THE AGRICULTURAL’ GAZETTE. 
[Nov. 9, 
ans to Sme that 
“ Royal Commission, and to take 
„Show — as an exhibition. of reading Stoc 
ABRI Rerorts.—The Secretary laid fore 
been held on 
extensively othe into 2 pores easy ered the 
coun had thus bee s of misre 
din 
senting ‘the Council and its foray rod 5 Th 
editor, in justification, stated that the report in question 
been received from one of the class of persons 
own as P -liners,’ who were in the habit 
= supplying miscellaneous information to the public 
Vene Scrence.—On the —— ued 2 cee 
seconded by Mr. Thompson, that 
Mr. Fisher ee. Mr. ened Webb, Colonel el Chaloner, 
Lord P d Mr. S of ondon, b inted 
the PA aree of the 
week of the 
st 
r carrying out their mutual object to 
= ree application of Veterinary 
pi 
— — re- 
the gutters, and to dilute the manure, all of which should be 
pe a doer by pipes into the troughs sae * The + ae 
of converting the whole N of the into a liquid sta 
may not receive the sanction and appr — of meng. agricul- 
turists ; of its 1 5 in Sis form, I can t give an 
opinion ; and as the mode has only ntly be een ad opted i in this 
country, it Woah be * to ‘pronounce * P its pice + 
I have made a calculation of the expen other points 
gen — y 
adopted. In order to tring the matter ‘of e expense to a test, we 
shall suppose a farm of 400 acres, and 100 acres of this in root 
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50 acres of Italian eas cut thrloe, 2 20 tons 
per acre she 
200 acres of corn, straw of do., 13 to 
And an addition of one-third at least of beter equal to 1000 1 
3 — 
Now this ag <2 all sent through pipes by — Se ‘the 
steam-engine working = hours in the week upon an average 
for 52 weeks—260 h 
The engine power le W eia at ze 4 cared : „ D20 
Four men employed, — * 3d. per h 8 DE 
Interest on pipes N and ation * i . 0 
n tanks, say we E e E 
£75 
Compare this with the — carting to the fields, turning, 
3 and carting whe pies — and spreading of say 3000 tons 
m t by 
1 
case, and but one in the other. They both have the adva ntage 
of a lease, but —5 — s is prosty more favo —— for the 
te nant, allowi g him more discretion in the ing of his 
farm than 18 Almost e — the —— in Scotland, 9 A gh it 
— — of his lease, whic ith us. It appears 
further that Mr. Gibson 2 fewer horses in ‘proportion to 
his carriage and mileage than Mr. Rigden; that his general 
expenses are — than Ar. Rigden's by near ely 20s. per acre; 
that the capital with which he carries on his business is also 
smaller by no less than and yet that his grog 
Fd 
— * the average 
veut | 15 51. 125. per imperial acre, it is evident that this s single 
item of additional rent paid by the Scotch farmer (amounting, 
on 740 acres, to some 28001. ds greatly more than absorbs the 
whole surplus in Mr. 3 en's statements; and that, upon the 
whole, if it be deemed proper that we should take a lesson from 
suburban . t would be seemed * advantageous to 
t to Woolmet than to H The next case cited 
that of the Dorset shire, 
th 
the motive whic 
in 
the outs tset of his T career, viz., 
tons may to be lost py Sin gop 
Wiak it would — Py, 1 if I put it down at 
per ton. This is exactly — uble—150/, There is another aden 
sideration, and no ast impor By ge etting the 
lisa + 121 
t of labour 
in May and J une, when the Turnip crops are being got in, and 
in time. Any arrangement that can tend to equalise the labour 
of the —— Racy 1 be a decided advantage. 
red a 
ers of his ow n parish, Though 
this case is a very different — n that — 1 it is 
ee — here also the 1 a far is 
— — ma business, viz., 
land and labour, on there obtained at a rate very different from 
those paid by te It appears that Mr, Huxtable’ s land 
Mr. Cunn: m then 
me of pompi pally 1 5 whith he had made of the ex- 
— and | ace commodation required for carrying out the new 
field Club, that the last day for making the required 
entries, would be Saturday the 16th of November. 
Corraces-—The E of Bepr prese the 
Council, for the lib f the Society, a copy of an en- 
arped pe 1 of the plans for Agricultural Cot 
ted by His Grace to the Earl of Chichester, | ™ 
8 published in the Journal of the eee e 
Council accepted this present with a vote of th st 
The best thanks of the Council =— ordered for the 
eo 
numerous p miscell communications | 
then laid before and ined fi er di 
ion at the weekly meeting on the 11th of December. 
