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THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
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ie districts, Е was for this reason that in the 
oft of from 207. to 4i 
and had a net 401. а 
round for the js Le 
pro! 
that there w 
port of the Governors of the Roy al EEEN юа him as no g 
s raised as to Flax exhausting the soil; it did n 
was Pee ced ;— bist it more than any other crop did. As to te 
“ Although what, may [be га, ed the established epizootics кузн and scutching, they were quite ыы oper: 
have been less Le ener УА nte liar edt es pannia tions wh ey were understood. Mr. Wilson аня 
n several раг о е count " 
мутоби Ж wever, has apparently passed its climax, and | ОП to quote from the report on th t discussi n 
now to be on the decline. The sanitary measures recom- | of the t by the Royal Agricultural Society. 
mended by the fessor, attended with marked benefit though and scutchin i uld be the 
үнү сісу 15 ад, Usb fevum "investigations great difficulties, so that the farmers need sy have to 
its pathology are requi — and in this, ebat J 
us cases, the Goyernors f the | grow the straw and take 16 to those who w prepare 
t for the market, 
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that the Council had not 2 been EM to the 
existence and ravages of the , disease, but had been 
nur 
The cost of the rufa would be | со 
open air. 
uld catch 
Grass; yet, as a gener; ali rule, orf cH wer gr when dea. % 
Superi iority of the Manure vadis is 
By far the greater proportion of mr Y. 
manure consists of straw and water, » de farm 
bein e е i 
e animal; in open yar 
oper is required ; and if, аз is general 
s gi generally su 
Sir R. BRI arb., 
|a more dresse erop, P it were deci € 
t when it w 
@ ойду anxious to 
from the v. various members of the Society. „Тһе disease 
w prope erly managed, The fermentation of Flax was 
very difüeult operation. prepare феа Mies 
d M e had found that the 
Mus upon sema =. №. пе, when seen in 
early stages, bore a ое. analogy to the deposits мон 
did not see why in a 
diphtheroid disease Be deposi í s might p: bo 1n any 
рагь of the intestinal track, well a noo 
fauces. In fact, ie pns might "exist | in vario 
‹ 
us parts 
f the body. Wi ith reference to the contagiousness of 
h h dad Badd, and further 
Many 
пози they got a fine ед but when tior i 
6 16 was unsound. Tbis was not the case with. Ыб 
i rofitable nature of 
colnshi w 
largely . The farmers grew it as their Wheat 
crop, and found it very profitable. Mr. Wilson men- 
tioned that what t wanted was rettories, If thi iis 
lost by dra was 
It Lo wi ка э {о dwell on th ч 
influence exercised by rain-water "m 
the great loss incurred by exposur 
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opine, will be igna En 
From dressi 
animals, as and in the other 
was the case, he feared there was no 
of its being carried out. No one would erect rettories 
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Budd 
was con- 
as in summer— at it m aade 
d 
Tho far uld n ted 
unless he ven ўя bind мимо to grow a perta quan- 
rester 
tity o of st ind th 
tt Still, a [шег might grow 
8 much progress. in wel weather as in | dry 
experience the neah 
£e. 
ihe оо, 
wi Wy" 
{ а 
all ү attack old e к^ e farm, үр it h 
off |t 
t admit, ‚| жү i might sprend, Flax grown for se 
BE м id pd а long way towards bus 
ie og 1 is grown for fibre it 
was for seed it should be sown thin, so 
ge "that were kept i in 
The 
зем\у tt FM whole of the E ones, Н. [e could то ed produced ар 
\ which was bed fibre поща be long 
а рот о е d ud ч, pig Кок E awp and fine, It has рез Md Mod Ireland could not grow һа 
away. ке s that were onths | seed, but Ireland соп uld g eed as well as England, 
014 resisted the disenso n a i bl manner, only t they did m Pot want СА i were too 
eed; they 
cunning o. do , They wanted to have fibre 
yar rer Kinnaird obtained the following 
results :#— 
Uncovered Рр... 
m yr. 2" otatos T tons 12 ЖЕ 
P; e 42 bushels. 2d Wheat 
Straw do. 156 stones, S: Btraw. NS 
Ms. Akers, of Бине Bourton, Oxon, in a ‚ commi, 
Covered Dung, 
18 ут, Potatos 11 tons ad. 
must " grown a$ 
fool. Thfenimals were aS udi two or Piet lors ева week 
and the greatest care and attentior 
were bestow ed uponthe m; they were, in fact, tr 
ec 
P ns та 
AN 
condition gav y I 
appear that with regard to susceptibility, it was not |land 
ар; at 1 hare 
farm an open 
rately, - ма еф is utr з rodu b 
uard against revious 
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н gu yp misfor 
4 4 Mk ЕЕ JUS quantity Lr tap manage e cover e manure so that it t vil гуча 
reatedjust | lie down on the ground and be petra The great | V МЬ £ba Shováél frhen.requirad fer mor 
} : : з . One acre | "9 need to haul it into a field-heap, and I пена 
This | of Flax requires about 15 acre to prepare 16 upon and е и ual labour of twice "ling, carting, 
t dry it. e way to do it would be for each man to S 
t would | prepare what he grew himself, Не would have to take to t т. J-C. s fib; 4 Hs з hone ИШ, de ii 
nd sufficient if he had not enough on bis farm g^ tho sucio tur dur E a dire 
but as 
- gie iil o much as age, that had to do with it; | most farms there aM. af uffici д, e did 
but why yo Ta pigs should be susceptible, whilst old | not think it would be e gro unless they 
pigs were not, he could not say. The syu nptoms had | steeped it, dried it, iry КУЧА, 16 {ге аи just аз 
en most y cori nd described by Dr. Budd; ; and it was they did with their , woo о]. Аз for шшк the land, 
[cci ad hat farmers He di id n think there was 
—a ted the 1 Ts tle as Flax did. 
