924 
I trust t they are too far on tc on to be injured much—the 
panusdiibeensstistuticnnd intu IHR DERE 
e | season it will help ine wonderfully. We have one iwi 
| advantage now ov r 1818 in ea an abu: ndance of | 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETE 
an an mal w 
[SEPTEMBER 24, 1864, 
e quantity y which 
consi iderati m 
a are i ripe; the ws d berum Ifear is their 
ing again which I hea 
tha f 
" 
Z, js A gent, 
rn enn T. 
z: (1) iple Bristol.— 
enn and om ns are bout an average. Beans 
a lost crop ; Pas say half a crop; Mangels 
alm 
tolerable; Swedes, w ith few exceptions very bad indeed. 
Oats are a very moder 
han Wheat for feeding 
ding stuff is 
'est— 
in hi 
go pig ag as possible, 
but perhaps not cheaper t 
a the Mer = all kinds of fee 
at that t to say which is the 
farme 
roots 
cake of prime pm at as: e pr esent price, 
r ton, is an extravagant food. 
eo 
sons “Ste eaming straw makes it more 
inter? I confess I have no great fears on this head, 
as ede hay isless than half the usual quanti ty, 
eady hig 
ed to „carry on 
uring the pri 
uy ha; 
palatable, otherwise 1 think it has no eire 
where ther eaming apparatus, 
stand a few "da wil pes 
keep I have 
hod ona daily 
Et 
rarer se wi 
ce of low qualities of sugar, Pos it eb be « of 
i2 for sheep 
ent 
m | a suffici 
* Handy 
ook for 
| ingfoed for fattening “bulfocks I j ey ad 
best gree! A 
the best 
ost of equa ly good qua 
spring months. 
n Pea straw and a little corn, This year they mu ast | 
in 
about 19] 
guineas a 
dian re 
Bran, at 5 
mieal. — and In 
bullock, 
p. thoroughly mized, E chaff, will E 
allow 
extracte fe 
ada th d th: tv 
a 
M little mow than vie the 
of Linseed-cake, I insis 
Hes vill i 
f the latter i A d eus of Swedes. E 
s how much bet A. hould have | 
Pi with | a t er proportion Pins ble land. My 
Mangels 2 re good ; Os ats and Barley ditto ; ; the straw 
P 
80, £ i24 iden m be 
pantity, of stubble | 
ave such a season as | 
tte ums 3 it 
pa nt. 
Turnips planted, nd [if m ze 
1818, they 
of hay. I should have said “that in | 
Wiltshire vs have a full crop of Wheat and ag 
har 
Brewers' grains m 
have to mix with eom chat as the price may 
e-cake to s olution 
geben not Jess then 212° ‘boiling heat. It is 
ta 
ER so palatable 
get accusto 
f 
ess, | 100, 
albumen, 29.53. 
. Ed. | each aes wil not 
I} 
uanti ties, 
q 
sück Es your reer as 
to the 
rdly an paced of Oats; Beans a failure, but Peas | Bowly, Siddington 
not amiss. R. Stratton. GLOUCESTERSHIRE : a) Cirencester. —As to the late 
GLOUCESTERSHIRE: (2) Ki Tt e. thi ti 
of the Cotswolds the harv several large farmers whose opinions I 
af pri or into. sown spring 
I believe | h 
o 
en Pea 
sighbeurheod; d i 
been very bad. p^ prospects of stock-keep for = 
g right. Hay, meadow and Clov 
more than ‘pases 
not poe rth the usual crop. 
c-— ee 5d (the ey are much impro oved within the 
inre Pleetod pits to this, that on d dee A and 
poe dex 
Haw 
to c as the a but 
P 
tl 4 
according br 
cake oil, 11.10; 
‘These are the pe clement of 
adm it of much d tail Li 
may not have divested their 
economies of feeding stock. Charles 
Cirencester, Sept. 20. 
