THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
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Int, 
1042 
and wet it, adding to it so much corn per Rin , and 
then they had : mucilage that would feed them and 
get them fat. 
expense [Neuf y vus that bue attended the grow 
might be adopted wit 
Ue 
nd wanted to 
Maize or there was no 
[ tho 
pr retence for keeping up the former at the acd for Pis 
n this he did not think there pnus apes | 
or two feet below the surface; butl ^ 
| water stagnates must be cured, or no ood Grasse s 3 wi 
he second requisite is generally greater 
firmness or consolidation of the s Where 
eadows are not fi onstantly, the roots of 
ve ner Grasses, even if y exist, get 
thrown out of the round during the winter, and 
keep perd at 
| in the ing. 
believe 
night, or a little LIT 
It is very dics policy to let the eweg 
the winter. Begin the dry food soon en 
not, however, much need of that caution 
but sometimes a great many e st their 
site carried out, AN b 
A i. eifer or store bullock per acre doing e dg 
er pos ud assisted with a little corn or cake as 
W hich it 
found that this on 2 UP E 
than Turnips could b 
Mr. Hupson followed, "with remarks on íhe 
and on the use of |B 
a less price 
flock of sheep Ma he 
Or | autumn with a little corn ‘belbre porns on 
do own the coarser 
roots, and 
me field in te) 
Tur 
will insure a finer A and opaa this Boe Ba 
ted for any time, the Clovers would Lap 
the ‘pasture gets. bare, vill gnaw 
penne 
up, and the peodies headin À not only earlier, 
ed much more valuable as feed ; us bg yen, if 
with judgm and ki when 
"also i 
in many ca 
ould be 2 impracticable to carry out. The price of hay, | 
61. 10s, 
er ton. 
eac it or about 5s. 
a-half bushel 
I know ge 
abling this. 
in a previous number of this 
Journal by our Correspondent Mr. SAMUEL Jonas, | 
of the wholesale chaff ee adopted in Cam- 
bridgeshire, where fi 
up the straw as fast as (it is 
at once sto 
, and to describe a practice worth 
of more died fuitatión than it has yet receive 
d. 
* CONDITION " IN GRASS LANDS. NO; 
ertained, an id that it will pay, let us now 
—a | And a ce — Z am € though it can Au. E 
cha 
e x almost a 
not superior 
fe om, vanis its Agricultural a riae A farmer 
generally g the summer | 
uu while the Grass is plentiful, than y" ean make | 
off i o winter He would otherwise be forced to 
ie in e dearest and 
sell in the "cheapest season. | like this, comes 
lampea, 
| bushels of salt to 
5 
crushe 
es ton, Barley abont. Ti z r^ ar 
ens sets M 
i 
think of dims hay t 
VO 1UU, 
In das ee months tet a 
want it, they will p br more than 
ieh 
per head, v > I think, is P. 
er ton and the sia anure is better a 
e Grass i is gone, or when the 
I should 
n the 
má 
my 0 
very sw woot, aud all cattle 
ip 
give oe Dye 
ff with Lin 
bea for the y^» cows, giis oe 
young stock. We must Lag oo continue is mow a 
g 
extent be substitu 
drainin 
de 
d | Oat Barley, or 
a straw pen, x pim 
largo. portion of our Grass. aving 
y feeding got our land into tolerable Cott aloo I 
| think pa may do so — injury. But then comes 
the question of manure. r hay crop we may fairly 
«| kopem will ev 
ven n be better and earlier We may expect, one | 
| Barley straw I believe io be o 
s, but ink t 
t 
they ert - 
if 
mos once. 
d 
They 
d 
year 
superior quii ty, worth AL instead of 3l, and to be made 
of July. We may also 
and 
Sin, cim land? I have no €— ce or know- | 
Note of <a Jorgo tracts of fee se 
the Lin coln shire 
= fain, 
acre every ‘Summer with no more trouble or expense | 
tracts of dairy land in in Wilts, Gloucester, 
and Somerset, | 
devoted to cheese-making, which hai 
treated i 
— which, | ; 
cross Great than 
y. 
reckon the — ve — aftermath to be Y. instead of 
10 
arly or q 
would be well purchased by an outla; € of 12. 
e us Soo whether, asin the f the arable 
land, w make 1L. in manure produce 21. in the 
ben r 
original Pot A La n. Eo ium return 
crop. 
e aet so abl 
ar y 
n the admirable lectures o! arrison, 
cee we mow an acre we shall 
nitrogen and 30 4 = “of potash, 
ie xs ste doit ea 
of silica, and of 
Of the former, the greater part, we 
estored 3: the air. Of the minerals 
remove, gay 50 Ib. of vi 
alt is also ver 
have — ~~ and water. 
short 
| mine last year, thinki 
eaps. 
