THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE (Normer 5,1 | 
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range fro o 16 years. They were “employed in | therefore not. necessary on the pol of the ol ogee | of e e of course very materially Tessen ty 
weeding, Say? thinning Mangels, s in vare kil an Still, it might be expedieut as ot | num Nig ca $ an "hi k attene We may con — 
kinds of farm labour. They w weit from one pari ish to seine disease, Its general charactor E nly|sequently expect very high prices, Not since Bad 
resumption against it a Bill o of | year 1818, I believe, has the Turnip crop failed ek 
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field labour i in vail weathers, and described a parish Tiare price of meat 25 per cent. The foundation of all|n 
the system 
which | measures for preventing the spread of disease among |S 
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there eere Sor eh gangs at "work, ice about 40 living — must be inspection, and the magnitude | mi 
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cale on which inspection must be eiie wa 
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per cent. lo 
Lancash tebe Yorkshire. 
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Gexiibrdiieed b y const 
ant associa’ x^ 
erinary 
The Jot children were surgeons nd no reliance on the butchers, ‘the rete 
with hardened and | had no confidence in any but them E e n d the 
wicked boys and girls of 15 and ears of age; and largest salesman in London “does no Di: to 
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they might be frequently seen on a ^ tori night at | veterinary 
10 o'clock going among the bee 
r-shops, in search of baec Suid And | yet the inspectors must ya âde = op by Ces cine i An out Fi "long es pis 
ing fr the system, a the | in ioe judgment. The expense of such i ft t v 
i ed some r idi Mr. ton | would pro aba iy be greater than the country -would | to be ps in yards. Dur straw this year is remarkably 3 
advocated e rone en of a half-time system, | submit? to. porius ba: br ould infalli bly 1 and it and a few Oats or other r food 
r the Factory Acts, and recom- | down where it wo ant mo such great will be all bin a des many Down flocks will get 
ct of Pa ament establishing | fairs as Weyhill, de Bas or P Falki rk Tryst, Mee hos is Plenty of hay, it, 4 
ystem, mixe angs of boys number of animals collected together was so enor- A" Ai 
and girls ought to be suppressed, and children of| mous—the sheep at Bal inasloe eyo we i 0, m sient ES to Ten their ater hae tock ve 
ars ght not to be allowed to work/as to render real inspection an impossibility. t, few farmers will buy hay at the price it r 
me half-time co v be | whole system of l egal regulation rested es inspection, bib by his winter. The few Turnipsand Mangels 
1f s alf-ti 
adopted embrac id "these conditions, not bear 
undue Apine upon tbe m 
Sane 
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res strictions and penalties, the effect E" which, | e 
upon the health, the in _the judgment of the men most competent 
nd 
ow on them from the second sowing of gee, put in 
ince the harvest. If these, the “stubbl variety,” : 
e any pue a ‘and fro: t set in i 
make to 
there will be yet time for them to make small “heads” 
but 2 grow ey slowly. Other fields are nite 
bas Tarnips i these in some cases have een 
boe with winter Barley cr winter Oats o or Rye e for 
ii A isi Bat litio can ss done at «ee time of the - 
r feed | for sheep i In any quantity; — 
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Way 
busy seasons sof field- p the inspection of living animals; while those i in 
ersuaded that such a measure would | the trade now state, that they would P no value 
theopinion of nsp ved 
as well as the P boring classes, to M nothing of the | and jn fact scout the whole thing as an abs sur dity 
general welfare of the —— at large 
Fi ue 
breadths oe usual for spring feed have been somm 
of Rye, winter Barley, winter Oats, Tares, and of 
Trifolium i iia atum, and all these are looking well, f 
being got in es this E The late rains and a 
n dies ae Mam mh Rev. healthy cattle—that was indeed a cardinal point. 
f Che rea a a ritten by | Farmers, however, would never pid dei 
Captain O'Brien of ine "Mount, Yorke "The Sale of inspector: 3 and constables on own farms. 
and Transport of Cattle.’ In the ES "of his inpol Moreover, = lnkópelino ed land” meant all the —€—€— 
he ref. of o the prevalence of panics about unwhole- | of Scotland, half of Ireland, and large districts in Cum 
some fo ni ame like gust ind ac the berland, Westmoreland, Norfolk, Wiltshire and "Ham - 
e food ich c 
minds of the British 
frequency of fatal cas 
the foot-and- v dioke being found in 
The trumpet of alarm, he said, was blo own lon ng and disease, Captai n "O'Brien Lien as follows :—The 
lou d by a eh d Professo or in Edi nburgl d the 
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public. Among these he classed shire. After some further criticism adverse to various 
the reports and statistics recently circulated as to th 0 i iefly on ; 
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es of pleuro-pneumonia, and as 
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t of Parliament against its spreading a ei vain. 
by Ac 
panic me anecdote, given in evidence, were true, Being easily cured, should 
that in the discussion of these matters in the Town 
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Council «t dinburgh, gentleman, one 
declared he believed that he 
breeding tapeworm hi . As a summary of 
i given i 
appeared in coun 
rapidly either by infection or — and breaks 
n fi 
p contributing ih results of my experi ^ T fear 
it is but of 
weather are making the Grass grow very 
where possible, portion s of meadow or down 
laid up for hg supply. We all hope i re 
autumn and an early spring. A Down Farmer. 
