be resown, 
Turnips in v ery many Tnstanoes had to the fly that 
E ý 
hie were left Te oe phy h shatte: 
backw. C. T. which we > dail wit 
i b at pee od blight. Barley they are still very ey ing report of the y 
iow ce eo oe soils injured by drought. | Surrorx : Suxmundham, aly “ts followin this district :— | and gar, — of dome ani 
Saar el of EEN. dad net A t crop. Beans blighted. | crops is given in by an expe ‘air average crop; Beans and | whi cha ain number p 
Peas much blighted. Clover and Grass: hay not a heavy | Wheat, Denr. bee mbes Br draaglik Points ased ; ; r u 
erop, but generally well secured. Mangel Wurzel and § Swedes: koar m a ndy Swedes poet other Turnip crops, more closely than th 
the former a good plant, the latter at places destroyed by th nl Wurzel an nt t lends all much injured by drought mediate parents. Such, i 
fly, which is of no uncommon occurrence in this neighbour- mid ling; iewi lig 4 hich permanence of t 
| hood from bad management. Potatoes are much blighted oe ard Pash ani ng Wheat has alre menci NE and families 
within the last week. Fisher Hobbs, Boxted Lodge. SURE pi f Surrey, a neigh! farme: > . e 
Aa uaa aon Wheet is almost univ m this the western division AOs aing a feld of Talavera | breeder in the case we are 
“not over thick, but with promise of a large well neron Gare oar, at being busy the last few days fhan italy n fz weather has now | card the dark hairy-woolled individ 
phe ope and without, Iodging' rains. Wo anaes ne f changed to refreshing showers and a cooler eii t ewes such only 
a pom pr 1354 and 1857, and 13 and 18 days respec- se much of the corn on the hill = TH indifferent. char: racter. But whereas the Be 7 
tively in svanco of 1855 and 1856, Winter and spring sown | prematurely, and 4 conse iaa rd promising ; half, it m prota oor ie the 
Wheats are, without exception, an indifferent crop—thin on | good W gs anga toe, oR ley, but the late is very only be one- third, the avera y th i 
th å and spindly, but the colour is a fine green. ould also apply to early sown Barley, | failure; Potatoes ae in e Tatter . 
| Barl me ts. which lst year came into ear as soon indifferent. “Beans s and Peas a comparative ld Beet (Mangel about 80 lbs. As with lan a cer 
ant oo this year been more than a week behind it.| strong, with slight symptoms of disease ; a in others the | tility is easy to obtain, but every sn 
ley promises ex gly well. Oats are not quite so| Wurzel) fine; Swedes fair in p apy. S, wing of common | ment requires more skill, vi en 
fonts Wherever there is much iron inthe soil (a general | fly ed them unmerci ted until this last week ; | are the hi liar’ stó fi ? 
Fault in those soils formed from the decomposition of the old | T en only rarely attempte A Ha SII Con. e g of improvement i 
sandstone). there is a withering up of the leaves of the | hay an average crop, and e tens got ther ecb m)—the animals those which are achieved wit e 
lant which will inevitably cause fecbleness of gro The| dition, except Italian Clo ES per is not ye y and which require the pe ee 
Saat lanted Potatoes came off quickly, and are no harvesting of this salen and heavy. cre er rman entl iÑ es sea ti the Cs 
vigo us. Those planted later are spin ay, BA not pro- | properly understood. H. Bower: Eits; rN Eara Aired A pr ae Ne 
mise well. As to what the result oF this crop will be it is Wester Ross: July 5.—The w ld desire, and this 
yet early to form a decided opinion, but observers of with hi has been all that t e prih cou 7 a the ape o gener rai ions. Hedi iss the gh pe 
natural prognostics notice Hon Shee ih the e roeg. ah | plants wae in poreon f ag Nas azhiiitod. a gorg arenasi the best has bh ð oe and ancient descent always 
oliage, n i i 
years of Po pot aia e SN e aas not peamise to bs'| . been very grethcand although the eropa laws aring | mands. But these considerations: 
a heavy crop. It is chiefly composed of F , tho arvest at a step quicker than usual, there will oho wae heck to perseverance, ought rat 
Clover being in most fields absent altogether, and in very | straw, for so as a shower was needed the ne oe endl toat. Fitis inquired what will h 
few showing the broad leaf and stout stem that belonged to| came. T ther for some 10 days has en os Soham f . PEA oe Lei 
