= THE GARDENERY CHRONICLE AND AGRICULIURAL GAZETTE. [JANUARY 24, 1868 
TAS of einige food has been, and is now ы lbs. — daily to the larger ones over 1300 | worth of 
being carried out on a very unusual scale. Up- wine, an immense addition is being made to the|a useful dressing of some обо ор yards of 
wari gi o 1000 giii are being fed, and there are бена resources of the land. In addition to|charred and burned clay in place of two ог three 
ws in farrow, laired u ко азһев 8, whi eh a large flock of sheep is fed during summer | times as much ofc ouchy and intractable clod is the 
redis the enormous ’ quanti Teb astures, receiving oilcake. There is a immediate result The t, аз We sa 
thus made. The other stock i 9 on уара ni: breeding flock of 1800 Lincoln ewes, and in all last Tuesday, is а dark green plant f Wheat, as 
seale: 350 oxen are bein n straw and cake | about 10,000 sheep, most of which are sent out to | vigorous and promising, ыя ней һу апу 
in yards; and 10,000 E odia sheep are engaged | “баек” during winter upon th rnip fields of otherdressing, as on adjoinin Es оа ere 20 loads 
in growing mutton and *'lustre' neighbouring Cotswolds, or, bought in Lin- yard dung had been appie nd "y 
subject of economising sewage has поё been for- | colnshire, are wintering there; coming to Ше| 6. Thei рз йр. Hie ge sture lan] is how- 
otten, and a large tank for the u АА filtration | Buscot теген in April and May, and covering | ever the principa al b 
5 all the house waste, on the principle adopted at | them от rate of from five to seven sheep per|o of the Buscot Park E state. E is to tis dd f suh 
Osborne, is usefully at work. Now n the| acre all throu "à the season an expense in drainage has been ineurred—that 
island is there over the pe nm : mds er| 3. Thé estate is not yet furnished in any ву sueh an outlay in ar n 
capital per acre engaged, both in landlord's and| manner with farm аша and the plan at h has been мау о 
1 1 Nowher lieve i ich i removal of зоок», "anthill &o., 
in tenant's improvements. No believe is | summering hic to be adopted as the spuddini П 
the owner bent so vigorously on the improvement | main consumption of the produce is economical in and their conversion wi mp о that 
of his estate for the growth of ju hat produce | this, as in other ways that no costly farmeries © renovating " seeds have been ion wih arroil 
which soil and sky alike pronounce the best-fitted The existing outlying sheds an over so ma y bundred acres is dun. а herd of 
toits circumstances. Grass d p ovement is | courts are tu in very simple and swine 18 being kept If in this п І ва 
the great effort that is being made. Land drainage, | economical and efficient manner into pigsties for | only us manure for my PT eh nearly free of 
puru, Y eeding, герр ng, aa tillage, | the enormous herd which is being fed. T e home cost, CAMPBELL, : sha all k "m dis- 
e age иы and w can have. no do сүнө ses sd эз: ташын progr essing €— comple etion, eoyed the philosopher s Stone for agrieulture." 16 
the result y yield a n like е ean for ost part into|is to this end also, as well as profit more E 
raging lesso р i cand anaries аге | that oilcake an redet eake are given 
The esta. te of Buseot Park, near Lechlade, was filled wi et "ood. — Rò pads ий. been made|to the sheep at Grass. astly, and ual in 
rchased in 1859 by ROBER RT CAMPBELL, Esq., | wheren т being тен importa -— to ег od мө пони о іар 
1 1 rkshire. 16 is about in many cases e|pasture, 16 is wi e same o 2 а 
the present High Sheriff of Berks wire fenci ng is ing i y к? ч i ашк done m Шә direot tillago gf 
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4500 acres in extent, bounded for 10 miles by the | immense quantities of grubbed ades nn root are 
n Colne and Пелин, and forming ап ex- Eid and théir ashes used as bedding for the rase 1а 
emely eompaet property, well wooded over a|sw Hitherto "but little has been done over most of 
pesas us undulating surface, its bighest — ^T he ангаа of the estate has been already | our permanent р pasture lands for the direct eultiva- 
the mansion, whic Жш аы Of the 4500 acres which the estate | tion ofthe Grasses. We have mown or eaten down 
ото рапогаша, I$ is for the ost part in includes, SHE 2 wil be this spring in hand.|the annual growth whieh s 
pasture land—a. stiff soil on the “ Oxfo rd clay " The stock will then number 1300 swine, 250 of shower, amongst them, have produc 
ion. о 1 TTOW. 
