__ $68 
THE AGRICU hat at oi 
a Sa Tae re. 
tind will see less to be surprised at 
ability to grow Wheat at a reduction of Ss. a a quarter 
Last V 
$ 
e of E hie 
acre ay year ey ‘60 ton: 
to zoe ee AG 
as we have done without these 
3 Frederick's Place, Old Jew: 
Land Drainage.—You state "at the 42d orgs of the 
Agricultural Gazette that “the capillary attraction of 
the clayey Sapa ia pera PEE drains must be 
laid lowest in = before any drainage i is effected 
asiata 
London, Nov. 
t Our 
weight after topping rand ie 
of 48 t 
1; 
sheep, amongst t 
is Supposed the 
s | that eminently ite 
ov Lele 
efi cee Mr. DAR k 
e port ion of this crop had 
been planted "in ervals of a S 9% plant 
that partially et es th at part of 
was bearing mong the Man gen 
a 
aiie a others se 
the average f that d 
rter _ woul 
land | wil 
d | the present dar Mc Bien h 
y are n fact the 
and production 
aan in their propagation from oi 
Sheep.—The 
ly carried on 
man's 
Sela $ 
Propagation o of 
ment was steadi 
aced suf- 
Wurzel has produced Bi 55 "tons of evenly sand Toots, 
after toppi ing and cleaning ; clay soils both y 
ak 
Io 
A 
from time to time 
successors. There have 
as 
their 
f sheep ell 
think desirable, cull from it any "particulars that wel 
Bedford, Lord Spence, Lo p Lei 
the Agricultural Gazette, “It is most gratifying to 
to observe, o n making known the abundant 
f| returns it ‘had yi did. mise to encourage our fellow 
agricult urists in growing Mangel Wurzel. Fraxinus, 
w Stockbrid 
urgess aaa &e., of t 
their duty i in thus handing ai 
the so estal ie d 
beon cultivated from 
esolation gave way to h usbandry, 
ph wide at ig aca is in some ox in ae 
there are stones but no rock a hard day’s work for 
wor! j 
es a “entch 74d, a 
about the of 
uch—just takes 
fe Dresi of à heep. Thus it 
find that th ey all becom: e e ‘deep * drai ners as soon as they | A | gt es ockbri eee im 
t [Or d and Drange Globe Mangel Wurzel. agit generation, who hay 
A 2 font Oct., “807, oE 12 ‘artloads o a To manure on Oat | cArryin g on this great wor 
s at 4 feet or hee Diget Lees Our country stands indebted 
pwards.” Those who have cut 4 aa 5-feet drains at | 1858.—February.—Harrowed and ploughed across. y Vebb, he Duke of Richmond, Oy: 
wider intervals than experiment proves that drains cut Hl Harrowed and oe ona a7 in cartloads | Rigden, Grantham, Lugar, 
to various depths will dry o side of the drain ee ihel oa ha read in inthe vid v0 o, ae, risen | to Sandy, Pawl 
myard manure sp ges ; guano, y, ett, 
appear to forget that drains cut 12, 15, 20, 25, 40, and 2 awt ; salt, 2 owt. ; ti inch bones, 6 bushels ; | Bodle T, &c. ; 
50 feet ively require per acre 5 sown broadcast on the dung, ploughed all in pmb Kirkhams, Ri 
2178, 17424, 1089, 873} feet of he pt ea aons with | Lincolns; to Large, Hewer, Garne, i 
drain pipes not help to compensate for the extra depth ? 7 lbs. of seed, 2 superphosphate, and | Ruck, &e., for the Cot: wesley and to many dhen 
“Upon our clays I do not approve of 5-feet at 20 bushels of ashes. £s | their marked success in t remodeling their several ds. 
int of 40 feet—as d not compen- |... Cot 285 loads of dug. es en is ° ricts breeds, such as the woolled” taj 
sate for the distance apart; the land is not thoroughly pak of salty at 1.6 . LES gy lled” hı re 
ed-—the crop is best nearest the ee wet- 6 bus! Te of 4 ini ch Don te te Fn - 018 R a D the PoE eA are now : 
ness lain! eptible in the intermediate spac 2 ewt. o pupon aep ae at 7s. “ Establis. reeds,” viz. the South h Down, Tat, 
Seeds ths drains, z _ Five feet, too, in hard, dry, blue byt ese askoa Kk Ares ae : 2 g F and Long-wools, that we stand most 
t ar Ellman, Mr. Bakewell, Lord Leicester, &e. 
