May 2, 1863.) THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 421 
certainly ‹ one not to be answered satisfactorily in a begin with, to ә gradu ally increased until the | pig у hundreds daily during the breeding season, one of 
m Various opinions exist, differing considerably | i is fat. In this manner " s can be made to pay greatest  nemies the farmer х. BO contend 
e from another—some believe four, otbers six, some | {ог the food they ; but ifa pig i fattened on via both in the meadow and the tilled land; 
deis t eu My own opinion is that, taking beasts of | meal, and that di Г "ао өн са - score will | this all good farmers know well. Let those who 
four or five years old and sheep of two years old, feeding | fairly show a balane ieg i is one advocate their destruction watch this bird, with its 
them wnder equal conditions of food, warmth, and advantage in having some rn fi iving pest of insect in its beak, carrying this food to 
helter, six sh tion t bullock , and the litter which may be applied. them is not|its young five or six times in the hour from sunrise to 
than any с” number, but then the profit or loss may | necessarily во озы as that requi red by , other stock. sunset. Its young are fed with thousands of grubs 
vary considerably, according to th system of mana ki og ,|picked up from and out of the earth at this season, 
ment Sanesi; T would place them | in this way— conclusions to which I have arier үз аге these—that| There is no corn or otber food so acceptable to their 
beasts under cover, the sheep in a sheltered yard, - аз fattening of stock, as а whole, оп light land farms, | young as these pests, the greatest enemy to the 
husbandman and the tiller of the soil. Newbury. 
not of an expensive kind, both being provided with ajisa et = to the land, ar epad the means of con- 
nto 
fair amount of good food— vertin lus stra good manure, more than EP 
бер to consume the profit it derived dir directly in money value. Thus „бете Steam Oultiostion tion Compa TIE 
ез | сак da and ho soon be w 
ap ак Pu day a. E чере т. E s, Hh Fy — times, To эзе ы біте the preference, as = бош toi у нар, Per V. 4e of e haron n 
s shown t beasts 
юпа pr бда 90 lb. Swedes per дау = under the t eniti, tbe айтамасе о the support of the patriot as well м the -— (nd 
LX rmm ox 030 lb, per week, at 
ton.. $1] T. . .1 t those periods of the year w MÀ 9 ith the di rry 
be kept lo consum their food. there, added, give in the prospectus, and һауе not therefore at 
Un tells us the simple e 
wn 5. QNT Р of more interest in the than any other agri- 
Atendanos 7 1. 0 4j|Atendance —..  .. 0 8 | SENN : of be 
—— —— | will not of itself supply all that it requires. The exten Е | ороп, and the best implements known (and 
d 7% |to which the fattening of tee zi MERC only the best) used without favour or affection 
ЭСЕН in — auae п .7T4 | Ineroasing in. weight $: T 6 torus straw on the D and tbe facility with which e nr Ju e бетер" z e bn 
a quanti ity of roots may be brought to the homestead, | |. 4 wi h h h iled 1 pe губе » 
These calculations are based o peri their tenorei bung: weighed, | 94 УЧА wo exe, havo ати. owne ves o! ef 
our own farms; the M of food named are what | and the manner in which it may be usually fine spring, If the company do not send out 
I believe to be tely good k for sheep or implements until after the Qe рас at 
beasts—that is fr we 55 both са v P test 
amram ceret бы е time ago hired two ploughs by different 
of which were immedia! 
wi 
the full val cake, gi 
Cake, the other half in m farmers in Bæotia (my district) 
relative market val > roe ce gea wed epe 
with roots—Swedes in the еа: troduced. Perhaps one of the 
as good, and perhaps better б ет Jer po 
M but in the I for Company to issue a good and 
for ра; nto wherein the effects were 
mixture of cake and corn i utat tan! vus CH We Mox | 
of i rr who could be seen 
I have stated РАТЕ |" in tho | 2008 E fene chat mmy farmers believe the 
peer элү тыр эч eee f many weighings over ved." majority of "writers be myths, and all to be 
several lots of sheep from time to time, whilst fattening, had e on rry they ; Н. V. 
up to 16 or 20 weeks. Mr. Lawes found with {һе | беч be doubled at айокапов, — midi а p tq is desirable in a matter of 
pshire sheep, for the 26 weeks, that with 8 lbs. of $ bat d hich 
oilcake, 7 lbs. of chaff, and 106 lbs. of Swedes weekly, 
that the average weekl 
2% lbs. I gp i pg Aden) Qu И Sape - the | tura] Gazette he unintenti me Hr what is 
Royal ieultural Societ which would bold about а couple =: — hasp, | bee certainly directly aes А px зу ose Di m 
in to | an 
solidi. 
i t r 20s. 
ring to rere and sheep, as o genera results от T so that s could, walk russi ca eat their food and go e has greater deference to quee A 
? е "P, EU " ыл " E А Y ж » =” M жә 
tific praade What I d 
emphatically repeat, were еб өө du 
produce llb. weight inorenak; y : тг 
suming 15108. to 16 lbs. dry substance ү food, shoul 
yield 13 lb. increase, showing that beasts give the 
propo portion of increase for a given amount of food ; he 
hich were 
or corn. 
would 
or 
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t 22]. per head, and it 
were worth about 
was 
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НЕ it 
tting is of ad e, as th 
тоо ich I have just mentioned are almost the albe i te^ aic оно e soil and the ва d pot, hat of 
only ones which ought to be removed from the land, if а tailor who would provide a e ho 
intended for Wheat, believing that, except in a very Home Correspondenc th clothes from the measure of one of mem- 
i nces, the whole of the other roots would rem ie ing read in ia gyar d Pm many | bers. Systematic drainage, as recognised in science, 
advan per - by == ме rae aed arguments concerning the т destruction of the| is the connoc ction of the appropriate modes of draining 
way. and i I i wi 
to 
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mm E with 
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=ч ү > Р МАЙГЫ e yii. d reu 
us manure where it wanted at a | annoying if corn 
faturo day. any descri &c. Insuch 
These s apply to pigs the same as | localities 
to sheep or Пода Sie Tho vli of p manure to light | but on a 10 
land is considerable; but the t in other ways | regard to hensive a character 
depends very much in il уай and quantity of the|the sparrow, you may j ч кч pin den 6 
fes the pig teoeives Б eed to pr fed because they clear the were found 
Barley-meal, sed them in small quantities at | diately after cause of 
and MEN v c m 
which they (ox jen. There 
which fixed themselves in the 
animals; next the Entoz 
Bir 
; 
jue x roots besides, and also a few 
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