THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
{May 10, 1856. 
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science te: p it get into that intended for butter, or it will ee it thes proprietors, land agents, corn factors, manure or 
their needs. - pees of the Sage. The after or 
In- proposing 2 feet as ene distances of rows of cheese the same as that of other cheese. machinery and implements used in agriculture : zi, 
grain I do so as an avi I this time ma, Sbe NAERA to | Mal mrs 
poo! under proper preparation ‘this. will not be ni be turned to the most forward Grass in the r iches t pas- | Females, isesi 
found a great deal too much, and I , f 4 is p| Farmers „o ne» | _ 275,676 Tr | 044 203.720 
rich land it wiil be found © even too litle. ing a e periei Ba | il 3,047 
it so. It is also t distance at which we eouli or hetia, a A iien taliog 006.728 | 70,200 ` —_ 
eectoaly wok pe fallow. ly f Rye r Italian mnai grass, so that a Nate Sheph erds 19,075 | sist | "19096 
with it She M. odif. | given, in the yards. when the cows come to be milké ed | Farm i ee 235,943 129,251 | 364194 
„as it is found they — LEE E afea iai a 
ea te ee | resi hay. Even when they have not ‘a full supply from z a = 227,205 | 1,780,463 
DIARY OF A ee FARM. | the pastures they will not readi ily | make e a goo od m neal of| Ifwe add together the workers in all the I ive 
y termed “ manufacturing,” we shall tae an 
f th 5 R satisfy them they roam stless and un easy, | array of numbers small compared with the ve. } 
of much im w be conducted ‘with and of course fail to gun saytin Tike a “fall supply of | find b, an 
saptbaaies 
He en mats Mor fat bang “expected therewi th to 
interfere 
milk, oe the 
n quality, 
workers in cotton, wool, silk, and linen is but | 186,061. 
well regulated d g ality, oy quantity shou ll means | Thus the producers of a part of the nation’s "food are 
old en ney bre without much milk, and “the cows | secured tc grea sible. It is of great im- | 50 per ce inn r than are those engaged in 
having the advantage of pasturage, the onene is ex- | p th d wate orogens be supplied to winie | poplar the fabries which clothe not only our own 
pected in this month to be of prime quality. If any of | cows. A stream that been little while | populat ion ee also a large proportion of the ld’š 
the shoul of late calv ving, their milk should exposed to the air ie whet rising from the spring before | inbabitar 
b h their pastures is considered the best| Again, E we number the whole adult male et gene 
es ee eae a hood to m: make it heave. The same 
soil re- 
water, and the drinking place should pr the 
and hat the 
that iian ed in the 
from the cheese is A ae À 
tor 
it remain, and only skim it once be 
g | the others i in meeting t em, 
50t 
ter may pass through pu re and fr Ae a, Cows much 
wiles drinking from a narrow trough or hole, and are 
between the ages of 20 and 60, we find them 
4,769,212; of whom there are enumerated me h- e 
ix classes of agricultural ag, or bee aan above 
3224,546 persons. Thus one out of every four male 
| adults at the labouring age is dire 
rr ey E 
ctly at fer in the 
shy of going to a large surface of water, though there 
should penitant access and egress to and f 
watering place, or the ma aster 
h 
(cows will often iedos ir 'Second— The Annual Value of Agricultural Produce 
k for the pigs. Itisa much better bed | the | guided us in our comparison of numbers, I shall not 
plan to os it at two several times, the whey butter | only being in ił f the old f M‘Culloch, Mill, or other s‘atists 
con 4, Re Ww shee A> i I n- | for the result of the Scottish i inquiry, limited as it w 
apt to ferment when in the seed amas this of course gree ‘less pie Ffor has ERDAS oa Reed Sorel ann were very 
reception, and the butter will then’ be Tikely a ny bof peed as they become stronger rand more able to eat the | ra inde om guesses a guide he degree of 
and not so good in quality ; nothing will so rome at food provided for them. has afforded us. 
