= THE asami CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [JULY 16, 1864, 
producing them; | very fine crop of Turni 
fed on the land ird d cake does not in T as 
l from a square yard of ground, you will soon 
out shethor your AE has done his du 
slo dulated his plo -— 
ateur f. 
I mention these 
fing 
uty o WHAT IS “CONDITION ? ”—No. IV 
, THE following are examples from p^ different 
an average, fetch more than 5/. to 77. 10s. per acre, | sloped and un 
whi mg s less than their cost ; therefore, in reality, w | matters for he b f tl 
must our , and endeavo' Mechi, bias. 
by the e cheapest means to increase its produce. hose — constituent "i he rue consumed remaining in e 
eans are, in my opinion and practice, to consume with | AN AGRICULTURAL LIBRARY.—I am so fre p farms. alf 
every bushel of Turnips, Gra: or other green crop, at asked questions by lanp farmers, and "by som aioe taken as ped ut i ope oe umed „bei cing 
le rom 4 to 6lbs. of Rape or Cotton-cake, and practical ones too, tha tI e led to y | Number 8, page 610:— P, as exp 
steamed straw, and to add, for young growing animals, library 
a little br: ran and m alt combs or e Bea meal. fty pou ent for such a pra would be FARM, No.1 
» idt pro table proces rn n part I aw A — I mr s ANA. 
c ossi I have now a field of Mangel dressed with always a learner—and should feel * us ei sea” with- of ar and .. aeres| 100 | 350 | 150 
such manure, On one acreI added E] lB owt, of Per out my books ference, of w ich I annex a list. Amount neca land manured oe 
guano, but tl been ember visiting a large school, mostly sons of agri- | Amount of arable land manured sy li 
put on, its | culturists, and looking at the library naturally | , yearly by cart dung 25 | 100 34 jn 
use hnc RM and "erano it may show in inquired for " the books on agriculture, “I am ashamed Amount a — land i in corn | 
the after crop 'of corn. The consumption of Tur-|to say, I have not one,” was ther eply of the worthy TU nt! 2 Vd Hare 
nips only or mainly, does not supply manure enough master, Food consumed Ep (One- mage: 
=~ és side of the farm, at least le or » i hope this hint will not be lost on our Middle-class La ost itrogen contained | 
rich enough to produce maximum crops, it | Co. rin ca is wid so happily, being established in a 
should be always our aim to gro It is (um that our | Suff we = elsewher vidt ; Con; EE zi. ‘cattle eee * H go T 1, iue = 
se much artificial manure, but at It strange c the sciences are Grains, malt dust or cake dt fortes JM me 
considerable cost. We have Mr. Lawes's authority in | uhi one, sie nid Fais ant of all, and on Pines e Barley by pigs | ton 52 71 ayl 99 H 
the Society’s Journal to show that there is no artificial the others depend, namely that of filling the stomach | Guano and town dung |. — .. "t am 20008 em, É s 1 
heap. as the manure mad feeding cheapl: y and abunda ntly. Science shou ld | be the kik | = ggo aa x mu] 
fattening animals. In conclusion, it is bad policy to | of ag pto gere c OE AE PA 
ain n our Turnip crop, and 1 11. 10s. on our p 2 | 20:e 
corn crops. Again A dile clear th more ot the dre e d to us M the at Tights of el tor evaporation, “wate, 10 3 
ure we make from imported cattle food, the less agricultural science and development. Eas 
i the want of purchased manur of d experiments i in our now | ER applied to corn 
guan 134 Mr. Lawes tells at the ti ME applied per acre to a 9s | NM 
inanurial value of a ton of pos ear Cotton eake | those who never y ny them. I cro] is 17 56 | 35. | 150 
after consumption is 6/7. 10s., of Rape-cake 4l. 18s., of P Hor can you content yourself on oe peer TAG Extra gorn pr » roduced per acre 
Linseed cake, 4l. 12s., and ae Lentils Al, 5s. As the | Farm?” I reply—* Every wrinkle in a pig's face has Bibs. he above dressing, e 8 
po a charm for me.” lso ask a Did you ever see| Two years natural produce of ‘ Er 
30 per t 1 two sheep or two pigs exactly alike?” And Iquote| land Sai ge Sed 30 | 82 | 48} 
Seolitablo re consume a quantit ^ these, rather than | the cases of men who, with 1500 sheep, knew every one | 
to pay 13l. for ton hr qatiy Lien, after all, is | of them, and they never saw two sheep alike any more Waste in” harvesting, "birds Bep 39 | 3 
— in some im tant manurial ingredients. I á n bs nni 1 wo human be ctly alike. &e. ee 84 4 4 | 6 
feed green crops, or pasture without | Some learned judges have been v tonished | 
scc e Ee aA 2 July 1864 Pigh to nd that every Welch shepherd could swear to his | Ttalthreshed : e paesi 14. a 
n sheep, aud ect one if stolen and placed in : pie. 
