OOTOBER 29, 1864.) 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE 
1048 
not care to shut them up at night unless o liged to do | 
it. Lambs which have the chance ‘of A getting | 
n food are not so likely to eat reggae E 
forward ai 
those of ten or a dozen years ago, and which they can 
hardly over estimate. 
Neverthe less it is a scandalous fact, agriculturally, 
{THE PAST HARVEST AND THE 
COMING WINTER; 
y let mes. 
whi Saas ae fo 
ce of running out if they are 
ock. 
e, yet 
They often eat in | agricultural t teachers. are very in. itin 
ry o often scour. the agric 
that th LOUCESTERSHIRE: Elkstone.—So little of the 
2 pa and, therefore, ep iiie rks duro of e Ae Z busy € been tbreshed that little 
lo ave done well to get rid of tual e e nen ascertained of 
| wasted drainage is wing id 
one. it is expected wi 
cultural val £ thei — an average Lai à dete the crops of Oats and 
th nd. as are much belo titi 
and promoters urge them and their representat ives, |" he all-absorb 
Ier! so Pariiemidter ary Committees sit, - blue books|is how to sustain the is 
are published. There are two princi 
a vn a hee it. 
280 wor en 
e in p places an entire 
One contemp lates iine t the whole ing, ^ Y 
s ta nk h fail whilst, where there s a plant, owing to the 
HIH dr 
time w 
winter 
b- at the rate of per! 00 ras s per acre. ts pro- | by the ee have sustained, the quantity o of feed these 
he ty unless it is m 
rhaps 1 
moters declare = yg » be | worth 2d. per ton, an aa that | fields will y: jeja preefingis small, The Sarsiant 
u ordinary annual expenditure ive pre en a hag 
wh a I land—one that the ripening. 
Barley. Vetches pes: and ‘the best of all 
rops after that, Cab |a 
^ indeed, in some case he e prema 
fin will, herd opes a pn ake— | The straw d (os I^ d crops, cic " very 
ry flocks, but hi had Pere e to write | 
e ind good, 
and from which M vil i derive a mecs in and will h 2 MX cut into chaff to à very t 
a few w rib ex 
them down. * shall be glad to — in any e anirien | 
which ee arise on their management, as well as on 
working stock, taal and m or growing stock, 
pro- 
grea 
| duce and of profit her mer itis is uu osed | extent, Tho d mi of les will enable stock 
wage, in "i that | farmers to — thie g great d loss than 
i e dearer, but eh 
the upper portions - n of this gt area m 
manured, will i inv volve an ae ae cpr of power. 
thi 
i af +h 
young cattle an nd colts, ‘and fattening | stock, bott 
stock 
— instead. of going back. | bei 
Wits said Mr. Wentworth had forgotten to add that 
wis sa had CUT some lambs iod on Monday at 58s. 
p 
ine to keep a flock 
Bs oes 
r beasts the 
, STAGG thought they could n give Mangels too 
early inthe season, He was Needing the whole of his stock on 
Fade now; td it mee ta re - meee care the earlier 
they fed them thought it was 
ed with chaff, o 
valuable crop, and 2 thought Tt was a 
in his Bean 
Mr. there w ion — — rme 
wou ap enna wit enti to et pea mth of May 
for stock ; but there was ae doubt the Almighty "had provided 
the means if hey Would set about pM ge | z tha nde cd 
ay. Unfortunately, their hay-ricks the 
; but, on the othe 
of stra 
tem] — — M ee 
Bil, Still, seh met not help thinking 
goii 
k inthe most advan 
ad had 
recommended e à 
some con 
r | ever ‘malls; 
is district for instead of the [wo 
onis on to a still larger por ria will flow it w 
ng. lifte d a watt few feet; and although, it is pro- the deficiency i in the fodder supply, and which 
pew, fetch as 
out this cone 
selling will not "- 
p l | money as in other seasons 
p J. M. Read. 
y yap t 
hi - x ver, it is said, } 
npe emus will 
all ex- 
THE CATTLE MELON. 
n re Watford. 
