impro- stript of 1 the sward, receives a joie dressi 
This field is now bang ponghi up, sis oe ü vident agriculture, or in improving it when naturally | manure, and wi ithou ploughing is BOR. wit 
of Turnips, defective. Irrigation, the all pow erful fi with 
iu 1965. Wes rinde mn fs s liable, if ro m 
vss t Grass er localities, to have injurious mes M some dete pm su cá will no 5 
erus owth of for iege bed t eee m the tem corel, cn and at the — Mes i rft e PS m 
men to ‘the North NM nd h the ea 
Norte kes x3 dte SS ie ca eei Fei Dicto disease caused by Fungi or "by animate ule es ir own co Uer babs Pubmarge they colonie 
aki as w the det es of hay- Cereals around a small 
making whenever that i is necessary, a y irregu- neighbourhood were ritos of Fu — T ight d by | a bad posh a E he same on uuo “he 
red brown varieties ngi, and the blighting | Germans of Anglen, sis Schl "Holstein, co 
are met. No difficulties s [He kind have, how- removed by: dra ing oft the water forming the lake by ; and gave thei E 3 „lan Enie : and ame t o, Engak 
ever, yet proved very form tunnel. 1 Sylt s 
The large pow. obiil 800 0 tons or more| Well known to prevail around millponds, and stag- | shore of jrin aea a remnant of the Mir N de 
of green food. E dur dis d ES Fe it is ill med but apparently not s —- -— running | Friezland), almost the same as our br ond Scotch. ET 
grown; and t Kerr no doubt A water, or even extensive lakes. dt a 
| enough i in the d mand of 3,000,000 of od U^ wes ‘all | sb, whi imei mh alec the atmosphere favour- | Be several hundred Sheep. These dara So ia a paros i 
produce yw ninc: 
d rabo am of the prs day ay simila ry arise e | d in large - - commotion ot the waves 3 must 5 ES ah ge in one of the e old Gorma Wrist 
uce something same e while the | the walls of which, for aération, are o 
of sewage water, which is about Sega |small lakes and ponds very little wave commotio barn. ded with the same 
takes s from atin ; 
the way of the Metropolitan Board of 
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C - es e ^ j of about 4 feet; when t as aia a 
attention to the fact that Wed- causing some atmospheric change favourable immediately applied to the land (an exce > ip | 
Fede te 1st, is the last day on which en tries to y ove of Fungi. Under monec irrigation and a new bedding be wel In the Pes viagi 
ed by Mr. Hat D ve rar th A also eur. suffer. The prevalence of Fungi up in spe grou 
eaves stems of Grasses has been found hi n mall d str ae ortion of 
i es Mur a iiy daring ong feo wn is about 
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