Jorx 16, 1864. THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 697 
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plants into the rough leaf by the a meran of stimu- f| consider that the house and garden, the cartage of ! i 
. mde manures. ‘Trench ploughing sin autumn I found | coals, a cow’s ke A! the liberty to feed a pig, and food | rid of th and posing o of 1 ahdin 
to have good effect when followed by ba: tilth and | in harvest, are the nly items which farmers ought to |a ti à bro 
ng wit kill’s clod-erusher. "A our. I was much pleased with te the official report of the mae heirs: in the 
a letter ‘in the Scottish Farmer by Mr. Gray, lh ate of present year shows that another attempt is likely to 
Dilst more It is there at 
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board you recommend I have found | 
to be of Title t n s the 
thei jumps as dra x ang t ri ner dee. I found g f yards of drills for growing Potatos, | the little flock of llamas and hybrids imported from 
ed over with | W., V dinbargh. inglan a 2 
Linseed-oil and turpeutine withont : any pain hine AE MM ON ee yee we s bue "a 
i í pure alpacas, } 
Vh de buc meri es SER Rrebircws d now being dropped. Since landing, their numbers 
The sisi v en ot Science, No. ITI. J. Churchill l from 19 to 56. Thus, while the cam 
n, New uro alg Sire.” suffered from being too greatly scattered, the alpa 
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ver The prese dia 
a human being | cul i Sn The. ager The Paris 
live in? Wages in my late district have greatly | curse refers to cattle sales and p as illust fas | atietey sed =: rei mpgs ‘thoy are b] 
is | of the v: alue set on the momen hie which pedigree e | crossed wi ith th n con side ra x mbers, 
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t exce an meer 
mployer is* strictly determined to forbid [cultural societies ar the iim of ageiculteral wey | scale at Maryborough, who is now experi- 
kenness under the penalty of — vU pe eil bees er recent review of agricultural | menting with it. Various breeds of sheep, some of 
pay The 200 or acre men eatly ess, by Mr. “a S. Thompson, M.P.—to town al shows signs of a peal adaptability to a hot 
annoyed, | and the larger farmers are obliged, through sewage ze and its difficulties—to the collection of agri- ‘dint, are also under experiment.” 
the 
staff to manage and attend upon E great i improve-| In addition to an = ps otal fol record of scientific DU EE E 
ments, but the plodding man must still jog on as w ell | progross in variou s depa , there are ppl ron... Farm Memoranda. 
as he can, and this is done only by —— exertio n p on gun cotton, on certain 
not without serious trouble. Wit fresl ils in Crete; on the use of the ophthal- | Darry FARMING IN ; a S Tattenhall 
or dwellings for farm labourers we hare them i in this 1 ee on i acclimation y phe on copper mining in all.—Mr, G. Jackson's farm contains near 322 
district sufficient; I two or three | ane dingly interesting series of original | Cre amely, 194 acr u h 
aa Colonel Lindley, Captain Eyers, of Shaw | "rom the first of these we extract | (irrigated), 14 acres new meadow covered with ung 
House; Wasey, of Prior's et) oor: many Nx Nash account “of the useful services rendered | Water, 9} acres Wheat after Oats, 263 acres Oats, 
others, fens to the industrious poor. Cottage --— | | by the mo a acres E H 
25. p vs. or 5. from Michaelmas. i Mihaela as.| “Let us gia suppose, because the thns | Swedes, 2 acres M. 8, cre garden or 
Liv s, scullery, proper closets, three bed rooms, aan ed for animal or vegetable eoi as ts known to 3; acres homestead; plantation and occupation roads, 
we " with ES on for two houses, iud a large | Us, that it is necessarily a bien. ph of f extinct oH ron gn 
gi e. No lodgersallowed, F, Chieveley, volennos, part from its value as mp to the 4th Barley, pth over. The same repeated, and then 
arth,’ it has a noble task to perform in "preventing a mio d itu lie Ms rs. Ppisk: is b 
he Bondager Border Counties of Scot- st ation that. would otherwise take sboc pd eaa nags, 4 co! 
