566 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND aE GAZETTE. (Jone 11, 1864, 
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grass, very similar in bulk to o that you describe in the | The outbreak of 1847 extended to 1850. and last] tment: * the forthcoming exhibition, wig 
Agricultural Gazette of the 28th ult., which is pl | the outbr co in 1862 in the county of Wiltshire. "As to E e the M st and most s AME 
on land of a very poor and gravelly nature. aee had|the manner in whi ch "a disease was the in ell | the pee cae - ever ccessful that 
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for cultivation, until five years since, when * was | municated from animals driven along 8 Roman b w 
broken up and sowed with Italian Rye-grass and Alsike|road was only to be supported by the suppositi eviews, 
wei É ; at ame d rom the Du. Le Brome de Schrader. Memoire lu à la Société 
every year. e firs ree m nd af í riale et Centrale d Agris de Francs, 
3 feet high, has been in removal, as required | again, for they could not be traced before or) Alphonse Lavallée. Walliams & ne X, 
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has continued eem good for five years, and on very | Tonsite, the chief r^ of Schleswig | and Holstein n, and par iem was over 8 tons per m the I 
strong burning soil; ion is that w ht 1 e together barely 9 tons acre, This 
every year (n radh y) give a top-dressing of farm- their way. in spite of the — sanitary precautions, presume 35 e occurred i in well cultiva vated luni, A 
yard manure with a sprinting of seeds, and during the | to this co wá . It was known a 
summer irrigate it immediately after cutting, not with | had pe — of dra awing their supplies to a | justify to ‘the ‘English reader the extraordinary ew pat 
sewage, for there is none available, but with pure water. hom m t from the metropolitan n market for | of the writer on behalf of this species of Brome 
D e supply of various parts o of England, in meme nea ai Gross ss. 
Comparative Trial of Swedish D 1863.— The | all the large towns. a few diseased sheep m Of its milk-giving properties, it appears that the 
following were planted under pre sely similar circum- | ha’ ranean way i p Wes t. = see eene Aem a quantity yielded by cows immediately increased 18 
stances of soil, tillage, and hirer upon patches of | that a malady became deve lope ed ias purchaser cent., when they nes changed from Lucerne Hed 
each other (for the purpose of testing sheep for | equal ration = the Brome Grass; and that it vas 
the goodness of stocks and growth) :— ure, " án its origin might it be er for in | back scd e 10 per cent. when the Lucerne 
that — was ant ie the facts that th here was a resum 
ight ii Iti is s plain that our Italian Rye-gras, under 
"s at Li ‘al ly to | cultivation, will greatly exceed the ne * Domo iri 
the —5€ al ont a qe iid ch passed tl de d ad that, apart from any ed 
ow the very estate on MM the ow were first peated: richness at the milk, the ag a of the ni 
irving's 18 4 16 0 d canal at a point whe obtained from its consumption i fallacious 
Improv Sd Bariy Wie So Swede 6 13 M animals fed npon v tho ma was a "iie through hie cation of € merits of the lat "e ob s 
alan: s Purpis- urpie-top Swede ..| 15 16 13 l "EM Y hes ee ass atati ime ae 
uper Hardy Purple- top 13 0 EC de lay hile ugh Besides eh he at A ML 
Green-top Swede; seed lately 19 13 19 $3 tt Farm Mau 
_ | imported from Swed SUR | flock, ad found there heads legs, and portione of ved MER y BERWICKSHIRE. — Aere 
Upon n weighing a portion of hin N ber last y T ceeded | with a ch temperature, -— for the most vert by 
there is a | tł t from the Hie a winds and rimy mornings, The 5th 
calcu ight acre, | throu M its various stages, observi vin -A hat in the|milder,and in the forenoon there were a few X" 
Skirving's ms op Swede, a veriti tud well known | vesicular stage the animal did not die, bet that if i thunder, a accompanied T 
o need description, stands first upon the list. The | was not fatal in the prece ing or — stage, it wa wet mt cold, and th i 
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rger proportion of root and top. = a the remedy, separation m x pee od management | The 13th and 14th were beautiful d on the 
Matson’s, a very handsome Purple-top, comes next. o doubt of ome zn gti but they y had been | Ja’ tter the wind changed to the S.W., and there was & 
Then a small good-shaped Green-top Swede, the seed telle, for the examination nece or t n the evening, which hada very beneficial 
3 a by a long way | to be effectual would ba eme an Senility where n Sect on all our crops. On the 16th, which was sultry, 
the ?s Purpletop, a favourite in this district | the flocks were large. The lette ra No rfolk a torm travelled round us, but did not 
from its keepen well through the w winter, but, judging Cambridge, by which the sitention o ; per, on the 17th the heat was oppressive. On the 
from this y ductiveness. was called to vaccination, w Jeulated t EU ik reached its sine the self-registering ther 
Te uid that eee is not the only criterion s alus | for for it appeared from hat, he had Muni n and gher than any 
but that ** proof” in feeding and hardiness to withstand | seen, tbat the vaccination alleged to e taken gie ce he 19th was 
frost are i elements in the value of the uera | was no vaccination at t all. eee foc. ee sheep wit og in morning and evening. The morning of 
This is quite true, but weight of prédose iù a were said to kear been vaccinated by one man in a | the 20th was the same; but about 3.80 thunder 
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ant item, M nu -— similar experiments this from? The man carried it about in an ounce phial. | wich the dorencai k as bri 
season, and in due time we shall be pleased to report | In a few cases the animals were afterwards inoculated, | 1 p.a, thunder again burst upon us, 