rs gone Isike has come up well, andis| we have scorching winds, which, alt “saree of continuing to use Leicester with t 
A org e anticipate much advantage from this ne but advantageous to the Wheat plant, have, byte t tho | ewes we have been speaking of, I reply that, 
tively new introduction into our praon fields. yee A R pone th ay jury to. poten u ` a ave observed, every succeedi gen 
ynspicuous e growth in k ole rain, ` < 
JE, ares was Poon: gnerion | addy the| withstanding its having fallen very heavily, to-day kipera more like the Leicester ype, yet ret: 
Feat and frequent showers of hg and June, and = scarcely any corn laid in this neighbourh Basen gating e Scotti If there 
afforded most excellent grazing to cattle and shee good, not ov these st with a 1 rg r, tly suc yA p tendency to ear ym urity as in 
asif well harvested would yield a Shorouhig satisfactory 
; wherever it PE favourable | fine k quality of w on ge on the other han an 
Muppussex :Usbridg anon s ige When mee foe, by start it will be h “ ay Mean las T ourable id har hood of constitution, rp a 
eonfined to this neighbour! s generally good, . I = 
but in some ener on the eara i ‘s pre aturely oa Oats, and they nearly invariably look well. Pot ee ees ong l It ‘dep 
ing Sarles get ast ahenk an te gpa no best la a ees hes oe tein aires iy = fared eye completed | of whi ch every breeder is besti ay pate juloos de 
good. at Np ee A to Oat Beana an As Pero fhe first sowing f our Turnips, but both belies, an hae rai — class of sheep is best adapted to 
rain. Of Swedes little can be said, as not many are yet hoed| that time we have been trying a second sowing—a 
ind singled. ‘The Potatoes are wanting rain, Charles Webster. | which we are little acquainted in the north. = old ae above example, the me 
: Bi f the Fens. July 6—One of the pecu-| the earlier sown Swedes came away admirably, have been ith the Leicester cross is that the d 
aria of 8 Roe ath ser toa reflec mind is a conve sing] = d cen igh ka Et ye oy fring. S i ‘a roan ù 
away also, perhaps not so thick as the first, i Or as it aborte 
iE of which, indeed every oondition o ci, p originates reached ae in length, ‘ere ne ae pit vl ante thet, | the other. But of late years another course has been 
in the broes mert ninem iy bey Sa a aers Sek aici ry ai nce of death than life. The | adopted. hich a cross has been firmal 
h poy ee capanna by in any. oti ee Barrows: wah E ihe ile were again set up, and Pome- | between the Southdown or Hampshire-down on th 
cles of hife and death To the farmer it te ghouye n Turi i sown in, which are coming away vigorously, | one side, and the Leicester or the breed a 
pert popes poss but as it is als quite beyond his ate will i in all likelihood be say Fhia ande a — e other, ect here is not to discard the pers 
control, the only thing a farmer can do is to exercise fore- ad pong fae 5 be ak ines ti Sage others have | liarities of either breed, but permanently to combis 
sight before the erent rea ad thes ~ Oe Aa a| preferred taking chance of a thin crop in preference toa | the best be aie of each. In 
A friend said some years since that he | Second sowing. `The pis greatly beyond an average. | 74th Vol of the Royal Agri 
ace the second week in. June, and Much of it has been cut, and the weather having been parti- Touti This sgathe following aliit oa 
never his crop of Turnips ; og ma add to this cularly favourable up to yesterday, a good deal of it has been Ena E e Dwi t 
maxim : angels in aoste Sen ien ithe last | got into ricks me the field. Pasture Grass has abundant, | subject from the pen o j Druce puce :—* 
week in A panat + then alm of a | and stock of has been thri tisfacto 7 nearly 20 years since I an the 
plant. Now one but a farmer oat full Sod doar J y 8 FE in oar neigh aan Southdown and Cotswold sheep, ai ordi 
— gta pe ter ili be a deficiency. kariy Barley and Oats good ; the back- E | sk of sheep farming I ET hay d 
power of giving the priy freshly turned wf a ta stale| ward crops very inferior o rm and size ie it pir zi tity 
tilth will produce & successful seeding ; by successful I mean 
vigorous j avn that will 
instances much blighted. Hay field ones ae 
not so full a bk and not toe tbe eted. 
