THE AGRA CU LEVER A® GAZETTE, 
444 F LJUNE 28, 
= fa wie n 16s. to 18s. per acre, land 3 
A gonm m Ek sA i ald, i if | u rem crop in pt yea n = = Spi m ia in aan then select the two best. I suppose you now to tae a 
nae ra AE 2. roved a canas the most, in- par able at act a panes a. —it is not = y older ones ; ua — rsa 4 the older ones 
of. the eyes, as ior it d be the fall e eet en prices ing, t in RA every year, 
yeterate ohana other 5 es aos eeu total. kbal bol “of the Cost -laws, and | there are other Thus you would ken four cocks at least to 30 he 
informed that the sweepings fr : flues. were col- Saas besides mere price, and two cocks 
lected to be mixed with si table manure | and. ordure, influence with the faper cheapness, incident upon a about | 15 or 20 hens okat “the ssai t of ae year ; for 
forming a rich compost, fi ly I v o not less than 6 yards of 
Onions, and other garden produce. “ I recollect to have | el nd a en nests, with a box ceiving 
n near Oporto, s common salt (common salt?) | 1 me, I therefore do no “3 fel a eggs, x E j Aie shed 2 [?] yards square would be 
“burnt in a PRES during light rains, or in the quite Foinn to answer this ten in all its required for the Saying or old stock, with door in the — 
“evening when the dew was falling, in ord t the’| ings, but were the matter of addi tional: -supply hin aig middle, ang e perches on one side, the boxes on. the 
a fertilize r, I must say, r. ens P 
vapour ne down with it, might act as a 
eared t 
nearly completed ı my. improvements, T Gond pre: 
nd the concomita: iini as | 
ct. o be Reicaye surprising. The 
m (ashes) in chaffin 
very | 
I should expect, of an arrest of ameliorations at home, | 
£011 
an | April, and May. 
eggs. 
is, the 
— following is a vany good ‘plan 
—Rub 
with common rnish with a cloth or your ome 
roll, 
4q 
EA and ERE anp. with it, was vad to ee a 
d 
the foreign supply 1 
with the nit a RE es rori 
Thin Sowing of Grain. — Being fully convinced of the 
neglec cted land in England ; as 
pie: Sti would prae more scanty ultim 
-BrO 
ately, ee less 
elastic tie to our growing necessiti ies than w sho 
what w uld | 
y on paper’; 
tb ? fate, retouch they aia bt was 
es © paper ; ; get some aur dry it in an oven or in 
3 get a- box; pat ina lay er of sand ; 3 then set the.d 
E 
been the practice, and hav ing 
rience in the efficacy of dib bbiin ing Wheat, A resolved to 
give this method of sowing a with pei polar pan ; 
d ac scp ge 8 in the letter ere of 
je acre £ sro pals 
had some slight expe- 
principles 2 Prasti agriculture to our own soils 
John Dudge 
Poultry on t that m 
d | der the serch be fitted 
sand, d tk ther 1 ; “and so on This aria 
devise who tried a great many 
f the ways 3 eggs i Et fee 11 months broke like fess h 
Ee ain bates a let oñes: “AS to food, let those that are to be killed have as 
Once a weel d; ie) 
with 
the place | be swept : and ee 
en out 5 5 
ith 13 Bek of Spal tines Prolite 
Wheat, tal akn that only one single grain 
dropped me, “each hole Ame. ho jes being Ei thus, 
oe ; cely a grain has 
missed coig ag The w ork a rformed by two 
en and two women, occupying them four days ; the 
men at ls. 4d. per day, and the women at 8d. The 
at 
result i is most | satisfac ctory ; the > plants have tillered out 
have the 1 sweepings take: 
i 
if you Have’ no pee ‘for them Los oe all be on a 
ce anure 3 
sting improves Se re = 
sweepin roves the manure, and keeps the hens’ 
feet, and therefore the eggs, EAEI Set, where t heni is 
a choice, the worst layers, and the most det ned, 
an 
least PSE ae quietest setters, on few re eet in 
winter than in su 
__ Set n o hens fear June and 
PS, y. An ug. 1 is wees 
tha ; 
the smaller ones must oe food ‘Sue openings tod 
Id hens, Bu at let them 1 haye the: eir r fill; 
d st 
4 
and about a pint of goo: od B 
for the week, given in the morning. 
