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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
[NovemBer 22, 1856. 
On the production of meat as part of the gena of alimenta- 
I i s of agri 
The system of liquified 
introduced on na waaa Agricul — Training Insti tu 
a “ vos 
from 
le 
of a failure, but 
ew! the failur tons 8 ¢ 
f Ita = acre, Mr. ° Morte m reports that 
Mr. James has maged one fai si - 
ye- 
Kennedy, ma 
fully on this system pe has now taken the management 
ef another farm under Sir Robert 
method of cultivation to be 
of summer, raising for Pp of — ie 
imperial acre, and “ that” says Mr, Morton, ʻi do no 
—— ae: an mee” ia thi fact, ‘but itis a sania: oe = 
_ for five months 
a 
matter till Jately, and now I t it is meriting that 
attention which is the just re oom of so impo: 
invention. Having been fu ns alive to its properties I 
may be bl map = sch cng gs attention to it 
J peroni but 
SIKE 
H WALSHAM. viai the late annual meeting held 
equal importance ; and probab ly 
this might fon been wn case with the other members 
of the comm 
e z ur leader in the Gazette of the 
p napa and 
as 
neighbouring, and ree pent on PE better 
a practical tur: eeti They ha 
ve edhe od show w during a 
lst 0! 
Peel, undertakes by this ~ attentive sleibe for i in no part of our profession are 
e farm 
more at sea than among our root crops. 
ak a pean which Wheat he finds most 
th ght 
prolific, or 
produces the see est sample, you a receive a satis- 
TS Rag gh a be enidan the former, | Kad boets hard at work up to tho day of te exibition, 
that the Diote of the culture is ieii y aaan and- the: mi ler the latter. But ask p which T nd their condition was, therefore, highly creditable. 
Mr. Frederick M‘Connell, a gentleman who has adopted it on | or Swede produces the most ght on a given space, | A Ganar art horse was now worth 507., and, there: 
a farm near Annan, writing = in the spring of this year, | equally manured, and m rek nutritious ; I venture to say was more deserving of attention than the 
(AE well as eigh horses part of t of th Pep E oaa piae Se ng oo ah ‘0 the answer will be evasive sins röven of the pia afer ackneys, which were 
@ctober the Ist. I have 117 pte or 47 hei Ean under my own The reason is obvious. Tt gre 00 wish mec oe akg worth 301 H en offered 44l. fo two- 
aa denen eh what I see I expect to be able to keep 1000 sheep | | ascertain. In fas = ON expe: aen a yW : ic! E ear-old ; and ri y RA get Hey es a tonics 
; iter has conducted, it has been foun at, equally | for a two-year-o ne discarde e ide reeding 
pony Po rapa Teee ietie ance ciy pihe averat) manured, some varieties of Swedes have e produce ed one- | hackneys, and he advised them to apply all their 
Mr. Telfer’s, which may be of more ye po — as examples | 8 sixth more weight ; an nese fro equal al weight | energies to cart h ext year he should pro- 
to the French and other members of the Congress. Of other | more nutritive value was foun he Pr hat they should increase their prizes in this 
Larger ag on dy = oe ot Me. May, gentloma per n| the farmer can determine th ould uring» take the department. The breeding of cart horses was indi- 
which he keeps a steam-engine of four-horse power for distributing | trouble, but the solid matter or MENDE value requires | genous to the district, but it was not successfi 
eA pagis be h= re for mis $ hay, stra if bo ‘cots, | a It i — well Ik gh fact that | with eh or bullocks. They farmed very little land, 
bruising Oa! e writes to me this summer: “ my | we ar t: ] . i i 
25iadres Keeping 17 cows, 24 sheep, and one horse, and pai a the | scienee; therefore, c emis s, and we talk lightly of the but thei: a ete my well ; Ange Maser os 
ye eN, 5 emee te X nay mle th 2 sect of Italian n | fog ar ripenteesoee ampere K pire ts =i sl "= “A piste a Eka iip i'ei a 
. hree years | . of 
ago. My Wheat and Oats a Uthe Mange Ta Carrots | and ao = i matter, the farmer to find the sidered : — important one, though perhaps on that 
Eae inated apne, ar caution with obec th "productive [Turnip or ‘Swede most produetive on his St hey might think that he spoke from interested 
Kets: sT oan cannot not well compare my far far with others ral about me, me, | manuring, the _ Seedsmaft to ha ave the specific gravity ithou a goo ood rop o of — ips, it was i : 
as they size and qual t l t uld ag alance-shee 
Bear me which w mas highly improved, ise in the ordinary system, | | his farmer EA In the A Poa Bazaar, I doubt | at the end of the year. hi a good crop of 
Thode Tele Ve aero, on ps 16 cows, and two-year od | not as usual we Shall have exhibited gigantic Mangels Turnips, the farmer could not have good stock, and it 
By (oe ager sand a So This itse st | n L n eing : as, in fact, the sheet-anchor of oad ae oe 
Pi ip of one of the rs county hitek ondoners, ut or us armers be) who live | it might be interesting to the to kno 
rE O wives jand, “Ne vcr the beginning |! 4 e } mis ceeded in prowing his Turn inia.. Ha s friend, Me. 
