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` Sepreqssn 3, 1864.] THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 855 
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uantit; cake, they only | sake onl Although. I, have given hay in tatement | advantage. of, the fortnightly , sales to send. tj em in as 
Mibongn tg [p bags cni rx pa fortnight pA: for beas ü UT believe. ve Ah straw as fodder ibys be pon than | taought fit, whiph answe well; and he had no doubt Ẹ 
ing, they creased 3 lb, 10} oz. weekly. Thus it iy Boite thrive better when fed on mix of food; | land w: as also 1 
AUR they decreased in proportionate gain during t the firs ad of giving the full value of cake, give p say er "Mr AMEN said h experi ting stock, 
few weeks after their cake w , at the same time half i in cake, the other half in meal, with due consideration and the conclusion he e to w; apo mtg nd Sheep 
g m wedes ; I: 158 ESL haye arisen perbaps | the relative mar rket.value of the two. Then, again, ih motte paid infinitely better fy un "He alluded to he importan 
wewhai m their being rn just at pet Pon as after- | —Swedes in the early part of the winter are as and | item derived from wool; but even if he could have 
wards the showed a considerabil increased ga Now let us | perha aps better (weight for weight), than Mangels, t on oxen, dew n€— the ‘sheep paid — 
d us e fed. and their coe increased in | the spring I prefer Mangels instead. of Swedes for bulloc Mr. J. referred to the "uh 
= ovde dot tonátelğ as the Hampshires, with | Sheep also pay better with a mixt of cake and pos 1 making m pr nts for the corn s "Tbe 
i f 20 por i i given the animals. His experiencé 
x di: I have stated in the ca: 
ise weigh! a the Hampshire dona they | sheep, is about wh g 
Fea given them ly Tn propo: = their Bir live weight. | weighings over severa lots of shop from time to time, whilst | allo 
Their increase in live weight. weekly during $ e first month fatting up to 16 or 20 weeks. Lawes. found 4 tbe yard. 
1 the second month, 1 for the 26 wee gis, that with 8 lb. o 
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that an ox consumed 12 lb. is 13 1 "dry substa 
produce 1.lb. live weight inoreabaf > chil ske 
15 lb. to 16 db. dry hat beasts 
for 
them Mei than it xs Lai 
ES mir (the month after si ng) th E 
Loud to deja rs E ICE e Sus- | inerease 
emet ve nsiderably ; S ng the last eid expen 
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ay ; so ioo 
od, pay. 
4 vos ear eni I wish t 
dados autumn au 
m to remain out ín the field, they m 
much flesh were under 
manure spony over the field, giving solidity to t e la 
[3 awing the 
make nearly, perha| 
nd, 
a vé t Mure 
. ay | fattening tbe m 
in in weight per | an porimaity of f carting ae a ape ion 
te y 11b. CZ. stoa. ss to Mi ai and being 
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sbeep when 
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de Phe Y at SEP E y EA 
P 2 of Tofu Petre DE a ven Tm oft 
pin the weed 
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of food, m Jie d M EE thing was the conversion of all the straw into manure. . 
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m possi! pay... His prac 
d the hd if the weather is areis of — the Swedes home, to put up 
ps 
cover, leaving md |a hundred sheep, so É they Ew. walk be ena Gat their 
ps 
"m the solidity g thee 
es on the side of ben almost as. LAN as the EAE LU 
It is when | to puta ; 
made wu in the cake or corn | wea 
moved being consumed by PN. they 
n he first pa 
be grazed on the land with.adv 
also oH i 
mal só ni 
tainod in nsiderod 
pect edere d dee X es Zn — pe e ii mats 
Pu t si e same 
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Mr. T. H. Sa 
pigs as 
. Asto nodig wes out of Bar 
Mr. Homer said, rs 
fel bohes 
: bee ary yar d at 
the expense of about 205., which pm d hold about a s ‘of 
v shelter here the was light, t 
sheep 
left E c CIS in 
do for = s m 
“te mers 
es ri coe 5 hak ee tw 
du they rl a pue ta in iri d 
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euo where Ass X, haa 
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ive heim ys E the dbi H Bos e belie Pie roots which I hav cis ye Speed are almost the sr oni eep 
e difference | which ou removed from. the ld if intended d tater on ss Im portaneo ĉe than it: t 
s pg very ae LAN ripens the | Wheat, belie ine that, except in a very few instances, t ved ut « g oes rved a 
[nter s found to ^ much less aqueous than during the | whole of the er roots would ore iiiter oouaE fed uch ; har! 