The Council then a their monthly 
on Wednesday the 4th of December next, 
Farmers’ Clubs 
F BERWICKSHIRE, Oct. Mr. Mil 
Report A English) Farming—Mr CUNNINGHAM, 
previ to . Milne’s printed report, had 
visited the farms of dhs carpe and Auc „in Ayrshire 
| able result. 
tain 
g feature | 
115 estima vy the expense of the whole apparatus for 
collecting. and ered pst sa manure over a 400 acre arad s 
. 10s. per acre; and the 2 e po of uilding fe eeding b 
on the nw — redue 
ssd acre, or 300“. for 60 head of cattle. “The — of 
feeding-boxes he estimated at nearly 102. per animal, and 
the expense of altering and fitting up 1 . and stalls 
dell. 
at 11. rg 1 animal. r Cunningham had also visited th 
farm of Mr, Littledale in Cheshire, whose cattle are — 
— fed | in the house, pe msze r and winter. The principal 
ess of the build 
2 of his system were the size and airine 
ing —.— 
s, an of feeding, which was nearly the same as a 
the 1 Nis 
Mr. Nisser, of Rumbleton, upon being called upon by |tt 
the Chairteats aid he had t a the liquid manure 
system, not by means of pipes, but by — mounted 
on carts, and had fou ai He 
generally did his hay crop w 
and as soon as a e went over ‘t — for a ger 
crop, which w. f immen se advantage. He had a 
tried it on lea after two years — with a like 3 
is tank for collecting the manure con- 
fe 10 an 
and foundation of * . — 
to be 
ole improved — Tania „ueg 
necessary accomm 
some 
the expense Aera aape 
whieh T now beg to submit 
E Às regards the 
as a general rule Tor feeding ng o: 
every 4 acres of th 
400 acres 100 als, 
at Myremill and other 
tent of — there shot I believe roe 
s pr roduced a: 
and finish — A s è substan- 
t at the r 
roof lathed, and ie as al 
A clos e and unit rm foo 
e best mode 
One leading feature, however, must be 
ofan pe expen — of pure air from with 
r from withi 
assisting mate- 
anks is indis- 
tbe built of a circular 
ga remill, and lined 
ae orm gives the 
1 r, should the 
ure be adopted by 
spond — it inj —ĩ able ~ an 
send c in an huaai — the entire contents e the 
pipes, and the circular form is the most suitable for — — 
fon the aid of machinery. A supply of water is also r 
to give the animals, washing ut troughs, an 
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flushing 
— m 
| duce 
| Ma agazine,” for 
called on by the 
—The report which = are 
upon the face of it, that it was upon 
otion, seconded by our esteemed president ree a pina 
hag is, on every —— 80 3 to be r repren aan —— it 
was and circulated among us for our matur 
tion. On that hein — 1 expressed ded Pg opinion chat 8 5 
were much indebted to ats. Milne fo —— —— 
tatement to our 
ago any mistak 
een committed by a practical farmer, wo 
—5 posan 8 upon; but knowing as I ¢ 
r Some ptr — — and unfair not to make ample farmer, 
—— Lew me an under 3 his 8 and 
e a de- 
0 18s. per acre y Wages 
of Are tg laborers, in Dorsetshire, range from 65. 6d, to 
— though we are told — ui land — ofa 
th Hux 
8 to either oft the ot inate. ee. 1 ne 14 zu tli E 
where in all 4 can you g a at 1 71 acre, ae 
Indeed, in readin; 
— also deg! tag pre —.— pig liberate conviction, that 
— pa disproportion, is Bits a Secor itis vain to talk of 
furth utlay and impro mts, or to expect that „things 
can ong —— as shay ae f Whit. 
— 3 is — 3 sate alluded to in the report, the 
e not materials for com- 
with th 
T 
— praeire 22 osue 
conducts his business in 
wo — — particularly 2 rp 
horses with which he 3 his — 
abse 
applying the! — of 
may be done by individuals, I am quite aware 
generally over this district, 
ed upon our 
thi a 
not arise either from 
or from ignorance of 3 ex 
suggested for its app — 
oe vas ey are ei ither too o Sa or pa — * ely a 
een or 
manure ‘has yet to 2 1 à 
that the end is se- 
oppo: ity of witnessing myself 
a etme fog and his frien ae 
terested and gratified by what I 
told us, that for several years he h 
ure in the way 5 described, and, as he patera 
— Be it observed, h 
that his Sone and Gr — 
better — thus 
a scale 
ust to save the 
be 2 * 
other. I can understand, too, 
Nisbet — when all m is “attempted is j 
liquid m not a th 
hat any or all of these plans wil — 2 
h à an 
that they have not yet been 80 7 e — — andlor d to en- 
ted. 
w, it so happens that I I have i me a detailed — of 
the tel Foyt expenditure on the one side, and of the whole pro- 
r January last. I have here nothing to do with 
the purpose for which the statement boty one Erop but 
simply avail myself of it now, as affording m 
ost start- | 
while the Sussex aes has his, apparently o 
pir pay í of manure in Edinb 
r 35s.; the eBay ane to 
be jus ——— doable ‘bat — 7 — in tenes Mr. 
3 s a a 
preay ad admired. 8 0 
does not pretend that this 
The management of the live stock upon 
peared to Mr. Milne superior to ours in several respects, 
he has particularised. In part, I it to be trues 
2 of fattening pry in boxes, rather than in 
I believe, worthy o d has, in 2 — been 
tried . — vA rire among beet ra 3 1 wa 
ann therto been on scale, but sti 
on asm and obtained from my lan 
— say that it 4 —— appeared to me 
Id that eo 
outlay fee foreign m 
Mr. Rigden’s 6861. kor! 740 ae the prices paid for r — 
than by the latter ; Pg distance which 
and produce have to be carted is five miles in the one 
the former are 
manure 
tell y 1 
cattle to on a ped siram pi spring 
