490 THE 
AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
[Aus. 3, 
in favour of the reaped Wheat of 3s, per acre. 
comes the thatching, which, if all the corn and straw i 
stacked together at harvest, requires immedi ee 
ing when wages are double that of other times. A stac 
of corn —of mown corn, of six acres—has in oer 
about 1000 square fost of thatching upon it, — ty 
of 10s. — se a stack of rea * — 
ong that the reaped is about halt “the bulk 
ld cost but 10s., while it contained 
n 
amount of quantity . would be as 
corn and —— separately, yet the cost would be 
tively the same as above per acre. 
— the chief advantage of reaped Wheat over mown 
ether by hand or x machinery. 
wer 
a] | Cases 3 my ry plans, or clinging obstinately upon a very poor soil, which bed they not been 1 
d o e hav 
the = atter of | 
on to a —— er length 
e same time, we would 
scythians to show us some 
ard so m 
very much like some of those 
than the new. R. V., Leighton Buzzard 
MANURING FOR EVERY 
Wits reference to your leadi 
course —.— selves 
radioed person’s unqualified approbation. 
our observations upon ar 
intimately connected with my own ine, 
that I cannot refrain from addressing you a few lines ; ; 
and chiefly because = — land under my eu ou 
on has receive 8 c 
the last 30 iess 2 least, and probably 3 a 
with g 
5 to feed the machine 
— 8 strain upon 
mown Wheat, 
engine was 
when two men ns ms Ae — 
which was going ange ao 
inery 
was only 8d. per quarte 
e long Wheat was 5 204 
* a p of Wheat 
— m e in l to the 
e | 
carrying nearly as cuttin 
In threshing with a locomotive engine here lately, 
Wheat with little straw was 
shart’; j there is 
general a aon way 
e barn, $ whero iti ` require; if the 
are n ted, a 3 of stubble 
ma taken trom t the fla — set upon the spot at 
once for daily use on objection by the advo- 
cates ping 
7 
jury b uting in 
. 
eat by soft wwe 
mown Wh ~ burg pieces of dirt, & 
mixed with the sam 
vantage 
at there is — a Mead. 
ery often may 
ying on thei 
If there 
Ko., they can be left after the 
d. 
carr 
land again with the manure. 
a few Thistles and Docks, 
sickle, pulled up, an urne 
ust of course, as in every other case, a deal 
upon circumstances which is the best method 
&, 
. 
arvest wish 
carriage we 
tobe understood that the stubble should 1 be cut either | monia w 
taking the c wine age a barn, 7 would 
8. Gd. p The 
was 
| seriptio ay 
~$ It runs 1 the plasti clay Rove the chalk to the 
to f. 
can imm mediately 5 
t 
re are 
age 
— cutting | of th 
. dosing 2 
much a ge period. My arable farm is therefore a 
remarkable instance, possibly an — oe = 
cing h rops, 
and every year in 
a cart- load of — — the of man. 
Like — (7 ever. 
elly sand. 
lower green sa 
1 * perhaps, be asked what I do sous my farm. 
yard dung, as I make such | uantities 
It is always applied to _my Hop-grounds, cath h of whic rich 
kossies a heavy dress 
| two su 
Hi: 
way, that my | 
already indicate that 
bodri 8 o return to 
operations; for many years, — 
of guano, pe the use 
hitherto 
my common farming 
till the —— 
disoo 
of an — puwa of — ee of lime, 
the er Providence, are i 
ject to our ‘oon con we a ensure a heavy 
crop of Turnips, or of the cereals; that is, provided the 
latter will stand ep You may, perhaps, me that 
my farm is sit — favourablo eir eireum- 
stances. But it our best 
per diem, 
wih hay or P is proc 
3 crop nt Barley 5 * i the pei vy 
showers do not lay them et I invar iably —— 
better ai pall al my Swedes, an 
I here inci 
ground whenever — — 
y feig a and that I plou; — 
casional — To this I attribute — 
owing lar 
Hl 
m 
on this subject 
ou throw upon the applicability 
5 principle” to the cereals, 
that 
Mr. Lawes ae apos 
For 
by various crops witho „ We see 
plots —— ae vg — the application’ am- 
of W 
ain ae nearly 40 bushels per — What 
vidence the ‘of 
appli the 
uring system to the cereal crops can we 
require! 
