Avavsr 6, 1864.] THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 761 
| first-rate, and that, please remember, on the very field | 2 men; to place or tread it in mow or bay, 3 men, Thre 
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broken stones which he had been used to place in his with two men in each barn with two sticks each, keeping u 
i 3 feet drain were a useless waste of the tenant had taken to oblige the Jan ndlo rd. the monotony of the winter music. From the barns (o pd 
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iles the water would find its way into them after a | trebled in number, and so greatly improved our imple aceumulatio; as being carri 
short time. is was —— new: oo my horses and my | ments by contrivance, that to do them m jus > WO because the waggoners conceived they had a moral license to 
nd 1 they ider how ©" | take at ig into the hay loft nearly all that had been beaten 
prove "nin Old tyle cultivated Tis land, killed his veel Or | out duri - d y. E one rc omg, waggoner, after 
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Before leaving the deg there is for permanent | s secured his crops without them. I have nev in elping him iyot 
subsoils trig-draining, — is not | where seen the double mould plough, with the mould- get into the barn that day. On another, and the last time ve 
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pasture on cl bsoil plough, afte a drills ith a flail innow on i about 20 bushels of 
timated accordin its merits. The te X €" | boards removed, used as a subsoil plough, after threshed with a flail, we winnowed only 
diis , year g o, at a cost of 24d. p , | are drawn up for green crops. By this means, with little ran 2 cs d pervect, a tdem ds of two n Dir 
18 inches deep, dispersed all the Rushes (o “stil labour, the subsoil on the whole of the a s Di team horses. ‘These 20 bushels, given to tho cows with hay-- 
answers well, e straight side of the trig gging tool is | once every course - stirred 13 in. to 15 i that most expensive article of farm produce—we will take as 
turned to nick down the edge and reversed ; the flange | which beit vade. under the roots rarely tails to settee fall repr nnd Ln be put pF. Li the a 
E out the t rig, the drain. having previously been {deve is hes all Sabbath day, over his shoes in dirty weather, as you see by the 
t down 2 feet deep, and about 8 inches. wide at the| After vest, as quickly as possible, we scari ify a distance on the map nearly one-eighth ot a mile, through the 
m. The trig is — M out, with what our | the stables Beta veel implement; then a pair of| then kitchen up four steps, across the entrance hall, living 
he sod, about 2i inches ha arrow 3 loos ns what is green, and covers in all weed m ae, Leve ei — Dm lesser ale E ep ne 
: nto a cool , 
thick, turned upside sei on the trig; the hich rim mA as the next ploughing back t6 the s choose Sub, dirthe/kitohen At oook on 
athalfthe cost of a pipe. Everything in farm buri fn or fine weather favours, I| Monday m and b ecause the man could not get 
uestion cd dn and as 3 acres on this tnim m re like, pr tis winter, to get on the land what farmyard | back c ie e next pail w. full, he was obliged to have 
q 3 d in, helps to| a“ help meet," and under such di vantages were the first 
done for one with pipe, and as it will probably — wn we have made, which, ploughed in, helps Dolenta aktaipbatandete avote the bettas eset 
lifetime, the pss would have two-thirds of his money | keep it light in the sprin g; and, a as soon after as the | practised at that time throughout the Cheshire dairies on 
in his pocket; or, mi done with pipe by the [res pec at y eather pe ermits, the, land is ridged up and subsoiled ; | $ y. The other k house was on a level with the 
6 per cent., the latter in seven years would cover the t ue before the Swede or en rd eed adir onini a ie A Lp LM 
cost o M aining. gel seed is put all the better, vi 3 middle of Nes M die iem A reae CRM T d 
Guano and artificial manures came "ym tuin at the e ry this fast v we had all our Potat angel, and | system of treating the curd gave much additional labour 
time we “had drained the er u s ps apes novel idea | Swede land manured and , Ploughed under ; and by pa irap. two cheeses were made per diem ; so that with three or 
i drilled 1 ur hard w worker. strong women in the kitchen, they had 
ahi with mines of March it had b n d 2 k ), tl 
; in id d Adil had b feoi dui LM ids time for their tea before going to night milkir 
his hit d, and I santiously speculated “frst in a bag of o ridges, and every drill had been subsoiled up to the Mondays a man was, during summer, put to turn the churn, 
Dni and tried it on a few squar m of seeds, e" eam with two horses; and as we cannot secure for which he got a mug of beer, and so contrived to finish by 
dinnertime. About twice a week in summer he had 
Wheat, and the rema inder on about a qua arter of an suitable pot I find it is best to take time by the the cheese upstairs, and as it was a hot job he took cane 
tial 3.433 make a morning’s work of it, and looked glum if he did 
he spots. Ear 4M n Maj. being showery | Fence. p Moe ave mile of fence, planted | not get another — at the tap, The cheese when sent 
at T» time, the marks in a week were unnecessary, | about six yea ago, w which rm a acad the brushing | to marke to ied down s again, and a slip at the 
the colour and rankness iwed in bold relief to | hook ; beside isi : ur last year an old labourer 1d ere nha stairs occasionally mado one ‘cheese g^ Mgmt 
the last inch of the application, and hundreds of|per rood for cleaning 10554 roo ae or 4 miles 3 qr& | vaching out the cheese tab. L^ nane of the waggonera were 
admirers went away wondering at the results, The 72y "iere 3 o Veri also three new fences cleaned | killed, and came home sober, they must expect that the n 
seeds rotted before the rest of the field had well by y. work, which makes a total of about six miles of | dairy will Sond of the Crab tree. 
