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ут 29, 1855] THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 707 
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AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. ital he pes — not grow? But las — р | ЗЕ ч p "Ra pen) Cd vi 
Так readers of the Agricultural Gazette o take this y rial of nearly 20 si rei obtained aship fi , however, mae 
ble to peruse what sometimes appears іп it | from У farr merchants, and out of the | the progross of pleuro- раси, "There has been 
ihe name attached, will perhaps remember that неву а sed f failed to ‚вто — —indeed I ш f disease кра ]t is ragin g now, ^ 
Ње 15th of April, a paper of mine, upying is in this respect little it has done more or bón т 20 dee and so 
on its columns, appeared in it, in which, among no тм nce between them ; but if there be a во йч А the town- dy ivuiat 
matters on the subject, I stated that the educa- the bearded ie being the most perfect is leis liable remains as itis, we must low the е drained of 
‘on of farmers was by no means е ual to what their | to accidents of ai y kind d th is d any other, and hence all | the animals [ЖА needs for keeping up th me 
- ion required, nor to that of other classes of the | grows, supp өч; animal foo а, 
дине" ty with whom in social standing and genti I wish that learned and excellent Professor — уйе are those who believe that which is not the fact 
hey ought to be on an equality. I seid, ld h viz., "that the country supply of milk frio towne i 
that the education е farmers sons, with |a vide open field fai hesit 
tions, * was just the same as is that of | in telling him that C vil no longer d ts of lt be full 
ww nion хт чө, and nationa 1 schools, and thick seeding on the plea that lin d € treble, and | Admitti g that 1 Kinst Р "Des gen 
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more iban b boys sueh schools are taught, and yc be sown on the plea that а ha ora a third, ога burih dte nil, Jt is a b^ ан im fact that the town cows 
joo тай do learn i is not 80 perfectly." of i iti is too o lazy to germinate a nd g dispen d with. А retail € of milk i x the 
into a A радиа sleep | city of London will „рау 21d. per quart wholesale for 
ld d by. many wel dis seen from which ib never awa m milk supplied bya "neighbouring dniryman, owe he 
with much ess if ndi. y complete| But consult Mr. Hew: tt Davis, or Mr. Ald gly or the country 
dissent; Tut I should have suppressed the сойо Mechi on the point. The latter purchased a farm | milk. This may appear stran пре; but it is easily 
of my mind, ot has Mr partially arrived at, had I| which had been in the of ane amen farmers for | explained when we know that, to secure the roper 
itten otherw. Butto give two examples from a tpe i of 150 years, and the o who miens posses-| carriage of the milk and for the sake of roht, the 
school, ad which i is the nearest to my residence. when he made the P dudit us red an | country dairyman keeps the mornings milk for th 
vw two following questions to the boys in that move ver, farmer, The farm was 130 seres rS the анн баарын, эб the evi milk till соб 
3001 :— average num of acres sown with Whea rom c: во that much of the cream is removed and 
Supposing the stack of Clover now standin 18 to 20 acres, and the average СЕ npe ers made nto fre sh butter, which is readily sold at a т: 
stables to be worth 5l. a ton, what ів the vidue o of and observe, my readers, what I am stating is учит) price in alllarge towns. Тһе town dairyman cannot 
whole stack!— The boys themselves, with no | оЁ proof, ean that quantity of seed ‚рег acre to|trouble himself with butter-making, and sells his milk 
an from the schoolmaster, gave me the correct produce the adding, it is true, some water, 
Iw ill say 21, for lam not во 'certain on this point ; if he MÀ е мат d to the consume. Тћһегеаге 
К question was this: Неге, boys, are si я, s, which w eed n now discuss, 
Tn Wheat s red п tn — from ШТ and 7 coombs an aere produced, that is, taking | in havi ana v — that 
quantities, w mb (the at the hi r еце) number of acre s; aud the average | we should c our attentio alterin ng t е condi- 
ht ti f 14 н tions which lead to the regulat wholesale stener 
la et. p it raa into each ; square нод оѓ ап acre) Now, ears afterwards, at one of the first of t the cowfeeders. 
ground?! An e answer to this question was worthy Alderman gatherings, һе had 50 acres et That our readers may form some idea of the extent 
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correctly given; and this latter question e the Whea t whic ha raged ll coombs an aere; that is, | to which our ever і districts have been drained for 
correct answer given to it from six differen 1 When t from the 130 acres against th we may 
of Wheat since my letter of the l5th of rer 140 of his predecessor, nd. aed seed per acre was n d *20 years ago for 1 104 or 122, realise now from 
Leere Now, a mathematician or a маънан e ea bushels, but from 4 to б pecks TA and still | 1з, o 207 Itis ño н тт Ev for а dU to 
d to fi of this han double what Ish hould have putin; and from | give 25l. and 807. for ss Short-horned cow—and 
and the solution of the em, very simple, bu t of these ios ti animals cannot q^ Te 
er knew а g farmer who could solve them, о; m а crops of all kinds have aveřaged more than 11 | They sge rapidly diminishing. 
