ear producing better. yew y the obstac! 
paid met rae. in the field, they 
that — ape 
les; 
desired improvement. year Y akes year inb 
rolled past, leaving the reythe and the reaping-hook 
f the n 
ion o harves 
_Tt were perhaps as dioute to. ee emn as to 
p The c 
e| Now 
s- | for t t 
o laias with pat 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
to bring their efforts to bear upon the next harvest. 
if a number of such on were to 
[Novemser 8, 1856, 
introduced where skilled labour already ocen 
the gro ound—that skill which makes hand-lal ikar 
‘reaping 
of improved michina es for ufactur 
nt is manner 
7 | 
eir orders onal jus' stify the erection | 
thei 
jE ipl y . The ex rience 
dent is thus no answer tot the case 
‘alent e, as t those who 
let out threshing auies and drills to hire. could | m 
k 
eaping machin uc 
combination of trent would wt only farea the 
stimulate 
nett to contrast 
it—and H that even in in those leenliaiee where there 
may be e of me 
gether ee from the question of expense per acre, 
+ 
from agriculture that over-parsim economy o 
investment which has “hitherto etarncterined the im 
plement, and indeed every de 
a thing will co ntinue to exercise no inconsiderable 
We are, however, i getting into that tare 
state of redial nts must be 
ally as shy hs 
o will appene Man aans 
peA aperfici aF glance > at pers fact 
for the wha 
Ir mus 
epartment, the price "ot | another 
“On. ys, s 
-~ | commenced the most — harvest as nae 
= e first six days oo rain il, | 
e 
m 
bisat work was scarcely inte; 
E 
not be me that there is 
by sav g much corn which would otherwise have 
OIL-CAKES. 
Or all Pg various oil-cakes which are used for feeding 
or fatten 
Se peas vey a machine corn is h 
and ju stly ‘prized as the most valuable kind of cake, 
Rapo- cake, lately imported in l 
= to 
aply 
right iy. led and ‘organised, is 
m | 2 = efficient tha: 
e | likew: 
employed for feeding cattle 
wise is a valu 
and. shee eep. phere 
able feeding material, wd occurs only 
Ray the othe oil-cake 
proved to be. he following picture of a 
m the 
ade. er varieties of 
hich d for eit 
offered 
Tak 
| most tedious and harusini harvest fro e pen of 
e, we = ont 
fa) 
correspondent in Wester Ross as an illustra 
lustra 
tio 
S. 
S 
Tuesday, the 9th September,” he sa: we 
to do with. For 
d having a good deat of stro comms Th WA se t to cut, o 
the seco 
ca 
may 
ond tely been anal. 
as 
per per has lately been introduced into England, and and 
been he, a tens Maem ae substance. Allusion 
de cake because ae is oe 
tg ain it indeed resem 
hemi we oe 3 whole pariah 
e had o „only ; the fo urth wee eek we "orong four 
iyi 
at the composition of 
cake is liable to considerable fluctuations, arising prin- 
J3 
+ 
l| ing and w 
J 
t 
we had the whole crop s Our harvest thus 
red, 
es) days, on "only 19 of ba yin Piya we 
n 12 
the observed differen mposition do not 
materially affect the practical de deductions to whic he the 
hall 
e Paton) or he iat o or 
It 
of 
these anys, ‘setritiatandlog that much of ne corn was 
| leis about 
presenting in the subjoined table the average com posi- 
tion of o _— es, as calculated from a large number of 
n by five scythe-men, and pete the oe 
rst | 
robable saving whic h a! 