and rotuplotaly covers: the ground, ; 
PEE E 
method of sowing., I consider the immense ‘gain ~~ 
oe method 
chickens then hatched will 
One thing m 
the nests breed and kee ep 1 vermin } ; they must, therefore, 
the boxes, trig in 
well 
th 
aarti December, April, or even ay and, if be 
Mind Tai 
make it oopa to the publie through the medium of 
ust also add that I } 
not speaking to prad to Ende who wish to 
I ha 
>A 
Clie Hall, ‘Market Lavingt on, D 
in 
To such I say, don’t set hens 
Fe fea nes ad saa but two or thre ie 
g by March Ist, on Poa han 
also fi 
| form y ou that last year the w 
ration for ot 2/1. 12s., ing about ls. 
I fin 
own eggs or eggs of the sam 
ession ni 1 May 15th. When the ane is 
ock of 35h 
presto t (rom any old o 0 
laid 2607 eggs lst year, Siek is 
Drainage.—The inclosed ey poe from a prac- en ria [7A tch 17, I had on e Be but 50. eggs. a- woa 
tical farmer, addressed to Professor Johnston, and few “hens Png coret ane 13 safely. ‘etd oe probably I lost si M. V. 
read by him at the Dutt m Monthly Agricultural | eggs, ni urely, and take ‘off 0 I have read with inii ona an le from you 
Meeting, i- yak ing ot articular notice; it shows | day, peeling upi > the s egg gs with hay, or, ae very cold, Lambeth correspondent, 0: Se a of domes 
the certa im return for capital laid out, | with flannel or w She may be off as long as the | poultry. Under the third section of his paper heh 
and RATOA forcibly gute sensibly the advantage of | eggs are lukewa Some sels put ‘heed “at once strongly insisted on the necessity of a good suppl 
3-feet drains, which I have always ea in favour of; |into a feeding-room with ashes, but I prefer a green food. In this recommendati I most cordi 
although i hitherto been contrary to e opin apn ot them out fits foo d being set for them i in the se agree ; in fact, I am convinced from long experi 
most farmers, who r | house ; ó hat ltry tat fined s 
important point is, that the writer Seas uch fear then arte be shut in and pas - | tions nt ru ih Renat never be de eparted from. 
the importation of foreign corn free of du’ ng abt the per- | ting them in gives beable but is very secure. reason y your cptbehattert for the differe 
fect cultivation. of waste lands !!!_-Falcon.  Spylaw, snececd, Poultry, ike DRE other kind of stock, requires action of P vegetable matter upon m the nie canal 0 
5th Tari 45.— My landlords, the governors _ of | t o be looke dt ing and evening. The birds, to that which it exercises on the mammalia, 
George n’s ba arm and the Merchant M ie ar pied, say half-an-hour, ae a c iot so readily coincide with ; and t her et 
Hospital, of Eanbarg h, defray the expense of ones, the stock, bru: and sands the house, takes off ne say that I think yo hav t 
a oun ting s. to 42s. gar. acre, while the re- ie hens, cogens up the e; when he our correspondent’s pl 1 ded 
the 
p geisia e—the drainage sim? 
on again tuc cks them we 
daa 
Ged ea oft with tiles, upon .soles—fal 
Snr, o amounting, with fung it in by ‘the plangi t to 
45s I 
o 50s. er acre. 