that had ever qup of them or such like as being coombs an acre. admitted that thë number of cows kept in 
requisite for him to know, potd to my mind a appea But my —— readers are у sceptical. t and we may 
nearly as requisite for a roperly to manage a | I will give them her — e, viz, the dre of Tondon and Edinb burgh — — hes P rear rm 
farm as it is for a sailor M ieu the science of naviga- | Mr. Hewitt Dav einn e of fin не were рго- | during the past 20 years. The owever, 
on before he undertakes to navigate a ship ; and Tet duced from still less quantities of us ну they were | annually purchased in any single Mit is h осе and 
e here state that if farmers , really first ascertained the admiration of all who inspected t з but as he | treble what it used to be prior to 1840. We perfectly 
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of it eed I unhesitatingly affirm that a man | who give at — 4l. and 57. an acre чч their lands, | had been one, two, and three years in the band 
mld be considered insane who should — that | viž, the market gardeners, one of whom, оп my|town dairymen, on whose farms they were kept for a 
ut three and a-half bushels an a to the | asking why he w^ in his Peas in rows 90 JE and wer of months prior to calving; but now the majo- 
ound ot any kind of it, though onl ч dew years|even 8 feet asunder, whilst Ойын. ui same | rity of these animals are sold diseased to the butcher 
b in ind G'an inch under, yv lied | within five months of E the dai The town 
mieultural Gazette ; e been aware, ав he|that he gave 4i. an acre for his bud whilst farmers | eps man has learned that а 5 Short-horned cow "god 
Prin, been, that "he put into the e from gave only 305., and therefore МА could afford to grow enormous profit if е only lives four or 
nm: orn. onths. after calving, and he knows that his Жом, 
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A. would Tu en before he had sent to the who are оин їп а A pum said about bis а crops, ds as they did ; but he does mot "consider how bes t 
press such а I will Say, if „they will ЕЕ ча hi жос» of al quantity of stock this country 
ndoi Ш, t 1 He goes on büying and killing twice and 
credit fo жың do, but at the depen to I had | deeply and thoroughly as he dee ege eim erii fast аз his ancestors, quite regardless of all 
just de. quantity of lend that the Rev. S. Smith a deems them also, and twice or three times deeper than they uences, 
requisite to test his system upon, and at the time the | have done, put into к» the proper m and vege- Arme the ST districts sparéd for the towns 
profesor ad нт he 704 B5 buskas ыр cre, | table manures; and sci tiüeally seed their eir lade, фе. 6 io make тоон for th d 
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аа а "a dea e year І had|theircountry from the painful and humiliat ено con- | dropped udder, ів not to be seen. Heifers with. [^W 
{го sees and оша — of - dition she is now in of being indebted to all the corn- | first calf are being bought up greedily ; and good fat 
think his. enti о ва mall, Ia sk | growing. countries of the world for a sufficiency of food, | cows, with their second or third calf, are, as a ed 
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contain, а да oen wee I sow some to spare for iess favoured nations. | wonder that cows are getting If we could oy 
ind the ey, аз I kita wi Thi ink a man insane ec Wilkins, Parsonage, Wiz. prolong the average life of the t е dairy cow from 
ould put in 34 bushels of any kind per acre. ————————— | віх to nine months, the saving to the country wou ould 
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Pew quantity of seed, чы what І am maintaining is | COWS AND CALYES. ld adopt a system w whereby animals mike ми 
в wherever ] quantities of seed are necessary,it| Tae TRADE 1х Cows,—No reliable statistics are at five to six months after calving in a town ild be 
^ demonstrative proof t he land is badly culti di lt i ibly the rapid calf to the country. That this is s pesti 
vated, and that the seed is put into the ground in hich th | of thi lly d i eable and profitable we hope at some future time to 
Tost unscienti c from th tant 1 mortality in t dairies. | show. For a moment, we are desirous only of 
fo wii Pret time I have a plot of mdp the всей | It is aci 11 kl t|indieating that the wholesa i : 
by Mr, ees „Sent me as a present w er seeds | leads to the rae гы [ёл of animals "747 for | large to wns is incompatible with an increase in the 
Gilo ады of the well-known е “1 йаза bird, | the production of milk in large cities. The адр breeding stock of the country. Any sceptic on this 
not & & Bawtree, and of this I put into the pond | standing on the subject, fatal to salutary reform, has| point can id be „enlightened by a communicative 
acre, fourteenth part of T and a-hal D — ап | arisen from the diseases of animals being ill under- | cow-dealer or intelligent town dairyman. 
and on land that had been Wheat in | stood, - that many-headed monster Contagion HE ptm IN AND TRANSPORT OF CALYVES.—Pre- 
Prud а before ; and yet e erop is as t t on ће having been i ever tł 1 shown that there is scope 1 bs 
ca ке Сап grow. And wing how sceptical | system of fadia town cows—which might {be better, exercise die. economy in relation to the lives 7 
" nq to statements a tiama from and could be infinitely worse ; others s hav ve spoken of cows, e be Пете we can even more ebd 
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i ws "ir D: | disease, if kept tied e neck for six months We do'not fall i iu with the ery that ey tal veal 
а same di from |a time, than if driver P bont ta te cows are in Мон. should be butchers’ stalls, both by the 
his plot, again, is as | castle, Dublin, and other cities, where fr f the Faculty and tho strong arm of e jr 
er who saw it with me | the privi of common а рийн. СЕ been | " veal, if eng а t n ux tdi dones 
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p mts t to to provo nti itis is b y gaslight, and where, on - ^ mà = аса di е 
beo oth n PEE € one would i All this is very true, and nothing Cambridge, Lincoln, Жаы карр Pied. their fatted 
manti medi at remunerative prices, the London veal trade is 
pen y meer ni fud ELE € the — e aries now gone entirely into the hands of the foreign trader, . 
95 Lim, vim 18 рег о y crops be, and Mr „ | excluding them altogether from certain parishes, and | From Antwerp and other parts many fine pibe 
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