ing w o ate improvemen Whe may | drained of the stagnant water, whic e 
dtaipsge; roads, fences, buildings, all out of ultimately be the ease, the xi le y is in the majority of acres still sours the soil, and furthers 
pair. 16 із and always was essentially a tract of | owner’s ha nds, and the pas sture lands all fully i in growth S u er tha 
d jt but yielding probably less surface pro- operat ion, : i о 
ini in proportion to its dormant AA. and | th ahoya Lu A of shee eep, and itis towards Fe e Thistle drawing, or to the same action of 
wealth than any other estate of corresponding RE, that the process ofimprovement tends. The|the s whic every е 
xtent in the county, Мг. CAMPBELL having | produce of the land wn thus be consumed at the|year injures the goo od uch as 
purchased it upon the rental at which it had long | best season of the year to ensure а return, and itj does the w 
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"m se money, as he has had occasion given him denee and labour than iu any other way. At crops, and on W : 
his ГҮҮ for goter on its PET present of course the labour of i qun i: is | arable lands, our aha ures know nothing. Wes 
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difficulties of three wet seasons, has been suo- live weight during the t acres have been pared ; the whole ground has then | 
ond y оре! їп piss: ) and applying it. АШ 5, Arable Man nageme ement. — Hero the steam-p ois been dug over 9 or 10 inches deep and leve ed, 
we сап do at present is to enumerate the|has b t arge extent—some | and the turf is being relaid. o whole willbe | 
iiia processes that j^ ve been at work. 0 aeres—of Gor pel "Se «d has been grubbed | heavily rolled, and there cannot, be a doubt that - 
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and subsoil tells upon the dass] of the land and | which five have been lost by rain and faults of|has been costly. Тһе paring cos 8 8s. p 
Шешу tothe better Grass condueted | the apparatus, t vt of them owing to failures of ће | aere, the digging about 3L, the replacing of 
strai ight the slope, gea ii of ridge an nd | p pump. During 129 wor rking days, 502 acres haye | turf, first smoothing the surface, about 30s. . 
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sage of the rainfall, the gridiron Hi stem of cla t и A has. p needed every year, costing | stirring the soil 4 inches deep, before the. 
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land drainage answers peri аб once. But rather more than 1s. per aere. And this, s with ex- | furrow slice is laid. These furrow slices 
the result does not eome at опее in stiff clay sen of soris аай олен eat will amount | wards ROM back by hand, and the whol 
pastures, and there is nothing in land improv а considerable ess, however, than the |ro own 
with which Mr PBELL, ав a capitalist, is more | Nil force бегин те realki would haye cost. Tt isas an illustration of the proper cultivation \ 
impressed, than the cost and value of ин E: . The tho rough efficiency of the tillag ze thus con- | the Grasses that the alterations going o on at Bust 
drainage, therefore, of the pastures, doy are especiall resting ; and at a time when Ux 
furrow, and in many placés NA 50 ) that "tlie standing on the land,* the healthy Aie of e ж of ' Farming, especially їп the 
interval varies from 9 feet, to 30 feet, has been the у Wheat plant giier d the firm | Coun inly зе. ы í 
first step towards this Айту. : pom Rag of the ela soil, notwith Sanding its flat E bes) fo fold and the meat a: 
have been and are being most! eultiv son. a. nid E аге the UA of it. s to be hope d that a "faller account t than ° 
liberally applied, cwt. of bone dust, eserving | Du tin here f 
с f superphosphate, 1j ewt. of guano, and 
1 ewt, of salt have been spread broadcast per aere | has been SEM à carrie "y Оп am у foul an ла |р hereafter Al given to the publie. 
оме а any hundred acres; and now by the con- | stiff fallow, especially wher jo siad E Judging from two visits to the Bo мш with 
А umption of Lentils and Maize at the rate of 6 or | this process will be be found, ia Е vens PUPA hore t to interval of nearly two years betw: 
Е; a э се wig tpat Шә Jand, would Бе over exert a very fertilising influence ut 405. |b — mir agi 
Kerr de ior dics P epa ev «8 5 ard to the) * A remarkably fine crop. taking the prize at the late lone half the money ia invested in the 
advantage ofth Grass. ] Faringdon show—weighing at least 24 tons per acre. 
