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OCTOBER 15, 1864.] 
— GARDENERS' CHRONICLE AND — DORT 
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ows the 
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February, and when the 
gh cannot get era un a M. 
As to cara he bp sawa good | et ; whether as best 
to 
This e naš. the discussion on the tenure of land, and the 
toast list was then continu: 
Mr. one N sang ‘* Taking it Easy." 
Draina, m Cheshire.—The adr qnss the A. 
LASCELL reply to the toast o! 
EN aid * was 
difficult p a d etin farmer to uud 
thát had been travelled over year rw 
ts al > objectio ither doing t is old, s horn. ~ I have already sent 130 to market, 
| sl these ijections, neit! iv orjan X id from 4 8s. to 53s. a each; ese at $1.6 bi anila 
wes have 108! eir mi they 
offers the facility of preparing 1 the ami to diferent |: m and fattenod off, and a fresh lot bought pre) ioni ue 
de es of fineness, the 18th of July. 
gre 
is — for, 2 EK it igna once, twice, 0 FP sy rid ee! - aa uu tags o oi $ Hy. 
enable: uy in others advantageously in the itt he 
thre e times, rses, Whose mouths are e harder, i perro ar 50 of the best of the Down lambs so bought 
fi it once. or pe and stores, it is | and kept to the of 21 months, averaged last Christmas 
fo ml best to pass it twice, which process does not | 57. Ss 6d. each. Mr. Slater, of Kensington, had 24 of them at 
inyolve as uh goods as wo appear at first sight, | 5s. 8d. per stone, Mende : — 18 i "td Ib, eac! 
as the second run takes only half the time the first o “ As to ox: pu wo lots in the year, one 
H H H a ty other from the yards. Forty or fifty well-bred 
€ c s onl requir half the time that the po s Seo botizht at Barnet Fairin Eid hich ean 
this is recommended on be alves | on the Gras: ies til about Ist of November, when they are put into 
1 “shee, ry for fattening catt. tle in in the s ae small, hae sheltored yards, 8 or 10 in each. ey begin with 
each. They have 
é and go up e pv 
ioter 
unknown to many; but the f Pidie. of the 
act. He was inclined to think that they had had their day, 
and that another ciple must either be added or supe 
the one already followed. Hitherto the principle had been one 
of compet tion—it h: eir wants, and had sup- 
plied, in a & degree, an amount of scientific kagwiodgo 
Dusk they Core an thet better for. But in addition to this, o! 
= in lieu of it, what was now wanted was co-operative asso 
ciations, — in the matter of draining in this county. 
Draining, he contended, onght to be carried on on a much 
larger scale. They uted their di inis field by field, farm 
by d estate estate; whe t should be ed 
aad by one co-operative plan n, the ede of the 
whole. Let the landlords and Poo f three or four town- 
ships adjoinir ch other, co-operate in carte the entire 
district upon some seientifie princi ai Mo »: art of Pos 
country competed with another in the of à 
P 
prehensive scheme of that RA te spirit ofc eot petition 
benefit than at present. A natural 
e of a farm 
in making them merely su t for the drainage of a single 
farm, reas by turning them to so gineering accou 
they might be made capable of draining a whole parish. One 
i i iine ve had 
area of land. Under thi t x 
Mee by his neigh b e dra age of farm nd 
should be carried out on a similar principle hat is 
followed in to hs oo not 
a As te 
going rou 
ditches dry, Ks the first question that would oceur to him 
would be, are the me? He would also 
som he farms in this country; an 
long in discovering the advantage he would derive from filling 
up the ditches with the soil from the erhbankthente, and 
turning to profitable account the land reclaimed in both 
P He (M: E les) f deir nd some 
such plan e one be ggested woul [ 
The land had been handed down to the: - and mu lated 
by their remote dar 
ere. He ventured to think that the only way o of effectually 
neci this, and CUOI drainage of Aes prece — 
sound aS ue wit 2 adoption of s ures 
those he had bro: their notice. Abridged ed i ‘om the 
anaia Courie 
eviews. 
