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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE 
[NOVEMBER 26, 1864, 
steaming hay and chaff is unprecedented. Asa proof of the 
economy of using this portable appara, price 18 i ,we have 
will steam sufficient roots, hay, or chaff, 
ce 
8 fo improves more under it than 
; and a know that thousands re pounds worth of! Botatos 
ised) m might be ma ade : available for cattle-food annually, if 
teaming were universal. 
Though. however, there is abundant and dae rus D 
eo J D 
nin ey ” he sa; "T rod id Eu a few arks, 
a lesson eurpribed to find is is 
h 
subje ect of economising tind cheaply tiling food * or 
cattle — to the u ulper and chaff-cutter 
ret an of steamers for the paride A Hereford- 
shire farmer "qae thus to the Mark Lane Express 
ony a wint 
Caqnsatinably i ost ye ipod consi ete a 
chaff, the deficiency in the e nut ri 
s savour. of both must be supplied. fi iugis 
Other source. 
** The steaming process is to some se good, although I 
tent 
think the pane al of this NAT. "ui dispensed with, 
by blending the — Pe the chaff the day before the 
mixture is require „and then giving it to the animals in a 
state of sweet fermentation. 
of all the AE IAEA just named is | 
he steamer is Bes lowest on ithe list; 
and the use o of grain or cake with a diminished 
l 
ka poina I quote the hinas from a pom wit 
which I have been favoured by abe Pa get, MP, us 
Paddington Grange, Nottingham. says: 
atisfied ^" t I for 
perit Me 
root an 
Mr. R. Boll, 
elieve this applies 
of Mosbro? Hall, St. Helen’, Lasicaakire, 
Iadopt to — mpm s to 
my ae — f 
pulp the ende and eut the chaff, ta a dite: E 
mixing in a large heap, 24 M xd El in in mild weathe 
H 
v ch I ai 
obo Tamai bya a large majority yof ihe. farmers of England. 
r years it e pra of farmers here and 
in Rely counties sitim me As po e eich rens from the 
paucity of means of cutting it the system was not carried out 
we ha ree d — the last 14 years, when, to 
eet the w: of the far s her 
miri for 
yet t 
«c 
" from 
than 
o procured 
a to go 
with engines, om ven by the 
Asi 
eabout, I invented a chaff- 
as 
“No roots of mine are used in any other way. All pes | weeks”! Whats t will rah oe o gentleman say to say to 
through entails pale driven by water-power, and mixed who can feed our mile hib "on "Wheat at 3s. 
with hay and straw chaff, and I put bay, more or less, as k, d il pe 
needed, "t Vere tert lee the condition of - bullock fatten wee an the use ye auxiliary foo 
ing. For I pu d. aya all. Hay can be see ogo | increase our mi 100," our butter 50 
E farther, "and a kee p fully one-third more | ner ce, ow is ees at an oe 
t p^ rog the vec ith ad adopting i the. chaff-system over the whose gricultural operations I one had. the 
the | honour of directing—Clongowes Wood College, unty 
I add to these iiia from correspondents t .|of Kildare ; and the results will be better by and by, 
following, by Mr. Maynard, ot .Whittlesford, Cam- | when a cheaper arrangement will be made for cooking 
that the 
Esai give | 
at ae prizes 
me 
months ; nay, i 
i icy fad esi going on durin: 
two 
8, an nd hy a new ¢ lass is baes formed, and 
T DA LAT 
-power of his these” nacht) to cut up the straw he 
had presionar tehed, an en he was able to do at the rate 
of 800. bushels per day. r the in troduction, of steam, a 
FE arose for some ing Vu of removal, to be used in 
the same manner and driven by that power. This 
— suitable machine, and sold many till 1856, gach I took 
tim 
parity v gue hou; 
| imperfectly ving p great amou: 
dn ur I wa nut aware till ee that the 
cut basta only ee nd, 
tha carcely bine cept hereabout. 
