THE, AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 847 
his solution the Wheat House feeding, Tey E deeply interested in the | cellent for frames, &c., in winter.) Milk willturn sour 
oa or Jete) an oor i sprinkled, t my country, and fond, a haire various causes ; yb aeee ig —_ of 
1 the ae will | fali enough to believe Aer it is able to compet , allowing t ny ilk to v0 lon 
e liquid. eaten pounds and a pete orn n that can be brought agains nst it, I am| | skimmin ng, "and last, not least, a tc of scalding the 
ifted quicklime are then added. to each pone de, ly ai about to put my theory to the test, by engaging an | | utensils, akea correspondent should a bear in mind 
corn, taking care to mix the seed. as. carefully as arable pe of ait ae arity at its present rental, | ey when once the milk is sufe red t to t tura sour, the 
The seed thus prepared d should be n ports on an ea if Peis: o i ill unless 
ate ly. The sulpha ate of soda, which is composed my occupan iey. es | anding, | | Arad article in eget airy is thor oughly sealded, and in 
phur so ; the | but as the land is of excellent Lagi this is sot con- | some instañces it will be found requisite to whitewash 
> forms gerts of Time 0 or gypsum; the caustic sidered a fair test. My farm is, about 112 acres, | the walls and scald the floor also. _ The best i dairies are 
acts on the — me one and the 4 fields of nearly 8 acres each, at p 
very simple mode is | all in pasture, po, two meadows and two fields. of } hes for the mill 
ll It is intention to break up 10 field the dai W.P. Y fhe 
ge er of ted quicklime, the | —half at aoe fore Afina erop, and half in spring for pion sent was rom the hickness of th 
ziln the zarie is mixed Bipy a bucket | Oats—bringing t to operation for a 
s poured o bnsa K: rotation. pein ea ve age as large a stock of dairy | and tied and platted together in th nrees ae 
Each cows as possible, and had fer iion on hous e- feeding | string. Another eae ras oy cca 
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rmed into one im The prea | practice, if the expense were incurre aT grr no een ; w hite and he 
if po possible, the next day. This rE | but recent communications to de? Pa aber pret. con- Salt as Food. —It is " prs me that there are so 
test siderable doubts o 
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st of above 30) year * MJB. n the questi One 1 las e p< on agri- 
l l t such a differ- 
Though beyond y presepi one-half after the cows were enla days in the stalls, 
en site, you pei be glad to:hear that the Wesi I suspect, i in this case, but the | stock that I am induced to trouble you at pach om 
a planter at, and bears. so pet against No 2 of the “ ear of Agriculture” for Scotland, 
scientific culture. You will, see that we labour under my pina: Lt d if you w ill fa- | pa ge e 136, Mr. Ja wasn Fennell 
treat difficulties in a of agricul- h infi ect... The I f the use of galt in feeding, and quotes from 
re, because the ey. must be. culled: from enn bearing pits have seat ‘examined Oy. our farmers and I am |a host of authors in s wine ort of his statement, of whieh 
J which as goo od, a parse int are most to the point, to offer to your 
: ete, and, therefore, requiring to a.¢ nth a Matthew Aphonin, a Russian naturalist, 
s, though, no doubt, based in oe upon pt Pi icked ones are sent to market at present in uae thant “ Oxen fatten very quickly upon. 
7 E aiie. “Thusyi in this cou nay Yy drains, for | gre: at abundance, but what the price will be after coasts: where the ae ( 
e mest part, are introduced to: carr: rf Christmas is difficult to guess. Wess te iber, White d abounds ;” “ai 
the West Indies — shou E „introduced | hav [We have not mu 
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aper p 792) ps 
nd if this cr 
ch experience of stall- sage | Mr. Fennell, “itis probably jaala n m ape: saline 
paa whilst i in | com et sha Il be i a for De iecants of that of our | nature of the plant, and to the sea breezes con! 
eaders What, experience we have is certainly oppose! bea | particles of ali, which appear necessary pn stimulate 
É to. get at these aa pre e you v% P By 2925.0 Te glass milk- -pan is, we | their digestive organs, s and BE conducive to their 
é more sen and labour is required than ean ve) be | belie llent glass is so | health.” Dickson, in his “Hw —_ of the Ancients,” 
in men exposed for many hours mn y REN DRETA good on el a y, | telis us sa ey were acc nelse 
al sun, and you u feel, I know, that ha in | doubtless ple hall at 3 sonable pices Soa 267, 1844-] feedin ing 8 ock, by ke eping ii wi considerable time 
ch matters requires i a particular train of though and | urkeys and_ Potatoe. ng sever: g that i then ey Ae rong Lt. in 
ther this from the | turkeys {hatched last July) ) ately mope piet “fo or a bundle esy i given to is A “instead of hay. 