of co r the disease w. i tn Ae f nd the 
"tear nis suhjectod i it "ie got zid of, e betten By 
tbat a large source of mischie cut 9| 
Cleanliness. iit not " too s stri ietly i insi 
Y " n t Lap 
The ud RM аад, 
they allow: ges have ће benefit of lying. all 
rt e it wi 
that whatever Jand they put it t 
upon, it must be ploughed at the back-end of the year, | 
so that 
h yards the liquid 
the 
Ih 
trial, I cannot deeidedl y say how much it is better thm 
that 
eipal tages o of covered yards is s the great superiority 
of зада паге. The cattle should be littered every diy, 
or every other day ; the liquid is then all a у 
making dungheaps. 
making i is also more healthy f r the cattle, as 
te 
о А whereas i in covere 
ashed, floors - walls, s, and drains; aod sound lightest touch of the harrow afterwards; drawn over 
Sind should be put id for wosks alta after the thers the ip nd by men, А clay bottom was pos rae the rem James Beadel 
b, a al means o entin bes b d gian 
disease, he n found great benefit ык w е ld have d оү UA 1 a ei ge de d. m ied, as the reni Ü his en xz 
nse of ll quantities of a very deca remedy, | He had grown Flax © be worth 102, per ton, апа he co (and. ә e might нечае 
namely, sulphur, on Moms * its antiseptic action, | had grown 16 to be m p only 507. per ton; both on of — ds ead Sry. m ой ке loads ei 
It ld be to the a з” food me. or thrice | the same land; SES in the same way in every respect, abl соме. get dried ші 
the week, and sulphite of i eR should be used on | but not put mto the water at the same time. The ореп- E "ы z^ an argument 
alternate days. watering or steeping made all the difference. There heat has-alesys Deon ho have not tried 
` Mr. FRERE suggested that carbolic acid, being an | was one thing that was mentioned in the paper he дып sore уа Ь d b any one who hak 
antiseptic, mig might be useful. _ would allude to, which was mowing the Flax, Sucha EM {иһ сне 9 i хану кде than in op 
the 1 lately | thing could never be done ld never be separated а manure 
Мекені of pre emen in which it had ри» used with | for гш ng if it were mown. The Chairman ed q | yards in a dry ве Dh wirt — 
antage internally 1 Ы 
за o Mu id iet 74 MES o explain and illustrate how the operations of pulling, bcc aps ilh ea of the top layer, Т: 
this par- 
sheaving, watering and breaking. were performe ed. „Не 
ticular disorder was propagated chiefy by the d 
ege irra the intestinal canal, and that persons who 
абай аа ra their 
isease om one 
agag to "s presen the e sean was very 
rife in the South ; of I and it was thence that vast 
importations 
How were they to get over it? ` He thought that a 
BU of farmers in a neighbourhood m Mi n 
ther and have a man over from Holland to à 
them гай, to manage their UM Тһа& the Flax 
would pay he did not doubt 
pe 
put on the — x: 
Mr. H. S. T 
of pigs took place into the wi of Bristol, This taught me the 
isis и E di ince been дану — than thst 
en Farm emoran made under cover is fully one-thir ronger in op 
as Permers' m. М E Соуваяр Yups.—Jetter. Health of Coltlo.—That me 5 = ada (d e ep б шил 
June 13,— Cultivation of Flaz.—Mr.W1tsOx | catt { j ards. Before trial it mi 
said- When Wiest ETE TEAOR | o ME ke t i n co covered yards 2t better health than y та d ui out dry D 
much in to the farmers of t is „county to st dy by abundant eviden f the TE of — used is in Tie will be invariablf 
the g Many of his neighbours already | ` In support ot this A. Y» айдо Te following from to the of live-stock Шыг т 
grew | h they grew у it on or seed, and | а communication with which e been favoured | found that. a manure pene out in 
grew it upon all kinds of soil; some of it of без ood | by Mr. J. G. аы of um У ,R Ie The explanation is easy, the piirre 
uality. - His friend of Ша, |“ Our buildings are 130 feet by 103 feet, and afford et id to manure being tha fast a 
TOW uantity for seed only, but bel M in a | accommodation for 190 head of stock; and to give you tains are — out by Neap; and when 
rough manner, dressed some of it for the fibre, which | an idea of p health they enjoy, I may say that for the n by the decomposition of the hea retained lo^ 
be had got made into cart and plough ropes, the only fault ast еза бага Ше anora Milh РЕП Шла the moisture w. ont the sf 
hich was that they were too long. Мг, Jenning, E Bee e an S ex ао. ө alike iat 
seed he grew was mue perior for Eon E. is yet another class Er ments t In am ards, ЁЁ 
the seed he could buy. When he yard system, who, while mitting ihe Ex fed. site, font kept in open or im eoero иге Ве 
a jelly so stiff tbat it could be lifted Sinar of the cattle kept in o; doring the win "inter | clear the difference ot valije e the amount t 
iile bongh! eed pro осей а thin argue that what i is then gained i is lost i in 1 ear rly su а T sure vary 3 
Mr. Jennings having onl : 1 | rainfall, es ch no am KU bec 
made any calculation м; ^ m cost or 1 Wm it deteriorates the quil iy, b "d 
Tor Jand ог iori exper ence, 4 утес of jos “others die s own for cia rag uror nt "шоп e Mr T are 
and it Жо е p^ туей dE med й - дайар, is dead „Again nst this view, A v: 
d доку ) had. received : 
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