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single year ; to extend from y year to | places in quest of food ; require forage less when worked, | dare ‘say, not above 12 for 1 ‘on Jana not irri ated— 
suet te granted fi pry Sì should ‘give $ e lee and, I am very much inclined ‘to think, are less liable takis 1g good = ne a. rust, and ‘the worst districts 
se ai the imaa i a thar i pei S Dient im. | to Suffer from accidents and diseases in the bones of|in, to make erage. This would give abou 
Shedd by the tenant, in prpportign as ne the legs.” 12 bu nied per ert whilst ‘in a 1 the return is 
might remain unexpended at the end of th “ ‘On the Ox. houna Ta siape of morgen, | fron ishels ; but if we sow irrigation ‘land as 
psa ia À 4 m — a. Hoog ste, thin again i “cay half a “hui ae ot acre, and get upwards 
i einet, and Sneeuw erg, v 00 for 1, 5 frequently tle case, or 50 bushels 
=. tare A sa Ca e i Deen ond. the o Nita ae now dep as- per acre, it is wor rth enleuhting w eo the value of an 
-oaa y me ep, t is, compared to other 
. in two Dectures delivered at the | by the esse athens ing countries, which directly or ani: corn land.” H 
cs’ Institute on tst and | rectly send us cheap cheese, and even ae bu tter ; W te at ter length just 
en tly s i -5 Bhs 
Me 1957. By the Hon. F. W. Re 2m. = as retu However, as the w ants of the ony t i nglish cro 
er me Saul Solomon & Co, 63, vided fi , draught | and _the japlements employed in the ‘work, doth of 
m, and be ef-steaks, it is of great out tance that 
righ A dese of breeding gehen be followed, to supply 
ome demand i and Iw again insist upon the 
pamphlet, w ith the 
oo culture of the Vine, of the Olive, and of vo 
only Se in eae ee 
gely 
opinions = tet ee on the ‘sources of suecess an 
the his ory of agricu ultural societies are 
received a copy of this The 
a is ines the 
our ‘extracting lar 
have 
that 1 
culiar 
fro 
describing it as to Er P e peculiar pastur s of each Joe cality, and to lL well 
= paler to undertake the work of its ce demand for ate desription— whether for iat mat pire with which, we understand, they were 
are nefit of the- considerable number | the but tche er, or the dairy. All at pone ak in other ived. 
as 
breed hav 
invariably proved futile. The Namaqua and othe 
native cows, crossed with the Dutch or other larger 
cellane 
ator, now a member of the Legislative Misc 
king Oreh. ae is it 
este F mem ge ally m 
wled shee 
ous. 
most pry aed to 
a 
I fy 
‘But 
till, eal in ok to — 
back, either to ‘ds one holds or rin other, we si 
het eous mixture of breeds, 
pointment at: vib step. 
the most 
y &e aed Soaks 
say t as an ae in 
farming perntions s? ith 
value of latt 
must be borne in pe that my salouletion 
the Sussex breed of c eae i h ye ho A il 
that worked, viz., 
08 
iz was thas wall ns distr as an agricultural 
die and observer, he has become still further 
ent p as on the agriculture of the Cape by 
tion with and residence in ‘that particular 
meet with aon b 
Whatever breed may prove teip" 
Pi in ni ae -Wiliam et 18, or 
ry simple and |: 
b 
Calculating a steer wo years and 
months old, T2/., it then becomes a arran whether to 
put the ani imal on good | land 1 to fatten, or to keep him 
t hen hi 
a 
4 eats iea the-hips, are extolled ; but the D 
| Swiss, Channel Islands, and een cows differ con- 
siderably OK ak ch other respects— whilst 
e or | depth of } 
äs a rule almost without “cca. 
it hall a chance, endeavoured to 
without 
worth trying but 
- hope less 
email his lectures to the perusal of ona sie a i 
= damay hereafter be interested in the agriculture of 
be Cape. His object is to show th: at, in the intro- 
- dati of t t 
tt 
ne, 
I have, seeder nt 
will be broken in = aras coe 
rove that the pure 
r Fattenin, 
The value 
= weeks" ne mongo land, at 3s. “6d. 
wee anes os from Oct. to TAS at 6s. ied 
a great measure, been ied pi 
iat there is still a wide field open for im im- 
regard to agricult 
=. o 
as those 
80 
pe of teat ot so “small in ‘the bone as to cre 
they 
21 0 
Sold en! oot at3 te + dag old, OEA 100 stone 
f 8 Ibs., at 4s. ôd. . W2 T0 0 
uch niont Por for 
attemptedito introduce novelti 
week without any fixed r ules to guide ‘them. 
ai who so confidently poitit to a better future o aew of |D 
ie tele have-so little to show in the mp h n crossed and bred from’ without ~ aystem 
ae “ca ag x e or in heheee. Look at the Natal or Zoolah o 
te! t of Venice” w =< Tf to d as oud | har wae coe capital fordrauglit--Tanppose, enika 
3% know met were god, to do, chapels had been | situa preferable to the Highland ‘cattle at ‘nae 
dares, and po , prine pa ces. It | spol ken fand then lak wt lange Dutsh eow 
uctions ; I | yourselves w even if son a 
— 
hether, even 
< stock should be an rovement, È there would be the 
> | deeertption een “of ares > are 
milk—I certainly ‘recommend to all cattle- 
mongst us. Devons, Ayrshires, von nay 
S Durhams, and other bre eds _besid: 
we If E rS 
prairie nas 0 
£ 
The ox, as per nE pen as profit... 
