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good clothing at so cheap | ploughing and sheep and stock breeding, they would | surpassed by those of any other. He once showed in Baker 
d to so much piven r | Mangs a fat Here fo rd bulock which had been fed poina on 
Tirra European 
e can be employe! E ane hare not have been = as ony on mine me as thay now a’ Warsa id à ‘be a 
its. veral European p. a ‘hi ic g ze ea kea haps a r bullock was nev 
pias yet have been attended with any ae Still t ther oars 5 the m es? e r who ibited. Some r arks had been made about the dificult 
p sf mine writing from ucklan : gging life is the of growint hanger i on stiff "Boila, He himself on one 
A last says, ‘I am afraid poms jia and to whom the hum-drum of mek ng and : once en ae bearers of it on as stiff a soil asany in 
. Five tons in six months wil 10) i z nglan pity any man who was obliged t 
3 a, but I think we shall have PARET ep-keeping ed. gre ri centri es so we w al produce Mangel upon that sort of soil. The system which 
- and then he refers me to some TOQ-8pe anterbury an ako are rapi y | he adopted was to cultivate in the autumn, mama ridge up, 
ron de Thierry’s process o: ae ancing to affluence, these bei there leave it B et opting that plan crops 
d resident, m a gee to | adapted for pases) parmin ” The ge entleman nt whom | ? ra at po grown o Apo soils, ona A it wae practiaed very ex- 
aring the Flax for man ó: entively wi eat success on cold clay lands of Hun. 
It is rated that the machine is very ae val on dw : s to me in reference o this tingdonshire s 
of the carding machine art oi try: — “The athens denaras $ is A well} Mr. Thomas wished to say one word with regard to feeding 
once started to cover me expense Rs piso" for ewes Sof Mangel Toa For ga than 25 years he had in- 
shipment to England; it is also : i ti- | variably done it, and during the last month previous to yeanin; 
usd p at the trial of the machine an English grazing oun )} also very good for lti- had always found it to be most beneficial. After se the 
o e spot. On this occasion the vation, and I ittle d ubt but that when thene system for ros years, he made a ee of the result. 
nd-labour, but even this shogod a settlemen nts are fairly set going, they will soon be| of eo ractic: sine is effect—that t ea s no eon S food so 
phh frame or machine per day, and with steam ourishin ecially for the grazier. ati suitable for ew ring the last r five fore par: 
gent. Pig be nothing to prevent a hundred frames or | flo ishi g, especially on the i s oars zts of Engle y wae Se a ge Wurzel. “ee oct assure every gentleman 
3 work under one roof. This experiment sats par o grew Mangel Wurzel, a ssessed a flock of ewes heavy 
f several of the most iufluential | and appears to be healthy wit hh lamb, nur og had never ‘nd t ca ra oa results 
asion entered into a subscrip- The he ealth of ourselves rae fails has been better here | from the e pra ; but, o very great advantage 
he e: of a public trial of the Baron e left England. ” in the pro it ree of fat orp milk a at TH same Aa 
mode of preparing Flax. I also learn by Mr. Gouasmaler ( patos used this root good deal 
Auckland that nearly 15001. has been bad ser Bi z5 Sa as arte ied irene pare He had found 
formation of a Flax compan: > the Orange Globes produce the best kind of milk. He had 
has this nation been deemed by the Colonia’ al Fa crt noes like found Mangel Wurzel a most valuable food for store 
New Z that it a on the 20th LONDON: Culture of Mangel Wurzel. — The dis- | pigs; and, though he had never used it himself for that pur- 
that the following rewards would be paid | cussion which followed the reading of Mr. Baker’s per he had heard that it was not at all a bad kind of food for 
S whi ixed with a certain proportion of hay and corn. 
TAN nes Ke s 
y ess | Paper, given last week, was both animated and in- | The Long Orange was, he believed, a very superior root. 
ructive. 
inveni e from Alie ah um tenax i s 
fibrous plant indigenous to New Zeal 10 ang 2 air W. Bennett said the great superiority of Mangel Wurzel $56 . 