e Correspondence i 
a oe —As you intimate a wi wish for notes 
of this plant, T have nee pleasure in 
case of want of success. A friend having 
given vob nine seeds of Cattle Melon, I planted them 
singly in small mounds 6 feet apart, hp which I 
RT om Onl m. e seed came 
‘be left to the owners of the stock, whose peeuniary 
interest it is to take the best gie medical skill 
Mie can devise to arrest the. disorder. Pleuro-pneumonia, 
| though not so prevalent, is far more fatal. With fat 
et reduced in flesh, and while the meat is still good 
out and whol , and will bring a fair pri , as 
ic: nile irony seinen use. lt is intractable, and | p ed, ale of such meat had beeu prohibited, 
some fatal, carrying off occasionally three-| jt would have been impossible have got rid of 
local cireum- the animals, and a great impulse would have been 
diso 
had e al otten manure. 
up, s the season was so uncommonly dry, the 
plant v was ‘watered from time to time in y^ oj of 
securing some seed. In my single a Hri bine 
spread as inok three vards, but only one 
Melon, not so big as some Swedes and Mane Is in the 
same field, and that is light and d 
Now the climate of Dorretik is m 
this case the plant w ni 
aspect, but the re m feel gla: J 
not a large space occupied with the Cattle Melon. wW j 
ear of from 40 to 50 ton x Melons b K: J 
to stop the spread of pleuro-pneumonia. 
Honck, a large import rter of foreign cattle, said that i in 
Slesvig and Holstein 
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n |. ford p^ hem nd ar experience in 
per cent. 
tl crop. ^ un can rer in to 
fact e em ma medir eat Vegetable Marr 
ee -— had undance of these 
A som of large size, i 1 
ved them as sheep fi feod, bnt t these have as urs 
as IL uM oof” Cattle Melon. J. B., 
g beate A 
on iratus v of the Cattle v Last April my | 
a cured 
taken the matter in hand, the — 
the disease— a Precautions hai be t had the leas ft, 
and ha d giv he greatest dissatisfaction. The d 
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iostiions for sowing, -e E I E i 
these instructions the result d "DE n m The 
al ca With 
dairy cows it produces an eruption on ^e: Tonts, by 
which the mill i is affec 
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ted. 'The most horrible of 
n that "individual effort was better than Governme 
es had Sanin passed over Europe, and after a 
dine dis “pe eared. There was already good reason to 
believe that this one would gei its predec ; 
y di 
hay H gem tuigt the good old English lesson 
iüt cet pee soil ad 10 cwt. of rotten farn u 
t | plan I took was this. The first week in May 
the seeds into flower-pots, "atid had them put is y = 
srs ora Bod of the seeds 13 came up. ute " a 
i the et week in June. I ther Ur 
red off in the corner of a fi xs " mu od was 
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F trad sE} AS. 
t re, and skill than 
worm 
e horrors of pig- 
beyond belief, fa aptain O'Bri rien | 
prod: 
die all the idu ehh E of an Act of 
Mein e am or ad an Order in Council. It certainly 
ery r able, and s volumes in fav vour o! of 
r^ fH m 1 "P eae, n 
i jot legislation, that, though they entered upon it with 
hese | the 
the necessity of doing something, and anxious to shape | £ 
per acre. The four plants in the g - c big rather s 
II the produce of them was it weigh ei 
est Obi. Pil ait vit [or ots ‘of plants Pid 
ing the dry we 
: - | s dur. eather, 
VU Milan so agrim Seth cSt a eee e d | mel ode em a Benl qd at edem 
ent on to mainta t all the statistics which had tt midsummer the plants got much j 
been adduced m or the pr be edid x holly | - s pesi of ant with rt Sr roe meee ae Lex kaphi <3 Afer ug all things om ie "T 
unreliable as a basis for legislation, as both parties in sw COQUE OUI Malo vor y. d. Mide j 
the late contro had proved that nothing could be SS mu mare or in “other words a ca k : j4 
lacious than their opponents’ fi pt their THE PAST HARVEST AND THE Gardens, Bromley Palace, [2n 
over the Mies = wage of dead COMING WINTER. Sn eee va 
meat, adn parasito disorders, once to| Sussex: Mid Levant. —With regard is the? past í 
5 imal affected in this neigh the E is Societies. p 
byp euro-pneum was or was not fit for human food. uae ds an average one, an and stacked in AGRICULTURAL OF ENGL 
On this Ex re maintained that medical testimo 
SUR events in 
Was perfectly fi 
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meat 
condition. - tr merc though decli perm 
a Ptah n the whole be quite | P 
all bat the latest stages o 
t for food. This fact was sn 
Only in reference to the pub 
of 
; was used in every household —t 
-Boan ot grown, a Pea | t 
~ crop is an almost t dna failure. "Our prospeets for the 
coming winter with regard to the keep of d OE 
ut sheep are anything but bright. The failure of t A. |K. Bart, ; Mr. Acl si Leid 
The Bill was | Turnip crop over a large district, and a very M uy mond Borken Mr. Bramston, M.P, ; Mr 
NTHLY Coole: e Nov. 2, n 
Present, Bir dE 0. Ker RA T President it E 
e Earl of P Powis, Lord Chesbam rot 
Horeca Tord Tredegar, Lo ord Walsingham egg, 
General the Hon, A. N. Hood, Hon. A. P. : 
e | Sir -— ald, 