: South ampton. —I beg to „hand you an 
avy lands the Wheat crop would equal that 
t on We — Hi, the Wheat 
P erage years, bu f So ih Gas nts. I don’ What tI could do 
with few exceptions average quantity, with my ge! org Vrbe we ot for the supply I 
but of good queues and H lbs. per bushel. idw th e have now in 7 the “ Cattle Melons ” whi a, cut 
weight of last yea Barley sown in goo tim ; | daily fo for r the em and which i e posit f although I am 
generally over av ange ; Beans a general fi ible for seed. Wheat, 
| and = about half a a crop. The upper half of the average ; Rape average : Ost t ; tide average; 
AA with the exception. of 3 acres that were 
etin vr ith h grub, I never saw them looking | better on | 
this far 
up t r quite 
ius p the black ‘la 
s by a 
The S 
ing 
their 
smother ed, as we ell as the Pea 
speci 
ies of aphis. 
"T 
pm 
oO 
£2 
la] 
umana y 
ect, | æ 
e into consumption 
early. Joseph Blundell, Bursledon, South. 
Mi»-Loninas : Bonnington, Ratho.—Harvest is nob 
in this neighbourhoo ood, there being still 
with mine orn or cake, mixed u up in 
fow backe p fal of water thrown over it; oa there are | 
san el li succeeded heat but the | plant is d 
li 
à portion c [9 
f Oats „and Barley i in the fields, The wind 
te g^ iho they a are folded over the lan - 
may expect a very light crop of corn; ther 
i irem must walk over the fields, stopping a eight: in E 
small q of Clover hay there 
e| 
eut. Saha and mixed. 1 corn : 
difference of price will T€ whieh to use ps of. 
The early harvest and fine ws oa ee 
ave n i the e | pa 
eficient, This h succeeded wel my 
case, with the pe ta of one field which had been | 
e | turned up deep with the ae ploug Aot autumn, in | 
which the Mangel i s iain e sowings 
of Swedes also. In 
Man her I ed in 
travelling about, that fields of Mangel are ien 
tchy, a nd deficient in in plan nfs "i attr ibute this to the 
| corn tha 
Ter EY 
ndividual 
, 
er e dropped of its Fry, m and ther 
the 
opinion 
farmer to make great prepar: spri 
large rhe of the ‘Wheat stubbles tave ‘been cleaned, 
I secure a regular plant by pH women round with | de 
Burnett, 
GLOUCESTERSHIRE 
Wheat on the light land was thin, | the „crops on the 
trowels just before cutting x he super- 
fluous plants, to fill up all vacancies. 
similar tool, ias d bodily it well under the roo 
th mot 
year, I think the c crop will prove an average one. Barley 
is over an average ; Mer the exception of a few late 
Lecomte Lee the cro rywhere. 
h planted i 
neral failur mbers of | 
Mom Sees and thos: harvested | 
ay 
- The crop was very deficient, | 
A diede bw 
The val thus made is 
aichly done gavat a field, as the 
the hole previo ously mi 
nae felt. This 
One orward | 
: (3) Cirencester.—Altheugh the | and scoops out a roomy hole, and another ‘follows with a| 
nde: 
M 
farms eu escaped. Now that the appearance 
ong Lie can be judged 
their bu 
ra “of 
greener, ‘while the foggage after hay i is improving. 9r 
any year during the 1 last 20. Luckily the 
Ph was ui great on an E though on 
farms from 30 to 100 a ere exposed to 
xcept in the i — " 
of, there can ie but one 
lk, and that, is that hes. 
that of an average - 
other, se walking 
i by much 
crop, the prospects ‘of winter’s food fi 
ana t 
be ar 
his has stood 
re rmt and has not been sftdehall by any enemy, | 
while all o r green crops have suffered terribly from 
in ts 
+ 
e harvested not half a crop, and certainly 
has been so destructive to 
best o! 