may sti inky is thus stated low, as 3 ihe tiles are estimated | 
t pri ost—be eing manu ufa ctured by mys self—and no | 
eggs, and w e puts | of 
il a. and supplies the 
In the ev sone he ¢o ees the | the different con hich i is eoelved ni 
eggs, i nul occasionally counts the hens, out, ving | the alimentary canal, as he distinctive anato 
anted t ae commons and aR of | charact f organs of d gestio as 
waa in eae ; bess ey to a sense ed eal os the one it effe! by A prolongi 
this 
their oe. ee ids 
on = 
of the tle works. Tt will be noticed, also, that this 
00 ‘e: 
otto 8 diving EE ae in- 
doors ‘dis in summ bes se should be let out as 
as the chiskate Says w yards from her; a 
a great extent, saved. This explanation—when I 
ite stated that the alr of the drai ins has been in 
ê, 
weak chicken may be lost, but the strong ones are e not 
caught by igre or straye — 
cte 
an nued action of attrition; i 
accomplished partly by the so olvent pote of fl 
gastric flui 
It would be difficult to explain 
but the pungative ‘lon € 
mal: 
position’ 
Voge ndi of this solution, 
urrow—answ: thin! ak, your second query ; 
1 go on, Macbr to reply to the others 4 
t. I ha ave now finished oprana of 55 
1 len SAh 
d, my | 
-ai 
2 O 
of drains ‘being 267, 000 „yards. 3d. hse 
drainage 
e for broods, rith an inclosed yard ; 
here food cana he always a aT, hither let mor 
mmg be put that is to be fatted and killed. The hou 
r broods and fatters Coli me Feeney about 5 
inches broad for the birds t n ; thus “bent 
er EAn are avoided. As Doni as a Ten leaves her 
ceive 
d for my sh: Ba of he ou vey by the | 
two crops first aA ae E igoe viZ., A 
and Ses. or, Wheat ; instan 
she goes into the other yard, and they must 
there. Then 
must “yaar care be taken that if a hen be shut up, she 
has no or if two hens be under 
one cover, there must be the Teadiest n ba fof escape 
derive more. But this. k ai so Sel upon + the 
aaa 
e of. the soil that a defi nite answer is not easily 
given. | 
risb 480 ts greater tendency ta 
In this, also, con! 
find bre ad soaked i 
for either and her chickens. As t g 
makes the eggs barren ; I felleve wo cases 
p Lent] 
ve it, "Therefore vèr yer wage 
et, and the Hat white e. They s 
datiran; as they feed faster whe qui 
Mildew on —For the 
the advantage of thorough ee is, I 
Th orns. in 
more than double the Rela Bede such hndi in a many 
| airle 
cultivating, bient to vi an operation 
I prefer a qni of salou | but ahaa A of pune p 
di d, small, clean-headed 
&e., but to no effects ‘the following ct gt found 
be 
made, at 20s. or even 25s. per acre. 4th. The nature 
short- -legged, ‘sound: bodied, is ae and then 
, bu 
heficial; if not 
autu 
quite a ctu al :— 
mn, the oe 
the 
it is what is popularly described as a free loam upon an 
indurated subsoil, in many parts pe eee) bg 
generally exhibiting, at frequent. intervals, a fre 
re of sand i rous, rend: 
gees r the better. 
Brae S 
"ened Hp 
pe erfec or the ‘other, and no 
rome i wih evita vite ts black fathers Roce 
are delicate to rear, and greys and reds 
unless the soil should be mandy); © 
d i is bri pes: 
wm: 
(uw 
soil bi ndi ing when t the see 
varie eties. "he to stocking, say you re 30 hens: hens 
ai os ti is meant expense 
Jun 
‘oud the od est or the worst sort, or the worst for 
e 
fore, st, begin killing off the worst, which are 
to a 
horns that are 
the yor aoe taking care to sha 
as possib e tot the roots of te > 
layi ng, and not very good mothers. 
August Ist from 10 to 15 hens, not less and not more, 
gii th +} 
and, 
ner te off, cover betwe 
d let that Aare all th m r na 
as ean be 
ut as much of o 
eby aa in i ultimately nds its way to o Elabug 
where, the Sa eg PA enerally, the prices u 
an av se fro nper ae higher for the 
= eg mar’ aid a Wheat and 
ition), the eercace ry value of produce 
celeris paribus, two pullets of the firs st spring hatch, 
k ay more > eggs their first year than three of a late 
raa 
* ra late and at Chris as 
e better layers, some bette 
i ters, therefore it 
dog districts canno be estimated at less, i 
may ae worth while to pick er 
gs 
| Pua ‘ord. 
sum: = 
hat will stimulate the growth 
To outgrow the mildew, in some air na ta ve 
affected, will assist them A 
t answer to sow Jater M 
= with 
f Se 
t. John’s Day Rye.—Will it 
| the gat I sowed some ee 
| winter Vetches last autumn from the 2d 