T t is uy € for the ewes with all 
ry food and = ro 
em 
o have water 
uld “rink to exces if 
or less 
tha Jan 
ewes to be in a better stata pee they” 
[^ pres preemie ewes one 
ing their ewes 
1 “et lands l are the low- | 
ying and neglected portions of farm: NM 
the arable lands of this cou, T which from thei 
situation or want o 
| before lam ambing, gave them pec 2 
urselves if we 
th 
e amount of chemica 
the ewes M 
ad. would look over; 
f the least value. I 
corn 
I s it ee = 
at more of 
only used the - 
— 
always before 
kept short at 
hay, if the lay 
Tie 
f inage cannot be eer * | secure ie testi of ( Clove ers, I iu 
ploughed—moory soils, frequently mow: = seldo: 7 | able of our mixed Grasses. bien of : ep diae Eve it to ven sve MU mite eat dy ‘heya 
dressed, and left as nearly as may as dad Mae Pty v. | ing ingredients will be returned by the cake and corn | fond of it, mt I aras, ipsia e frig Afew 
These lands are generally pears flay in with the farms |" ven with the afterfeed either Fa little thin : 
to which they are attached at the average cost of 1/, | to beasts or sheep, and which à qs A Aw the Ewes when in pw qune x 
an acre, including tithes, taxes, and all outgoings vil pay for. The e remainder m i on te t WES. every day. If the straw pen 
t 30s, per annum. The annual produce may | Manure, bed E. or dont A^ ED i3 m distance from. their fold at mes xt mide iF 
be taken at three-quarters of a ton of hay—and about | Manure., latter, done far the aan and st | p F. 
lf that quantity of after feed, or about 7 tons of method, is iddi f the day in a field of Lb p A 
"wd ae ni ing 5 tons to make 1 ton considering, v wh nommer distance | ground, or on the down t f 
of hay. ave known e tracts lying near the it dun dite t near : 
banks of rivers from which ‘hi annual erop has been | towns where it can bet pen cheap, wg e ; sold for ES P WD. 
arly mown and carri t a series of years, Bit the ton p SH be too expensive a dre ressing. So we | bedded up with straw, that they ao oles spi able 
I no dressing ever returned. “We may take. — IT Sn P. M. n to consider the a applicatio n of com- do specially on some land Thich 
Pe and that if made into hay it will just pay the with & ae 5 Es down for are ve bs 
rent and expenses, leaving little e ame 4 seg the us Iknow an i : of 
ents 
————— 
ANAG DEBENT Pv STOCK. 
now nstance 
some years ago farmed 
top. 
M man ai who 
ms ‘ into zen ht d 1:5 the following is an abria bottom of the mpm am 
i. ý 23° thi be = m 4 
phosphate of eb and silica, about 34 lb. eac is Mr" West th He ifangerd Rete SIN. d Tengo waist the the hill, the old ones os ae 
1 a - at mpor amount of chemical constituents,| As are anxiously thinking what to do with our|fortnight's rai ss just before the 
ben. ei ey in the same proportions, than are | flocks this winter, I cannot do better than confine m my | Season, and the young were unable toe 
obe Ma onis o heot, which we found to be | remar! principally to them. To begin with the breed. | in the mud the whole of timo, it was 60 TE 7 
evinces more y th y of arable land. Nothing | ing flock. About a fortnight e intend turning | of 440, 100 died in the lambing — Rs 
Sen at S FU 9 enormous reproductive | out the sheep, which is in age rte ei between 200 and 300, being on sto ny ground 
powers of Nature, «the in resources of | the of We ought the ewes | was clean, able to lie down at nig dieu 
> oe 4. rm soil, than the annual rem on as fast as possible. Rape or S Tile Pa pts is 
"ovary e v s. i'apwben, Viren oui cm "E t ; — 
the eventual exhaustio M Le 7 hea sn he ties - ones 
T — that zr the case of arable lan e organic | rally follow. The keep ae p used require o r 
Fr gh éd. "het th pocas rom rv ihe am odis " e ipd ra rte MA eee a | mock more been d 
? sales an e e lambs which much h ^ 
TS meh ia uri ee io ar a te cee fan en domo ta | Fa M T 
3. ar by urn, with pa often vi 
pe reris f er TE a Ay: — € sub- hase: ie: work f m: sing St ma thie iore M D ired 5 
u O tae produce of corn, | the : dicine- | 
Yet here, with no cultivator b T taoid o Mere ji 
no maro digs cae tot m. ze e rihworgi and ji to keep them alive. J gained. my ne : = all 
of the uals s winter, the Grass springs up the i ie ng ok 
green | as they n 
at e first blush of spring, and brings its annual with erem hri ving thoy had nen ag 
" Ss bes a crop in such cases is a EE the Miselvee In ho day, of fresh dd p. 
A e no fine esos or Clovers in the | eorn, and turned with the ewes at night. After the) To start the lambs eee pu ho Ores fe 
T on Y dire bee cad begins one generall i oks round to see what | Oats, and. cake I think best-n qum 
roots y is year, 80! t thr be 
of life, i ti poverty qom "m isa s for every one. Ta ord mit af er they a pan T = ‘bran } bag 
Grass to will 1 et NO. and willi it pay Ti begin your ro ith the ewes, so much the better healthy; but I think it rather expensive “ 
Pe teandgs ge of some a e hn of course, is the time to give them, bs, as it not show much in the - t 
ee t sued de look for them all day asthey | like the lambs to have plenty of Fine best 
et would if given at nit, p tempera roots to spare | run before the ewes, and to have a little of the Pao 
inches |—aud it will not do to begin wi ut being able to | hay on the farm as soon as they will eat amy: 
