THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 



[Dec. 



ITh^iTSSto^^ on this gold Wurzel ; 3, Vetches in March, followed by Italian 



j£K5 "bT^^^^^ , Rye-grass sown in August ; 4, the Italian Rye-grass 



Subject, had it not_oeen ior j _„ ^ f __ w te ^ ure sown the vear pre vious. These are the courses I pro- 



cation I must, however, in self-defence, beg to assure 

 that gentleman that I am not " like one of the seven 

 sleepers," for I have carefully read every word he has 

 published in the Agricultural Gazette, on the subject ot 

 game • and it was because I considered, and still do con- 



I have 



sown me year previous 



pose for artificial Grasses and winter food. 



some Grass land besides, and shall purchase straw for 



litter, being certain of getting any quantity I desire, and 



at a cheaper cost than I can grow it. The cows will be 



machines excited much curiosity 



'3, 



rider that he left untouched that particular point to kept in stalls in a yard and all the dung will stand for 



S I wished to draw the attention of your readers, «~ i « — ~* -*— *■ *™* ™* — *™- -*" ^ — 



that I troubled you with the few lines he has found fault 



with, though at the same time thanking me for my letter 



in general He may, in his own mind, have intended to 



include among his arguments thepoint I adverted to, but 



he certainly never brought it forward with the clearness 



I thought it deserved ; at any rate I cannot understand 



his considering it "disheartening and provoking" to 



have a fellow-labourer in the same cause. He surely 



cannot be jealous of my humble article ! If so, I am 



afraid I shall again incur his displeasure ; as, before I 



conclude, I wish to say a few words in answer to Mr. 



Cuthill's last communication on the subject under dis- 

 cussion. That gentleman seems to me to be labouring 



under a great mistake, in so perseveringly connecting 



the preservation of game with small fields and wide 



hedgerows. He surely cannot pretend to say that is 



the character of farms in Norfolk, which is the most 



celebrated partridge county in England. Why it is 



only a few days ago that I read an account of a farm in 



that county of 1000 acres, which was divided into no 



more than four fields. In Cambridgeshire, too, where I 



am in the habit of shooting, the fields are very large. 



Indeed the whole county, as everybody knows, is very 



open, and nowhere have I seen more game. And in 



Suffolk, on my own property, I have many fields of 50 



acres and upwards ; and when I used to preserve had 



plenty of game. My only reason for giving up pre- 

 serving there was the great distance of that estate from 



my place of residence ; and I may safely assert that I 



never had any complaints, except occasionally on the 



subject of rabbits, which I always endeavoured to keep 



under as much as possible, and which I would willingly 



have got rid of altogether, had it been possible. In 



conclusion I will merely add that I should be sorry to 



see the day arrive when the moderate preservation of 



game is forbidden. The present outcry against it is, I 



am convinced, founded on a most unfortunate and much 



to be lamented prejudice, originating among the can- 

 didates for mob popularity, and encouraged by a very 



large class of people who will not take the trouble to 



think for themselves, but imbibe, involuntarily perhaps, 



the stereotyped mistakes of the many, and are there- 

 fore well prepared to be influenced by those mob orators 



or ignorant enthusiasts who, either to gain their own 



•ends, or from an honest though mistaken conviction, 



that if it were not for game there would be little or no 



crime in the country, are labouring to bring about an 



alteration in the laws, which the farmers themselves, 



who are supposed to be the most aggrieved, would be 

 .the very first to lament. W. F. G. F. 



