S 
and this 
per annum; 
mey. be believed able, by careful 8 
a 
to produce 9 imperial stones of beef; or at 6d. 
r e Sr 
i 6th 7 seem 
Or 52 tons of green food, and 33 tons of litter, in six 
years, beside the ee of grain. Of course it is easy 
50 to state figures as to arrive at any result that may 
be desired; ‘out in the — I have gone upon what 
I believe to be reaso „ viz s 
That 24 or 25 ewt. of bay i — a probable produce from 
land of such value; 
That hay is is one-fifth or more of the Grass from 
— it is m 
and 
34 bus or ter aad harvested in time for 
Rye to be sown, which would yield 
etches, consumed in time to sow Italian 
3d 12 tons of green food in the following May, to be sea 
N ; 16 tons 2 488 
cwt, straw, 
48 bushels of Barley 
Sth 20 tons of Swedish Turni wo! 
6th — —— — * Peak he a 8 ie 
8 be thoroug 
tilled fo for ‘he following M . ote ss 
Here we have 2 r n ngold Wurz 
16 „ Rape 
20 Turnips 
Or in all 74 tons of food 
4 
20 „ 
Ho Peas 
Or in all 43 tons of . 
And 54 bushels of Jeans 
48 90 Barley 
32 70 Peas 
Or in all about 3 tons of grain, 
is put higher now than before, as 
being converted int manure) it , if an ox 
consume l cwt, of Turnips dail the above case he 
will need to eat 5 Ibs. of and use 81 Ea litter 
daily, in order that all may Th 
straw will be little enough, but oxen fattening to 7 ewt. 
will well on d : they will pay at least 5s. a 
week upon it, ie. 5s. for every 7 ewt. Ken ab lie 
of ; and the food would at tl rates 
p 4 oxen for 50 wee a money return of | 
about 50/. from the sale of the meat produced. Accord- 
ing to this, about 87, 10s. per acre is the hig 
of from land of the quality named; and 
7 ki e labour of crops into 
account, is a profitable produce does not appear. t 
Rey paia À 3 which 
produce, summer id winter, is land kingdom 
N » and the following amount Aiya nana Bs a we 
may Pe 
_ lst 7 tons 2 om Turnips, followed by Rye, yielding ai 
24 12 tons a o en yielding in 
1̃0 tons of 
ee 2 of Mangold Wurzel, followed by V Vetches 
ite 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
te himself than Th ki a L me bed this kind anomaly g his fertil 
in | from the Saak ends of the globe, and yet, at th 
me, t 
r, after the lapse of 20 de stilli in Aal 
Rome 
ard to 
rid r 2 as speedily as af mean the gene 
d, an 
the English farmer seekin 
peer — to o any fit from t sands of 
valuable m sage which at present is only 
vigable i 
the coun 
It is hoped that this paper by his 2 Highness 
2 5 will * least have the merit of of ling 
thi portant question—a 3 in- 
$ formes the! health of the 1 and prosperity 
griculture is not unworthy of the ra a of 
person, padasi important his situation, > ane now 
such an example has been set, good results are sure to 
follow 
of towns ” and re application to fe ae 
re is a 0 — we wo 
A VISIT TO SUTTON WALDRON. 
H having been said or and ainst Mr. r. Huxtable 
| | system of farming, I was anxious to judge of it vid my 
eyes. Accordingly, last month np tess 1850), I 
visited Sutton abaan where th gentleman 
whose is now we HE aa over 
England, Booted: a — Irelan of 
tor 
e | parish, and much bel oved $s 78 population asa pious, 
active, — exemplary minister of the gospel. At his 
n 
own expense Aea has erected a parsona e —— and a 
wegry church; and although much more mig 
d of his conduct as 15 2 it is suficient for my 
ber esent purpose to show in patronising in the hope 
us 
mploy ting 
means neglects his still more essential spiritual duties, 
Spaas 11 —.— ago he commenced farming, less for 
ad 
of diffusing . at a period when work was 
e labourers within the 
arce, wages low, locality 
ering s y. li t himself 
agricultural chemistry ; and after acquiring an intimate 
knowledge of t -boo usbandry, he 
or $ most aeS pua lt. s 85 Science = 
Application of Manures,” afterw ivered in 
assembla 
r 
nsists 
of 100 acres on pee galt formation ; in other words, ~ 
stiff, stubborn cious clay. The second farm 
i 300 —.— 
prises — chalk, and 
S arrange 
mci. = under each h house is placed a mass a 7 
— 
1 ait 
. alty. . pro is proposed ee simple ‘iltering 3 rs 
the sew: 
the sam e we i 
N fear that the difficulty 2 clearing it out, et 
expe prove 
— . these as to avert the 
8 
dry, p porous soil, elevated 500 feet above the 
ter is | by throwing the whole into a single large 22 
the eircumstanee that the house system of feeding 
e | ado) 
stock summer as 
on the continent, and ee e. producing 
or | countries of Switzerland, Belgium, Deni k, and Hol- 
land, which are — pouring into Great Britain 
ae it mueh for Mr. H . 
living state. And it says 
— in introducing the foreign improved 
e e demans how many more 
may be profitably nurtured on a given extent 
of ground—mainly in consequence of increased supplies 
ure, and economy alike i measured, 
and minute, i tgoings and incomings Con- 
with cu ion. This of itself constitutes 2 
act, te Smii as it has done already, and must 
do with added force herea "3 how the peir an viad 
manu- 
facture o utton as at 
home, as where seas divide, implying freight, insurance, 
commission, and other expenses, wooden build- 
ings, of the e ruction, have erected on 
both the farms alluded to, for feeding 8 
sheep A 
ds its way into 
waste of liquid manure, all of which fin 
— n conducted by * 
derground condui its, which intersect 
there slay farm nal convenient directions, The clay pipes, 
er thick, cost 7d. per Cag or I p fd lime. 4 
y cemented i 