earlier ds of growth.” So it Aa necessary, in draw- | by the store sheep entirely, without any taken away. here ue actors mes di on Vt ane pu pl e ém 
ing our supa from an ment whatever, to com- | the root land. is intended for Barley, then more roots may be | off moderately li; ht Re A as they wére better in the yard 
prehend alt the various He br Wn which it is surrounded. | taken away without loss tat the following crop, with a view on those days. ard to oxen, E. generally bred 
d not have ocew much of your tíme with these | converting the surplus stra good manure, et his. own, € «c 2 h he had not been able to weig 
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experiments, conducted vith reference t oM alone, but for ru than X derive pages The 
reaso! t 
so 8 s connection wi 
the al ieas ~ alga is bae plicable to sheep has lage and storing of roots to the homestea somewhat Ven frar between their profit and that of sheep; but then 
al amd e, and cannot be performed at less tha 10d. tols.| he always considered that he ed by thé lutter giving 
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h of Sheep Bullocks i Will now proceed | P. d, pa for R brew > dis a gee : under = fa A solidity i the land, and instead of .carting the roots home 
solder the atoniug of exe Mi hoep relatively. smc, 2a "hata Tr aem Wait eh XC AE att 
the food WektheF thus making m where i Souli be wanted at a bo farm ay much Betiri but then it gave a false face 
oe by them being of a different description ; futur e da. Ae farm. by making it better than it r if they 
hence there is greater difficulty in drawing a correct |. 3. Choice oe ge fe eei —These latter seers | had 
eom n, t it w perhaps better t ted 
parison, so that it will be ps r to speak ü relation to roots and straw apply to pigs US 
of them separately afterwards. king one view of|t same d PN sheep or bullocks. 
the matter, in speaking of the “ relative” of pi; light land is "oossidusbles but 2 
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or sheep and beasts, I would first inquire. how many | pral i in ax gag b ua depends iei much on the nature 
a ques estion which is certainly one not to be dd 
satisfactorily i ina momen 
Pigs cas visi e to pay if fed « on Barley. eal, given them 
in small domos at vs commencement, with roots besides 
and also a few be ed. 
Taking a vig Perha S. Qr Ver nee di 
possible; but if a landlord could step in and raise their rent 
they had better not at 
not feed too high; for it the UY 
eic des 
to re pn ek liberal doses 
or 
very fo qee ation Perside 
ia al that wc It eb 
the pus 
f corn 
trud hose EEE 
LI ue ed 
se AB ed c 
Various opinions exist, dilering considerably one from i a 
another—some believe four, others six, some eight toone. A eight T hee oim I NOTER : ilia i por with, | 
subject somewhat similar to the one we are now metto discuss | t, ho gradually increased until the pig is fat this manner rary 
was a short time since brought forward at a meeting of the pigs can be made to pay for the food they c me; but 
pë undell, a ver 
EA ob There is one 
any refuse food, 
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vantage in e pigs 
good as Vue by o 
asal view of the wh 
= the litter e i may be Supplied bem is not necessarily | when. the ey mond sell well, whereas 
Th 
hole to Blow feuding 
b. 
In . d st o ^ $ js Ps MEME 
o o onsu if a | mor at M — $a 
n and thafonly, I do ak think 10s. per found 23 the Lon of sts oe x. 
