Ocroszm 22, 1864.) THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 1019 
scruples before the public, and therefore it may be|w ith the theaves will go on to 30 acres of Swedes as | it is well worthy “the attention of cake consumers, 
better to wait.—I have the honour to be, my lord, your 66ótenity regulates. The dà fftcutter, bruiser, pulper, | possessing as it does considerable feeding properties at 
obedient servant, Justus LIEBIG. mill stones, and steaming apparatus wil all do extra |a moderate price. The late showers, however, have 
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To the Lord Robert Montagu, M.P. work this season. We hope to have a few eye for | put * a new face” on to our Grass land, so that vo 
housed cattle; in such case DET aluable foo pi s UE genial autumn our sheep stock ma 
doled out with the yes care, and mixed, as tinue to do ) well evough on Grass alone till Christman, 
m, with straw c few br S end ns, of cat hay, and a portion of 
THE PAST Ie i THE nd heap being allo wed to ferme ent, when eal from our Oats or ane’ in ease of a storm, Jacob Wilson. 
COMING rop Wheat, and Barley, in proportions v arying from | | SOMERSETSHIRE : Torweston, —The blight by green 
ifo dole MA ac tos abel Sto report j^ sent 2. to 61b. per head per day to o titer secording fly or aphis the — of June, no fed ON 
ou he cro en, wit ry m 1 
Sher careful i Tipe- a fair qu iantity of the fermented prepara Our 4 many fields of Wheat in this seighbourkood ; H in 
tion a de district, d sation with some o of the cart horses never get any hay, oA. Dm eret con- | some e "n the aphis was very thick the 
best agriculturists around -— uad inions t of bruised My: and a Lu rushed Beans, brewers' | Wheat was ously injured, and the grain so 
expremed, it is interesti obse rally | grains, and stra rte lib. With a eg full of | small that it H alenost ‘unfit for "the millers; never- 
puer d verified by the report lately published i in your P at nig M us eed look better, and the | theless, taking it as a whole, the Wheat cro of 1864 
this gris so that we Mu t of yy Pi p eon not well be Tess. The | will be nearly, if not quite an average in this district. 
may y feel contented with ng attom mpt np it ici ve o dictar hen during the ensuing —€— Barley, except a few eed sown 
ield of co condition of agricu da in furn P, M p" umerous gr cm as you evt by the long drought, is very good, and of 
like the part. "on prognostient ons of the Wheat ero cro! $e observe, ans pere what motonous, yet we| prime q eae — must be put much over an average 
stated that on heavy and good medium soils wt E | shou d do wrong to nct i in opposition. to the opinions of | crop. ry early winter, sp wed sown on 
uite up over an aver bu p Y erop, 
Tight brashy land the TAn ata fall chert. The | animals. With an abundance of good clean straw | late or spring sown, is very "etd and was much 
sult u upon threshing our zt ick vf new Wheat fully | surely pod man ps energy and sufficient capital will om td by fly ; this M be bare ely half a a pes 
for On 12 acres | adopt m - oF ucing this material to a never known so bad; partly by the dry 
of Oid Kent Red, altok | Pees, we Javi a return of convenient s size, ai will then cook it, OF mix with his ven eather and more "considerably from the green fly, 
ie dade Wi quality of the grain is certainly straw i il Grass has been very scarce 
super ly palatable, but a nutritious food. p llers’ offal, all re the months of June, July, and August; yet 
it weighs 64 ‘Ibs per bushel. The early-sown Barley doct ston s of corn ground into meal, or a very small | where e have m a good supply of water they 
proved, as ex xpected, the best jn every respect. quantity of roots od be aritadi mixed with have don well, and a e in good co ndition ; and lambs, 
chaff which shall have been steamed or softened h fi past fi 
the gut must. be deficient, and the quality, although by tae ar th or those who o pee refer liquids may make | disease, are healthy. p Wurzel, where sown in 
nseed, Bean pods, or an Y cle us good season, with the exception of some failing plan = 
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good,  beiüg steely and colourless. Oats light i r mu 
corn - straw, and, being a good deal gilet i in me rT erhaps malt), ote mixtures might surel r1 | better than could have been expected ; but e sown, 
places, the foddering properties of the straw will be in | profitably used in regular proportions with straw . | and that planted on clay or heavy soils, are a deficient 
a measure destroye eas are barel rop, Anything to prevent a el t reduction of the ser crop. Fading ah i inferior crop; some fields on sandy 
a been us shortly after the arly hall a e stage | number of st upon our "Son and so lessen the | and other soils adapted for Turnips, where sown early, 
ith the gre Mit The haulm of this otherwise | supply of manure. J. Lyne. à Fletcher, R. A. College, | are a fair crop, but far the greater part is very inferior. 