r Journal of the 
who may have 
dels — rat s give their 
to give mine. I 
K 
instances of ite fertilizing “influence whic " be 
ed have been obtained x the u any 
h E that uam 
15b. , that any of your aa v 
e| tried Mr. Blun 
Brae produced fro: 
cca of one million acres 
dua 00 or 30, 
one ‘are known to have 
uA E 
2 
= 
a 
rece eceivin; 100 for 
acre are dibbled them i in ro yards a about 1i yard 
eme "requires Instead, | in the row, a) exelent hot deep ploughed, wà highly 
a central reservoir, | m aan r Man ngel hole 
n of arteries, its distributors over 
1200 square miles, i& merely necds that the bulk of the 
sewage be lifted 30 or 40 feet, an ^ that it be then set 
= wing in a channel, “New 
of aene so plan 
lent appeared above md mar ive 
H 
y 
nd to ^ 
7 mich did eer bore some very g i 
€ | far from the rate of 40 tons to the acre. The 
and de 
ever reach. its terminus miles away. 
contour river there is land enough on to 
tenants will gladly welcome it. Would they no! 
downright bad, l^ T cannot but think that when ‘seeds: 
sold at the rate of aes), esue ton cbe 
per 100 when sold in that — should 
oyed he vendor t that an aT 
we | really good and sound. If Mr. Blundells salesma 
have effected i i m - 
sewage all along the — ird 
There are 
customers, a 
Ft several special ad es connected with | light floating seeds 
however, a 
adulterated with linseed, he believed 
emet that the cattle EA, eat it with g great avid 
malt it — prevent the Barley 
he cattle wou! 
4 
8 
is 
eg 
= 
cet 
from sinking in | abo eme valu 
. Cattle kept | milk, à will be atin "oia both to tempt 
The district where it |a 
g 
$ 
inp 
preserve m. i 
be hope of. having better rm with "y next 
[ours faithfully, 
MITHFIELD CLUB. 
We beg to n the attention of our 
to the 
0 tons st Gra | 24 2 — being the last day for entail € Live 
prise ama i = fed on d M bok ek for goo food, bave water endit ve thus 
the on oug QM € a ure. d e an 
constantly. He believed it was very damaging to keep it from ON € ioc ad 
sheep pe od three days M a udis, "m thes: became feverish outlet at once for this 100 000000 4 ons of sewage; 
and thirsty, and then when they got the rank too And this poor land, which would need at fi 
much. He believed they would all be benefited by making | enormous supplies of fertilising matter, might thus A QUARTER of a ary ago, much less ca 
thos they TE ince m e = on GRE Ns or a few years receive nearly the vhdié of| bestowed on the aitik storage of "A crops than at at 
or none at all, and A to give half water and half this. enormous qua anti ity. In the mean time all the present. And, in fact, much less care was needed. 
hey would have a good many dead lambs. Even in Scotland, here the winter is more severe 
mid-Eng 
ENTWORTH said diam was no one makiog malt for 
guide and he could not obtain any. He would be glad 
if they looked more to dry feeding and 
docct be better omina and this season 
Ri lesson in that 
"NDON SEWAG 
LO 
bs Mag a of to a of sewage manur 
to waste from North 
would gradually be receiving a portion } here and there, tl land counties, Swedes 
as its tenants —— d the advantag and bei to keep well throu; rough the se 
ultimately, in al bility, only a portion of re at t pe et very li being bestowed "ps 
EE M ue iN misere ipE 
u * i iC " 
the demand f. weed cir emn mi; bot storing, In e present acorpation ofthe term, was 
be obtained h there vl the line, into pe ch | then unk 
pa will deli er portions What has ed to such a change of practice ? Have 
mmand pr higher land, for which a portion of the the winters become severe? Or has the consti- 
needs may be tutional hardi deteriorated ? 
Itseems to us os that the South Essex scheme—using latter may in 
| vient it 
had to 
hich ore ser esie a angi 
district towards whicl r i bes dad o ine QS 
y os ae Pd ince en, in aiming at suiting 
our seedsm 
be hi termin " where ar n absolute waste exists, the vg Sn taste for eie M bulbs with small necks — 
is m a ve proba! ably been breeding from too fine 
Pobre re hb - 
ance with t 
which Londoners of 
althier, more 
Yizorous for 1s removal; and that is, s aa wo have mid |country vli 
1864 bines 
possess over 
a to — l root gro more 
^ to us, a "an of years - a 
use of se irving of iver 
| Tn it its terminal Fag Ba and the idi Tine of suitable 
benefited— ark 
ue. Smithfield "Show, that he had by repeated exp! 
less 
which may ultimately be 
of ultimate 
the 
elements ; success, mental 