prevent this as poco Ae changing i t from ne utensil | to run in by day, with some Grass to pick from it, but | = the Seottish returns we hi 
Ci 
3 3), 
what I believe 
se Ac arte mation to the production of tl 
T 
that recommended for taking g 
care that sg same ond pen wr uwa. fe ‘ot "which 
wasla na the ı milk butter to partake o of t 
cl ae 
hat porti 
ave valid that producti on es 
f pric 
which they wi will npg vlentifally, ne spby the ; 
r the mixt ure of Linseed or patana, | 
es, about midway betwee = 
of the whey. g bush Whea may be ta! aken as the key to my et 
a day, and the ‘brine which ew: from it when in tl littl , though it should become gradually cooler and I attain hereby to the result of 16,148,715/. as the 
he sbel the cal "get older. _ Should Grass be supi ged = value of the produce of the agricultural i industry of 
for drying is quite clear, the quantity is small, and it | this ti i p | Scotland in a year 1855 
ought to be put int the rennet jar, perhaps every oseness in the koas wels, to which calves a: | For England and Wales we have as yet to guide us 
two or three days, which keeps up the senna ful i ett 3 and carefully gearing guint this is only the returns from the 12 selected counties “ statis- 
and is thought improvement to the cheese; i aie ial to their starting ong wth. | ticated” las Building on this foundation we may, 
will not have tl weakening the rennet | Th in small numbers by a rule of three comparison of acr age, de arn 
for ew saan fl it increases in eo by | oracle on account of their great disposition to fe ed estimate of the area devoted to bora oe of Bye 
being moderately wees it is foun from Tak agi g itii 
weaker this sition ‘of the brine must of course be dis- | taking any infectious disorder renders careful attention mated acreage and approximating to it the predation at 
continued, b n then, if ‘the brine be sired, it is | to what may appear trifles in the rearing of calves very a very moderate return of crop (26 bushels p of 
better to with the next quantity of fresh brine | e esirable to ensure success, by simple means and Wheat is the key-note which governs my ale) T Sheetal, 
made for rennet. expensive | food. A strong healthy herd of dairy cows, using the tandard of price as was applied to the 
In most it is be to postpone g ottish seen a result of 125,245,8711., as the value 
thick cheeses, which rsa about four or five to able I ed d on the farm than if pur- of one ol icultural producticn in England and 
the ewt, at least till the month of June. Wh i d d brought Wales. ing this with the Scottish aggregate 
cheeses ha ve been in n the loft about a ane in any | age, will be thus obta’ ld h given above, e no o k that it is likely 
weather they By sights ie to feed | on ta theie hay and roots, and it has to be exer in real The population of a nd and 
plished with k a very goo fo mo Te Sek dy fs gree Wales Father’ th than six-fold that otland, 
-with a wet in es NAs si over Aripi PE milk, it makes the animals quiet, and while ihe scale of livin $ is arnt coir ig her. 
‘the cheese, to take off of “the roughness that may be ae oni © then g proper quantit: Php secs - he returns of Scottish production a uia 
left upon it from the cloth or any other cause, leaving it if convenient to let them remain n hour numbers— em million: ssum 
quite smooth on surface, harp in the edges. sera antil were GA per or he their rhs. after ‘having and cattle “of the value of H t Arem are 
ex 
s! the 
better, in or der to get 
it into a state of forwardness for the factor ; it 
their 
require wiping round the edges and about an inch 
aw 
of ier harm. It is caleulaved that about one pig c: 
within after this scraping once week, ta king care 
the cheese ; 
his sive coat is considered a sign of richness by the 
There is 
whey for ever 
airy. Supposing a dairy to consist of 
50 cows, sie 
bresing % sows, reckoning t that 
ac one would ea" 
e kept t with a run 
P 
leaves or 
of the cheese is often 
earance, an 
factor. 