valitbla f det p is injured, and t T of less p? rencester. Turnips almost a complete [failure throughout the 
value. Beans, attepting € where pe ag and had HynsioabenEs : Aconbury Court, near Hereford.— | vale, down from Taunton Dean to Dunster; a field 
escaped he frost, are an unusual failure, s and { in many | The season " TEM winter Wheat in 1863 was|here and there to be seen, mostly facing the north 
as i ly pay the cost of harvesting. The har- | unfavourable, the braird proved imperfect; the | aspect, buta field of Turnips about here is a rarity. 
vesting of all our corn barely occupied a month ; he | i aod did not filler well in spring ; the frosts in May | iy a which set in early in ter rent has brought 
comme Wheat-cutting when the straw was in ai iud early June and the prevailing drought have had e Turnips, and Rape wher is now 
appe, aoe state, this crop was picked up with an unfavourable effect on the crop; the yield is below | growing tolerably well, ut i must be too late to bè 
ease and regularity, and without any perceptible loss | an average. an average, eee cely ever was known such 
from she ding. The Barley gave : less anxiety and | and there is an undue e proportion of tail corn in all | a failure of Turnips this year in e the low lands, 
Map. T r this was carried imme dia ately espe the | these crops. Beans and Peas are — half an average | while on high an thy "diskrio ts, aud o aa bg the 
tea melan- | crop, owing to the swarms of g oth of Mangels and Tu iiy Hay 
cho aly "fae t T. our young seeds being a failure; ; in a fields | attacked them = M. uly. y poor crop, | al so — T -— crop, consequently farmers have 
M only the White and Hop Clovers had been sown | and not much grown of late e years. ag and Toraips been driv: their wits’ end in porns d their best to 
with Perennial Rye-gra Mte Mena ed a promise of a | are a area deplorable lare varying fpo from a total loss to a | prepare for t A duds during the winter m ashi: 
Į The Red -grass large quantity of Frifolium, Rye and 
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in other aids veireaty sould’ traded perhaps the latter which fll Jast month has not exerted such a good effect pen ey have been sown in all the fields where 
el Ly a little - of coming to herd on these crops as might have been anticipated. A.|seeds have gone off from per, r and 
The t difficult, a listed sone 28 tons ae a z " — t es t c" 
EA p we probably co| Soe 28 tons o OR UMBERLAND : ‘anor ouse, ‘oodhorn, quantity Rape, Turnips, 
vibe. E this is all all the hay t han Vetches, which the fine weather of Sep- 
400 sheep, 3 0 head of py alte, anà 110 cart horses | to a close, and though there may still remain a few | tember is causing to grow . The greatest diffi- 
will tax he energies of o missariat during the straggling fie t of Oats to carry in late Tox n eulties to contend with are likely to be in the months 
ensuing winter, if all these "fnldiida remain to be pro-|o mers have completed thei of November, December, and January; after that 
vided for. Fortunately we have fared better than most Corn” | Forel ton alone remaining out; t "vite the Swedes, with other feed in preparation for the 
of our neighbours for green forage crops. Commencin ied wes dap erg weather, most E these will | spring, will be likely to meet the ts neaded, 
fully early enough with our Cow Cabbage on the 14th | be under cover also. And now that the crop has been | and I doubt not if we have a mild winter, food in the 
of August, our Jat mbs did v very fair irly, wit ith the DES of secure ed, post vs anxiety is felt as to the yield; for, what | spring will be quite sufficient, if not in abundance, 
bbl iet of | with the peculiarity of the season, and the terrifie Owing to the scarcity of Grass many of the oxen and 
a or of a aii of Tioteid cibo a small [qued shake. -winds on the oth and 9th ult., , which i in ex intended fi ristmas ets have been 
of bran, with a Ee ted allowance of hay standing corn, | already sold, while many more that have been kept 
Towards the end of September they were rem oved to carrying ae entire hamisi most | have been fed on hay and corn in a very expensive 
very fair piece ki Rape, on which material they have pair pen hay sadly staggered.| way, and both beef and mutton are likely to be very 
thriven and done we Erben tne the crop is| Without au exceptio: on, shaken or unshaken, wherever | high for many months to come. Hay, oileake, Bé 
injured by mildew. Swedes are likewise stricken | any Wheat has Nu brs, it is ue say and Peas being very high, will cause the sale of feeding 
M this complaint, bat 15^ ng tif growing an tro: de ficient ad below whilst p t prices | corn to be very great, such as Indian Corn, Barley, 
mising, f feedi ti l id c this pey ch peaa Oats, and I doubt not but a large quantity of Wheat 
paisi kh AA with our lambs, whilst the more | state of affairs. rede k. very mr crop, has been | which are all to be bought at a low price, and will be 
s increasing in size and bulk, yx Mangels, secured i in splen ndid condition where unshaken will extensively and profitably used this winter as fi 
very large e for g and sample. Oats | both for fat and lean stock. -Riehd. Corner. 
