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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
[Nov. 23, 
on vermin, and — he following extracts — the 
any rea who, ve active 
ts triviality ; for (we quo 
He that despiseth small things shall 
The writer says, ‘Sar ely the on ong ome, pores = 
ing all feasible methode to 
which pr on corn, was never 80 cong inou mabent | 
as at the present. alarming: crisis 5 and it is hoped 
ed An hou 
dir drivi 
gender — 2 to 
em 
Our ey iada 5 analo 
es; 
produce and against an Mag 
bsistence. 
ty, | cage-kind, and by od aed 
as are commonly kept by raf: catchers and labourers. | 
or two should reserved, weekly, for 
ferret — | dogs should be in the 
ither the b 
the 
the — The holes or — ermin, in and 
llow trifling premiums. to 
11 
ke | heavily, perhaps, on peaty so 
him 
est skilled 3 r mast — aes to | cropping 
around the premises, are diligently . be sought out, | extr 
g to 
rats and mice may be reckoned as our chief enemies in 
a| the class of kao y — of course, being excepted 
the fens the mice undermine — arable land in 
Drainage, published in 1629. 
ks upon the difficulty of — the aig with 
ere 
of doing your wo 
ogous to that contained in 
ion against “ee Russians, and: 
pro- 
yars 
respite to be allowed to the delinquents, but a 
mina 
ng io ae „ 
a most usefal rece of domestics, fully entitled 
nd: kin of oil of ea 
away, “which 
cats, a 
to. our: care 
d — every crop | 
ri 
h 22 jee the bankes, w. 
Hay nau's ditto 
so 
In our. dwellin 
the —— into —— 
by | former from over-populating the buildings. 
the 8 in infinite number, and ares upon, the 
fish, doe multiply | ue fishes b 
waters do Ar —— beaten into them by 
mischief which it is eee 
But in our corn-stacks, an ies, and houses, 
ri rats * mice prove themselves pests and ies truc- 
— 
fee 
veigle 
— dogs may — the 
and utterly. 
ick is a 
ngs, 
and ferre 
; of the most.pr proper. dogs to gua: 
yard, pk & am 2 e are those of the 
small yelpi of which there is no 
the. high 
feed an 
bring up puppies for my — — when the dogs 
2 old enough, takes them ow and galloping over my 
* and sm g fences. kills nuisances. for 
1 thought formerly that destroying fox: covers and 
picture. The, 
as of grea 1 n to agri- 
superior horse- 
ture, as 1 
flesh; icles person is me that — horses are faney and 
fitful thi 
nd — n 
field v 
whi chy 
st, A — in the farm 
Neither these, nor the i 
mises well guarded by verm gs. 
In another — 3 — :I know not that 
vipers, efis, toads, or other poisonous class of rep- 
tiles, are a whit more —— here than in Ireland, 
and I — if country people would be unanimous 
stead their —— urs, te entire genus o 
y in 
ngs, of no earthly use for sober industrial pur animals mi me be extinguished.” This, 
poses; au th ms not needful for the sake of however, may be tle — severe, and a little too 
useful Wr that the horses are bred expressly 4 After stating that he allowed ys a penny 
for the racing ie 3 of all birds of prey, such as 
* pios, perlez, m j let me return to my hawks and erows, which endanger the poultry. 
autho: € implies that there is even attack | ; es, pyés, a 
somes ia myad T” | 3 — ap 
1 oe! EM 
Perhaps. s0 
same thing ; as follo T spanen. of 
tiva 
vermin, he call 5 205 bie . ut the a 
ny 0 
in force measures of abso- 
1 
game cultivator of a: corn- farm cres, | lute destruetio eee Na. . 18, 1842, the follows 
er t per “Probably there are few classes of the feathered sorts t were sown, at the rate of 10pecks.of 
week at a fine; 1 epee rat consume, ingluding the | tribe which ka could well spare; * they are in general RF, e A eel ng after an dd Teia 
waste heat in England 2d. a pint i —— r. our defence against the tribe of insects which would lea, the soil gravelly and in a poor state of, eultty 
. rat will consume halfa peek of Wheat in a|else, by their multitudinous — — all “the The result reds as follows:— 
week, whieh is Is. — — a man has only two score of fruits of the earth.“ True, every 7 have at Per aero gal, pee at 
them quartered upon hi m, their board nd him in — a ie — of wild birds to do this pro- 1 *Rattling Jack, red „ s 
upwards o of 21. 106. ee the rent of a g farm. p for d spare o classes | 2. Burwell red 2 2 0 242 . 