analyse: 
A wet and rotracted ese a is necessarily an ex ensive | ot 10, 9 oF 
consideration, but th eit jone. Last yun te and secured the cro Astori H n upon re Sp | Es EEE A 
reaping machine will effect during the period of a similar umbe a aot or 20l., or at the rate of SR | S8 eS é RL eR 
harvest. about 4s. 6d. per acre. This year, the crop being aeeoe prame” aaa E A 71r 
earns sm again is another question which | heavier ss e avourable, o ao e a ker Be Tn] x 28) O 
must, like price, give way to the demands of the is 271, or 6s, n this calculation the | Q' i sy feer | | 
a a this head the — ofthe 8 Royal Agricul- | wages oft the halt vee great are not included eo oot foem } 27 28) 29:58); 81:46] 25:18), 2846 
Society have all but to be a trast- there all l were KAAN in harvest work. There is | Substances not containing ni- | | | 
von faite = seo individual tri has b higher districts in this neigh-) "fonr -giving substances ... 41.96 40.90) | sess! 48.93) 52.14 
depen upon se 9 om m data. There is probat ood, a good deal to secure. There has bee Mineral matters (ash) ...| 6.18) 7.79 1298) 5.64 579 
a greater difference between the different mac! aor re loosing and rear doy of Alpi U peten 
i kinnt ng ace rying, and more turning 
boone ge Ay erp oe bf "oc of ses dr ha has been a many years, and! The ash which remains behind on burning any of 
3 plement makers at our summe: te that is in that Pee sac ip in alata Fatt = 
It is al? old saying ae A š tee = A a | deaths I that i it. The ae ght of 9 Wheat ie fru, | acid, lime, and potash: Oil-cakes thus contain mueh of 
good A j reapın > 59 to 61 bushel, and that of Oats from 37 
bo payee an x to eo mule. In the ae |40 “prs weight of the different kinds of grain In explanation o oe preceeding table, I would observe 
mplements the workman is invariably | will continue uncommonly low until te be dried by the | that the differe n the proportion of oil and flesh 
gui by his o own H aee and this may be | wine frosts or winds of a stackyards are | forming cama ee acd in the analyses of different 
a | greatly more bulky than usual, an "althou ugh much of samples of cakes of the same kind are quite as large, or 
Int the course of trial, ifa y farmer finds one machine | | the grai will be laches, ‘ths front will be beyond | sometimes even larger, t the diff — pore 
g under special circumstances than an average? e stated we average composition of cakes of 
in one nd inferior in another, he may| Here we have the work completed for 4s, 6d. different | r e example, it is s stated in n the 
nae advantage in having both. | acre in a good year, and 6s. an acre in a very bad |above tabulated remit t Linseed-cake contains on 
t although price an eigen are eer | 
erations, they are 
notice, On the contrary, they merit ~ investi- 
re particularly the former 
onomical subdivision OF 
t aod = nper stil article and a 
place ir in al similar cases, 
ewha ti 
meira 
ai 
s to what has 
afvrtunstely implement 
n a similar position 
+1 
ary | 0 
rthy of | bare 
n with r 
giji 
gz 
piri 
© 
á 
SA 
an average 12:79 per sunk ry il, and Rape-cake 11.10 
per cent. ; but it does both aiy r this that 
e o' every 
that ye bot a ye pi 
acres 0 
or 
o | acres of abi land, ps be: 
ore over 25 or 30 Èe 
gti E h: irven tiin me. 
oye every apna for obstacles o 
kind, somet something obviously could and 
lessen the 
growing necessity for Fg panam ay s 
“a, 
E3 
drills | | 
In every Lome there | 
rs who will purchase their 
ther elbow who would | | 
erops 
here an open field investm 
per acre. 
the 
capital, for were machines to be had either wa’ 
i = not fail to find employment 
vate een indi 
sha 
ae be bony is 
The 
of | wi 
of a week of time, wre cutting ee of 2 
2| that of the hal fe anon maion but very little | 
“ns tothe am If there be 60 
rally it does pap 
bs ee reg applies to all feedin = 
re too m n the habit x —- the com 
gel 
oe hay, as if 
were simple 
n- 
ne 
es Se _ 
ho gets his c 
tive effect of good, and odiy- 
"e m, 
Sco 
rvested by hand, it will not be merely j 
| but highly poraa 
ere, then, is case tha 
te pea rm Fland, knows well that there is a vast differen 
between hay and hay, or a Turnip and a Turnip. | 
so iol 
vourable: 
| buat forward om P kille a on la 
there 
r to viih; so skilfully directed; tisla 
experien is due, but positively there is not ade- 
| quate laboar of any kind whatever. The reapin; 
machine is not par eteta a Ep supply of har- 
and e might 
vest-me: t be, itie 
I t of place; and it is simpl 
ee O99 EM 
differe: 
especialy if the opinion is founded s 
Saas, i 
0 of those 
acres on the first two days of their one whole week 
this year of oe weather, while the men 
— — n in attendance on the 
"would have so far saved the 
7 
y. fh e R 
aois lla 
practical 
with a striking 
Lake sa a 
in nary mech ar 
for, after all, the chemical composition 
article of food is insufficient to determine its 
value. 
The -history of 
example iting ' si truth of 
Good Rape-cake 
| most 
| want of men that it is 
pimi 
The machine i is not pitted reran Line 
oe oe 
ie ly of men, i 
at it called for. . Though were iti 
H 
