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(Apri, 2, 1964, 
the specimen reverts from its attained status and 
becomes degenerate. 
This, then, is ae what is Portas place, and 
more kaidi? than pose ed, w ith the 
Swe iam and 
of 
t t on 
r baidi d 
d | ex peot om -— to of tops, but not n 
> | and 
sin which a largi majority of à least the 
second group may not iig e As regards the 
group 3, this will be or greater in number 
aecording to the care with, Arka the seed has Soc 
grown, and the skill e in its ese 
clea 
few field 
examples are not true Rape—we sh 
e look a large size of thes 
physiology 
the prize Cri be give n tot 
less of forked roots or branched tops, and so again 
for the best crop the pri 
wei 
per acre, which is is pe skis a little 
beyond the v acm of prize fie es 
Tn this field m of the roots were as much a 
aken just as they 
ere lying side by side for topping and Cibo: 
tom sufficiently well — for seeding 
x Neoky el multiheaded 
8. Necky or finger-and-toe, or both .. 
54 
44 
“500 
Here then we had to deal Ti a crop byn 
means er in uan e and yet, ^ po et Be 
d. e, e purpose of propagation 
: forms intermediate 
* good 
absence of LS pas roots, Toti in their STD branohed 
dy roots li ose of C wn the 
us 
ch 
representative examples, and w mend 
a careful study of the following table as showing 
jy ; and as, in the presen. 
rely here are few lar arge Solds of Swedes that 
wise not afford the like example, so an estimate 
of the pro UA s our three ro ns will give 
the amount of the ei degeneracy. 
CLENSION OF SWEDES :— 
TABLE eens TEE 
Circumference F 
Bulb (inches). 
Length of Bulb. | 
Circumference kd 
Neck. 
Leugth of xs 
or Stem, > 
usefu 
e 
will 
ze is awarded to the : 
402 E 
d breeds 
8 no "i impro- 
d a 
bap: or 
S 
"v 
that we shou ld s 
astar ds. pe ‘adalat te S de amount of soe kt 
ely 8 
PEE. D 
exact opposite to that 9 
The s “cannot possibly be te 
because y. " equinos ctial week w 
the week: followi 
ing, as it does, to be the 
1860. 
Tüpestugus » 
cal w 
| oquinoctial theorie: are us placed by himself 
equal rank on the scale of folly and absurdity, 
CATTLE IMPORTATION BILL 1864, 
AT a recent meetin ng o of: salesmen and res 
e 
bulbs, but genera ally speaking qe breadth so 
liar is not mM ng like proportionate to the 
extent of thei Y" 
e true that there is a ten- 
nd judgme If, however, 
m 
resolutions were ado 
ipti 
measure clo ted to diminish 
of much benefit, 
to the same end will 
tend to aggravate the evil, AM cause heavy M to all 
with the tr - in cattle. 
nder nd Viene that this has 
bis 
me 
ave no ion in saying 
result of growing ‘degen erate seed, whereyer the 
fault of doing so m 
ith the assertion iem d 
ions. It is quite true tha at 
Ín fact this posit: 
beines 
2. That the foot- gins 
hae 
z existed ea. oboe for a peri 
riod of more than 
25 years, and 
that it attacks no vital part of the body, and that the 
= of ee suffering from it is not = 
dered an unwholesome article of food, and thata 
prohibition of tho — a cattle "- he eese 
complai will o ers of 
Publ d h of fod 
ablic, ees des great enhance the T s 
^ it FE agriculturists from sending 
eve m a degenerating sam ow its 
in so 
the’ ry is sown in a diffe 
a See for 
vation ; but that it will be there we are assured by 
the r res esults of careful experiment | and extensive 
a manner when 
rent climate, leaving 
a warmer position, or with good culti- éha 
n ra Be ai a 8C! dule be added to 
respect to which a r of judgment on 
| will result in a degeneracy of crop as wees 
f | fully grown seed will produce, other things being |< 
pea not only a better form, but even a larger 
pee 
. Dv Bourax has impie “ the still, 
MI ry, but not produc 
The e euinootial week was wb 
degrees below the 
with small, short, more 
well 
formed nec! ks, 
crown. 
T|6 2 
olaj i pur well formed bulboid 
; ca 1 
"reps only a single 
S | 4} ^ 
these the root is rather a 
bolledtlott n -—- forks than 
ira wh the stem i 
Men that e" a bran bed 
GM 
ms | Summer itse 
12 Mach forked fm the root. sepe 
ani 
oe some of the side | will do much to keep all Soreni going thro 
| ngth 
| 
| 
use 
itself will be in its own nature in many 
EUN 
n 
supplied v with the necessar 
cial to 
tice to the uniri and that, therefore, it is 
desirable tha& a power of appeal be allowed to 
importers, or their agents, vi may be dissatisfied 
with the decisions arrived at by the the 
Ios nspectors, and this miei. ts of ona that a 
e MEER MM will be authority 
consti in London for the 
5. 
their well- -being, z, previous to 
exposure 12 
otherwise p 
n which = ih. m ° infectious 
o 
urifying 37 
disease may 
ie 
ger, as is now caso with the olemi £ 
cattle ships and cattle trucks mei shipowners 
way carriers. with 
7. Thatas the importers of onale and meat ar 
exceptions, residents 
n 
ough- 
dde usare id Lae fa do think that all these ETE 
tually oe short, and — ev 
may e n Wheat, 
recor as is a not 
un 
a 
5 
t 
premature ripening, when no$ dis- 
i 
Root-stock graduating into hard 
woody forks (not fleshy). 
Stem more or less branched 
with woody Rape-like stems 
of stems. 
Bravched. 
ress to| ae eri 
ratafall, io. the Mine Y vues seasons; and 
ere are 
paed. without delay, by an immediate change of 
bem ges asily curtail that also. 
not k, therefore, that the season will 
a productive one, though it 
ME a very fine one; and com 
ring now seems to 
ear! 
a 
T believe that May, June, Ju 
a chee one. 
ps 
summer cannot "rsa i pro 
me 
he; 
of th mals at the time of arri od 
the destra "ot any diseased import that 
meat is the only preventive measure 
reasonably enfor to 
5 That & comünikes be E appoin nted 
etition, prayiug that the Bills now 
exigencies of the 
reference to the nquiy which is 
t| before a select committee of the House 
may be needful, 
ut pu cu d MEE 
EEK UPON THE COTSWOLDS , 
ma cil ag 
in 