Walsh’s Patent Furze Machine. Pp. 8, “Reporter” 
Office, Drogheda, 
r. Walsh has REENT called attention in our 
ra Fur 
dE ly, beasts have been tte 
tha t purpos not only as taking the place. o ot more 
expensive fool, but as contributing to increase the 
une pos of the animals, and to improve the 
M s the M eat. With 4 stones of Turnips, 2 to 
and the usual allowance y meal 
ned to E vid ^ much 
any 3 
which live » chieliy on what the oxen “drop. A polled 
ike him good, 
und, 
epp -horns 
x years old, very poor, 
peo time Ses under the usual tre Wi tho e? Ean cats 
instrument for e ‘reparation, ese bia D: g 
uld the 
g 
EE 
M » : ve been at; no 
rateable “hbtritive [iroperties 2 
the annexed analyses, and confirmed by pra n dem ng nots re irai v 
ia mms It is true that many people hav averaged a aed = than 108 stones, (n 53. per stone. 
rze " horse and cattle by means of * I pai ald las oot in — to home Mr oir} 
P ld applian ; but, referring Me 1130 
ing letter it will be seen that some a the writers had 
been using the ordi inary chatfeutters bat n make 
this Itis si Kile i her less th 1l 
use o of. 
construction and oper: eration, *. can e attache to: any 
0 
acti y grazing, have either oni 
E i MM 
e. 
fie: 
£1400 4 EX 
|  ‘ I always endeavour 
ron: 
Mr. Oakley also grows early Rape in preparation for 
Wheat: 5 lb. or 61b. of seed ~~ ty 14 inches 
= 8 
n be y power as well. Inth 
importo: or pm the Furze grown close and thi de 
se the shoots to be drawn s and tender, and 
> aly masticated when cut by the chaff-cutter. 
With the new machine, this precaution is unnecessary, 
as it will ae e the coarsest and most stubborn shoots 
re a bee pied g hide ‘was 
use of, moth ithe had b ong shoots 
hand off hedge: vows ory Puit, bct ds witi 
more than half an inch thick. Of these, the machine way of chan 
'epa in the hour, passing i Wet x 
s is given ast erage quantity done in 
regila? work, for a much larger reta has been done 
when special ‘trials were made.” 
181 in u 
g lie ground without waste. 
Lambs o Rape are dte ed wi ead votes chaff, 
even in the hottest weather, and so it freely. 
e land i is frequently ploughed up p after folding, and 
Ez 
pn 
ut by 
"talks 
erop P tained i in time for Wheat to follow, 
EM or 30 acres of Beans g thi 
ge 
f stock has adopted the 
He buys cows to ealve 
the calves remain with their 
me wing pmen with profit, 
n January ebruar 
mothers atil both are fat in ~~ follow i n twelve- 
Analyses are given by Dr. Voeleker, Dr. Cameron» mon They are summered on Gras: the cows 
and Mr. Maste Mo Belfas oe Bek Cameron’s analysis NR lbs. of cake daily, mus: pare Mere 
ES m Api pata tio, watar, proso at 78 por emit 3 the Grass is at its its 
e, 10; the nitrogenous ROREM t 2.18; and | mother's trough m. is gi N 
the tare, at 82. Mr. rs, analysing a sample |the calves get 3 lbs. of cake daily, and 
in September, o stuff, found | this is soon increased or 5 lbs; tbey 
only 57 of water, 224 of ony fibre, 8 of nitrogenous | are winte: D on cut e and meal, and 
matter, and 10 of starch. While Dr. Mg o who |straw-chaf. By May the calves which have = 
ege a very mech drier specimen, found only |by their mot ther’s side will weigh about 
33} per ce hio ut Tap and as much as 173 per c ts of and sometimes more, selling occasionally for 191. at at 
nitrogenous Man nont ths — 
e calves should fall in 
May; in summer cy Pond be tak en into yards with 
heat of the day, and kept in 
den ards or boxes through the wither and sold to the 
tcher in June or ole toe) and eph 
provided for late feeding. This you 
not of the an quality, bat zi is quickly and "olia 
FOR — We give the 
of the fading of Richard 
=e 
= 
Law! E Enp, HER 
aim b detailed. nett 
Oakley, p 
Tr ns to the use of Gorse as food for cattle. He I igi End, as an example of what 
heres describes the machi ich the Furze shoots | ma: m heavy land by summer feeding and aade. e. OF co t be highly fed fi 
are reduced to an edible pulp. It acts by a number of a M ‘eating rth, and m: Hivo p e ok, It may be said of of 
saw-tooth discs revolving in to one another. When oom farm are ver avy : tin as of most systems of feediug, * the grazier’s eye 
mad two rollers it is called a single machine, | 10 qu E ters of "Oats p hea often rth 41b. of cake a day.” 