land.—'The gre donna for animal food int ite ocean, which would, without its i nflue M is be one i dire ws, 3 bulls, 18 feeders, 21 tre aes Band 
revolutionised agricultui The Turnip erop stagnant pool, but is now maintained tre ages 168 sheep and lambs, 54 pigs, and 1 
the principal moving ater on well managed “aide ee activity, pen p e ngeney of the tides that | total, 368. 
to rshores e nu 
ms. Owing many sheep be four-and-twenty vious to Grass land, 
butcher before they are 15 months old, the Turnips eit M RR them e sea all that decaying refuse which | and since then has gie on an eed 1044. ann ually 
require to be pulled, rooted, aud topped, put - m" otherwise accumulate at the nd of ri e -— har applied to seeds, and also 117. 4s. per 
heaps, and eut by m mablüjiep tito small slices. It was a | there to corrupt + wey spread death and pes ce around, A o on super vB ttp and other 
prevalent practice before the extensive cultivation t This evil, then, the moon arrests effectively, and, with the fertiles eg applied to root crops, rained 
Tarnips for most farmers to keep one servant for | tides for a mighty broom, it daily sweeps and purifies | tag of old Grass land, and 25 acres w vith horse-shoe 
assisting to milk the cows, and she filled up her n 
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a es “But there is still another duty ap m fulfils— rs and filled up 7 pits. Erected entire new farm 
call otins-las namely, in performing Let wor rk of a n bri ring- | buildings on a new site; repaired and improved the 
- ee and lodge the a un requisito numbe r|ing vessels up o r tidal ri ts, or | house, spending on the whole 40002, including the 
emale labourers would be mere ly an ext t ns, drainage, &e. 
um a cole lane sy _ em in thes * good-old Pte ^ Bue ave excellent m tunities of obs serving pen appie The following has been done by the tenant, exclusive 
Dr. Begg has expatiated so much about. Had I any- ciating her value ved eerie. capacity; and,. indeed, | of the drainin, gand boning : esniied up 31 old pits, and 
thing to do with these lin cina 1 — prefer | it may wi ith truth be d that nos mall p portio Er ie most of the drains put, | in by landlord. Supplied the 
the bothy system, 0 ur ideas about domesti corn l fee | z Tor iari & & quarter of a mile of road in con- 
7 feme e each -tauaity and their domestic servants | glows in our fresdos Broglia p reed nection with the s 
a residence for their exclusive use. Field | doors by the direct agency of the moon, 4 706 yards of new 
ien d ring i in a furnished residence called a bothy, | The pra on possesses a eertain | and covered 
occupy the same position on a farm that noblemon's | Ağrionl tiirat date nterest. The — ing are extracts fi foundati 
servants do in the “hall and in £heir sleeping and | P ticle on the subject :— Carted the 
sitting apartments. Farmers providing the labourers mong the em E T which the Societé | and coals for Ae the vei bricks; pulled ‘the old 
with board or the labourers doing it themselves are Aenean have directed special attention, d pavement, Buen carted t for paving. 
