1262 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE 
[DECEMBER 31, 1864, 
uld u 
Erode m ws than the let December, his own experi- 
hat by 
grown Turnips to do the work of the first ten days, or 
to get you up to the Ist October, when the or rdi d 
uld be fi The first nae’ oe the : 
Green Glo be. 
Sw den 
grow 22 or 23 tons 
thankful." 
The CHATRMAN then sum ye Mo 
On es Eu t of t estion thi 
much al r instance, "er had Perte a 
diffe ind. , but he thought most of 
what was E the East-Lothia; 
the best. 
an aere might well 
———— 
Me 
enee being tha this time they were capital feeding ; | 
or any kind of cattle. H ould, hibited, have them | Mr. ERA NND, : — the pes or — May. E i LE db S E ft E the 
sliced, as they were too hard to eat otherwise. As ^ a few pa s of = e first t hing you do, E portie T de Pap en ae ipea ed be cay e 
th : i ld, store all his Turni en go on with your every case it wa - 
by 4 t "S qe Y M LAN vel ar the ey had more fr st that fis earliest sown Turnip were on the whole = evident that Tt was g y rre ai a Globs, nd 
probably inn er Pan — for many years, à | better crop. The Swedes required a long time to come | them on successively through the m ths of Septem 
bare i ithout any snow to protect the to Ee and if they wobld havo tiem ready edP". October, or on to th ginning o xd 
Tar Poi pen "He liad a good deal stored before | they must sow them early. By sowing them a TH toy au Vi he Ouai night be rM 
the pany [^e set in aid. Tie was sure a ton 80 | earlier, they might have them ready for use by the ^ bi. bet the: fi d ded ig ng, there could 
s _ His of No vember, inst stead c of December, He thou: ght they the iod. pee aimed bu staat i, i for 
2D 2 worth two o tons pulled . after the frost. 
stor in the 2urnips 
as he would pit Potatos, fasten- 
ing on the ieee bird raips, sticks, or something to to 
keep it on. The first Tur stored 
often the last pe 
them as Tr esh and fin ne in quality up to 
ay as they. m nap 2 covered up. He 
ced t they had weather 
hat 
t of “fin ng- sout? » from 
by the 12th Mav 
em ier 
locidedly 
ab à s different w 
-— larl bout as the storin aa 
| E " m the ease of Swedes -r inust be aH tOR-| Sarious causes for that. Ih those days the fields bi : 
| sumed D the middle of April. In regard to thë time ea enelo red " the farmer did Rob his T 
a I ing; they had been advancing of late years, It | they were liable to be destroyed by wanderiüg sheep, the 
of the mieu — LE to know, from - Medis pos: PS d ses dae 
experience, that they c E early. Some years | secure their value. They had now of more vali 
ey never used to Petula until the 10th or sio doa was no donni plo the sowing, reari 
storing O were matters of imm po 
12h + ape c: aati had T sweat "s A them down farmer, béemise on. the muoesiw of Turmib4rfo 
b as lag Qr et t oed, and a sweat all Over. | the valueof his stock; which had now become the 
s0 
that it should be eked out with the. "dig ferent vend d 
lighter 2M that pd r "ud m P VEN a 
which varie must depend very m AT 
Soil to be ae ok n inci : 
anagement, he found it 'esolv me (ou quet 
10th or 12th May they were never iñ à Hy, but might 
modity for the mark 
Abridged from fhe Bauffshire Journal, 
the feather of the this , ind had 
the er over the drills first to take off the shaws, If | ev erything that was necessary. In reference to t 
b was ry da me —for it Was only in dry weather’ that manuring of Turnips, he happened to see at 
h Williamson’s Ar a quantity of cm pni fo. and 
fter they had 
pe d Eu ing four or 
fiv M g vor th 87. 10s. 
P aere, "Thinking this wa 
somet hin ng worth i MGE 
into, he (Mr 
Kyn noch, 
a 
ry c clea 
icely till the spring. "He could 
what the cost of taking up and Vi might » but, 
Keith, if he could procure Win some of these dissolved 
Mr, 
cheap. - 
Mr. GEDDES nex ti Mats o give his views, taking 
= the several points iti their order; 
In the first place, | 
copro olites Kynoch replied that what he ku is d 
sell was diss olyed bones, and that by supplying 
Acviclvs. 
On the Chemistry of the Feeding of Animals jem 
Production of Meat and Manure. By J. B. Lewis. 
F.R.S., F.C.S. 
(Concluded from n. 1239.) 