when with four rollers it is termed the double machine, | prown in a locality where halt that quantity is the 
and if orked by power. A oj tmoatade general average. We believe Mr. Oak! i. de E following mixture of food for fattening oxen has 
to the efficiency of the implement are published from | his Ap of high-feeding, that the Barley crop is g with success, 
well-known and trust esponden getting too pe a Á a A He will probably have | p — Tr. xm 
Dawson A. Milward of Tullogher, and the Rev. W. D. to crop a little fast 1 pollard 3 Ibs. 
l = Sor = 
té atimony 1 may be accepted as ied conelüstve. RY A "i sisigation ‘hott 195 acres, about The composition of the meal varies s eh prices; at 
The following is Mr. alsh’s statement on the | ‘Gras acre 5 of wh which È aro S arabia, cares | N med contin ot cake 1 sack of Lentils | 1 Er of Indian Corn 
subject :— m Im inem to fatten so -bred, moderate-sized 1 Beans Oats 
“The operation of it is to tear up, and at the same 
| Ban which greatly im 
The "T Md one part of good Ny, and two parts of 
but wit 
me well 
proves the Grass, 
time to crush and soften the stnff, so that the aee ote aroa are Wheat and the bes es stra 
M. M os e woody parts made of ac id en k i 
) us contrivances x which È morl ne teiar Trati tb Bi : t 
toi en applied to ‘no den i ee hed up earl 3 
has to act sò effectually, at Sò | vith Rapi perphospiat i 
cost, or | little labour, as this one, Al those | Seep wit pes Z 
hitherto in use have m cS p satisfaction E. the horses pigs, a when they 
vari e, because their inventors, | the land is culti i el 
i that the A ha tym ring. peste A to get the Mangel in Journal of th the Royal Agricultural Society of England. 
d oar x e material should be dei weather may be. In April I begin to put 
reduced toa pe Sanne eae ee in some early with 3 cwt. of Lewes's manure, on = 
ry agere : "These, e of the Wheat-stubbles on the strongest land, sowing al dar vatioi 
requizing a eal of b ren wasted. much time and Spout 3 acres every fortnight. I do n k sowing many Calen of Operations. 
superfluous Ae to p acres together so -— d AE although i in seldom affects TOB ds P 
them, they become pithy if they are not re at the npe 
cle ih aor. h quantities not at all adequate to to the | time. We gene n them early in August. WrsrER Ross: Oct. 4. all but complete ove 
, On r ha nd, maehin nes are much i in | acres are sown with s i; Tares, for fear that keep for the he whole north of Scot reer bir kra Kehl “d the 
u t m lambs soo 6 run Soni "etre the sey mee equite ready ; these | crop in-gathered in better or oóndiion w wo have never had. 
len à inch en off with cake or Corn, and the land made a tilth for | were entertained that as the weather had mA 
iim These are eei also do not Barley. change might s) y come, and an untoward season set in ; 
soften the stuff, so that a subseque by | “I put 300 Hampshire Down a Cot = swold They p. "— — were disappoin ed, M E th pm has be 
"ndi i t ing, and the | February e agit completed ami k rejoici e crop, however, is o 
pounding ii rollin E be ud A without which recap ep pee the lambs barn mating the first ran. Some poeta than it has been for gp years, although the 
ig n freely I rough store sheep are put behind them to clean up w what they vent shorteoming in graiu will not by an s be equal to the 
: orses may eat it, but cows will not, unless | The ewes are fattened off nar 4 ry The lambs have cake deficiency instraw. Wheat veter: «e goat thin, but 
. starved into doing so. Tho machine now desc ribed | corn all Ady summer, and, until they go to mark t at 11 to is welleared, and will thresh satisfactorily. The principal 