Let T ree mend to your notice j^ Totter br Samuel Jonas, 
| Esq. ended to Mr. Evershed's Prize Essay in — Royal 
Agricultural Society of England's Jona last numb 
e wis is a p d the "eee is not carried out i in all pai m of the 
ntry, wh ae e is only owing t: 
now u can s 
want I met on Grass 
be proved to lve [^ fed outside a pue sheds y" 
houses during vious au d summer— 
with o or E thout any gne "his. m 
the former jockeyiam. 
hail Bee if our 
re self. 
| apprehensions be well founded, i 
p 
Serious account at the other dide the grave, and to 
tl prepare | for which let us in the meantime seek to help 
time, and he now has chaff cut n onths ago, 
from; ries only, which, having heat fermented 1 in "the maner 
des pes m | Mr. Jonas, has the scent and nutritive qualities 
of good 
Mr. Ta s letter, referred to by Mr, 
describes h matha of sto be the chaff. Hem 
y | little ' he “green fodder r Or hay or 
mixes a 
48 hours in eem frosty weather, ay, however spoiled, m. 
be mixed in this way, and the cattle will : it well—in fact, 
will prefer it so mixed to the best hay given in the usual way.” 
Mr. nba of Siddington, near ssec speak- 
ing of the untoward season and the casualties of 1859, 
pee 
isoworked th more 
those which are fed on h 
2 a He withdrew the horse from t 
Mr. Adkins, of Milcote, near Stratford-on-Avon, fle: se aE AMES S chat-eutter (€ paddock, and bro ought up these five heifers and put 
ys :— nct Ea QUERENS — go 2 o| them in it. He fed them by additional food bought 
* T can’ ongly express my sense of the advantage | 4 par 15 eval "the straw — z z ; 0 s o|in the Dublin market, consis fuse 
derived d pul cag Mangels and mixing them, when sound, en to carry away chaft , 0 4 0| brewers’ grains, bran, and cot 
with cut-straw, — ths mixture to ferment 24 hours 3 lads to tread chaff dow 1 He > ha d the anes Smithfield market last- ü 
food petis M y this plan all the objections to the root as of engine and chaf-cutter (including 1 Iman to "e h Stock, refused a 
appear to be removed, the animals fed on suci feed chat cutter, a HE 110 0 I 
fom rire ik so fen consent on the ta | Qa —^€ ES PLE ae Reg gg 
gae p P ^ dil, S ew D NS | mone expen in purchasin e foo per cen 
puel DW TEE ion da ae M s I fitit on sent ie aie in - "ape of the 
mised by ths preparing it This will ent 600 to 900 fans * per day, according to th stock, besides pa laps Bui 
Ts iere ti emer o rf Dusta Pam to ghe perire prose gu, sim 
vepres d o S OA pa ret the pulper a | Inch. in length, de peris about 3-8ths. The bee additionally enriched. as ye ae ids red at least 
wt valuable bon tion, I use pulped roots nd eut | would thus be,—the very short cut ld. per fan, the| 95 per cent, better for any vis pote à pr í 
straw until February, when I comm giving a rtion | latter cut one-third of a 1d. fan; but by cutting | was when he got it last May. 
BREL cp mme oe E Su bg as the spring | the chaff at the same time you thresh, you save 475. | "Thus far for auxiliary feeding on a rich pasture, 
Linseed boiled and damped the cut straw and” limited day, and in fact eut 800 fans for 4s. 6d.” So and now a word on such feeding on a poor one. 
quantity of hay with it, adding a little miller’s-refuse, and was | economical a method of turning to account that which | 4 small farmer i in the interior of the country had 
bes enabled M to save a considerable quantity of hay | is in itself a great economy of cattle food, is certainly " h,like the m of ii 
ditio to qe oui o Mel This autumn I at giving th catl among - lessons of recent agricultural experience. | other fy id rà marcia rese July last. He offered 
cut straw, - min bran, in order to Wor of Ting n on ee torpet "acciri te ath and bes = f them for s to make up t and meet 
ege gricultural Journal, 
er pmi ld-yards. Me ther liabili 
following is the — experience—lst, of Mr. BC T wae eee 
Som, of Af reti Inverness y" e IRISH AGRICULTURE. 