My own experience will 
these “landmarks” of agriculture in a small de 
t 
Is per acre and; t 
hall, I obtained 6 55 eee of Barley after pulling off all my 
at z early 100 
mixed my ground up fossil phosphates, 
A Peas re eee pe u 1 
y the 
ml | heavy rains; but 
reason why the old school in this respect is not better | tio 
i ; 8 
y 5000 persons, 2 "the United breeder of 
in — without t the aid of | breeder: 
my | pur 
dom, our | Castle, afterwards of Ridley Hall, 
lan lastl 
ing 
the very highest 
l only tend to corroborate! calves 
— 62d, and 
‘OW finest im 
ey lai 
I have a 2 field of Oats of 20 acres tea 
id b 
the rains, I feel persuaded w f= a A 
of full 14 or 15 — — 
all not be accused of vanity when I say that my 
this parish, with the exce 
have averaged 
crops are superior to any in cep- 
n of one neighbour, who avowedly follows in my 
teps. ha now want 1 eap source of am. 
monia. Cannot you stir up the agricultural chemists, 
so — they may obtain for us the ammoniacal salts of 
ra n we buy in guano ? — if 
thie e cannot isen effected, the farmers of England haye 
e to be thankfal = the — of 
guano 5 sad “the may rest assu guano without 
protection is infinitely — than protection without 
guano. J. M. Paine, Farn 
THE E oe OF SHORT- 
HORN CA 
Tue sale of this celebrated got took pap on 
Thursday, gh: 9, 1850, in presence 
which, at the lowest estimate, could not be — vase 
horn e 
in 
— of the = 0 justly the pride of our coun 
on that refer: and 
— 
such a mighty gathering on the occasion of its 
Tea to a the nuclei of new, or to uua collec- 
pora mae ing, in our girt isles 
— quarter of our — beyond 
the Atlantic ocean. 
criticise in print a “ee whilst it agp the 
rty of the breeder usly a 
rope improper 
. with paa —.— by W which no good 
pose can be answered, but which, may be — 
of controversy, liable to excite vexation 
ever, a her 
in 
ispersed, = on t oceasion — 
ra s tho e reason for ding an mony of 
its merits, and of those of the i several animals o f which 
it is compri es: in — — 
of rural affairs of such interes 
sale of the 1 hor not only N 
ecord than the ordinary notice in the 
paper, but now that th ae in 
1 a distinct ti, a 
useful ; poe 
so fitting as the pages * the “ Farmers 
he herd in question, noma 48 cows, heifers, 
jand heifer-ealves, and zo hs bulls and bull calves, late the 
and y of Kirkleavi 
rarely a 
combination 2 those qualities which constitute excel- 
lence, in the short-horn variety of cattle, it o be 
with confidence, that the Kirkleavingto 
ulness and a i 
on Ager * the hide is sufficiently 
— to — an excelle 
n felt 
floating — the hand 
— — — the soft and aide i Pome of 
sak ot as : rongho 
herd execllent . —.— of flesh, and disposition to rapid 
taking-on fat. In the 68 head of cattle, n 
b 
inferiority arose, it w y in reference to a em 
parison with — of ‘this splendid herd, which, from 
ej their 
most may demand 
special notice 
The herd consisted of sin families: 1 Duchess, 
— Oxford, the 2 the Cambri 
se Eyes, an thorpe. 
aordinary excellence, 
. 
eg reali at the sale; a synopsis o 
prices, and purchasers, being subjoined, to miich it 
be sufficient 1 
Of the 
pure 
Collage s dng in 1810 for 183 
* ork, is p # 
operty of Earl —.— is a i 
niake His and perfe ap e- 
every point of excellence, entitle him get ss 
the brighte: and i 
best 1 in exi 
Gran e, Duchess 54 
64th, all of “he same family, are 
e ens of the short-horn 
consisting of 
E 
imagina 
Next in order 
moir of Mr. Bati Pr A 
Magazine” for 7 ae A crepe 
N a a so ; 
hir proie we 
s — 
Far, Mag.] 