Clover Failure. Seeing, from your Paper of the 29th 



ult, that the above subject is again revived, I take the 

 liberty of submitting to your notice the following facts, 

 which, if new, may probably be worth publishing. In 

 ihe spring of 1847, my attention was called to a large 

 break of Spruce Fir plants, growing in a nursery in this 

 neighbourhood, and which presented an unusual appear- 

 ance, there being large patches over the whole break in 

 which the young plants were yellow, sickly, and 

 Apparently in a dying state. Upon examining the roots, 

 I found in every instance that they were almost 

 wholly denuded of their outer coat or bark. The Spruce 

 were planted out the previous autumn, being then two 

 and three years seedlings. I need hardly add that all 

 .that were affected as described, died. I am given to 

 understand that the disease referred to is well known to 

 nurserymen and is attributed to the ravages of a small 

 beetle. In the same spring, I visited one or two farms 

 —heavy clay soil-where the Clover failure was very 

 •bad, and seeing that the fields had very much the 

 appearance as the break of Spruce referred to, only in 

 ■the diseased patches the Clover leaf was either wholly 



£Tf ?, r w 5?\ remained was quite dry and withered, I 

 carefully hfted a great many of the roots, and without a 



S^o? n ' l hey W€re P ee,ed or barked «»ctty as 



Ihe hSTS; ,? th t Same farms > the red Clover has, for 

 the last two years been as entire and luxuriant a 



the 16 acres of plough land. The produce will be con- 

 sumed as follows — April and May, Italian Rye-grass ; 

 May to July, Vetches ; July to September, Italian Rye- 

 grass ; October to January, Cabbages ; January to 

 March, Mangold Wurzel. A. B. C. 



Tank v. Box. — I asked a friend of mine, last summer, 

 by what means he invariably obtained such exuberant | 

 crops of first-rate Grass ? This was his enthusiastic 

 answer — " By means of the tank, spring, summer, 

 autumn, and winter, I work at the tank— the tank is my 

 sheet anchor, and it must be yours. My good sir, stick 

 to the tank." But in the Agricultural Gazette, Nov. 29, 

 1851, are these remarkable words, in answer to a query 

 as to the proper size of a tank for a certain number of 

 acres, " No tank at all, is the right method. This, with 

 the adoption of box-feeding in stables, as well as in the 

 feeding stalls, is the most economical mode of manure 

 management.' 1 Here, then, are two large and influential 

 parties of the agricultural world at issue on a vital 

 point. On the one hand, the numerous and intelli- 

 gent party, of which my friend is but the type, have 

 long been, and still are, loud in praise of the tank ; and 

 capable, moreover, of practically demonstrating its 

 highly fertilising effects. On the other hand, you, sir, 

 yourself a host, with a crowd of experienced and clear- 

 sighted men at your elbow, denounce the tank, and stick 

 to the box. I presume that the advocates of the tank, 

 as well as those of the box, agree that this is by no 

 means a question of mere fertility, however great, but 

 of fertility in combination with the largest net profit. 

 Let account books and balance sheets decide which party 

 is entitled to the prize. A . Z. 



Fork Husbandry, — I have waited for the announce- 

 ment of a handsome Christmas-box to the most diligent 

 peruser of your Journal, that I might prove my right 

 to the prize, and claim it at one and the same time. 

 You have not determined what the prize shall be, and 

 your correspondent, H. Copland, may be in despair, 

 so, in charity to him, I write to let him know that the 

 book he inquires for is a « New Practical System of 

 Fork and Spade Husbandry/' by John Sillett : Simpkin, 

 Marshall, and Co. Now, if I were not the most diligent 

 reader of your Paper, how could it have happened that 

 . . . . , A . , so many of your other subscribers could have left the 



usiasts who, either to gam their own \ query unanswered which appears in No. 46, Nov. 15? 



And a very useful book H. Copland will find John 

 Sillett's little tract. His system is that of the Rev. Mr. 

 Smith, with divers improvements of his own— chief 

 amongst which improvements in the making and using 

 a large quantity of manure. When the doctors have 

 settled the great question of organic or inorganic, such 

 men as John Sillett will cease to manure. Which of 

 the S's is the capital I don't know. I should say Sillett 

 had priority, but Sillett is not a clerkly man. His 

 system, nevertheless, appears to extort from the breast 

 of our common mother by much the larger quantity of 

 milk. His practice has clearly anticipated the recom- 

 mendations in your very able leader, in a late number, 

 on the subject of Rev. Mr. Smith's system. That was 

 a very smart paper, and very sarcastic. I doubt, how- 

 ever, if it will be useful to those chiefly interested— the 

 agriculturists. 