equal to pesce T 2 LEM of some years. Carro 
and Man mine hay e drought t of the ‘mano | 
pre 
We h ver 200 lambs doing well 
with a fresh | pi ace of this “daily, and a feed * eret n 
rm chaff, and a little bran sprinkled over it at nig 
tty wi ell 
and these, since the Bites rain, look fe c growi: 
The root crop generally is very bad, arms having 
searcely any of any description upon os e There 
been great complaint of. grub, b 
Your inquiry for ‘information on plans for eking out 
the aute of f food for sheep a m cattle which prevails 
in the southern count ies is no! ily Minem = 
ed, at the co 
pee iion, Re sud LL bave nown them m renee mencement of the nin 
n, but from the plants not poner of the C 
ii as they usually do, = A -— Land i ver gon 
abundant than 
and I 
Aim e cultivation for roots of all kinds 
of ro nd ha 
before and have not 
elieve priis land i is sufficiently late in the autumn 
. {of the 
corn harvest, the entire 
ers on my farm by the long 
general, only in the 
h 
sowed the dwarf 
Spring and 
Rape over failure: 
some portion of. wand ery T "Whee 
a very poor result, in in ec 
absence of rain lon pi bal sowing. On the 
failing Clovers we sowed a of Rye to come in 
| fi rst—to succeed that, another ‘portion in Italian Rye- 
is so low 
Turnips is 
vin. 
mainly 
little or no 
jede eri id of ster ide of Bridgewa 
d on farm 
ed off 
With this defienden ots and hay the ira culty 
getting throug fe wihter 2 be great. The year 
most similar to - resent was 1818, 
remembered by many. The s oe was very wet; the 
pri 
ley bor pe in "badly, and there being no rain on it | 
tall, 
the Turnip crop failed from dr 
eattle were fed as usual, al 
lighter weight, and that almost entir 
cake and uncut straw, with a very few 
Melv 
OMERSETSHIRE: The 
Weston-super- Mare. 
a Grass d 
half Miri and ee farmers 
| to supply the want. of it, if the winter is eiti 
| or a severe one, 
| they will manage pretty vol m their 
With plenty of folder, EI E T 
less felt 
ely o on CO! 
Turnips. James 
Manor House, Bren £ Knoll 
—My immediate i ghboarit à 
istrict, the crop of hay is is at least one 
will have nothing else 
er a web 
pe dry, 
eir va 
owi 
s not, On the 
beef will be m It 
winter Oats, and lastly, Vetches to succeed the 
early i in June. A: second sowing of Vetches will t iis 
ber, and a evene 
till harves 
= makes» aie 'made in order to rake it together, and | 
Sde r, a 
M ay. e Rye 
= por 
next spring and summer, and unles 
and Indian Corn remains mod 
be expected, there 
baie high pric 
eraba, whic 
will be hard times for r^ y 
| 
l 
1 
The and w. 
rice began at 805. a qe v reser. got | the’ ime ^ it is full ate. -— -€ "tin Gra Fem ss, For stock also. G. J. 4 
ru rea Jn that year c feeding of stock during t Sununy: Wanloro ugh, near uildfo E 
summer, and foddering t attle b e dí y in | winter, I able orm an opinion as to the orn harvests 
; rain came on the 23d of and oil inci, iani È in tha t preparaiok of ke, i in this ‘district, the Wheat cop on all TI the deep 
bered d land, commoniy termed De 
la ton in a few reapttatory elements of food is material, It has I| land, is a fair average crop, and by aver: ge IP nn 
=i of som hee fogs, the | one of nutritive elements containin nitrogen, to | been the average sk aes E this farm, - 
ws fogs, part g mitrogen, tc erage for 4 years 0 per acre: 
fodder their cattle 
again haye such a 
is in economical proportion. “It must be borne in mind, 
it is the quantity of food which an animal can assimi-! 
| On ali t 
tl 
ine the present pr at, say, seven sacks 
e shallow soils, as erp 
{has suffared 
much from “the effects of f ghe drought; it 
