252 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [Maron 12, 1864, 
bam Show, and stood 2d in her class in 1858. Her | dust under atmospheric influence, and ult timately | giving ed eptich ta bod which ie pues rin feshfornrs 
grand-daUghter Double Butterfly was second in her | up to vegetation such of its parts as are suitable for | ji; propor LE ' found a mo tase fal Barley me] 
class at the Royal Dublin Show in 1863, and with | vegetable growth. How admirable and all-wise is this | food for sheep, as well as for dairy cow escripti 
P e took the Ist prize in their class at the| everlasting round of composition and decompos scd n x seeds, Poss, "erar 
Worcester meeting last year, and then helped, as one | The lovely monuments of ancie't& Rome giv They a ad © Hherdfo Ty EX ds p ey: 
of three, tO win the Challenge Cup at Keighley in '63. | takeable evidence in this matter; more than 400 
- wil] be seen from our che Std ipei letter in qe of flowers thrive on thos color walls | these fe eding 
nother i that h ne of the best| within whose compass punt mid ^ ther com- 
argen 4^ the herd. bats exc cited and „deli ee be Roman pionie, 
3. We Come now to the descendants of Pearly, a cow | We sh ll rej ession of what is called 
of pure Booth de g or ving in soil, wl heric operations of | food for e 
Table :— ages and the vital action oe plants have eo ds 
Descendants of Pearly, yd age Buck (10,750.) -feri erai the gren ear i miner: 
á Perfume, '62, by B bu 1 this ap isle, 
3. Pride, 54, by VALIANT u os ELL (14, 134) up most o ^ 
9 95g 7 
(12,258) L gh tere RT r "id Fer m n t is in our power to o prevent the extension of |? 
4. Fredeyick’® Bracelet, '55, by this exhaustive system. if we Wu it we 
FREDERICK (11,489) wast fully down dut Sowa an Beane, or aly d" 
yu eans, or Lentis, w ic 
T. Pearl, 156, by R. CŒUR DE- 20. Pearled, '61, by BROAD ber streams the very vita ality of the poat so long may eT on Weider Ca 
Lion (13, 590) Back (15 5,696). we sigh in vain for virg in soil or decayed vegetation, e the substance ot whic’ 
We hav ve , emptie ed the ane and must therefore | which the fat i 
13. Precious Stone, ’58 by Mas- | 11. PRINCE OF mm 64 l i or by the | In 
TER ByrTERFLY 41H, (14,920) L by Bar a | SK saa by ya tu de 
Pearly (purchased at the Killerby A in Lud food. J. J. Mechi. flabby 
was the best old cow at Burnley in '54. “Wind E ngines. —They do answer for the purposes | India 
» 
daughter Pearl was 2nd in the duse st 2-year- aid med. If S: will write to Mr. E. Wortley, 
heifers at Warwick, and again 2n id e Yorkshire Ridlington, Uppingha 
Agricultural Society’s meeting in the m ear. r. he can on the subject. zi dlingt 
She was 2nd at the ae meeting in 1890. The Di cased. Turn nips.—ln you Paper ‘of February 6, 
family in ncludes seven member aud it t will be n that vee (—— sei deny of Becta eee a wish Ri 
arlaby tt een exe lusivel y o edis Wr nibs i ded ^s on the fallo n ER Be. a y oa me sah ual fi rt * 
used upon them ume miini 236,5 was s erw ys eep are folde allow | vastly infer oy-m anda p 
at ased upon then er Jast y vec 4 cs | bre dcin spring and phere cut Turnips, We invariably | Wh Tm real LA ANE: DIOE DES 
4. The o last fa amily o be noticed ce ae the descend- | ! find that the ——— Turnip cro iud, is subject to rot. | Rics-meal, as compared with Barley-meal, was aso iy 
"he of iz enilia, a cow bought as a n 1849 at Sir | Th nly belie ve dus i CMS | a chomint who v lived T ago, whe n analytioat 
e Tempests sale Ses following are py. members of | cis eleved in, that we always hite Turnips | y WE s e 
x av pO of bu! and is not nearly so valuable as 
the family now in £ erd :— | rly use) on any small pts at mn may I rey ks R is deficient in Hash formater m: 
Descendants of nb by Tom or LiNcorw (8714). be treat ed as Mr. Hussey’s was, J. 7., Murch 5. ini ne-producing 
r24. MEE Yee 61, I n 
by FREDERICK (11,489) Farm so 
ub 
t be ei 
2, oU 9d, '54, by -— e" Pent Butterfly, '62, by | Lonpon: March am Ne eet of Foo ERR that I ivo to make. 
