001b. live weight o 
1238 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [Ducennur 24, - | 
of the furrowing up, was f ) thought it was the finest of b 
e et hood > “ploughed up for the seeding in spring. them—the very best Swede. He h had seven varieties vd | some characteristic differences on stru 
n his garden. proportion of certain of their internal 
a poet vert if ne were stored properly they would different names, but, , except that 1 “Bast Lothian variety, | these will i the " to e 
be found sound and good as ever to the month of May character unt o h 
With regar rd to t = manuring, he would day 12 or There was Skirving’s Swede, grown by a Mr. Fairhead, | tions of animal respeotively m i Table Ili 
14t with ab of | a Turnip which bulbed c capitals, but had a long neck. | this part of the ect. 
Kilbagie gu Where hd h ad bs s e dung to Then there was Skirving’s Golden Globe. which WAS | Taste IT.— Relation of Parts in Animals mw 
go over the "Yellows, he on ngly recommend a| rather better; then there was the so-called “King of and in different Conditions of Maturit 
DM tion of bruised uos along with dissolved | the Swedes,” ich was much better; then the 
because dissolved bones were us — in | “Improved,” or (as he called it himself) the Child epee 
iein the braird, A m praised bones were as good | S ede; then Marshall’s Swede, and the Hast Lothian. n — 
as the farmyar ard manu e he got under these different names as different Ce A er 
wards. As to the expe, he did not think. that a varieties, but he A en scarcely see the difference, Oxen. 'Sheep| Pigs 
good crop of Turnips could b or 4], g e East Lothian. In reference 
acre. Taking the dung and the light manure | m to the al leged es of e of the so-called Areas ot 16 |240 | bo " 
account, he ha H ‘ound H C varieties," | e might mention as an illustration the 
acre, and was ready to admit that the cost came near =| proseontions that had latel been conducted wi aves and con- mialo eaa ii a 
to4/. He valued the farmyard manure at 3s. to 4s. a | reference the Skirving Swe He repeated that Eyri E. Ao : . ‘ 
ton, and the light — at 80s. a the — 43s. | the Lothian LAUD spoken of ‘by Mr. Walker, jun. | tenta òy) 36| 62| 53 
wor rth of the fo rme and 30s. worth of. the 1 atter, | was — iet Swede of the whole. The 
which b s | inaldie was not a -top Swede; he should say it | | |. Joose fat [as >} dH pe 
Mr. Brown, Westerton. being next appealed to for | was a Hybri ient n" was a Green- Swede; he | 1? Hear, uin. dam : : E 
his experience, sa thei as t aae date of in in | could en pst ie er á was as hardy as the others. dp liver, 
his district the: era in the h s Ut bout | The Green-top proper was hardy—it was the hardiest| gall-bladder and 
the 10th May, or B heme ew ren of any of them, "He wet on to boa! - - was in the) co sen, and blood = ee tn a 
They omi pni aye to > sow in dry we then, at simply | way of sellin any people in | Other offal parts 130| 15.0} 10| 179 
achine did not work so well in wet | different localities, dm one in oyini ce Banff- ———_| | 
weather, bet they found that & nless —- sowed E shire, and all up and through Glenlivet, S he found ee offal par = — — = 
weather, and laid the see ltem w he land w that they genera ly began ing very early in these Loss y evaporation : ; 
good condition, , the crop » did not praitd well, nor did it parts—about the 10th May or the time pon ed by| &o. el 18| 05| OT| 14 
succeed w — these were not the o only | Mr. Brown. Some of them, indeed, began about the Aio | | 
i made it advisable that | 1st ; and, in fact, if begin b el 100:0 13000610080) 
able to 
sowin shouid S lace in e wonthée. Laying down 
the Turnips when the land was in bad condition not 
only affected. the Tu ee itself, but wou uld affe ot a 
May; 
early, people ran the risk o bein ow a 
all It "rm €: however, in wader localities, vn 
he y the ME n Spe eysi side— —or on e a pla ah. as 
me to c 
views P nci pretty — with those 
which. v edn expressed by Mr. Wal Iker. He w ould 
mence ie. ees be about ys 90th 
would d a better chance of a crop than when sown 
ewt. of artificial manure per acre, UE the 
a manure at about 10s. the cwt, As to the 
variety of y - would say the Globe variety for 
early use, and the Swede afterwards, He was of 
7, 7 hi 
M 
telus, 
On the Chemistry of the Feeding of Animals for the |} 
the Ist December. Then, tha 
Mtge td E the A of January, by which 
hav 
late. the would be fit for use. The White 
Globe on Putin well adapted for young stock | ox 
and shee e would say wid DM e early to 
fatten the eir det No doubt the Swede, m the | so 
—— " eer ‘matter. it contained, was the “best 
for 
cf "i Meat and Manure. By J. B. Lawes, 
TER is ros pes of a paper read before the Royal 
Dublir Society in emend this year. It has been printed, 
circulation ; and we reproduce 
h 
— Se iw = er 
es of ex 
heep, and Pi, igs, in 
ep will increase in weigh 
and that a pig will double its Segui dug - 
ttening period. Accordi ngly, I shall direc! 