e in sand t po ME 
before they wo E 
next t5 2 nothing, x 
e CHAIRMAN Sdid his experience went with the mampi 
however, has the advan of a loose 4. Con Taking a iren super pot 
tinder’ Sive whilst the four acne n the open fold. He calc througboat, t the conclusions to which I we hát dnm which w — i "ema E 
"yu ge exe ones ne be dalle it | arrived are —that the fattening of stock, as a oh es "Het S thought they as "unes d abont LUE 
would gain 16 Ib. in meat per week, and after paying fo the tane on iaht © land farms, is a. benefit to the land, in heed 5 a öt N E d PU ead t tó EE * 
m wo gene haulage of roots, carta, ide k to plying the means of converting urpl aw | fond of oilcake bills; ei dd 
ue fo emp. il ia "us p k of ‘goa ‘per week iud good manure, more than the profit derived directly | feed on oilcake or a te for. its — t thonght ane 
val 5. x E tho tide OF thé four shoe el adde in money lue. Th mixei kinds. of stie! ought as much as possi! te grow their abtenitig fo food on t 
thesame quantity ofeake,and the same quantity ofroots, but with | their respective advantages at different times. thee dank di 2 Pl wn bag ome —À t "idi i oorr 
kr Aer ed of hay, ee, inopen | sheep I give the preference, as I believe it can be | as atfecting bey soials he aec which 
would Be ROME Cite or it EA = conga fla lr the hut their “profi over beasts iš gréater under d they left behind. nens porta to eoe 
mutton at 8/7. per lb., and ng into consideration ali me conditions, The advantage to the land, at thus =| of PE Ead “eh, for la ia ene 
ha imet ope udi E and atten , derioda of the year when sheep ean be kept to consume | omnt Aqu rnips for dll bis lambs through the on aud, 
bep LS os Pet KU nies m ts pent This | their food there, added, gives it in their favour. Onr | thongh. DES ee expense, & Yom amply re’ 
ier equally favourable conditions, On the one hand, experience tells us the simple return of manure, of | forit., He considered that the evidence of good or far 
We have the ox under the best rag yeep to fatten- | which light land may have been a ^ will not of iets Mer ts Jr Gap b sus. bor S tuoi Q pend. ed 
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" me a aay a A at a8 | itself supply all that 2 iss ires. The extent to which | he had for rs given up attempting any such thing ; but, g 
pite eA of pigs 
m the other, the sheep 
think he has placed 4 Ib. of cS 
lb. have give n be carried on with advantage 
ve been 
resu 
otherwise, 
the same i he had n ot Sam. up half-fattening them, so 
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Fed rather than My » ed ina great ios n» My quan’ us DE Meola | to be Bs for, the oon teanna 
i tom of four or five years old, an on ia farm, and t e facility w which a " 
em under equal conditis of may be à tto ga 
th; and sheep are more in pri on Mak g s M. - , 
ve ae ber, but then ihe Bite c or joss seni to thoi land Re | their. removal beitig weighed, | -uii _. .. 
iden um the ayStem of m 7 the wanner in which it may be rép shone dE ae s 
se in way—the beasts unde; w Getta! grazing of à ; ip.— 
xs din i sheltered yard, e Ls of an expensive Pe oe of ah Rtuale sr ae te x ne oF m e the position of 
6 sheet iode ed with 4 Tir amount of good food :— Ern eoni Tough reden B perhaps raped ih were the most | Department 
44 1b. cake p. f dae sume "T bull to consume rofitable articulars of the feeding of some oxen | ^ z 
a Th pe 3. d. | 416. cake per day = s. fast year, ànd the ER Was ko Small that it would nob be | recen 
iu i Vat ži 8 n y advisable for Rim te ate box feeding. „At Michaelmas he Comm 
Aoc ure nI? per ton re NS ut up three oxen in fà ndition, two hed al , | stand; a.settled fi 
apt wen day n3 Swedes per day Vnd One at 12. The food they bdikumpa jü 24 wéekà eget t the ageitied i as the e 
TE pen e es IDE pe wok, bol. 135. 6d.; caké, üt that time, being so déar that he con- | Of the office, as Beton tea tite p 
81b. hay per d at Ts. per ton 1 | sidered meal more economieal. They “proved” ds well as a A oc alt a rel 
"TS Mew ns 81b. hay per da imals could ; and, at the’ end of the period famed, he ouly on the. mere Eee of : an t al Tediication, 
- 3L. per toi E at he e week, at them for 807., which, adding together their origitial value and a on the future progress of dieu h parigine e, it is 
RR 1H 3 1 6 | the cost of keep, only left him a profit on the three of 5L. 6s. 6d og thal iderable auxiety i manifested as to 
im 0 4h ME. E 0 8 | The average cost of their keep was 7s. 4d. per head per week, | DAbUTAL av cons ie al y 18 
6 8 and the profit only ls. 54d. of course, left à i|the choice which the Commissioners may m 
dis: 3.4 4 uatitity Ad very re Ly Sag MÀ pu — on | snccessor to Dr. Kirkpatrick. There nev E 
ereasi arge iQ, an a i or two, wou ave . 1 tr: E q 
Ub LM ; Increasing in weight irdi wt adi the profit. In feeding out sheep eg how. | Perhaps, a the ustory t paj cans ne ot 
S 4 lb. at Tid. p. lb. 7 6. | ever, H ey paid him very well, independent of the m the Be rd's operations, a perio EM s the í 7 
ary based on y Own experience on onr own they le missioners bad a more responsible duty to fu 
to be abiga tod namme utu 29 ahs che e stead pet peg ee pig be n Rome {than chat which devolves upon them in conse- 
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. Posing d bott on the same kinds of food for c nud aa ud te od owes, ius pe e Ra i» jo f Rol thi m on, sud Wok quence of Dr. Kirkpatrick’s retirement from office 