az Oval BUTTERFLY (16,862) | Professor VOELCKER, ne pee prefatory Piney oy st the benefit, 
a ROYAL BUTTERFLY 17TA '63, said :— (he S 
virt AL BUTTERFLY (16, 862) | Mr. Chai d Gentlemen, if we examine the body of an | ha; 
of ay it may suffice m that Frederick’s Foe enageg ‘hall find that the prevo derating constituent is | | nutrition to G 
water. is I need not speak any further. In the solid | 
à j^ aio oe 2e ld heifer, was ast year unusually | portion of animals we shall find, first the substance of muse I po 
tin her class at the Yor k- | or lean flesh, in which there is a large quantity of nitrogen ; irrig ied eadow T bu t very 
in 62, ane in 63 she was 2d at then MS havo; on ee ie is Le e NE uh. vd he nitr gun ‘tha occu Ta pp roduce of igual | 
Rochda ton, mute and which is deposi n certain parts of the | reall, exista i in p d alb I cannot help thinking 
at M pun “Sap ae or is :sely laid on, as CY RET ening o of stock ; pane th at the ni nitrogen EART obtained by E | 
we have the bones, aris © saline matters 
ee need] {month a red and T te heifer calf! enter (wg the composition of the blood, and serve various Spei 
d Peri o of sm ; by DUkE OF WHARFDALE s uses, The muscle of "animals Closely e in its | 
era mm sition the epidermal matter: 
de, and hoofs of animals, Now, [o s in 
T olud mg word on tha mok of the sale and | | tuenta of the animal frame must necessarily De "supplied by | D "ut which 
Fine character of the he ill be fi pA ns sin keep the animal in vigorous health ; for every. relaxation of bow 
eading pTagraphs, s loss through the waste to which ever ry part of | salts. 
E. body" is sube A over s UP t naa waste, in | 
order, to tain form. tem the body, a| 
Hom e Corr orrespon ndenc | eon dem able 6 quantity o of. * reared ; E food. ot a 
| par ARTE aracter also is neede aintain what is ca 
“egetable gene —If I un rte cupa rightly the com- | theanima. heat. Accordin ng to Boussingault, a horse consumes | old pasture, of thos 
Bs a. rl n 
E aeui of Mr. Patrick Matthew, their meanin betwe dén 4 and 51b. of carbon in the Course of the d | 
is, tas orinal yetttwa Pet MN i. e jin supplying — heatto ee QU other words, food i h 
rom T an E intai 
and terrestrial inorganic materials, is, w im dis- | Reda] henti ia Dac Sy Now, in any food. 
Organised, or decom) into inorganic — Ep constituents whi A oh supply th the i of animals; we | 
: re ents whic! 