ef the t year :—*““ I have had no experience of liquid mannre ‘selected, the kind of soil where grown, the manure | Gayford, er alluded toartifici al manur , and his f friend, 
variably attevdant on the new method of culture in giving the 
plant food ll as water at the sam n ly an increase 
of nitrogen i plant, r instead of co vegetation, the 
growth of new ts ne seen in the soil before, far richer 
the han gr 
the same land igatedy an and is rer ear by Mr. Walker, as I | 
have stated, at 50. The milk derived mo the Grass of a portion 
the rampart of irrigated eR pat only “deve 
town erage, is by those who 
partaken of it to be “ delicious.” 
From Mr. Wors! a gentleman who undertaken to apply | 
«pon his own sewe: of Wa of Âs progress near | 
Manchester, | to his con- 
dirmatory of conclusion from other raion ape ps ased |; 
powers of production from the liquified manures of to mean whieh 
ere now bury ae in Bn instance, from the bad Saye 
of the town, — 
posed man 
The Earl 
that under trial at Paris, is dec 
= your E 
e. 
applied, and ps distance grown apart—these, combined 
h the seedsman’s specific gravity, would be interest- 
for which none would be more ore 
A. Frien d to Improvem: 
0 ng hints, 
‘humble servant. 
y e re gged a great deal with regard t e! 
He ine they were. There were three piek rets 
ing a arae crop of Turnips—plough E sow 
asis 
k 
will send 
up pem seed ye in the spring which will b 
1, but rite a idea attention, to dissolve 
of the plants, and as i o ground is or may be made | bones. Any farmer could an bones by petting 
rank wi a manure. a ‘as it is deep, &c., as with every- | some sulphuric acid, making iste ern, and p ing the 
thing e so with Rape, these conditions will in | bones in = By this means we 
inc: as the rat of the leaf delay the appear- | well as the most scienti ifie man in the wort, s ani by 
ance of the seed bloo) nd of cours crop tti } a little 
0 luable for feeding in the spring by bringing it guano, they might come to the 
5 later as well as mor ndant. In poor land His own “asi w 
now or in winter, 
production af gem ie ahost, 1 think it is 
successfully for the pim for roots. 
ex he live 
ely good, under a most liberal landlord, 
who had granted him a 2 ears’ lease, and he hoped at 
its expiration that he should have made himself inde- 
penden e a few words the cultivation 
ema but tillage was equally important. 
