2 Jaxvanr 8, 1859 
y, to the general 
any x 
wed 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 27 
the work is car 
ut t 
larly over 10 referas acres 
ctober is men eur “yet |a 
gave 160 s 
strip o ote a portion of t 
— of Se — -— those 
fd re rem ia _ By 
oa 
pe 
dg thus pro wi 
leaves daily, -— nd this quantity, w 
f 
w im oet feed of Tarnips 
condit 
land — poo I son leave to offer the Slowing 
arks, 
ae y persons 
quainte ate d with our por s um stem the 5 of 
f 
i ; milk suring th e above pe — 
it would take 3 acres of Aberdeen or other Turnips m 
ns O tiia and 
this to 
for the production of milk a 
be deficient in colour. 
to call 
PB attention to the following 
p- phlet on the “ Cultivation, &c., pr Mangel 
Wurzel“: 
n fodder, as teste 
Date 
No. | of experi- 
ment. 
Kind of feeding. 
me xg that 
——— 
T: whether animal or "vegetable, i is put 
“Whe: 
danger, Nati ure invariably pro "aded — extraordinary effort for 
its perpetuation ; enn on the contrary, when the means of 
perpetu Bon - profuse 1 the e powe Ts vol ve temen are € 
ishec he ‘plet is unfavourable to 
red i In t ethor 
incr ease, the depléthori st: - (or lue f state) is favourable 
it. s to 
egetable world: all p 
to t, 
and bol nist cow fat es a tree, plant, or flow 
be plac in mould too rich for it the ‘plethori ra 
state’ is immediately roduced, and it ceases to be 
ipi If a En it runs to superfluous wood, blossoms 
E 
a 
eo 
2 
E2 
E 
+ 
o 
2 
Tu 
es 
& 
— 
E 
E 
hb 
© 
c 
5 
R 
rularly, and i ring s 
or erm rime plant, x bic mes double, and loses its power of 
1 d next ceases, or nearly ceases, even to 
ow RS di sA * remedy this, gardeners and florists are 
— to te the opposite, or ‘deplethoric’ state, 
by artificial means. This they denominate ‘giving a check.’ 
In dert they pu ut the species in Pepe in order to 
produce a correspondingly | determined effort of nature to 
end is attaine 
Great numbers of destitute rie and "dividuals 
| in't s dependen 
d ards | ben evolent RA ani oni retia for their M 
quantity, but the butter — — from the retine will stence. They willnot, exce 
pressur 
Eae 
f Mangel leaves asa E for milch cows stands 
ongst gree! by a series of carefully 
poris od experiments Cops at Mm ema nu Institution, 
of which the following table shows the resul 
Italian 
if 
y Rye ne 
Sept. | Italian NC eras & Pasture.. 
3 | 28th Sept.| Mangel — es 3 Pasture 
4 | 6th Oct. Man 
The leaves of the are ” remark: 
1 — EN 
composition was as follow 
tha at, ina — 
bet w. Mon 
favour ot the l lector or the purposes j 
7 ere dried necessarily previous pa their analysis. 
a — — of water were a —.— the same, and their ele — 
grass alon 
=f 
rofessor 
appear to 8 hy ae value, ‘both asa fooding M as a 
manuring sub: we are accustomed to assign tothem 
Boussingault amat e —— E u ni 
Root. 
ical point of the leav 
three — as valuable as the same wehe of roots soul b be ” 
eer of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, Vol. XIII. 
following table gives | the acreable produce, Ko., of E n 
ways io 
40 quarts of 
ed.” 
I shall not recapitulate the various illustrations of 
* luxuriant growth by ringing the bark of a 
e, &c. Having s t 
ize 
= 
er 
vances from vegetable to eai 
„What does the farmer, the the breeder if he 
wishes to obtain a breed from Mog em rear, animal? Does 
e fatten it in order to secure its fecund: He does pre- 
u 
h 
— Me contrary. He keeps it lean; — Mis it in that 
n 
which Nature keeps all animals engaged in search 
vel for food, and exposed to perpetual interruption 
doe 
a bie 
£3 during their time of feeding. He s this because he knows 
hat t 
* fai pec 2e anin — to bri: ing it into the plethoric 
stake ih plenty of food and leisure, would be to 
8 the 5 ee of its fruitfulness 
o the main point the riter quide me 
and after sev eral interesting remarks and allusions to 
he ancient people inet Ichthy oping 
1011 
m 1 bread to families or MN eaters, says, “That any p 
istress on sickness, or other sine upon the low and meagre diet t of fish must be unnatu- 
E rally _ prolifie, the ex apa of modern times will 
ntl 
prove. The fi — however, is not 
upon their unions, or on individual benevolence. 
I 
In dais the sustenance is fis h, but because the . 
This I shall eee apparent by a com 
u 
n P 
| et LÁ ds bsist upon a low diet, chiefly of fish 
and vegetables, ánd that of the natives of more favour: 
more solid, and whose 1. 
a This g eneral notio on | of a thin and meagre “diet 
, whose a is richer, more I and 
our and exposu e less. 
is borne 
opinions of eben writers upon this subject 
down to the present day. Several instances 
are enumerated by them, of persons who, being 
hildl 1 i 
= 
the visae mil of M. 
prese 
Varieties. De Ts — 
Do. 
93d May 
Do. 
Do. 
4th May 
D 
NE 
Do: 
Do. 
D 
Do. 
Do. 
ns farmyard, 
24th April Mert n guano, 
Do: 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
— 
SE en bo 
ut of 
the poor-hot er day, bein 
22 ounces, of ead = auail e a Td! butter-milk 
r food, and 
or broth, or kept “i vel f 
exposed to Serpette: — — ing his 
feeding." Thus Irish pauperism and vagrancy may be- 
p sical it 
— 
y. 
hall Be arene conferred upon 
the pot of Ireland b. * ‘the dical Charitics Act 
in 1851, under the tater of which the Board of 
m 
e 
entire crop of — Te — — 
er acre deducted for adhering 
It will be seen that the New Yellow. Oval | yielded 5| 
UPERISM 
E. 
Un cpm 
mes thre ae do 
tate 
aji 
eet, Dublin. The long ye ellow and the | 
eare the next highest on the list: the 
g 
IN IRELAND. 
wj Darios provide requisite accomm modation for the — 
j a “seve 
spitals. p 
"Ehe maintenance of less than 60,000 ute in M | appliances, and pay the salaries of the medical pen 
h expenses bei of the 
di — — 777 m e ee in some 
districts an — — dee is green and in 
few (the be i s 
There are also, under the same Act, Poor-law fever 
e | hospitals, the expepses o which are charged upon the 
and city infirmaries, supported by county present- 
ments and private subscriptions, and in the instance 
of infirmaries by other means also ir rth. mig — 
4. The poor, the v 
obtaining every requis e eee through their 
edical i ey 
fu 
fja he quan l food 
ve dt & is pep surprising that the "ih pauper Nm 
ce for food a 
isq ere 
“Commissioners for yc ovium ng Se ims le the 
m officer, if he state tbat they are 
them — — ians efuse to order for their 
ies icines, even such as 
respectiv 
ner — — — — y the medical officers. 
point of detail the Trisb —.— to be free 
tic — 
iA a eo 
0 à 
| officers. Under the operation of excessive com- 
ne | petition they have been induced to take contracts 
lower scale than they can afford to do. do. It is 
t Seo Thom's admirable Almanac and Official D Directory iroctory for 
ra nt e hol to bë am titel Jav Law of pature 
half March, 
the year 1857. 