PLOUGHMEN’S TRICKS.—In pur county each Ags another f d The eir gait, manner, expression of | "Value of nitrogen applied per | 
horses, and human beings. M e T pa of a 8s. 6d. | 1l. 8s. |178. 6d. |3L15s. 
almost as fond of their horses as thei rr wives, for Besides n CI. ood and intellectual| 20 loads ar Mere un ecd uie 10d. | 1s. 5d. | 1s. 2d. (38. 9d. 
io certainly dr n your gie indulge pe em with | ¢ company, hi the! literate of Lich ig, Lawes, Voeleker,| ^ «|. . a eee 
an unlimited a f food if Aes ontrol them. Way, Tull and Tusser, Parkes, Davis, Smiti Morton vg 
This makes ig od SM i an ch food is in| Stephens, Huxtable, Dento n, and m others, who The actual crops realised by t ur gentleme 
weequene Sarir r wast I pum seen most woefu poh made their mark and one good service to the | whose etia I have tabulated, Ad very rei ema 
n many farms, where the hay and green Tares, | cause of ignes d my co mpanions and abl y: with the theoretical amounta there in dicated a 
Clover, hret are pulied out and trodden under foot, instructors 1 n my hours of reflection. an VP 
— dee as in my case, all passed through t Mechi, | on their several farms. No. 3 is the T ie. ^ 
chaff-cu! d given ei pues ers, r Oats and | July, 1864. his c Lait iur not E Wh 
> grou nd i eal and mixed w ith the 
cut fe food. When it is pee pe that the farm horses 
on arable heavy la Ja nd farms consume. under nd 
the farm, it is time e how 
their food. The Deed phani in are vey "fond of having 
no best team, - if they have one horse that is n 
te to their ind, espec cially an, old one, you will 
weak, and wonder how it is. It 
I sempr e a case I have the horse taken from the 
Stephens’ Book of the Farm. 
| Morton’s center of Agrieu 
of the Royal Agentur Society. 24 vols. 
ulture. 
ai 
or! 
A d Arthur Y. oung's C 
| Baron Libis homis a p a to des, nme 
Modern 
-— of A, (——— 
The Natal Laws of Husbandry 
Ty. 
. Letters on Ohomistr, 
and fed by another man. The — 4, gorda As is that 
Bailey I Denton on | Draining. 
f the R 
bat Hs 
phas a large stoc wn amg à 
| which is nd d the Table. s first he i farmon |. 
| the regular 4- 
gai 
excellent workman of mine, but me fa eot th 
had a hasty tempered and free horse placed under "his 
h I|R 
condemn a t fice, of co Dixon's La 
Suspecting something wrong, I p him under Wye Wil pee, ly Farm, By NH pene 
different treatment, and found with kindness and good ood | a estion, s ey ilers. 
food he soon became a very valuable animal. My man | The Scien Practice of Agriculture. By Thomas Skilling 
looked sheepish, and felt the reproof without iy Dain” ias. By xoa dr 
expressing my displeasure to him, except in ild but emistry. 
significant terms. ploughman should have his sera te hare 
corn in his own care under lock and key, or they wi of Agriculture o Rev. Edwin Ma M.A. 
etimes plunder each other. Horses lways Meme of Modern ule Lo By Robe tt Burn 
be k well to their work, withou at. | The fice of Land Steward 
Au. id iaiu ator ; Plenty. A.D. 1716. 
who e one of your very i in a | Th rie. 
The New Farmers’ Calendar. By a Farmer and 
ivation, for your 
tha! men dis) 
- "oma so much as thesubsoil. espero that the hard 
diti 
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Johnsi we Lotari obi Ageicalts 
Tu ii: Home boeing Husbandry. 
Bac 
e tw 
A. Huxtable 
fT aia W: A, o yea 
AM dep. |: all four farms, 
Wheat), third year roots, highly idis. p d ^ 
are c quite equalto the estimated amount of ash : 
se system, No. 4 has fo r some yam j 
| 
; 
rs. The remainin E B uci apply te fi 
It will be seen Il T 
n Norfolk Husbandry. 
ad inen of Great Britain and Ireland. 
By Cobbett. 
By W. Wallace Fyfe. 
ular Exposition of the Science 15 
i 
h 
OWn | Warn: 
| theg & eed. 
amio on the Elevation, Improvement, and E 
edition, 1804. (Weittou, I believe, 
es, Dickson, and 
Breeder. 
by a Mr. John cce ng per 
and others on the Growthof Flax and Use of f 
o 
Tho Whole Art of Husbandry. By J. Mortimer. 4th edition. | original value 
ft i $ 
n the food “consumed, either in the pes , or y y siog 
d, as remaining in the dung; a and pron 
Cirencester, in deducting 
EE 
for this E eee 
ive powe ar 
work has to be done both for man and horse—an it is uring Classes, ut bre mt and B oed Be By | dis 
there that I am always most d d that the work Several pats Mr. S Shepherd, B Mr. Ellis, and ANE Y | the rest, as sine vere The pe of this 
d be done. In dry weider iti isa series of 1 concus- Mes de Gourcy’s Agricultural Jo ourneys in France, ee reo Ping id ward ad 
Andre w Corn ) y on i 
a pace h through adhesive putty, but it must be done if y" soni eal expected y 
g to farm pro Dent A Saia s Bent Mit Isi n.on Food, Feeding, and Man vem n riu must ul me l 
80 are his when the plough glides complacently | An Inquiry into the Relative Value of Virtoas Kinds of Food. | 9y the rava 0 idt nd 
and evenly just above and on the old pan hich H. & T. Procter, of Cathay, Bristol, ripe, of sheddin vigi at t i 
the sole has slid for many a year— a sort floor ’s Chemistry of Agriculture. own experience tells me, that 
ber the late Sir Joh es | cere dto a deducted on this head is not too p 
inted stick with a sort | The jonas Heu boda esult ipee it ba have a 
i The North British Agriculturist. produce out of the four fa 
height. With di P nr The Mark Lane Express. observations , enable "the: oni to mle 
or he declined Tho fri Farmers Gatetto stand the Table, and to compare With t E a 
nibor stick | The privit at ie, B onn I tices pisa at 
am always | Morton Fa a rare tate haves dis d assist 
ivati uin is investigati 
sballow cultivation. In g ig fre 
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Bath and West of England 
tural 
The Transactions of tne rtighiand Agiieultarsl Society. Lee hall be glad of the 
Journal of the r 4 ald cal part 
Agricul Before proceeding I would call parti 