Satire should, like a polished razor keen 

 Wound with a touch that's rather felt than seen 



Wit may bejo subtle, so keen, as to be neither felt nor 

 seen. 



Dec. 2. 



of vegetable specimens were'numero^ln? 6 C ?! lecti <* 

 The following is the award of pS * ^^ 



OXEN OR STEERS 

 Class I.-Oxen or Steees, of an? breed abnv* < 



exceeding 5 years old ' b0Te i **d ft* 

 1st prize, of 301., to Mr. WifSS bZa , t 

 Norwich and Silver Medal to the Ke l| r ° W ha,tt M 

 Afcott, Church Stretton.— 2d 151 Mr w iv r * John Oakes^l 

 well, o'f Leckhampstead Bw&J^gj? 1 ^ *«* Brie? 

 Prince Albert. ' ■*•• Hls Royal Highnn, 



Class II.-Oxen or Steees, of any breed, above 3 



exceeding 4 years 

 1st prize, of 302. t to Mr. Edward Lon?m 



and not 



Ludlow, and Silver Medal to the breeder Mr" i d / orto °. new 

 more.-2d, 151., Mr. William Heath. n fr!l.!: ? d .^dLo Dlf . 



Heath, of Ludham.Er.T7 L< *«- 

 • Prince Albert anMlaU » Norwich. 



W. R. Carter, Eel Moor Farm, Cove, Bagshot, 



P 





SMITHFIELD CATTLE SHOW. 

 We have a detailed report of the cattle, sheep, and 

 igs exhibited at Baker-street during the past week • 

 but, owing to its length, must postpone it until our next 

 publication, when we shall ask our readers to walk 

 round both the London and Birmingham Exhibitions 

 with us, and give us an opportunity of pointing out to 

 them the character and history of many of the speci- 

 mens therein. Having obtained the dimensions of 

 almost all the animals exhibited at both places, we shall 

 then be able to draw a strict comparison between the 

 two. Mean while, we have merely to state, in ceneral 

 terms, that the Baker-street Exhibition was as good as 

 usual ,n point of numbers, and better than usual as regards 



season, and the whole lSLZ^S^^'^. UIOB ° ne . ^^her, however desirable it may 



quality. The Hereford breed has appeared in great force, 

 and carried ofFan unusual rmm W n r ^^ The gygt(?m 



in competition with 



for the three following t^ gS^ f ff h a " d 7*°™" 



wis* in +u~ r ui«c* *nce m luxuriance or other- 



™ae» in the four samples. I ma k e uultfl 



comments on 



the above but I shall be well re^ld for°the° tronl 1 i 

 noticing the facts, if they should"^ m 



S5TW " ,he ci of s <*£m£^: 



into four cour^l V Jh" 8 $"? l ShaU divid * 



r u ^auoages m June and July ; 2, Man- 



. A _ , , ma y be as the only re- 



maining test of relative merit, which we have amon- 

 our public cattle shows, is one which renders modern 

 judgment extremely difficult and rarely satisfactory to 

 competitors, and it is not improbable that this cause 

 may act to the prejudice of the Smithfield Club and to 

 the advantage of the Birmingham Exhibition, where 

 the more easy and satisfactory method of classification 

 according o breed is obtained. The former, however, with 

 the exception of the class Pigs, is, of course, still much 



tZlSX 1 ^ \ P ° iDt b i° th <* *-5 *** extent. 

 ttl 8 1 6 P'6 8 * hown . th <*e was more equality 

 between the metropolitan and provincial meetinp? B?t 

 on this, as on other points, we shall be able to speak 



hiK next rf- The ^«SJS 



ta»l hnn! ? * M USUal a krge »»eetion of agricul- 

 tural implements; among which the rival 



3d, 51, His Royal Highness rrince Albert 

 Class IIL-Oxmor Steees of any breed, above 2 



exceeding 3 years old. ,auoveJ 

 1st prize, of 25k, to Mr. Joseph Phillips of A«r 



and not 



Wantage, Berkshire, and Silver Medal to thJ k gt , 0D ' ne * 

 Thomas Carter, of Dodmore, near Ludlow Xi d «? p ' Mr - 

 His Royal Highness Prince Albert.-3d S iu t° P ^l d » **. 