suitable food for a new vegetation. — This is, i acte fat decal: ettiraBin 
, af exact confirmation o. Ea m require constituents có taining’ bone bm an 
cept that the Baron begins at the beginning, viz., not and ES BEN Lnd Mei 
Ti $ e composition 0! ani is 
seeing Dei qa plant, but I the elements of No food js well "adapted ‘he MDC Hia piens me Ot every ba dozoripti 
it is formed. Every farmer knows that if he can | health that contains too à of any of the three classes of | more slow wly, an niis M so rich in nitrogenous matter, syg 
ge and ge vegetat s it will, a fi HA hich I X Oud tienen’ But as regards the proper Ladda ix words here on the feeding unl d 
decomposition, prod unda E crop. 8dmixture in which hould have these constituents—th: we ioh 1 so universa ally, 2 sed as ad 
But the Baro, v ells us where the: frst er cri a come tes forming, sce ee y semen d the op inion eh me, sta D F 
f p is nstituents—no general rule cai own ause the todan ‘into manure, but “well harvested straw 
— e h nts of different os of animals, like the wauts of animals | useful fooding ma poet indeed, It is especially 
l with a soil from whi eh, by repea ated eul- | E diare nt ages, are so very various. In young animals we | is not allow: r ri Oat oe aw 
aures rent t: ad bete of the nitrogenous and non- | most valabio an of food. It is won 
| nitrogen e heat-giving and the f, een consti- feme and a limited 
tiles on roofs, | 
itin, the re ingredients shave been abstracted— | 
ay; ; rock, sand, t il 
of v tir or “rather crane, 
after long exposure to atmospberi 
—naked tuents, from det which i is required in order to fatten animals | be 
nal}, d eatest profit. Meri ds pe hok OE whieh 
roy genous and which is more abundant in flesh-form- 
i we arma apte mé " Pom called; | 
which is desirable for or young, rowing Again, 
aod of milk and the mainiatain of 
in or earthy dair in health and condition, we Bab Bh irr eel er 
latio dtl established, but from nn Satter than thar which ig. to keep | bad 
atmosPhere. When I observe the bulky, burning cause of m there is a Quest arate Pr ire T 
logs on my hearth gag ME ira leaving | matter in the curd, the albumen, and the milk, as well às a 
nothing tO m but a: cant h | great drain of phosphoric matter: for I need hard]. remind 
ae aar ee (CN er vy wetted | you that a large quantity of phosphate of lime, as well as à 
Iask ae can any ig d this, doubt Li etig, t p vieni 
era al ith the p! 
xe ren a, intinda Bieb 
arge qatiy pA pea n, ent into ositi. f 
great theory ? Where ar are the logs gone to? To the | Is Passing n. Jem m the se preliminary observations Nd 
atmosphere, from which their atk. Was derived as the ^ more practi "n “part lof my ea IR Ai bore 
. 2 . "ur own eal 
Tbe ge d in the structure of the. nini, rar the ame of Gonéentrated food. . The Mercredi vr Dire e 
oking at the spontaneous gigantic primeval forests | food that farmers are in the habit of using is, unquestionably, = otimos find Y 
Testing of Once bare rock, grown without the aid of oilcake. better than Barley or Oat s straw, or "you mAN fuat 
. . an, cam We for a moment —Ó ees theory| After some remarks on Linseed, Cotton, and other | But, taking everything into sooo dor ped 
: Dat: this Vast combustible mass (nineteen-twentieths | Cakes, Professor Voelcker observed ;— enm r Hd n nde relent 
Bean hen ‘Gat stra 
disappear "y pei ON The chemical constitution of food T hold to be very material to | Barley straw, and lastly, erhaps, Bean straw 
have been derived from M geri pne the proper use of food; but, after àll, we must appeal to focus nd that Bean PAAR de p n two places, * 
: en co. We must institute Le periments? F After el [- the 
y the soil? We o A e ki. ida may per feeding experiments, | green cropa, Prof. V.said: Ina 
are provi es in the att air the diotates or suggestions of science should not be diare. | fato for he, use of condimente, $t 
elements, which, combining in | garded; but, on the other hand, the final appeal to nid condiments, ip 
d r mineral | the practical feeder must not be disrégardd. We reo them for themselve: 
le b must con- 
flus sch and sui things, bo e rene 
masses. suci such t we ht rat 
tion pre: the | that it must be good if there he no ractigal i mpi seta, ik WINFRITH : Food for Stock.—The fi 
We on | the si shape perhaps of Pes unloo| ‘Or injurious syhstance t fr per d piod 
ihenti f pho en sie Bae We Sea ot detect | extract from a recent address M 
iments, : 2 meses O! | it with our a abe delicate condition which | The starch, the gum, and the 
The ‘a the ` time, bli. Messe foot. indigestible: ^. An C um practical | employed in providing t 
: ope Rr a. very ^ tends to Show that lentils are | rather for the support of t 
nutritious description particularly i : 
^ sheep. Indeed, they are too Nutritious it the | minous part of food contains 
cramblin £ tolterm “nutritious” we mean rich in flesh-forming material? | which will preserve the heat ot ‘the 