his by rubbing the shelves sith Elder 
reen of the Potato. The 
le app 
gh of seco dary tis im 
n some districts it is customary 
o — tbe i of ae cheese with — 
hould be up w a li tti tle w: 
hh P 
red ; this | ¢ 
water, and a 
other purposes, and pim as much of the sour, 
s | whey as they will drink, and these wi | 
i w 
nan any grease 
of treatment after- 
ice is 
sof no adva 
mer ly, as i it ii antage 
ure of it shou 
and using daily from this ark ‘whieh i is as often petting 
replenished from the e dai airy, 
ably weil. And as the pigs are small to begin upon 
a stock colle 
oun n the board and shelves, thereby 
Tera atonal trouble to the es and aE 
rance to the cheese ro 
nths before it is fit for use ; a thick 
for their larger appetites, and this with the wash white ch 
large farm houses must ‘supply, with pints refuse in 
addition, is fen aoe to paN har number of pigs 
mentioned, about o e, of the age and deseript ion 
given, to every t 
Ins 
two cows in the 
alue of o) 
‘in 1854 (the year of greati 
makes a very wholesome 
se i 
sere consumed in England. The consump- 
tion vould then stand thus :— 
cotland .., pe .. £15,000,000 
In England and Wales, incl ; 23 
from Ireland PETET S .- 180,000,000 
In Ireland keya nds cio aa olan bongo Bic 000,08 068 
the seotaed of ‘ie bets nanny “of omen 
Un ited Kingdom, 
The declared v 
rta was 
t export ever known) 
ng but equal to 4-7ths oft the age 
scene nly w. rov try t the first occupat n give 
an—that of tilling the ground—is i the cite at 
a Krio aie t is emphatically said by inspired 
“the f the earth is for all; tlie “hihi hint- 
97, 184 iais) bei 
of ndustry 
powe. ak ur harrera 
i panie t rY 
Lie i ctive and free trade legisla don Wha 
of state is charged aes a bring" over the 
with other hom pon ap 
RICULTURAL STATIS 
eese. 
of f Sage in a mortar, also a little 
f the e juice; which will give ani ice | 
m 
| Bo ard of T. p L iiti 
p 
o peor t minister 
turists carry | thelr wide’ or 
of anal, 
TCS. 
Aonceirone—Panrostion oF os A EATON, Saa IN 
—THe ANN 
7 of ial, lf govern- 
juices squeezed together through 
itself; these j sg a cioth, 
and added to about a pailful of milk, w ‘ope 
SHALL proceed, in continuation of ate ——— 
3 Te a 
ment is ae 4 Me ¢ rer rok Australian’ 
still access to chief secretary of state. The eee 
and Forests and the aed of ee ale have ey 
d for one 
nary wi 
thick cheese. 
the usual m: 
Di 
strate that, even in this i } 
rs, Why 
P J 
country, “the g 1 re EE” 
rom a 
green given This Sage curd should be bya t 
j quite separate from =the bulk ; all the whey shoul 
carefully got when ap cur e 
is ready tor the vats, having been crumbled i nto si mall 
p some of th 
t nig rance.” aN 
They manage these ip tacar the ident 
1. A view of the amount | of _ employment afforded 
of her council, or prime mi being also “ minister 
2. i aa c the annual value of our agricul- 
ie! ah je Employed in Agriculture.— Of this I 
nixed withthe otet- abnt oe hr ue potas make an enumeration from the census tables of 1851. 
by laying it in rows or ee! it | toget! y the Tn] 
= classes of landed 
of agriculture? Who that ‘teat our prese nt Premier's 
sec the Lewes bet ny of Se can 3 doubt that 
ight place » here 
a 
| he would be “the right man 
such a er there would be no lack of fun = 4 
pepe siete ad “consultative, ttm some executiv 
on, comparison, 
‘He d be the focus fi r the collec 
na 
