



THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE 



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UtMfMT, a Wklft ( ( mi loyou drink in th 



— he da About t > quarts," he n !, 



mfa$A n to my tea in the morning and afternoon. M 



verage was » m to me, that I inquired a little 

 fartlier into its merits, a I my mail answered me that, 

 if he was not a pledged te >taller, he should use thi 

 drink in pre renct to any othcr^ as he found he could 

 4o mere work upon it than upon beer or cider; and 

 this had been c i firmed 1 the experience of many other 

 to whom he had recommended it. Any acid is of course 

 rerr pleasant to drink in hot weather, hut, in addition 

 to this, he found it kept his month free fr a that-clam 

 ss which is the ae »mpaniment of thirst, and is 

 w r ^] i increased by strong drink ; but, ahove all, it gave 

 him a good appetite for his food, which is unquestionably 



source of that strength, for which mere stimu- 



s often mist; en. Now, I can well fancy how 



honest man of the old - hool will smile 







K. 



an 



fcrisively at th . and, curling his lip, exclaim, " ' ,ar 

 and water, indeed ! " Bear in mind, however, that this 

 ie very beverage upon which the Roman soldiers 

 OKOimtered the then tremendous task of crossing the 

 Alps ; and, at any rate, it will be wise to put it to the 

 teet, before it is denounced as insufficient to enable men 

 to perform all the reasonable labour connected with a 

 farm — which I should hope was not very often at the 

 rate of 18 hours per day, for 9 v week. S. Bowley, 

 Gloucester, Aug. '■'. —If * A Labourer" will reduce his 

 allowance of * -everal pints of beer" per diem, and 

 restrict himself to his 4 * pint and pi} ," and will then 



tak< trouble to read " Falcon's '" remarks on drut - 

 enMSi, from beg ning to end, he will probably be better 

 able to UTvtorstaiHj their meaning. Theu.se and abuse 

 of beer and cider arc two very different things, which 

 your correspondent appears to have jumbled up together, 

 and no wonder after the account he gives of his usual 

 proceedings. An increase of wages was sugg 1 (instead 

 f drinkiags),to enable a man to share his earnings with 

 his wife and family, which would Sorely b* less selfish 

 than awal : quarts of beer and cider away from 



home. "A La urer " says be toils from 3 a.m. to ! kul 

 for nine shillings per week ! The writer i not afraid of 

 trusting his character, as a master, to the peasants of 

 the neighbourhood in which he resides. lie allows his 

 men 10*. per week without beer; they work 10 hours a 

 day. It may be interesting to "A Labourer " to know- 

 that " Falcon " is a very early riser, an abstemious liver, 

 seldom teaching either betr or wine, works many hours 

 in his garden, as a healthy amusement, though neither 

 strong nor young ; and he is considered a good judge of 

 what an honest workman can do,jf he feels inclined ; he 

 is not a large landed proprietor, and has travelled rather 

 further than the cellar and stable, and does not intend to 

 be deterred by a few hard words from pointing out to hi 

 fellow creatures the curse of drunkenuess. The confused 

 notions of "A Labourer" will compel « Falcon " to 

 trespass further upon the columns of the Gardeners' 



originals, obtained i: n L. I bu union tnere v 

 singular formation of the ear— having an appearance as 

 if the ] nt of it was slit or notched. In oilier respects, 

 no variation in character from th ing ears in the 



usual form. After breeding the sleek so derived for 

 many years, the distinction 1 particularly point at 

 became almost entirely lost. But within these few 

 years, a bull was obtained out of the Norfc, of the same 

 breed, and in his stock the peculiarity has re-aj>peared. 

 I wish, therefore, some one of your correspondents, who 

 may be able to give a satisfactory account of it, would, 

 through the medium of your Paper, favour me with 

 some opinion upon it — whether it has been considered 

 to denote any particular strain of blood. That 1 have 

 taken considerable interest en the Argyle breed, may be 

 ascertained by a reference to the first volume of the 

 "Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society," where 

 there is an article of mine on that breed. I do not 



tnose that won't see,' 

 won't hear." 1 con. 



rcase 



Pigi. 



4 

 2 



4 

 i 

 2 

 4 

 4 

 2 

 6 

 2 

 2 



1 



2 



5 

 3 



6 



10 

 3 

 4 

 6 

 4 



3 

 2 



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w- tea*. 



lbt. 