n immense deal of difference between good 
honing bie ‘bad hoeing. After he had been in the no: 
of England, and had seen n the manner in whic! h the 
terial when it is done, and so for feeding pu 
lit may be done at once, as the growth is now pretty 
well over. Rape, as doing ty well in indifferent 
U d Dn a cae in nea e treatm 
t 
as Turnips it i 
eferred by cattle to almost 
weighed in November a 
gusted with the pro ead PERAE of t home; and he had 
told his. men that if i ie hoed his Tarnips so kees = 
p Ea om a May sowing, that pel ma 
its root and lower stem weighed 6 lbs., and I think with 
voll 
bt if oth 
had r 
beat him: another year in the di ka of 
is seat near Cassiobury, being good treatment the weight of a general crop might be | Theobald kao roy to the education of ye 
i ent te pra oe hearty se Ker with the brought i very near to pth a e as this might be | That was mportant Ker- er education 
sanitary inconvenie: demi ed to be illusory— | effected r some early crop, the | might be Gea fer far, and son d childre: 
has also laid down on the new principle a distinct small model addition a aat pi „spring sche iia rented ee might be made good for ‘api in armers’ sons, bs 
Inforannd $0 teres linino ok: TEE a m haps t there could not be SEE alua ble | believed, should b be pay at the plough’s tail ; they 
will be kept throughout the From it d well, but when they were brought 
To be continued.) food. I have offered it and Vetches together toa ve | home they coal be made practical men. He was not 
and she has left the Vetches and taken to th pe; a j|ashamed to confess that he had gone through ev 
A vee RS 1a plot epa t hich eg happened tobe a tevplania description of work on the farm, and he believed that if 
Correspondense. of Rape w: y pigs and ducks, they did | all farmers th roughly understood the nature of field 
ST rah White raahaa was remia last week not touch, the binge m at least S in if pasing $ be work they w would be ina much better position. There 
Lincolnshire, measuring 3 inches i fi b darak ! 
ence, weighing ` 27: ‘4 Jbs. The fi field, which ii is was | them not only a ina om but most useful | ” * e] 
iger’s man ure,” from Bol mg 2 Aire in the destruction of what was injurio ous. In Ireland 
to the yes drilled in with other management, The | they were then fed on Pot ; but since the fa = Farm Memoranda. 
Turnips in same field averaged 141lbs. apiece— disease n these, dues, ii ike everything else, have bee: Disutey Farm, IN Mr, BAKEWELL’S OCCUPATION.— 
y g o green thing in the gre following is abridged from Arthur Young's 
BoydeiPs Endless —— Engine. — To show how poms is safi aes eee e a lost the | “ Farmer’s Tour.” : 
benefit of th eit servides as —_— destroyers. Can _ Mr. Bakewell, of Dishley, one of the most considerable 
TENE, T ANE Ben eficial treatment of land or a bevol E ighb that be ner 
fitable cropping reaper hly manured | on the husbandry o neighbours that he m 
e ep of winter Ah follow ed ae transp g lanted F Rape, | ti onlik notice. = breed of cattle is famous throughout 
affording three crops of green are frequent | the kingdom d he h -O sent many to Ireland. 
to | stirrings of the land, two of ‘cnn crops being full | He has in this pen of his b any ideas 
and h rae ones, the third perhaps equivalent to a | be liev: eareperfe čotly new, or that havehitherto been totally 
principle is to gain the ik able 
e year Even the trans- | sheep, or cow, bys will weigh t in the most ce. of 
| planting of the e Rape, the meh mihi of the opera- | joints’; there i a great difference eit 
fee falls in between hay and corn harvests, and | 50 stone, Sio 30 in roasting pieces, and Miter and 
abis if driven R the corn ha y occupy the ing on another ing 30 oe gg the 
omen on wet days, or at any in- % in the former. And at the same time orange 
tervals when there is no k for them in the|shape that is of the grea test value in the sm ares 
est field. It is true the crop cannot be si Ba aon rom long epe n an pArA 
of but then it\may be cut in frost and snow ; neither eee h hardier, and easier fed S any o 
ld I think it so cold and watery a food as Turnips, | These Ton he applies equally to = rs: ER ies 
am not aware that it has ever been as fatting | In the breed of the latter the ol ain R ba 
food, bene I overs ‘think it better ps. to that pur- | where you had on san MEO arg ee 
| pose than Turnips. I question whether much less corn, | of room to lay fiesh on ; and according y The whole 
| Ag: to buy the largest-boned ea ttle. | is w 
|J. M. Goodi. y Mr. B ll has p 
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