started. The Wheat was more than could grow, and | new fen to the whey : this had, while hot, been 
To return carried in 
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the Oats a good crop, while the other part was povert. Mode « of planting new fences: First—we cut o |an as the ie [age piocg- dati Ex 
stricken ; and when the stacker came to the guano | furrows with the Scotch plough, then run the double i 
Oats he sang out, “Stop, th hese Oats are in bad} mould) subsoil sgh A foot deep up the furrow, 
her piggeries being 
g in close 7 etr milk-house. This moving E carrying of the 
condition, they are so heavy." The wagoner with a brotes inalittle rotten "dh as fora drill of green 
whey three times over ey ery day, ing from the b to the 
mis AE “I thought so at first. These ar e the , then shut up d dung with z Scotch plough do which, during the summer, left c one servant no lack of 
bor r six furrows or“ -— e rounds." andlord gives | emplo, Th pe then in the dai i > 
the Quicks, a boy places them to a TA and two men | Bocessitat won Ie E midis ir rw ed shoes, 
satisfied n me that guano would for one year Vadar soil them in, one up each side, and the ey will in a day | addition to the one for whey. tou vp in whole HIEL 
increase production— its effects surpasse ed anything I| planta quarter of a mile, opening, and left the servants ail winter only the vessel-boiler 
had seen, One 20.acre field,—which the Pelig The second year we cut off the Qui "ny ^ or 4 inches | fire for warmth and light, except auxiliared by a half-skinned 
had been overstocked with eight rearing calves— | from the ground. Te frets them if cut the first year, pee rie ae rg dta p gU pm fect sk 
r its application kept 200 Carnarvon ewes and | and they m more | fr requ uently icing if otherwise he! ind gives but a feeble pression CE TE om m 1 
lar one butt or rand purposely omitted, | shoot feebl hey will s t 19 eere dairy manufacture ied'on—an. 
retained its carnation Grass til ld was pionghed or 15 strong s Pelis to higher p JL un agre AM ER um 
VE whilst the an resembled a had to pick l common reti gathered, set. 
carpet (of a Cove; and that ee mr te befc ‘a three-year shoot fe ; aud, in a COE EA gp power end 
advertised as an extraordinary r | few more: iag des our new fences w. will defy even dition, Having found that a wagon with three horses, in 
increasing Prodata whilst its abjlestion ag enin steeple-chasers. When two adjoining fields are ae NM vU Wn cow rra Beeren Wheels in quick 
but a fraction of the labour of ordin nary manures. | ploughed, and Quicks put in as described, they will resolved to play cf cite p me e the game of enr ak "tho 
Up to this time, with abont 50 co cows, we had prem got [form a very good fence at the end of the five crop | wagon therefore was sold ; and we will try to do with five two- 
through the winter — a heavy outlay for fodder ; | course, thus s dispensing go ahi Beautiful fences, | horse carts, for having made a good road to the field, one horso 
: while with double the e the great ornament of a are got at a trivial Tend i drained hd fre irom g T "go UNA aat as the 
e to spare for our peri neighbo our—so, while | cost, Baile: scarcely lites f feet wide. We have | no reloading, os two wood pitchers and t wo good lors, 
auis iug in my ease has been the foundation of grubbed from 10 to 12 miles of - rupes erooked carta won't be. ES ‘the nelds'n many minutes, with an extra 
incscased production, guano was the start for the|fence, and must have added over 12 acres of land pg D dsl A ond e. a ing all fairly s nig tee de 
superstructure. | to the Line of - farm. between Ha cola and Litaw hag, tor te the Yoon ean ond 
Of late years, I have taken substitut There is one source of increased production | is changed from an instrument with two sticks, to one that 
i orphate, a as  etsig ai side tn coe manure a d which only 3 will red you—a judicious ege Lr wanking, dividing cora and suckin of ee | 
aving three times ht pen and received a |o Sroppings and in this r I am following the indi i ‘ deor 
. mixture of it with Welsh i advice of Mr. Martin, of us far as 100 acri n of | But ve hid a loug m Fool, supported by once ilt peni 