7JS 

 532 

 89G 

 233 

 253 

 939 

 1057 

 443 

 526 



512 

 523 

 528 

 631 



250 

 815 

 828 

 640 

 591 



607 



803 



613 



168 



1581 



Doner. 



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Weuht. 

 lbs. 

 548 

 374 

 > 

 177 

 168 

 f.95 

 7^> 



312 

 329 

 398 

 B"3 

 38 3 

 S94 

 408 

 161 

 512 

 525 

 434 

 430 



371 

 615 

 434 

 109 

 965 



Pigs. 



3 

 2 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 2 

 2 

 2 

 3 

 4 

 2 

 4 

 4 

 5 

 3 

 3 



1- 



Live 



Weight. 



lbs. 



en 



515 

 410 

 347 

 209 

 331 

 486 

 231 

 577 

 770 

 389 

 595 

 774 

 570 

 529 

 644 



23,667 



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Lead 

 "We'sUt. 

 lbs. 

 476 



37S 



319 

 255 



223 

 284 

 3G0 

 177 

 402 

 503 

 284 

 410 

 526 

 361 

 362 

 436 



16,357 



Average 176 



Proportion, > * 

 nearly ... ) 



121 



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/ tJtry. — It may be interesting to some of your 

 readers, who are breeders of poultry, to be made 

 acquainted with a striking peculiarity in a family of the 

 Cochin-China breed, which has lately fallen under my 

 notice. A gentleman in the neighbourhood of Worcester, 

 *no was successful in obtaining a prize and silver medal 

 for a pair of a white variety of tte breed, at the 

 Birmingham show last year, has now many of that 

 colour; and as I have frequent opportunities of noticing 

 jneni, it has ruck me as very remarkable that, ultheqgh 

 «e lias many of v« dark colour, that breed promis- 

 cuously with the white, none are produced with any dark 

 feathers amongst the white — or any white feathers 

 amongst the dark ones— which I can hardly suppose to 

 j>e the case with any other of our various domestic 

 toeedV E.F. JV., A ' g*4.| 



JPci t Highland Cattle.— Si posing, from the extensive 



circulation of your Journal, it must necessarily fall into 



ae hands of some persons who have a thorough 



Knowledge of the Argvleshire breed of West Highland 



cattle, I avail myself of if *~ — ' — ; * — -•-*- — 



|*spectin«; a peculiarity I 



wsfamih of that breed. A friend of mine hr been 

 •breeder of them in Herefordshire upwards of 20 years, 

 *®P»ng entirely to the pure breed, a* originallv obtained 



i 





Wall, 



^rd Strathmor and Mr. Bates, of If eddon-on the- 

 n««r Newcastle-upon-Tyne. In some of the 



dwell on this vagary of Nature as a matter of important' 

 but from a desire to know what is thought of it in the 

 native district of the breed. E. F. IT.. .1 agmt 4. 



Orcus Seeds.— I last year had some agricultural Grass 

 •eeds from a house in Manchester, to lay down a held in 

 permanent Grass ; and as I thought favourably of 

 Cocksfoot (Daet\ jbmarata) I stipulated to have 

 nothing but the seeds of this and Clover. This 

 sowed in July, with about three pounds of Rape seed pi 

 acre ; but when it came up, thinking the Grass was not 

 what it should be, I called the attention of the - lsman 

 to it, and he assured me it was nothing but Cocksfoot, 

 But this year, when the < .rass comes into llower, I find 

 that not one blade in fifty i.-- Cocksfoot, but is principally 

 Rye-grass, Softer ass (Holcus lanatus and H. mollis) 

 Meadow Fescue, Poa, &c. On this I have demurred 

 to paying for the seeds, as they were guarant ; but as 

 I wish to do what is right, it has occurred to ine that 

 possibly the seeds oi these (trasses may have been 

 taken by the sheep that weee fed upon the R; last 

 autumn, and I wish for your opinion as to whether it is 

 probable these seeds would pass through the sheep with 

 their vei tative properties unimpaired ; as the land had 

 not been in Grass for 'J.') years, at least, these seeds could 

 not have been in the soil. //. [ u Not one Made in fifty * 

 ing Cocksfoot, the seed could not have been what it 

 was said to be. ] 



The Caterpillar. — In reading your remarks in your 

 two last Numbers, upon the Turnip moths and their 

 caterpillars, I turned my attention to inspect my Cab- 

 bage, Broccoli, Cauliflower, &c, which have the same 

 appearance as all the Turnips in this neighbourhood ; 

 previous to your notice of the Turnip 1 saw the Cabbage 

 tribe looking bad, but thinking that from the wet 

 weather we have had, it was merely our well-known 

 enemies, the snails and slugs, which in this moist climstte 

 do great mischief ; however, I find the moths and 

 caterpillars as plentiful upon the young Cabbage as upon 

 Turnips ; and I fear we have got another enemy 

 added to our already numerous stock, which if not 

 speedily destroyed will lay waste our fields and gardens. 