Bristol, ,,l8aacNibIe », 



of Conygre'Farm, Filton, near 



Class I Y.— Oxen or Steers, of any breed »«* 



exceeding 80 stone weight ° d 



a &e, not 



Class YI. 



1st prize, of 201 , to the Right Hon.'Earl of Ld*..* *~ 

 ham.hall, Norfolk, and Silver Medal to «S l teP i afHdk - 

 William Baker, of Bishop's Nympton.-2d in# u®* Ut ' 

 May dwell, of Ashstead, Surrey. ' 10/ '' Mr - Daniel 



Class Y. — Oxen or Steers, of any breed «n^ 



exceeding 80 stone weight d * ge ' not 



1st prize, of 152., to the Right Hon. the Earl m- t«j . 



of Helkham-hall, Norfolk, and Silver Medal to SL I 1 ™?*' 



Mr. George Turner, of Barton, near Ez?t e ?Jd v f' 



Thomas Bond, of Bishop's Lydeard, near Taunton ' ' 



-Oxen or Steees of the Scotch. WaIa a „ t . u 

 (Kerry) breed, of any age. ^ ° r Imh 



Pembro P kt e ° f 10 '" t0 ^ * ^ ***"*' ° f m P*<*. 



COWS AND HEIFERS. 

 CL4ss VII.— Fattened Cows or Heifebs under 5 years old 

 1st prize of 20J., to Mr. Samuel Druce, of Evnaham near 

 Oxford, and Silver Medal to the breeder, Mr. Samuel Druce - 

 2d, 10Z., Mr. Richard Stratton, of Broad Hinton, near Swindon 

 Wilts.— 3d, 51., Mr. John Phillips, of Ardington, near Wantaze! 

 Berksh re. * • 



Class VIII.— Fattened Cows of 5 years old and upwards. 



1st prize of 20i., to the Right Hon. Lord Feversham of 

 Duncombe-park, Helmsley, York, and Silver Medal to 'the 

 breeder, the Right Hon. Lord Feversham.— 2d, 10!., Mr. Joseph 

 Gillett, of Little Haseley, near Wheatley, Oxon. 



Class IX.— Fattened Cows, of 5 years old and upwards, 

 that shall have had at least two live Calves at separate births. 



1st prize of 20(., to Mr. William Holland, of Lightcliffe, n=ar 

 Halifax, and Silver Medal to the breeder, Mr. William Hoi. 

 Jand.— 2d, 1Q1. 9 Mr. Robert Beman, of Moreton-iu-the-Marah, 

 Gloucester. 



LONG-WOOLLED SHEEP. 



Class X.— Fat Wetheb Sheep, of any long-woolled breed 



1 year old. 



1st prize of 20Z., to Mr. R. L. Bradshaw, of Burley-on-the. 

 Hill, Oakham, and Silver Medal to the breeder, Mr. R. L. 

 Bradshaw.— 2d, 102., Mr. R. F. Hall, of Hesley, nearBantry.- 

 3d, hl. t Mr. George Walmsley, of Rudston, near Bridlington. 



Class XI.— Fat Wether Sheep, of any long-woolled breed, 



1 year old, 



1st prize of 20J., to Mr. Lawrence Willmore, of Whetstone, 

 near Leicester, and Silver Medal to the breeder, Mr. Lawrence 

 Willmore.— 2d, 10i., Mr. Thomas Pulver, of Broughton, near 

 Kettering.— 3d, 51., the Marquis of Exeter, of Burghleyhouse, 

 Stamford. 



LONG WOOLLED (NOT BEING LEICESTERSJ. 



Class XII.— Fat Wethee Sheep, of any long-woolled breed, 



(not Leicesters), 1 year old. 



1st prize of 102., to Mr. Robert Beman, of Moreton-in-the- 

 Mar3h, Gloucester, and Silver Medal to the breeder, Mr. Robert 



Beman. 



CROSS-BRED SHEEP. 