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be detected by analysis, as by application to the land we | reserved. pasture on the left of the mill stream will EN Present Proprietor of the estate, at a less cost 
han 01 
can only say, we saw iple or no result, allow, coloured green, as you see, on the The the old banis, oe ae true manufacturing principle of 
Having started two steps forward—with our is fields. ntimbered 1 1 to 18 are d first t five an a ahs nh bern orani) te enable E 
ledge of ges and guano—let us return ìn crop and eight | produce, and it will be seen to form one side of the "capital 
weavers’ field. That, Farmer Old Style PE years pasture, viz, Oats, Wheats, roots and Beans, | letter H, while the milking cows qii Aue 
he iens never plough again, and we - - s seeds, Wheat, Beans and du Barley, perma- dO. eae Cx the as oman th k orming ton 
a change has come over the e spirit of h Grasses, eight years. By this rrangement the | the two sides of the Totter, Kaen ein a: eu ‘the Lm 
Two felds — and onefsubsoiled by the nod hd is Po green crop, varied with Beans one year; on the | ment one extensive root store, with food house 
and the “guano Oats,” the tenant thinkin or shift, Potatos, Swedes, and Mangels, on sg beyond, In February and March, the 
to try seth, had contracted for 407, pl ei bid: the m vier a8 before Beans; and by again reversing ihe | intersected b 
field that broke the weavers—the lan dlord giving the Swedes, "Potatos and Mangels, gives vai once in 16 | ¢ 
horse- hoe tiles from Wardle (Tweeddale Works), | years, es and Mangels once in 32 8, Wheat au: 
delivered by canai at Crows Nest Bridge, Tattenhall ; Barley twits in 16 years, and Oats 
soon as ploughed and sown with Oats it d , The other M a c" No. ie to a are c ropped on the ink 
with cheap Ichabo guano, at a cost of 407 , an think e, and c ged as before described | 2 through th 
Inever is such a crop; it astonished | 1 nly I pur- | È 
knew the field, although it had been eaten ‘close fabs pors to m on this Suse ms Peas instead of] Beans. | 40 co ets 
bushel godes ee MT r. A bida aaae Dor wes "held, an - id folios A Yen aude 
eavers’ the soi Gace that we raked 
— leslie 8, guano, (Seca a : 
w Wheat after Oats on | the crossing them has : 
"rs por a field, so we Eu in Sid and Purple- | to be re- before they were Cof the field, and thes 
skittering of manured with farm-yard dung and a rotted until the last horse of the three, steaming with 
E S XS iier Pe ed I very | to keep on his legs, and two or three men with pitchf h 
n Tur ank that steadying t the load for fear of its rolling over, it arrives pen chaff cutter 
- ‘nde se re to bot the e undi EE adi] A dogs. A at home, and is put into a stack, and the two carts that f fiw continued 
are caught ina drenchin, echt so on the first fine da: 
E ric of ike We —— then seeds, which, they =) the waggon load hav have to be put on the nearest douse e 
double — 1. wo ine ad to dicenti jene ‘moving’ was 1 left for th. ten x i aguinatackod Dares S 
ce an ve the what in mo Mr trea left for e rooks, in stacked ; but as en 
ur say i te hem do ubie seat, £0 there aera o Wheat straw thrashed t have to remain 
did its work 8 mowing machine, which unthatched "rough another dren d wi the 
ind inimitably last year, would have bee: ning of the year following, the stack has to be got in it is | Over 40 of th 
n S being sotwisted. The following | found that the roof is matted her, a serious loss, through | immen: 
years d, : lieve, as much tin t e" DA ith ma _ P uo Wheat pre cia 
z : i t nex here 
put th with Oe old rest land, I it was again | pavements, iue. oie pate s n jus cet through | rank has a hospital for six cows, 
: ts, then Wheat, roo rley, seeds, Oats, | various mishaps and mud, get to the barn—with ducks | wit o s bpa- 
moss d it has Wheat. On part of this field cut off by and poultry besetting the path, and all in Clover. You |ratusand engine, nens horse-box, aud cart shed ; this range 
Dew fence I " . will please to note the cost in labour in ep i astack also has very am nple e for th osite 
Walsh Cl DEM EA I prize of the Malpas s under the most favourable cireumstances—2 carts ith 1 horse | the other range iru a ppm sa for Dau itn. tobe han 
or Mangels, and the Swedes w each, equal to 4 men; on the stack, 2 men; on thi e carts, tand a cart harness-house; then follow two spacious poultry 