10007. to any person, other than the pers: most other roots yrs er: that it might be point on land RE apse Fe 4 26.— Rotation of Cr shed od ihe Si trong 
reward, who shall by some process of his own | qnind for the owth of Turnips; secondly, such lands would Soils.— B. Boxall, a read a hei 
ee produce apes we Pi ne omen As TA bear i much heav: a ot bi ay, tm re as far ar me Tot x- | tical at on this subject, i. s from which w 
indigenous to New 4ealans ons of merchandise. | tracted from the soil; fourt! it might ter 
ch of the first five persons, other than | in the season ; and Inst, thou Bh not least if fed judiciously with | quote from the Reading Meer. 1 The follow wing rota- 
tiled to the first and second re y shall by any | other food, it was ster if not superior in ne fhitening qualities | tion for eight years is pursued on his own farm :— 
ether his own invention or not, iti koa the | to the best kind ms Arnipa; The cultiv: of Mangel had | ACRFS 124 Swedes, Man- EACH YEAR. 
other fibrous plant indigenous to New | in fact opened a era in clay land ia ng. There were | 25 Roots f gel, &c. ACRES 
r se. Half the reward to be paid | many farms in his mate country, ton, the northern side of it, 124 Turnips 75 Wheat 
e Governor being satisfied that the applicant is en- | where flocks of sheep were kept in summer ; but not being 25 Oats, or Barley 25 Oats 
the same, and the other half on proof of the bond fide | at all adapted for Tarnips, the flock had to be disposed of 25 Clover "A %5 Deaan, 
mdise in Europe, at an advance of 20 per cent. | in the winter, except a ols lf-starv a ewes, which ran ov 25 Wheat 5 Clov 
actual cost of the article landed in Europe. Every | the Grass land in the day time, and browsed t the Bean straw a a 124 Tares i? Trefoil& W. Clover, or Peas 
ect rred before the 1st January, 1859.’ might: BY the cultivation oF. Mangel, YA tenat in these modern | 124 Trefoil & W. Clover, or Peas E poat 
The importance of this subject to the mother country will be fine floc were now ke ept w. where scarcely | 25 Wheat | 
omer from a consideration of the immense gorua: ds sn auld be ica tars Also on fen land, which was ad-| 25 Beans |[— 
and Hemp imported yearly into ingin sa Thes mirbiy adapted for the grow th . of Man aea, to the extent of | 251 Wheat 200 
DRESSED AND UND! 0 or 40 tons per acre, this xtensively, — 
Quntity in 1855. Value in 1855. [Quantity in 11866 |Valuein 1856. and bese ug n not equal in quality t to o that g grown on 1 high land, ighth 
‘Sorts. Ex 317,122 | 1,687,081 ewts. | £3,627,507 Hose tna RA Kine en Ona bate ra osal arora This rotation (he said) I have decided to pursue o 
5 T, c 1: 
50 the quality of Mangel, and he felt confident on none uch | MY Own occupation, + as being the most suitable to effect, 
HEMP, UNDRESS as peaty fen land. the object I had in view, viz., to increase the fertility 
Mr. a (Lidlington) said that Mr. Baker had not alluded va the ae a to enable it to ca a much ter 
‘Qrantity in 1855. | Value in 1855. | Quantity in 1856. Value in 1856. Ke reumstane 3 with which he (Mr. Thomas) had some slight | number F Aep dhd tre an en be di pre gens a 
£1,918,816 | 1,504,726 cwts. acqua ERO ESTAR poig ARAPA DORE tbe rotstlon of ng usuall d. It will, of 
19004, 120 owa: | 21,985,875 each of. EE Palade three or four seeds. He should like | the rotation of cropping usually pursue o; 
a one of our own colonies produces an inexhaustible | to know whether Mr. Baker had ever tried the expending of | course, require more capital— perhaps 3/. per acre more 
| breaking 2, the boy rnc He (Mr. Thomas) had done soon a pursued than where but little 
eee renich, according to Dr. Hindley is songer a his e H nea te bf 
zo ae s garden, he had crushed the outward coat | tv» stock is kept; and it also requires more manual 
jonsumed materials, ye: mparative | 
fah fibres | being thus stated by 4 the through a Bean-mill and he had found, in pret beruead that 
; Sak ar the plants came to the hoe in one half the that | labour, but if a fair return can be got ie such greater 
“pai = BPRS ber se OE, pige did wer vao. dipaer in the caren “One re- outlay (which I am of opinion wil will be th case,) then I 
j mark whic r. Baker had made was susceptible of correction. s 
: 5 f That gentleman had stated that there was this difficulty with thin, it sami 8 adopt hit In this rotation, BS 
[m an Fi a el dhe Wax ié a E biel ceed- | regard to Mangel Wurzel, that it could not ff the land | Place be SRE SOU» it does show some in rmedia: ite 
ng in the straight p pull, it is stated to cut in the tie; | În the same manner as the Swede Turnip. He (Mr. Thomas , my Object being, in making out 
i from a serrated ed; geo of the fibre, or fton a | begged to assure him that so far was that from being the case the list of crops, to s REP main crops only, because 
roduce that in Bedfordshire it was becoming a very common practice is what has bi othe in the former lists or rota- 
See mich the Flos eee ry MERETE i i 
cn Tosa wi Lai Sear Pe Pg spe Ny the of Mangel on light lands. He had seen this on land which scan The intermediate crops taken are those of Italian 
ag last 15 „years cannot be erate as | bad become sick and tired oe Swede Turnips. Mangel | Rye grass and Trifolium, of each from 3 to 4 acres, for 
g what the article is, so rough and unprepared | Wurzel could be eaten off the land about the months of March | the purpose of carrying on the om of the a ened 
? ens I have seen.” and A) mil. and he believed Mt was more ack cing and nutritious Sha id d l ich 
| ioe sect of tion to Now Zealand | tas the Swede itself at that time of the y e Swedes an ps Alla? 