Me I Biere we are economising our "A by eatin ng are our worst crop, and weigh ied t 2 lbs. per bushel|  YonxsumE: Kirkleatham, Redear.—The harvest in 
the few we have upon the ground at this season in | lighter than usual, whilst there cannot be much left for | this district, a few Beans excepted, is now completed. 
preference to pulling and threshing the crop in the|market on ordinary farms after the horses, &c., have | In bulk the Wheat crop is quite an average, but the 
usual manner. Not a particle of leaf is wasted, The | been supplied ; the straw, however, being pu mend | Par from what I h d l is scarcel, 
p consume every -— d un now juicy root with- | and short, will be excellent fodder. „Beans are a very Some of the forward Wheats that have been 
out a d the labour Mare expense of! are provin g very bad indeed. I hav e seen 
a Mangel bavas i iss Of c e shall earefully | having rendered them almost valueless, though in “our | some extremely poor shrivelled samples from 
watch er s du meet threalenin 8 of frost | own case we ac id them so bulky or so ids hio h uncut promised to to the casual 
Pegi as good as need be on light and | 40 bushels per 
iw. Our "is that the material will be consumed | loamy soils, and “although the welcome showers in | scale have realised little more than half that quantity. —— 
before Jack Frost pays his accustomed visit. We have ree and September led us to believe that we should | These were some of the earliest ripe Wheats in this 
lost no opportunity to ha a t the place of baa cut still get a few Yellows and m on the — district, se the cause assi is the. 
which the past trying season has ls aed à wenty | soils. wherever we had a braird, e hopes are fast | frosty apa had during the time they were in 
ps sown after the first thorough | vanishing, as we daily see acres of these aineis bloom. Wheats are threshing 2 more satis- 
fall have fallen a de assuming a pora pe and subse- factorily, but they yield sobbing ouk. of thi os are 
life ye appears to im our soil, Our Oat|qu ently disappearing altogeth On nation the | and on hast 
stubble sown down with “Clover and Rye- -grass in the under side o of the leaf i is found ‘covered ora myri riads of | been obtained. Oats gener erally proved ti 
spring, bite bii resown this autumn with a mixture | eggs t short in ; amd the s though 
of Trifolium incarnatum, White Datch ind Italian | The winter's prospect is a ml Bed for the fine, is small, and both in bulk of straw and yield of 
Rye-grass, and at this time the large Clover and Grass fareti ; E LN p eg " straw may be equal|grain we think this crop falls short of an average. 
promise well With such great uncertainty as to our | to former y be obliged to vexit to cem ons a p time gave promise to be the crop of the 
cow next spring, we have not ventured to break up | means to D. dr eae accompaniment as a substit braird and vigorous healthy 
acre of old seeds, all our Wheat is therefore coming | for roots. ping of roots 7i doubtless s be resor ied ad Lid scarcely been seen ; bu t by the end of July 
after our Pulse crop on land where Turnips my failed | to by many x4 the north of to this | a “change h f the d and, 
after winter Moe emg F4 Aud roots, have € time have oye ng a ver irong antipathy t th d pp t are, they fairly 
with plenty of koa sweet | system, so as to eke out as ur as possible the e present dpenepeq et the a powerfa pers In straw I 
Pea and Oat wove redd P um d NO until "ip vr very limited mpoto Artificial foods, including oil- f think we have about an average, - the pods are 
and t with a|cakes of every description, will b ory in demand, thinly Dea many of the flowers, owing no doubt to 
little h an katt re Oaks wil do jastios and I anticipate a very extend Palm nut} want of moisture, proving barren, and many of the 
to the ewes tad bee. Our wether and ewe lambs | cake, which deserves to be more generally known, for Boats | in the pods we find are very small, Meadows 
