10—1850. | THE 
AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 155 
therefore, having aden a good crop, emit no effort 
e best method of doi ing this, is 
end Mr. 
f Holkham—I will give his |e 
ete to Mr. Coke, o 
“We 
by the midd le of November, and in some seasons rather 
earlier; we then 
ope 5 
i en) are 
set to work; the Turnips are pulled u 4 and 15 roots 
eut from the bulbs, the sone being left gorse or 
ve hooks, broken sickles or reap roa fe) such like 
as we t 
to, and touchin 
and only o ne Turnip, ee 
from the field occupies a much less space when placed 
ihan can reaso . ve > imagined 15 those y Jare 
not tried the exp ent.] thi 
ende 
s uppermos t, 
upon without goia ing injury, in time 
severe frost, deep snow, ke. while, at every fav ourable 
opportunity, we keep adding "to = ee the preserve. 
the T 
set t 
ridges as are thought proper 
ng soils become pulverised, and the 
spring work expedited, as the ground only requires to 
b ifi harrowed to make it in a proper state 
3 ied a the succeeding corn crop, which is always 
oots, as 3 55 fe remains 
verest fro a. and what is 
out fibres 
roo have now to describe a process, that 
of aud i in, by yay: at R trifling cost, the safe 10 
even of the larges 
e 
at that re hn dar gaa to be sor 
may suppose epee in ae 
vicinity of 50 identical field of Turnips ; ins : 
2 friend w 
med, pr W. 
nihh a and the ground wa 
I 
TEA a ao I am forestalling the stor my cro 
“Early in December, I could not help regarding it with 
some an i e wo D e as 
mvented to 
make great havoc oc amongst it. It was, 1 ee 
as a measure of self defence a hares, wood- 
The process 
— Ti ughed on eos ridges, on 
it, flat 
or pel — the requisite amount 85 ko having be 
been Arch „ advantage was taken o omparatively 
urrows instead o one. 
the drawers forthwith proceeded 
furrows oe 
Bare was os s0 yey 
3 in 
furrow— 
ain 
as 
a ider the early sown Swedes to be full grown 
hi 
take the first e opportunity the game 
1 “ng re of good Turnips | o 
| anally almost unaltered to the 
Ir 
ed by muc 
pa 
- | Frampton-on- Severn, Gloucestershire. 
hich the to follow 
r had been, drilled ed at 18. inch intervals, Ge as we b 
urrows. 
to e the Tarain packed closely 8 1 Win their farmer 
roots and to: When th 
mcr have been Pai, as 
with far less real success than w. 
n these newly formed furrows were 
la. n 
in en 
placed such Tarnips as the first two were unable to 
hold; and apaia er bout of the plough completed the 
kig of bur: tire crop; for, be it observed, 
r 
he produce 
into — and mutton for aaie, ub | all the straw ** 
and consumin the Grass 
oar fields, carting out the keis Paa 1 dressing or a 
to the dunghills, purchasing the live stock with skill, 
feeding them with food increasing in richness as they 
advanced to en es watching | ae favourable time 
to dispose of them es bestowing a constant per- 
sonal atte tendance on ‘al pA operations of mia od 
an. 8 the igh nes of the sgil- 
essential; secon use 
t 
No 
the exception of t 
onde 
save sbi fhe rful to .say, with 
17 
mber an old — 99 9 n ng in to see 
some 3 of mine, then (in the middle of Mar N 
ing i yards. The first thing that to 
and soundness of the White 
ts we he 
them of this quality, N late in the season, and aft 
such a winter as we have had! 
rive when you 
did sure spag 5 3 were as jui 
were first pulled KE p placed in the furrows ! 
do not recommend this plan for any but light, clean 
lands—they might and undoubted! ry TPI be preserved 
on strong 8 but think of the 8 
be in when taken from the furro diag -a the engi 
‘ing s ummer; put up 
to rpg och Octo * 5 Tot 2d, Riko ditto, Lot 3d, 
Put into open yar soon as 
3. Lot Ist, tied ny in * 103 ft. an by 44 ft. wide. 
Lot 2d, ditto, Lat 
4, Lot Ist, orb beast consumes 155 ily 70 lbs. raw 
Swedes, 23 Ibs. Linseed-meal soaked Beon yea ihe 
—— meal, and 8 lbs. straw chaff. ae 
of ms quantity. 
Little Wine straw, no account taken of the 
foe y. 
— Lot sah estimated N in eight, 17 Christ - 
10 imperial stones; the value depe an the 
deere when sold. Lot 2d, inerease in 8 mor 
than — t, but not so forward. Lot 3d, going i 
very w 
7. vis clean a s hunters ; very comfortable 
N.B. There are no cattle bred on this farm; * are 
buy be 
f breed, e ndeavouring to 
all bought 
t Town-field Farm, 
8 
what will pay best. 3 mes 
N HIGH FARMING: AUCHNESS. 
Iris ee allege that far 
sses ari 
hs they absolutely m 
And so they 
3d, in open yard, with shed to lie Jr 
the best beef being now $d. per po ound le 
sn a Se 
weighty ma 
e 
prone 
ness. Many people 
at as “ one swallow does not make g summer,” hi 
ts. Now 
have Bed 
but t jose it out in practice by 
manure, seldom givi 
ns per acre esides. 
| reckoning that every ton above tat quantity aia them 
t the 
an 
lay for Mmm 
i 2 
which grain kag can 3 8 more cheaply 8 
than through the . n of green e 
e cattle bins! No— plough in on light land, and all and G 
will be right. If severe fast, the axe mik be saved | may throw some light on our difticulties . 1 ji 540 
a mild d r, the land v e saved. just here t also that it e by i ir asing the 
Samuel Taylor, Barn oP Gloucester, F. 4 72 amount of land under eat, as our climate does not 
S. It may excite surprise that so a permit its inerease, n r would the soil, altho 
pa 70 as I have m eae: one ed should suffice pre- | dunged with 40 tons per acre every four years, enable 
e ge a root as the white Tere, when a us to have it often an once in that period ras 
thick coating of straw or stubble has proved insufficient | exceedingly desirous v be enlightened, and w 
r the purpose. In practice however, the fact is so 5 Caird’s pamphlet when it appeared as a most = et 
— for myself, I would phisik- depend on 6 28 of produetion and have por d 
mould, than 6 feet of straw as a . of although could have wished thes 
creasing interest, 
he ned from. Mr M:Culloch his 8 
1848, instead vl the yet to be 
had obtai 
for the years 18 
to increase hi is outlay i 
pienk number of cattle he bought one- 
ined also tha an 
be able to carry them 
selling them. He has now sold one-half 
of as fine quality 1 could be wished, ast the Brice st 
stock than the ps gro 
s that from the estile ho has already 
and ‘see he sell p to dispose of, he will tare a 
paa; of 6/. per a 
These are ‘somewhat sevmas by hat mach 3 iey. ponot 
e truth 
-| and yet grain an any 
is nearly one-third lower. We are great 
cle 
ty ap which 
changed into 15 shillings. I trust that some 
finders may enlighten us as to such 
matters. Mic. M‘Muck. 
rrespondenc 
Corr 
ight on omi showing then 
—The influ 
his farm in er California, only the uncer 
tainty of 2 result deters many from attempting it, grit 
yes 
with many o and 
a comes it, — Suk a ‘hare. Pe — past been 
— a the grain 