| your attention to the Saag pe of each of — ^ 
M 
IT 
de ean or stor d also | a 
X +) 
urnip until it was fally matured. 
ng T 
ntil D 
Sa pe 
2 not think it should be eaten u 
He 
p t has increased i 2 É 
fee md I ‘shall then s 
J 
1 
ne 
average amount of food re quired to € uce ‘Too Ibs. 
osos A 
weight, 
n. there’ was the mhi p (He 
thou "y the different varieties d this Purple-top 
e were so elosely akin other as wes 
eau recognisable as distinct nt ait, Shepherd’ 
Globe was — = T^ e Green Me 
— ups 
Ait the roots, a 
In a very d 
"s Globe, som fist in 
the form of a Pear, with such a ro NRI stops mt 
earry off the rain, ps "prevent the water ae standing | Í 
on ihe top, which was very apt to make the Turnip 
rot. He or s Marne it would -$ worth while | 
to keep this 2 view in discussing the merits « 
the different va 
MORRI ria 
+ ietie 
food, of the Cb. and to some extent of the ure 
also ; and in doing ei T shall pom that "the erbe are 
ME supplied with good fattening food. 
Pn per cent., of Big d aod, and Pigs, in 
c and in the Fat Condition. 
th i while t1 eight of the 
prises about 11} lb. of stomach and conten Dey 
bee perl only 73, and that of the pig ony n" "]b. ni 
he other hat nd, the ox contains 
beck " of 
May, which i 
ox con 
on starch, or allied di 
ang e of sheep more - - that of oxe: 
= E 2 
portion of the "sep. contribu 
in the table Il: in a more advan ^g state of 
oxen, The compa radium small prop 
e pig is Mere sri for by the pecu 
The proportion of its internal organs is com 
and rs ax gl is to lay on fat i in 
side t l 
Table showsthe jihan grea pro in 
d the same descrip 
rit: imal 
m 
y. The 
Records 
dnd. portion e the 
n one an 
to yov of matw 
on of about Lie; bu 
from 1 to nearly 24—m' much morð, ; 
ee ok te B it is 
rts, of all the i 
amine ve 
rts augmente 
ey i 
ne, ‘matin th nil oe 
or proportion deri 
ia the Whit ahe a 
sl " compost 
‘but | atter, sum of these 
cotati the 
+ p wished to make an | asp ben 
of | the ani reor Bon 
Oxen. Sheep. Pig. — 
Store. | Fat. |Store.| Fat. Store.| Fat. 
—— mee sub- | | 
18,0} 15.04 15.0| 12:5| 140, 10.5 
Noni an sob- | 
16.0} 30.0] 1&0; 33.0| 220) 440 
" 52} 40 8.5 ca 28} 1.8 
sn dry oer 89.2| 490) 36.5 EU 388 En 56.3 
Water 60.8 | 510| 63.5) 51.5} 61.2 he 7 
Total Ad 
Table I. shows the 
both in 
or total dr cm nes prm ie 
first nam 
th far than of animal tberowr are etis per cent. less of it 
ir toe fat than - the store condition. ks dex 0 other 
ha and, there is e case of both the the sheep 
| Beart, rn in that of pigs fally, twice as awe i in 100 Ib. live 
weight of the fat, as in the same weight of the store animals, 
zl mineral matter, again, like the LM, et substance, is 
und in less proportion in the fat than in the sto —À animal, 
tly, ce is seen to be 
Tumips that bad been mentioned. He wish say a in th s dii the o fattenin igne Bn bos to "U^ Mrd 
word on the Kimaldie or ae foliage vats veh | fo e diminu o ion of water, and the increase 
had been praised by Mr. Watker, and which he himself mothe 2 we indi n ac ony inde "x reete Tate the 
had been trying e before. J fattening p be tly, I come to 
è other day. 
to see 
h, —m 
o had sown on 
Golden Globe, and the - n alf | ma 
been men X Le 
d E Weber, Wales, h 
a field of Spone more 
d a nese, 
Swede. 
Co. 
the n itself; 
they do so than 
"directi tT rot the oy f 
rec d Pe don o 
ess proportion 
c d n 
2. Proportio s of Parts, in Animals of different | th 
in different Conditions Maturity.— 
ae greskin of the chemical composition 
sod pigs, it will be be dsb, before oon- 
sidering the re pros ' 
per cen 
and paria d 
dit =e 
— elabo) ý 
stituents, ferendo in very much less propo 
s which E a M ook of the feede houl 
of 
— qa in the manure to 
: 
- "1 shows the amounta of certain foods 
teams for the ee of 100 Ib, of due : 
n, sheep, and pi 
is e fat, it 
eight t becomes resu! 
f ofa mum whilst that of the fat increases as the an 
o, Oxen o d 
abi uch 
HA & diet as concen! 
'stible substance as corn 