. the result to you. Hugh. "Raynbird y dnt nbird, Cal- | and they took the disease. He recommended inocula- | destructive shower of hail, some of 
decott & Bawtree), Basingstoke, May tion, or as it was more properly called d ord but at | more than three-quarters 
the same time that separation a eans of | was followed by a ase e of rain, W 
abating the severity of the disease EH not be|soil in a short T 
Societies. negleeted. yeoman disease was infectious, but not |N. W. , the “weather bees me colder d bene pei 
ROYAL AGRICULTURAL OF ENGLAND. c 
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and petia therefore, did not spread the malad mm ” growth 
of thanks to the lecturer closed the a 23 .—Grain crops have m made o considers Pn, 
wr epus: up meeting of the 
Society on nesday last, Mr. Raymond Barker in i the exce Een 9 
the chair, a lecture was delivered by Professor Simonds, | veli x i RENI TI sown path ont, Siegen ich r e show n 
of tlie Royal Veterinary College, upon small-pox in| Bara AND West OF ENGLAND.— As e Council| warmth, winter-sown ibe MD , si E 
sheep. Before the lecture it was announced by Mr. | Meeting on the bthiinat, a lette r fro! Dove l Agri- ias Qa 7 were most sere till the late 
Thompson, M.P., that the subject for the 22d would be | sari Society, on the subject of jalp Educa- | ni 
“The Chemical Properties aA Water for Economical | tion, was referred to the Journal Committee. Beans = codes strong and v vigor! -— n E 
^ by ; Voelcker, in place of the one = The Meeting of 1865.—The Deputation who visited |  Potatos pushed through the ground y rapi pel 
viously fixed for that day, namely, ** Species of Farming | Hereford on the 19th ult., for the purpose of ascer- the warm bici ef but have made mod the frost it 
best adapted to meet the increasing demand for m taining the nature and extent of the accommodation | si ince; indee ed, they have been damaged by 
Stock. Y RRE offered by the watborities of that city for the Society’ 1 advanced, andin tht | 
Professor Srwox»8 prefaced his remar y rving | Meeting in 1865, reported that the site known a He f Turnips is well Bot 
that the question with b which he had to deal race course, about 23 ns in extent, was in E) s Ws a healthy d is to idw | 
derab in nterest to the farmer from the rarity of respect eligible, : ant that t eit for the trial ofi m. i where they were sown wn within a few day be te day 
nly con us to one anot nother, b storm, the iis aco rt 
the animale whieh were the pega of the disease, Alter within a distan e — Je rih nga 
meeting objection to the term ‘small-pox ” by | posed show ya! = The hide ae i reported very favour. Tl Puoi has at present the n 
showing its close analogy with the disease 80 ars n ably on the courtesy and cordiality * ith whieh they NE short, - in eal there js a want of qat | 
the human subject—pointing out, however, at the same | were aed AQ by t the ocal authorities, | leaved Clovers, However, 8 showers a0 grow vel 
time, as rope of conclusive experiment, that the and the Council resolved improve the crop vastly, In not marth i 
disease was not capable of being communicated from the the rules by the meeting, of which formal weather work a greater change than m Fold veni 
sheep to human beings, or even to other animals, ice had been given by Mr. Poole, the invitation t d in beginning to look bare this, ; 
) or or, on the other rne bonas of H be accepted. It was also resolved Old Grass has stood well all through 87 up 
£ ——t lecturer crud € , the mend to the annual meeting the election of — — e Grass have spra gp ate 
origin of the disease. ‘The notion had been entertained Colonel Clifford as a member of the Couneil. an go (e boa more equal piant ME 
by some, es especial y during = "outbreak in Wisin The Bristol Meeting.—Mr. Pitman, on Vaka Fas the | ped ate this year. T T 
in 1862, that its —o was spon s, but im- eng agp cur Committee, reported d al 
possibility, by any eo mbination ot. There vicus , of|steps taken with th e Mes E , pPining. pid a 
manufacturing a special poison had been ably facilities for pine ns ing the exhibition, and 1 Calendar of Operations er, 
argued by Dr. Budd before the British Association in | deputation was appointed fes wait on rs au ds of | JUNE. ' ; 
1863, and it was remarkable that the present generation |the several Railway Companies for tne of| CuarTERIS, Iste or ELY : June $,— MU I 
knew nothing of the affection in this country till 1847, | soliciting addit ope seupoiiin on the gi ien nm the weather has been very variable. aed was 
although it bad been ieee s doen the. scien Le "owing to the great interest excited by the public | MaX Wha" was Tohowed D reat heat, va 
almost every other urope, | ng of the cattle ADS uliry, the yard will most as hi 51” in the shade. 
been described by the earliest etitm. = riters. It pond be visited bya aa large ns mber of agricul- co his eui agnin Fevurne, but pot not as oer 
A eved to jada | on the ch frosts were experienced for seve! tS. 
ye ho! 
: g : f rain, #000! : thort 
— has this vear been eM : ays we had a deluge O ngs were th" 
learly Mi in ~ The “deputati on proceeded, at the close of th pr them territc that omes Es ue mi ie 
out by him. Since to wait on tbe railway authorities, an and were fortunate | water running at full hole. re or our i e D 
been cog gy to a work |in obtaining the promise of the Bristol and Exeter paleness to 8 — um Uu te ; 
pany to run S epa. rain from E leys. The weather i pA. ge wolff 
that | mediate stations on the Monday, and of the Great would be highly | beneficial to vegetation om tao P surfac? : TE 
on the South Western to run a special train from Stroud and inter- | te hard crust which has now former 4, ond. ae) " 
eans were | mediate stations on the same ee Most yee te cd E uM. died pe e ough we 
aser. sio plant is upon Lo wnole promising, 4l 