 Class XIII.— Long and Short-woolled Ceoss-bbed fax 



Wethee Sheep, 1 year old. 

 1st prize of 10?., to Mr. J. R. Overman, of Burnbam Sutton, 

 near Burnham Market, and Silver Medal to the breeder, Mr. 

 J. R. Overman.— 2d, 51., Mr. Samuel Druce, of Eynsham, near 



Oxford. „ p ._ 



Class XIV.— Long and Shobt-Woolled Cboss-bbed fai 



Wethee Sheep, 1 year old, under 220 lbs. live weight. 

 1st prize of 102., to Mr. J. R. Overman, of Burnham button 



near Burnham Market, Norfolk, and Silver Medal to uw 



breeder, Mr. J. R. Overman. 



SHORT-WOOLLED SHEEP. 

 Class X Y.— Fat Wetheb Sheep, of any short- woollea nreeu, 



1 year old. A fflnn<i. 



1st prize of 201.. to his Grace the Duke of Richmond, oi ^ 



wood, Chichester, and Silver Medal to the breeder, ma wi 



the Duke of Richmond.-2d, 101., Mr. William Samsbnry, ot 



West Lavington, Devizes. . . woolled 



Class XVI.-Fat Wethee Sheep, of any sho t-wooiiea 



breed, 1 year old, under 200 lbs. 1^«Q Laving . 

 1st prize of 101., to Mr. William Samsbury, of >Ve8l ^ ia ^ 

 ton, Devizes, and a Silver Medal to the breeder, Mr. 



Sainsbury. 



Class XYII. 



-Fat Wethee Sheep, of any short-woolled 



breed, 2 years old. , fGo od. 



1st prize of 201., to his Grace the Duke of *} cm r;\ is Grace 

 wood, Chichester, and a Silver Medal to the breeder, ^^ 

 the Duke of Richmond.— 2d, 10i., Mr. J. V. Snenejr, 



field Park, Maresfield. „ rt TT<rn'nnWNS.) 



SUORT.WOOLLED (NOT BEING SOUTHDO^^ 

 Class XVIII.— Fat Wether Sheep, of any • wv 



breed (not Southdowns), 1 year o ja * 

 Prize withheld. 



Class XIX. 



PIGS - ,o ^ not exceeding 



Pigs of any breed, above 13 and not eic 



26 weeks old. 



Bland 



zg weeas oiu. nearnia»u- 



1st prize of 101., to Mr. John Coate, of Hammoon," ^ Jobn 

 ford, Dorset, and a Silver Medal to the oreew, Br(jom| 

 Coate.— 2d, 51, Mr. William Mills Barker, of hm 

 Slough, Bucks. rt/1 . not exceeding 



Class XX.-Pigs of any breed, above 26 and now 



52 weeks old. nearB^r" 



1st prize of 10/., to Mr. John Coate, of Harnm oon » ^ Jo hn 

 ford, Dorset, and a Silver Medal to the ^ e " e ^ 

 Coate.-2d, bL, to his Royal Highness P' inC * ?/ D an d under 13 



Class XXI.-Pigs, of any breed, above u * 



months old. _ mAnn nearBlana- 



1st prize of 101., to Mr. John Coate, of Ham* 00 ^ C oate.-- d » 

 ford, and a Silver Medal to the breeder, Mr. o 

 K., the Earl of Radnor, Coleshill. near ^ ar ^ ia9ge s 1, V£ 



The Gold Medal for the best ox or steei -in v Qear Lu dlo^i 

 5, or 6, to Mr, Edward Longmore, of Adtorwu, 

 Salop. ;f in C!as3e», h* 



The Gold Medal for the best cow or Beuer 



or 9, to Mr. Samuel Druce, of EJ n8ham \°Twool)ed »*•%£ 



The Gold Medal for the best pen of ion ? - Bur i0f.on-^ 



Classes 10, 11, or 12, to Mr. R. L. Bradshaw, oi 



Hill, Oakham. 



The Gold Medal for the best pen of ^^ftJclano^ o( 

 Classes 15, 16, or 18, to his Grace the Duae 



reaping Goodwood. 