We the publication ki lees Paper read lu 
spring he the Royal Dashi, Soc 
d 
indicate the characteristic points of — 
nds with r regard to. al customers, 
however, while anxious not to "n bise § in 
Mr, Ky noch, | 
between the food of the ox, the sheep, and the pig, 
any way, kindly agreed to dissolve some s seat 
to the different rail of Turnips sown, he Eni oi 
aa eit already suggest 
DA of nd tds mi But taking land 
Rs — own—some good land, a good deal middling 
and some very bađ—he shoni 8a fait 
péSportsóh for that ye and in 
county, would be 60 p . 
Swedish T 
e should say that 
to put 60 out of the Ton. acres in n Swedes, 3 
and 10 in Globes, they 
vari leties, and perhaps still 
request. 
,|agninst ev 
here ' 
The erop 
expense, eid would apply 
eyery man's land, but such w was ithe case with regard to 
his own, There 
pom wens a fer 
n the re ela ti ve ting a ag of "oe j 
ition. 
as “expetience irren 
woi st 
oods, 
S 
out ore view, just n 
d those very 
h they w of. m" mel 
benefit t to the 1x whole pácpast was to get up 
& en Turnips, and they were not of the slightest 
equired to go —- had found 
top Yellow w nip that 
Tursips d he E asked Mr, Kynoch 
to t 
Purple. as t 
him X the i a best sata, and ite was the easiest 
> atisfy 
grieve on t had the drills plot 80 as > be 
ent fi 
between all t these 1 - M the affinities which Mr. 
xy! as e sure 
Morrison had spoken of. 
distinet v variety did nd signify s o 
the seed you got was from a Turnip likely to be a 
that t 
proper variety of its kind. With re regar rd to the Yellow ws | w 
T: 
He thought, dee a 
ovi rnips in the same fields; 
ugh laid down x about half the ëxpense, they 
e as good a as any o the em, He could discover no 
ut , sugar, 
nid DES conditions of uuu qum Rene 
h 
os incon bunina or m 
will be convenient, as before, 
ouped under Ere 
es. A 
Dg o 
nstituents, it 
otter constituents o 
gen 
, gum, pectin, oi 
im da qn mces coni 
compara alue; for fi i 
e proce ds here to describe his experimenls 
in ance to this point. His co 
T. 
tae feeding i 
are stated as 
UR Lo cca by a given 
|i par TOE a à timo, TA that quise 
did not think they eould grow 
on € ^am nid of vaa rire 
e which he 
ambed | others. 
d, 
s. s say that, if they conl 
if his grieve Bad not pete die te Put Cw ae vin 
1m, 
what d 
mentes Watker - sked tity of eoprolites liad 
lue 2 vidis or weight for weight, 
ily Wis it val 
| against tbe Aud manures 
g| Mr: GED 
not value ro 
said he gave 4 ewt. coprolites alone— 
but weight for weight against the 
wanes of conversation, 
Mr. axo. proceeded to sa = that he approved 
he storing o P Toce about the month 
of November - his experience ed that, w 
5 of the m 
nd ya ‘eae 
be stored dry, they eould 
that this Turnip was next to the Aberdeenshire Yellow 
ee As to variety, there was a great | 
t might be He thought if 
to begin 
they could not at = 
rnips, 
DUcpuE QU Vu» VOU taki 
in. He thought 
very much on the drilling, 
d ert ween the 
t the success of the Tarni 
and 2 8 inches on th 
rr ed dave his turnips a of toom to grow, 
or his own part pe 
and he liad no cause = regret it 2 Swedes and all|setéet at discretion from Lentils, sugar, OF 
Nouiewea 13 ie LA ina lo plants, It had | placed separately within their roach, The meti) 
e said that ^ ey és d mr 22, and | Sugar, ano. s Mese A bt nietos ts of food. 
wer 92 tias am née; bat all he could ery was that, | "fisse Tents wont, 2 priori, toad ta e 
négative to the much agitated question, Whe 
ight of in ere determined by the amo 
EARS  Bon-nitrogenous Substance which the food 
ire. would, doubtless, d ie 
The quantities p t bad al the the X as ; 
sibi 
even ns of indi limi Es 
De thet 9 | it is "doubt T ft 
€: ehe mies rh 
— suffici lentis prove, t that oxen and s be "C 
ica 
such matter, 
indutated & w 
vk | VE NEU DU depa ia pt 
animals ; and if I were asked to s tate Y^ 
was the approximate proportion of the ni 
digestible Renee ag y 
worin nc om in the food of o 
— —— a e 
sikio to teien aa staroby another a8 
of the mixture of the m 
perm: 
other às much 
whilst in atiother experiment Shale 