labour is very conserbl. have drained at 4 feet £710 8] in hand the aa er he ia 
deep and 27 feet apart in stiff..chalky clay. I Si ee ae ago; they achieved im 
am satisfied it i s answ a ‘but. yet the extra Sorieties, at the 
pth has not comperisat ted r the additional dis- Cae had a close tr m the regi of the 
bene S BY Boa gion An Gazette, page 7564 The Tan the breeds of the present day, earl 
ire e soil, the of labour and drain- Sourn Kerystneton Museum: A Lecture on stamped by ake maleacn Itan 
pes, Culture of the le given here by Mr. Robert Smith, | the race of attempted improvement was all sulin, 
ing with’ as ses precision as a merchant can take | 0f Exmoor, in the of the year, contained the mbers had made the attempt to 
stock. The different depths an es distances apart that pt passages, e scteeceal from it and published in the tion of of dem 
drains are cut by a number of ing farmers who ae a hited wi in ngaen So oiga Journal. endod da richer : ke 
are „all draining al at the same iano, ‘contrasts strangely Orig was handed | that great credit is due to those breeders of shee rba 
do own Di us om time Era. was a horn sheep. ‘have displayed s o much ingenuity and 
Line aas eh draina 20 at TA bets "deep te the Russian sheep, Wallachian sheep, the fat-tailed "HM ioe ent.--Good Ñ andy has happily ome 
and shallow loam which lca on a spongy subsoil; | Cape sheep, Cyprus sheep, Moufflon sheep, Syrian ies sale, snd with sb aed 
and cut 30 inches rere t apa: dense, hard | aho Asiatic argalia, thi can argalia, Meri- | in ocks. As the ores has it, “Shee 
y stones are embedded, for | 20s, all of which have h Our original English cullen feat”-_-without them but little progr 
S ae ttom the draina n 42 coding Si he Dorset, Exmoor, Norfolk, Yorkshire Shropetdre, Wilt. made, especially op Teh Bae be 
in wi 5 : i ¢ 20 | t ? 2 “| to give a 
` apart, in de y soils, 10d. sie, Welsh, Sete pice bed and black-faced, all of | + differs with ri acid 
per 6 lineal y “The ri int?” some ich had horns. These ancient E breeds have | The key to manage m 
vis of thie fel n the land had chiefly disappeared b — the sce and those alone f athe wind rol 
Foon ploughed; ; in other parts it is as low as the bottom | remain where the of ms eg See a she soil gover 
of the 42-inch drains. Such an outlay by a tenant stayed by untowar = ci ireumst anen the re on 
(who al years’ lease of the farma) fie ‘or | of the tea h= of the a er "English Short-woolled sheep are foun 
mannal labour is “no joke.” Altho ough it is bre eds, disc r that the Russian Beret yen Br ouster 
‘to. labourers to Ii n ir work duri mediate climate of th 
showery weather, prefe alk a sors go and the Exmoor horns, the only Since wools u upon the exposed eastern 
tance to cut 30 inches deep for 7d. per 6 lineal ing — of their varied cultivation in the different er bleak (yet cultivated) h fis an of 
-to those le i 42 inches de “ot, 
Havi: sees in p ce in Prarie A ~ DRONN Breeds, &e—Great Britain in the earliest under is th 
30-inch drains for prices varying 3d. to 7d. 6 periods o of her „hi story resemble As op other countries locality. 
lineal yards, I can with Pg i state that 3d. i was nothing but cester at the fi 
more remunerative price for ¢ s of 30-inch | bleak hills, undrained plains, and wild Pigeon and by 
drain r some soils ~~ Td. is fo cutting 6 lin e over these r yess ay pap lands were found no animal a 
t | but su we correspending condition. ‘Bat i 
is that we find the black- For instance 
x faced short-woolled sheep of Norfolk transformed i 
i t h 
an nd the 1 Exmoor mountain she eep, » ha aving 
1 
u 
re | horned sheep into respectable Long-wools; the Shrop- 
shire horn into hornless § S; 
the horned Dorset into improved Dorset and Somerset 
horns; the black-faced Wiltshire and other Southern | ¢ 
county horns into Hampshire, Wi ty, and Sussex upon the an 
Downs; the Scotch white-faced horns superseded by | on n refer 
the Cheviots and Herdwicks ; + 
of 
the cause of much er or much ] higher 
“deep” drains require to be cut wider | 
8d. 5d. 
hood, remain. The We or mountain sheep are still the 
same i this arises fro m the great height 
and bleakness of the Welsh mountains; there i 
quently but small chance of their improvement 
marshy plains of seg have been gr: 
earliest wor Spreng long woolled s shan. 
f bone and 
: “Yana of 90 and 48-inch dra Salm N and the pets geen 
å to 7h 10s; se and T. 6s. 93d.: there is 
94d. in favour of 
| hen remodelled 
fleec 
.| Hills 
cost | Which mention is made 
it 
m- f C t 
fence Romney or Apes Teesw: 
origin: 
on 2 acres of land, 
e into a highly profi class of animals, and are 
now pares oR; a Pes eee. ye Cones 
of “ Longe woolled,” were 
al characterist' ge ext 
land counties pave lo oi had k a class of ti 
pt an ows for thinning: 
zed from the = the 
i These have | ; 
bein 
et with a ‘hearty wel 
come, as they are hospitable a Soe 
ea 
to the trav oti? 
t This map was rê 
during many rags of the oad 