Steer for Work. 
out x% ey 
The value ney Bo 0 
26 weeks’ woop, at 2s, per week 2m o 
From the time the steer commences wor 
iving 
we 
co 
= 
at Se. per week 
wae. ut ina stall or box for 12 weeks 
| till Christmas, 4 
nag eee 
apard 24 8 0 
see man Paisaia, pm pe stone of 8 ne: n 
6d. 
SAE ae tease h paie apera 
Soe oyember of “his fellow. 
a : 
- | fai 
wish to he set right, I: eet to the:second part’ 
questi ‘Whether it is economical to work eee 
nd , | present y 
: pletion ; and | individual | fallen into-error is not ‘to pw Wondered 
“ contribute but a smallaltore ‘of pectin oa Engla 
_ to what can be done dn other branches of 
c aag 
ne a ; 
ve inot the mi a country with. The 
> character 
vo stock 
SES ai the case, gore milkers. You may en 
mage and con feed of cows that sc age in 
uantity 6 of milk, but the quantity of 
requir red be proportionate = “es they breed as a 
dss the eift CIS Pa, 
geih t of the ealculation—and 
on or en my are not in ae) these cows can be ma 
comparatively poo iti 
‘reed poh cattle, - me vhs 
of milk; and it is b: 
| panerak the reari 
ur} On the Si 
pote the competency of the 
heman. iom ger take 
ustrativ Re a the history of Gomesti 
the i, ge 
at yenme i wos 0 Ù at Opens Gil wee 
turned dif to Titten “48 
I calculate the worth of the ‘horse and oxen 
the time they would be most most valuable for 
of the two a. mad the work piii I sa 
nothing as to oxen working in o llars a Ties like 
~| horses. It is custom so work th in this 
r 
í There wasa time when this co 
m m vith à shh and pate prices in the i 
anne to feed artificially, an 
on ‘breeding ‘horses ‘with a age 
oat | anne at one- 
Lint HY 
—_ 
s not $ 
a 
athens so large a ae 
Se. in pam societies to 
ng of them.’ 
— aie Reitz 
| importations to the” 
evsized: and from England and rl 
t of live ‘stock he Taste his 
i ada for r large horses, large eatile, large 
he: ons 
eor tere le yokes. We in pope pedre so 
ie ne ed se lee bows and irons costs about 20s. 
pan aai peany is now and 
ting à I know ‘the nai 
ma 
feria work. ‘The ‘team von of 24. Hetoni- 
jliaries, They were 
hever worked.so as to be low in flesh, and, of course, their 
ot checked. By moet n a pn almayan 
gives ae history of the | 
no 
des anew ake 
} 
3 P 
a jk ‘ e x Hh 
ses and on t 
2, +} + 4} A + +h. wav. 
"E 
t 
E ia R 
ae J 
rd to live 
‘kinds, not e 
a Seater r tte half. Pore Chinese te pee 
time | (exe those farms where they bree 
arket and eat the porkers h vib to travel 
dj perce sa 
ok Ge 
pa nor 
oe for is 
e Mr. Roitz ape of ro sree 
of profitable cultiv 
oe 
| times 
and Hereford there 
essentially 
a bel tr t 
' Te 
when 
a necessary es this, 
Baerin 
re 4 aor, require | 6 
can go further’ ror the ‘drinking. | per ner’ i Y 
upwar 
hereafter.” of igni ti 
“Ont à ae advantage of irrigation when -applied to 
i = —— n ordinary soils, Ida 
vi reckon hat ane sce of W erma oe sown 
a bushel; anmä'the 
spon 
flin 
be forgotten, that 
unfit harana s 
“a means cated ly locality where'suth “results are to be : soem 
‘for h 
to the; implements to 
re" amet A 
äs, I fight ee, paftiocla? 
tif apens to Solar a horse 
almost a: gromalyie an-oOx 
be converted to 2, — is 
moh of ght Rithough - we have meet serge 
clean our 
p 
ints, wd will live on’ very scanty foo 
anything 
for 
a cae antl | sarkin ea in 
wheel. roller, or any ‘other, ‘on 
ay in ‘the spring of ‘the year, when 