Mr. Stones emigration ew Zealan Si Wilts) said with pa heart to Mangel Wurzel together, for reasons givé heat) se finished feed- 
“ The northern province is Auckland, not oink a propr food for ewes and limba, he himself had ma ing in the field where grown 
store lambs, 400 or 500, for some years, pe e | which are carried off t verte re grown sho oar be 
reserved to carry on the field phon the Ttalian Rye- 
tion of root, and he had had quite as good lambs N of his a 
er gay who had fed their flocks upon Turnips. His i 
ad reli ; 
his Swed es to a yard for the she t weather. Th 
5 ; h Sh storia Til y ‘or the s n Bo ated i er. ese 
bade to ak oe. extent. With regard to storing, his practice see latter _interm ediate ero on the k 1 
oe ig Re gi > met mangos J = ani a it ae 2 gi Te 
uired. he cut off and stored about one- grass 2 
of of the erop, and Tete the Femaining bw SO yar mle in hea) Secale Wheat g eg ir ie sma in te A aia n of 
e pul root and cut the tops, an p Thay P 
never had a w Ibarrowfal of rotten See. Ce te! the | April ad the Trifolium immediately after the rapes Eor 
whole of his experience. Tet toro, pen vered up| cut at harvest; the other intermedia’ ato fo 
oa d ‘urnips o afte 
fi 
Ae 
: ted T: 
he co accomplish that object. He es manured with | Trefoil or Peas, in the same year. As a specimen of 
bei eng Per Mo rg SEs m i i 
e. 
EEEE T carrii as oT of et ee s made his neck, | in sh, an and f summer 
an in e as he weni ong. em o a pe: p 
post of turf ashes, and malt dust, and once a yea wn and fed off last year, pe the seed from = 
r quantity of ripe manure. This he mixed ms i left thove Turnips gre ; was also grown last year. Th 
to o lio, a little s while before he required to sow it, use carried it | a sort that stand the wi winter well, 1 and come in wel re 
, an ong the ridges in wheel- feedin White Tarni 
barrows, He should also state that upon depositing the f g be etw wee the fles aps 
mn he rage a light roller. Since he nad tried this system omes m y $ 
never failed, but was always a very good one, Wheat in the spring it is very pienie le, if Turnips are 
although fh it ian nae under ts 2 ai lag pera ain ot so sown, "that they should be a sort that ‘will bear a con- 
to the transplanting of Mangel Wurzel, they rand siderable d af frost without inj And here I 
ie be Rastable to trans: egree of frost without injury. A1 2 
iterate got a good ero 1 mig! lesirable ci would aho remark that i p of T 
as they ted 
ould get no ens Mep put. in in the Tittle fibres straight, 
on ees wn lightly wi a ie soil, seve entor € ey Tarn nthe is s coming K that time, and this i 
were pre er. DE he pe t year, had | taking care that a acres for Swedes, 86. 
baen Pianta. mor e than first 4 ee ie r 
iy s ho had nover grown ced With rear to t the leas pes her. 
was of inion rating th a crop the 0 es $ 
better ould the root be ; and ey Rachie taught him that | first year the rotation, I Sis for this last year or two 
the transplanted were superior to the others. The discovery of thought: it Smale to grow a greater acreage of than 
ade quite by accident, and he was sure it was | I formerly used to do; my reasons for coming to this conclu- 
er. res] hey are a more certain erop to get; next, with 
he 
from 
and he did npe that out of 10 acres of rer E aaia of Mare! arch, fatton a sheep Rien: the prog 
Wurzel last year he hi re decay root. This ai re milk. experience, however, 
events showed that cutting off t i ous. een sheep about February or March, although they had 
i 4 o ueni 
g 
Hh 
f vil Sen rof 2 one emai or the plant. ith ne Mangel whi grown, and was then 
“2 | formed, leaving, pi aan n being fed of ms, we hired yd of its having been 
important every year, Certainly i as Retina aati wees un. | found that Mangel been to fill up drain-pipes 