they 
quality, and no t defic cien pi 
that ti e 
AN 
Turnips and Swedes at — 
peed tle wh ith Bios o plan nae mt a e sk 
weather, or any o ordinary 
reee ane pa S growth. Then rA probabilities of| are too late. Geo. Brown the cross-bred animals on a both pie et 
mav mbn A topit state oof the land add mannre, which first ¢ an ay = e armers 
| ae be yet Ampir admi a E E an grat a edi —From the numero ne he hes injury + what I now tad not myself 
| ever. app e man who ien lot to his y the drought to coving ro a e continen) -Cotswold j 
i foot crops a ral supply of moist homogeneous farmyard | countries, which iven rise to the purchases of Rice and these sheep, but I kio: that the AAN 4 
j manure ; by this word I mean well mixed, and that q Oats, &c., in this country lately by fa ae from the Rhine | have been termed, have 0 btain h A 
i äs not attended to so much as it should be If the farmer | and elsewhere (the spring crops in gland have suff over a co idane district in which 
f has carted alternate of horse manure with that’ from too), your harvest Geports from Ireland, particularly abou ly established. This example of union 
i bullock sheds, cow hovels, or strawyards, and turned it ove: the Barley, Oats, and Potatoes, will be more than roan ew os - di buni jit to 
it still rests with the distributors in filling the totake| teresting, and A is no doubt difficult to get prope two distinct breeds is 80" nti iii if some of 
all outside and all inside ; there is a tact in doing this, which | from Irish farme: rs. Perhaps many of the Bae nnd S Stotah ideas t that it would be nteresting j 
l show i has been r settled now in aan different Aek or Irelanı cyan wor Pos 
gi directions willingly report rates you fr “aia FE ork nort! 
eg be oe Jou | prince s eo kept i 
ma; 5 
If judgment is i n both sides? Do they q 
aea niformity ofe hante te o they frequen 
isu deena erain SEPARATE BREEDS OF STOCK. the original types from which they were € 
,ifa| THE i on has been asked whether it is possible y after the “apse of se 
Apne Aiia his | by m the union of two or ey bree any |t ize of carcase a lle -= of 
1 ; Baroy se pinge semali € mane’ animal to form another distin e E arac- rst eros? 
| o reaniro e if fairly dealt with by AEN ed b Bes t ch as 1t 1s con longing a 
occurrence of som me en preduce in a fi sidere O x s to these and similar 
‘But we do not wate Le the nA i perpe — dise: ase? Re ipei 
erm rere a oan 
very seeding of Wheat 
in 3 Mes -ta is it not as 
pales. ing warmth 
oy: the Tath Al 15th. of pee: stimulated 
its powers, f the last 
tenden ney gai 
and mi ala 
important both in a theoretical 
dm “tt ust be 
fessed that “elisble Hr on this subject i is alte 
ious does that 
ery copious, nor y | view. It isn 
instan be on S ad — same oceanic on. Com ap by interrogating nature that “we mest a 
opinion say: “Tho first cross between two breeds | ciples; and it t sound p ioe 
k | succeeds ; ; cobutijudut we attain to gate and successful practice. 
crosses in the direction of either 
one or r the other a a instance, it is contended that 
w. _ a Leicester is "a to Scotti sh black- faced 
Wt. 4} 
Wood, Holly Ban 
ipt e promises to to bë a fl atahis be about 60 Ibs., or an in lf 
is thin on, tho ground an over that of the dams. If it is desi try a med 
s, it is of course expedient to di See among 
the first cross of lambs which resemble r dams more 
than their sire. Notwithstandin tie " precaution a 
$ cer tain nu mber will still kah breed back » as it is termed, to | 
you again ‘att the females so obtained to a a Leicester 
, their offspring is or ely to be rather e thai 
better than the dams. But this latter proposition i is 
the result not of experience. but of m judice. 
Some years ago I fi ree 
generations a After 
PRA ecess aie cross, 
however, the impro a though este eertain, is 
less Bi tog for the teaa reason that there is less 
Suppose for ree that rs average 
mo 
wight: "of “the Scottish sheep. at 25 mths | 
old is 40 Ibs, and that the eicester 
breed 100 Ibs. upwards, =i gag 
ne a rst is such that the average 
at the same age of the cross-bred offspi pring will | 
crease of one-hal 
a splendid erop. 
and F pastures are completely 
ty. y it is the appearance 
e Co rrespondent 
A me tn t Doriot À deny ` 
n 1848-9 I was led to try a keti o 
rs oi 
the effect of burnt clay on n different kin kin 
the results en ved that this substance had the 
of depriving the sewage m 
nibiceisons 1s constituents an and 
tical > 
grea ractical e rod net wuld’? 
mosphere 
most eff 
forming a manure 
eatest p I found als 
ment that ae solid pre ris 
that on t 
the bu Pee Sper 
| operation very. E as ves this mb 
y | of these that leads some ae Joi imagine the second 
| heat be carried too high it depri 