 I have dusted my Cabbage this evening with hot lime, 

 in the hope that it may retard their progress. The 

 Turnips are fortunately in a rapid state of growth here, 

 as the weather has been extremely favour. Ie for them, 

 otherwise the new enemy would have probably destroyed 

 the whole crop. I asked a friend last night how his 

 Turnips were looking ; he replied that the frost had 

 destroyed them to a much greater extent than he had 

 ever seen. I told him if he would accompany me to the 

 field, I would perhaps show him that it was not the 

 frost, but a caterpillar ; accordingly we went, and found 

 the whole field (17 acres) swarming with the pest. I 

 mention this merely to show how careless we often are 

 in searching after the cause of anything new. If any 

 of your correspondents has seen the new caterpillar on 

 Cabbages, and found out the means of destroying it, 1 

 shall feel thankful for the information. A. M 

 Mi Al >i, County K'<!<1 .A ust 4. P.S. My father, 

 in writing to me from Scotland, complains of the frost 

 hurting the Turnips. Probably, by this time, he has 

 found out that it is even worse than frost. [The frost in 

 the early part of July did a great dtal of damage in 

 Scotland.] 



Ferrabee's Chaff-cutter. —Net being sure that my 

 brother sent you the information respecting the chaff- 

 cutter which you asked for, I enclose herewith a de- 

 eriptive circular with a wood-cut on it. The first of 

 these machines was sent out three years ago last 

 Christmas; it has been almost constantly worked, cutting 

 for a large number of beasts, and has not yet required 

 new knives. Now it is a fair question — Where is a 

 smooth-edged machine of which the same can be said, 

 and who is the maker of it ? We know one of the Roy. 

 Vg. Soc. prize machines which has had two new sets of 

 mives in less than half the time mentioned, to say 

 nothing of the con mt expence and inconvenience 

 of taking them oft' to be sharpened. It certainly appeared 

 to us rather strange that the writer in the Agricultural 

 G< tte should have overlooked a machine possessing 

 such distinctive properties. Does "I.A.C/' or any 

 other writer intend to make any comiru t on the absence 

 of a system of machinery for threshing, drc Ing, &e», 

 such being now frequently adopted with improved 

 build in We enter I very early (no doubt the first 



among agricultural machine makers), a steam-engine 

 and a complete set of machinery for threshing, dressin 

 chaff-cutting, grinding, crush ii , &c., to be put int 

 motion (if approved), but we have less spa ban is 

 all i to makers of whet 1 barrows and pitchforks. 

 Does any one know how this arises ? J. Ferrabc* . 



/ mix Iron Works, > I. — [Mr. Ferrabee's chaff- 





cutter w not notio t in our report of the \4iil 



Phe improvements in his chmfi utl ■ coi st in the 



applieat n of I formed to stand obliquely to the 



mouth of the feed box, whereby the mat d may con- 



etantl advance, for any h : th of cut, without nil bin 



Sgamst them. Combined with this important advantage 



s a peculiarly strong i m of cutting < e, an he 



knives being serrated n their backs, the sharpening is 



dfceted withou removing them, a simple apparatus 



being attached t«» the frame for that purpose. These 



inies render the machine eminently adapted for 



|ting at a HMfl velocity, and tor cutting v.'ry large 



quantities. The whole of the machine (except g the 



hay box) is made of metal. There are three knives 



fi aed to the fly«*feee3 by screw pins and nuts, by which 



r relative position to the mouth may be separately 



adjust i, or they may be adjusted altogether 1 \ sliifting 



fly-wheel, which is made to glide on its spindle. 



The material is drawn forward by two ribbed rollers, 



and is conducted to the mouth I a smooth roller. The 



upper roller and the tipper rtion of the mouth are 



n veabte, to allow for variations in th thickness of 



feed, pro] pressure being n ntained by a lever 



and weight Cog win are employed tor altering the 



length of cut, and, by changing them, font different 



lengths for food, and two for litter, can be produc 

 There is a contrivaitei for revetting th< motion of the 



feed roll s without s pping the motive power, enabling 



the attendant to ob\ iate accident from ttn- Introduction 

 into the box of anything objeetinnahle. S*Doth-edg#l 

 knives are also applicable t » ti machine, and are 



readily attached.] 