er, when our T: was a very short one— —— in d, as formerly 
o0 Me eL I EE ordinary bale | wo 1 “ pay " even in thi seasons, one of which 
; : Wide mere thas halt an bar ME thi . We have now 1 
a Toots and | at "20s. to 25s. per of 20 
hich is fully to the extent cent. (i. e., you | hav. eighing 50 to 56 lbs.per bush 
we ben comeuibAE by C0), thee fs süperior | 6 MOM —  Ü 
re uniform progress in the cattle, and a freedom | weighing 40 0 to per Mn — from 7s. to 
i AAT of roots you bed 6d. per alor i Stone. And pa 
hi 
ol is dioe 
Lothian 
e Potes 
i bon for the process of chaff. 
mixing with straw-chaff, and the threshing. “Tf 
sider my cattle fed on — mixture are doing much better us and cut into chaff 
mixing a bushel of salt iura every ton. Ther 
for Acl rt "ind eA terments. “ Within 
the last few re "d ave A uly 17), “I othe be 
and the d at The same 
weil into chaff, Pei m 80 acres of wh 
t, too, not ee A 
produced o 
edi: at 
E — on with 
the s stacked as threshed, | 
EE the expense of un 
Maynard | | the 
res” with the straw, 
: cases, rather in 
t lie los the lan 
- 
a so 
or 7d. er acre, for cutting a 
f Wheat. This 
incurred when |? 
Auxiliary stock-feeding on pastures is not a novelty 
to all men in Pe: Necessity has s hee since com- 
pelled me wr any others to E it on bad Grass 
land n dry summers some of those holding 
dier » nds had to adopt 
tages of this fae. i 1 ‘tink, best explain 
ven 
five of th 
ET aer per ordin Aa tet d shery board I 
— A purins ben mid miziog iben wik with cu straw anc on by the fishery boards an ers, In 
and at, meal. D our last issue sa Day report Mr. Cartier as saying “He 
** My experience of last wi winter has convinced me that the finds that he Iri PE i 9 lbs 
farmers in Scotland do not derive e full benefit of the| per bushel, Be vn per 
from he roots large titi Ts 
Turniperop, fr ir pulping tom and u using foe 24 on Ls ot 1d. pe 
this season, 
very much in 
, of our own Society, we 
evidence on the use of 
ive, Mr, 
Ay about 14s. 
en less in 
our 
at- jüst one half what it w urtl 
feed his. —€— gu ^31 Goud uid 1o give 1| 
pe^ ard Peer sen P is rs means he | 
te of er head per | 
quarter, 
r day.” Ify 
think, ihi 380. ite «1 "20s. uo | 
M These | cow 
ne 
He had t ‘all ground tozolher in the following 
à | proportions ‘ana at the shove rates of value 
eed, 2 stone, at 1 
.. 88. 0d. 
When, 2 dj at 1 4 oe Ma T re OB 
Barley, 4 do,, at 9d. Be ar us ue HOS us 
Oats, 5 do., at 7d. m oe E ae 22238 1l 
111l 
eed his | Or in round numbers, for ease of calculation, 
12s. 
He had the four cows put into a field of 2 s and 
— ien Freies 
fed with the above food weekly at the rate per 
r week. When t heard from him he said 
he was offered 157. apiece from a "butcher for the 
cows, which would pay him 100 per cent. over what 
the x - would sell in the market, full 
inte’ n the money borrowed from the usurer, the 
fall aed “of T : e two poo A now vastly 
by the stoc yo bs em. i A 
Y With th ith these facts, and many others of comparatively - 
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