which yi m have given at differe EA a the | few days and die, I should be glad to learn se. some | rigg, in his “ “Art of Makin common Salt” Cash = 
as I ha ve perme the ie erty to a: to you. kind pak agen if the pa rly decayed Pot sex so | marks that “ Black grag P 
however, to see the d whe n colonial „planters comm this season, could be the cause, or rage at? licking it (ait, and by it are prese rved. f m, many, 
adv. also og to admi ae pedo it.” Sir 
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owing io heit néreaned acquaintance with gene- at son I opened “their bodies to discov er the cause | John ad tells us that a Mr. Bracebridge, hed dren 
F With. res neh to the answer to my i a of death, found the entr: ails quite. tiamed, ana, to a 
e best days. | after which he did not lose one 5 ; they became i and 
} ls had never 
I administered castor a, onions, pepper, i ., With 
din alate Gaz cathe on will, no doubt, jë it 
t it is unsatisfactory in many points. effect. Indeed I fear my * doctorin: g d the death affected.” Mr. oe nell al states that, “the 
writer did not probably see the "arift of my ques- of the birds.— Turkeye | fatte: upi property of our own sa tg is 
? to elicit from you some information, not Rooks and Insects. gee see the Turnip is much in- | kno 0 gra and far etia p _ AS. L think . I bore 
ed upon the practice of the colonies, but upon gene- fested. by insects in Scot land. Now, very lately they | now ge that thera is a 
in ciples, and an acquain ntance with districts liable have killed all their rooks in most parts of the country. pooh to fattening, 1 pro oceed now. to ays you 
i continental count not you think many h them back again ? There | that it is also said that “in fattening salt must ust -be 
ought to be a severe law against shooting Swallows, | avoided.” In N 
named, we find an adi ape 
No. 5, page 473 of the Journ: rnal alread y 
mi icle on “ Animal Life, 
Shelter,” Mr.» Danald 
ub: ess the cane tops àre invaluable food fak the 
e brown owls, ando ther pie zhora labours arè solely 
p and the 
des mentioned ; but, except sa re aeons the —_ mal „pests, and pot byi that talented advocate of .‘ er, eA 
which we must have, and therefore should use to against shooting corn eate: p of Edin’ inburgh. “The following quotation 
advantage, such food. is rather-to ibe looked) Ornith ee RAE ch "North Wak | giv es from Liebig’s haces Chemistry : ” — “ The 
mas a cosinor agi than a link in scientific agri- airy.—A the agr icultural pE a late presence of of free muriatic acid in the stomach, and that 
cause they exhaust the. Jand, which, wi Ñ, of the. Gazette, is one from “a Subse of soda in the blood, ac beyond all doubt, the ne- 
care, can hardly pay the expe ‘on, | Who complains that his iry is ove aha er, | ce fc common salt for the organic p 3b 
n plant, for instance, requires the silicates, and | and seeks a protection from outsi ide the sats I beg | the quantities of soda required by anges re 
ir ingredients of the cane. » I appre end: that. on | leave to suggest to your querist that a protection inside | classes to su dag pale vital process: the life, 
ny a tuberous roots should. be cultivated ex: | ie roof would be effe ctual and more lasting. His roof, | unequa ual, Again, meg be accidental T that 
is. which | he says, is slated, if it is only > E » with mortar | the development Aa a ý 
the slates, if he will hay thin boards n naile d of the alkalies which extracts, Loge the soil. “This 
lant, pg: as food to an extens lass of animals, 
h I faney Manen ld Wur 
am not competent to say positiv i 
fear, would not answer ; Lucerne is, ely dou t the IOAR gar the board to the slates ne straw, gail and in these anim 
Thope by the spring tc be able to speak wi will have a which reins connected w 
e confidence. —P. Lovell Phillips, M. D. t both the heat of the summer’s sun and kS enla e find the alkalies in the bile, and their emer ahs 
retato: Disease.—All | he cold of winter’s frost ; i if his ing’ be poe: n 
ow me to remark that you may È hollow-ceiled, and the env lope of air ne ho ‘abe |a ducing ng the first food of the young animals ; fae witho 
ling fro 
great propriety suggest readers, wh 
ik el the Seetich burnt Sea yet k agen since, m its Egos of being heated pa PPy, tash, i production of miik 
ar 10 or 20—and thus have the oppor-| be An inf impossible.” ‘eal . Bain, “are 
i of rendering their poor neighbours ‘a great ser- rise: n his ee E and a casing at tein be ve xy he vest i general each three me indispensa sable to 
M case of need i ing, and i & Re «elaine of straw or other “material, as above | giving g milk. But in fattenin » salt must t be avoided 7? 