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KOYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF F.N LAND, 



li ian Agriculture, — The Chevmlicr Masslowl 



Secretary of the Imperial Agricultural Soci y of 

 Moscow, on his visit to England for the ] se of 



attending the Windsor meeting, was the I irer of the 

 following interesting presents on the part that body 

 to the Royal Agricultural Society of England: namely 



I. A seri«s of 15 statistical maps of European 

 Russia, in folio size, prepared expressly for the occasion 

 hem authentic data furnished by the Government 



ting to the eye, by means of outline, tres # 

 ram, and colour, the following important d< Is in 

 amount as v I as circumstance : — 



1. The difFer^nt . c »1 gical characters of the country. 



2. Tbe variations « f r lunate in il ffitrtttt district!. 

 8. The average pr« <lu<-tiy:i of corn in the atveral localities 



duri the last 10 year*. 



4. Claf t-iiieation of the tlifiercut provinces according to the 

 average price of corn duiin«: thesatm po ri. 



5. Lines i.f transport for corn irom different districts of tbe 

 empire, to the metropolis, 



C. Disuibu on of wo <Ja ami forests. 



7. Lor Ities in which Flax and Hemp ate grofrn. 



8. J oaUties in which Tobacco is grown. 



9. Locali'its in which Beet-root Mitfaria manufactured. 



10. N amber of ?*heep in each locality. 



II. Number o! horses in each he ty, 

 12. Number ol cattle in each locality. 



'13. Lines of trasWDee-t for cattle from tbe Southern to tire 



Northern division r»f Itu ia. 

 14. Places where agricultural exhibitions have taken place. 

 * 15. Di ntion of the asn i ultural schools of the em, ire. 



11. Sectional drawings on a large scale, of the original 

 and simple, but (for the rich soil of Russia), effective 

 field-implements of Russia, namely : — 



1. Fottr drawings of Siberian ploughs and hoe. 



. T< 'it drawings of cultivating implements in Lesser 



Russia, with view of the mode of yoking the 



tlraught-oxeii. 



III. Printed reports, namely : — 



1. Report of the Proceedings (in the Russian lan- 

 guage), of the Imperial Agricultural Society of 

 Moscow, for 2o years, from the date of its foun- 

 dation to 1846. 



2. Re; rt of Proceedings (in German), from 1346 

 to 18 Vi, under the following heads : 



1. "Results of the Soeieu *s Operations. 



2. Manofac ure of Sugar from Beet-root. 



3. Silk Cultivation. 



4. Management ot Beat.* 



5. Cul'iv-ition of Ma Tier. 



6. Edueati' n of the Lah»urinK Population. 



7. PiTfonal MUfions and Travels. 



8. Vi reign Associations, Journal, and Correspondence. 



9. Improvement ot Sheep-heeding. 



10. Agricultural Schools, Model Farms, and Reading Clubs. 



11. Manufactory tor Implement*. 



12. ^eed Depors. 



13. Rewards, Presents, Communications. 



3. Report of Proceedings (in French), of the 

 Jubilee Fete of the Imperial Agricultural Society 

 of Moscow, on the occasion of its 25th Anniver- 

 sary, in 184G. 



IV. Six specimens of Silk, grown with success in 

 Russia, under a higher latitude than that of England ; 

 with a supply of Cocoons. 



The Chevalier de Masslow, in laying these interesting 

 presents before the Council, on the part of the Imperial 

 Society of Rural Economy at Moscow, stated that both 

 institutions having the same object in view, namely, the 

 prosperity of practical agriculture, and the progress of 

 agricultural science, it was his great wish that they 

 should enter into a continual relation with each other. 

 As a proof of the sincere wish of the Moscow Society to 

 orm this communication, they had deputed their 

 Secretory, Chev. de Masslow, to offer these presents fot 

 the acceptance of the Royal Agricultural Society of 

 England. He remarked that the first map of the Atlas 

 of Russia then laid before the Council, represented the 

 different qualities of earth in the agricultural districts of 

 that empire, among which the black soil, which formed 

 the foundation of the agricultural wealth of Russia, 

 comprised about 17,000 square miles. The Moscow 