il. The East ibet—a creatu 
s of ė ous, i ; ype 
Lothian ien dam apre lodgings, and give nie a nuper valuable - Pe! pU and wh whic is bern A land, including the old site, into 
1 TA, Levell prepa irrigatiug 1 
amount of wages paid in each, depends on the amount Society; and, although it "4 Pe ord ig but little ates of land, for meadow, which had n E 
of n ber in EA e crack farmer pays . each | Milk, it is hoped that in vig the influence of domesti-| bog. ‘This farm lies ated Seule with good roads 
bothyite 1 day in summer, and furnished bothy, | cation may render it more valuable in ie as in other | around it, and EU far from a canal, a railw. way, and good 
coals, parca of dies ‘mill, ^ and a few Potatos| particulars. S d for es reeding ay b The soil varies much, from a good loam on a 
planted. I see nothing for it but for ‘landowners to. | of bae animals, viz. two prizes of 2500 -or cs each, bottom, t. a very tenacious clay soil, on a very 
compel their ew npe to abolish the compulsory bondage | for.auy one the 1st of De Dosti m Yolid, clay subsoil, The surface is gentlyu ndulating, 
System, It is a si singular Se regan sete A dis- 1865, four yaks of pure blood, of a year olg, and of his | giving good fall for the drainage, which appears ver 
graceful act of tyranny should h n the ow 2 b reeding sko pter prizes of 1800an d 1200 francs, | effec "M Most of the old fences have been seriiood 
aa which was occupied by the lato who crosses JA ween s of pure breed and mountain oe new ap vagy + which nage ery clean 
dA first farmer that sowed on raised drills. cattle (vaches de travail); ; as wall as — some fro o5 feo t high, thick and healthy. 
Tt was the demand for field labourers that shall prove apt as beasts of labour or of | Nothin 
the be bondagi I observe in an Edinburgh | urden fenes, or. of pum the new ones, "put a very great 
Pier that Margaret Yoong ie bea ted thea "Similar experiments are in course of trial up 
year ending May 25,1864. Th td ora and A ene goats, Caramanian and Merino | years. The fields are now of a good size and shape, and 
.Inm y calet E thestpposed sheep, &c., w m are reported to bei Z a fair way to | con Vaud to approach from the new E PENADI road, 
iurat G ofa bondager y 10d. a day, in the Agricu Kitoi ej- couragement is held out by prizes of | which is Ayers sar cad - fenc - ee two 
tural p. 37, I set down 197. 10s. 10d. | |varions amounts for the production of small flocks of | G fi ad many ‘gaps i , but were told it 
301 dep, 17 E DA 12 day: - harvest at 3s., and | these animals, for the purest breed, and the heaviest | was to be e esdicated 9 oy “the tachi through the 
2 the 12 days? boardin 1 142. 16s. 10d, and farm are laid in bet more convenient for the 
- = in as the iege a bondager at 1 he gathering together in ou tme y i bs travellers, and the lend pes liable to trespass, 
y. I put E. be the per toe the Ind un numbe; es va mahi a s, of for The root crops all clean and healthy. 
allowed for growing ee nd pla wee siów an good. 
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Pota! I don member m 
t i ls of Pota ; 
$ seen bim j mese before decided 
th last vem d a Notwithstanding á dire that € rne, it 
Season, od many | dec T T lat 
won n mone fan rtm of Reto Pa “The herd from India, at an | heaviest crop 
than 27. a t last ‘season for little more | — 1201. "er hend, Ind mangels ec yA having been 
a ton. By referring to the Agricultural | were in a fair way of being annihilated under the|June, Pasture mostly 
‘ou will observe: A. viri exploratory — Such of them as| manure, and the | meadows 
62. 14s., and 5. against | could be saved have een collected at Mr, Wilson's | of a fair quality of herbage. The 
make the gross total, in at the d di r the various purposes 
wages, equal to | regularly, and forming the of probably a |new farm buildings are the best arranged of any we 
and garden free, iN available at some future. rx "either for bye | have yet seen, for. health and conven feeding, 
a 
ig. The |t ng, and all other operations of threshing, 
and tes Wind's! the: mae end d aming, &e., and also for - storing of fodder corn 
hiring markets for a “ Reports s have Tenched us of the failure of the first rk roots. aie a useful sort m in good 
vages of 197, to 137, | attemp Peruvian alpaca, and out of | order. - : 
rom th cone and tain | 300 proide five years en Lig Peru, and pur- House, dair iry, and premises around in neat order, 
» Mr. ae that several „pounds chased e New — les Government fo or | with every convenience for carrying on the process of 
deduct. }15,0002, all have died perm progeny, in} cheese making, with the least labour, and for pro ducing 
; with rega regard to a payment in kind, I * number, are in in alae condition—so much so ‘a good article. The cheese room had a very respectable 