f equrse-now. Wheat fetches. only half the price here of the feathered: ¢ tribe, viz., preserv d protecte a vue — — z —— 
me tioned, we must allow ae value to Per artridges and pheasants, which e lly prevent 5, 1 Baia ar S 23 3 0 Bis, 
by rats; but the principle is precisely the same, aps i great ravages from insects by themselves devouring the this 8 al er 
inde „a large part of the fact, for: 25s. a week is — of the 5 are beautiful fowls, their Ex nt No: 2.— About the latter end of October, 
a year, an unusually is ome reduction o | plumage is rich, and their flesh sweet; but the plainer | 1843, the 10 kinds of Wheat were drilled at 
250 a farm, and a [saying equal to the whole of 0 poles: and homely — pay far better for their keep. rate of a? send a agre on 28 
a y 8 } v an be er Timem, irds isa kind joining, in t 7 1 ce p 
ey have nothing of greater eranan e | of pg, — ben these: —— 1 servants dearl fer 
up their attention, to make a on this g laboriou nths out of the 12, 10 — in a poor sate of calito, Wa e 
subject ; and if any man be d 3 maintain t — Ives — =a ie 5 ts, blight s, worms, slugs, as managed on alike; . — R followi0g, 
pony of corn a rat — eat, let bim take one | and seeds of weeds, e proposals for the general | results: wi 
alive, and try the experim à —— destruction of een t inc, were ill. — res et Per.acre. alue- Valja: 
alow , however, for. con — ot there is no | Bradle: he found a gre: of e No. Bsh. ph. gal. Der OF} Ae 
ne, at their | pillars in the maw of —— and thence — E ge 2 1 1 6 
Being at 3 degree of i as to. the That a pair of sparrows. carry young, in the 5° . 36 3 o = ee 1 a$ 
wilt nu fo radic cal measur inues, | course-of-æ month, 3360 caterpillars.. Rooks, also, are 4. —— Jack, red wri. are? 3 15 45 
some origina mai: 3 e employ 55 ur fence st that devouring insect, the 38 2 0 ... 508 ; 
as; and so did their gru and on the dispersion of a rookery, these 6. Sea i) 2 1 0 i „ SEY 
Date iir AT the vermin get to. have been observed to iner an a g degree. 7. Oxford prize w a 0 0 526. 14 4 
— VAARIIN daina ——.— 3 has 2 — cul = * celine i the rer it appears, all we have to that F awe sdl 
g out in- do with reg and sparrows, is to watch them he old Burwe 
crease — ee indifferent and at our dili ntly at edle, and harvest, | looking upon that * — — 2 — Four — 
r ——— and again. | portion. of corn, of which we 8 deprive them, in of land aan ‘eed eash vileo * — Wh 
ars a Ft thou the light of a debt Se past 1 erp at i ald of 7 in ut 
— wil, piso Bird. keeping is an operation in — — — a managed — alike? oj seedy 0 
— . 15 il i 2 we — . — — done by halleoing 10 pecks per a0 l 
— * s: Me b my ne ing gongs and seijin; harsh- horns, Per acres Value ki x: 
e * srah one, a heartily wish every vo ioa farme —— scaree-c by white thread zig-aagged about No. may er sok Ear So 211 % % 
— * — a beter i if mus ilin understood, I e Pee the seed-field rae “atiak. - stick, pe by: . L : Baiting e, red Mt = Es 3 
—— o the farm are gen * eountry house, solely, Zuns and pistols, ieves. are certain to 4 — white and I Spald- 36 = k 505. „ & 
war ; an Is to „dig up much of the * t: is „and pick Si A TA 525. mer 
Bead A farm should be provided with a competent | off much of the — grown for the seedsman, *- Brow mats te Meer ao ee oe a 
of ferrets, and of true vermin- FANS n this especially very The land is a misi ‘soil of clay and. gravel; | : 
| eg early in a mornings But 
pre- say rarely, for 
y —— 
the wisest pi must be to up dle- frames 
pillars, and build the stacks 8 — 2 foundations thus 
; high above the ground, circular frames of 
uare frames of timber, > eithencheap or dear; 
and these may mace illars with 
y cast-iron 
climbing mice, or by ar 
ar, | mushroom tops, 
ae with broad * * zine covering, fi 
ut Such an 
an apparatus e 
— corn therefore upon elevat 
i or. und 
the convenient shelter; wrap each o 
about half way up with a band of zinc: or y 
| will rarely have mice making waste in your sfam I 
it is possible forsa male and female 
With 1 02 to from the 
or the 
costs: but mak stack 
ed staddl 
mouse, or a fe 
harvest-oart in a sheaf. J. As 
— —ñ́ — 
EXPERIMENTS ON WHEAT GROWING.— No. H. 
been endeavouring to 
heat, and have 
inds, I generally sowed it again, but if in 
a ia — The <r have 
Seve: Is are ne eessary. before any- 
pactoula v e 8 e can be 1 on, as the 
most profitable to 
RGW 