Pe a mended. if the boarding } 
3 es: 20s. a to i rt recommended. e I b ig, 
ertainly a scilarsta So ot one good coat of hatte: 3 the sheeting of boards will “ infreference to sen aee, ofi fat, that the absence 
ieve I am correct in saying the crop o be less read catch fire; but this precaution is | of eom: on salt (a c vata of ag which furnishes 
i r is good, as well as hay, so that almost scarcely oni eg in y5 dairy. Our cabins in Ireland, soda to ee mote m), is favourable to the for- 
grower can sp nee ‘the quantity I mention, whi when well built and roomy, are very economical s struc- | mation of fat; and that the tening Fre 
would t an 3 
oek. Maaa ag ape oe h humid climate, bu but many of the sl heir | of salt t of the Jaor Jind to pro- 
walls in and thei ily slated that the | due a pangative Poeet” Mr. Bain now goes on to 
le that this may aecount for the 
? © when ploughed i into t Sag washed 
by hea groun often e read ith It is 
a : “and he. Ps ning Sen ae gh aA kilt g with the hn ofS but still | feet hat the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, and 
pA de e not hollow- | the British Islands generally, being loaded with spray 
e | from the sea, th y excell ; while 
ttle = I believe, indiffe 
a dark si 
ly, from this, th ae me Sararen is wrong in: his | Worse, some of these slated “ bird-cages” are not x 
= of = © affinit £ soil 7 = s ceiled, and “ rendering ” is a poor protection ‘against the | fr e eir cows are ent milkers, 
"sre = me ter os bea winter’s flaw ;” whatever little heat the e | the beef of all their ca believe, in erent. Gar 
pae iah g à a 
d S below emits, instead of eng the part o mAN oa e at ea 
Sony oxidati stove, and drying and warming the wh hole h it i ted with sal not feed, an ve 
d salts is aay yi y; which She tion on ei carried off trough the “Teaky, slates, and the comfort of |2 rejected it accordingly. sg Bye a, ‘he aa 'asefal 
= Upon the land, and yeng milk ? 
: = ed it amy. oti i it, a ue been inte- | to the inhabitants ; but I do ms are eres sayy the propery before ous eerie snight inquire, seeing 
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i Si oe munications, I should be: m| rty and decaying MPN INR E SP m pes salt is favourable to health, i is fattening a 
to ti if he would bring some or dairies, I only say that comfort ought. to a 
experiments i accompany taste in the residences of the poor. With Young Se 
Analogous a om gaat = ee ut ries, however, the straw inside-roof is an| Salting Pork. wt p. 777, the Curing of bat by 
h; though highly plausible and apparently | © i; rn ture and may be found patel i 1/#D. M.”) Some of your subscribe 5 eap 
+ require more elucidation from science than he woul sy to your ur subseriber that this suggestion has P T e iri 
ven. E-quite with. your remarks on | Mepit: e experiment to sig 7 it, but it seems in he “recommends curing pork wi is iya 
m one of, your ica rat g| theory s least feasible. — Dowden, Rathlee, w e 
ly the deficieney:— Lapis. age medai -We : quantity of brine ; the g that meat 
i Sete correspondent, “A Subseriber’’ (see reer per till it is í tup, and that 
en book are $0 grammes to the | p. Pea T 1. c) will find a eovering cage of straw,or | brine sh used till it is y It would also 
= to ‘the hectolitre of seed. This — according to fhe inclosed:: will answer his re g” w the weight of the meat, of the 
Ee panee TA (i have ve also found this kind of covering ex- pang and the salt. If brine is used made of sugar 
