18 
members and of — T oon md for - 
made to him 
"enin — — n 
elf h 
t- 
hus 
rearing 650 
sheep—he has fattened 40 beasts 
beasts, kep t 15 cows, 15 colts 
iy ed 30 y 
0 dores 
E „as he him 
- pen quit o 
or what * have emi t the upshot of a pro 
— dispute 
and bred would ee have been greatly to 
lamented 5 numbers would 
would 
youtias oe nee of office 
a living zl which really lea 
publie opinion and gets usefu 
thi 
Party feeling threatened to result | agricultura 
f iety ; | statement indic 
work eines done | ; 
n ia 
declares hat t there is nothing ia A 
get yha ut the ordinary 
Mr. 
is; but we must not for 
a maintenance on the whole 
equal to nea ay ‘threo sheep per acre, which is 
gem extraor 
w this is done is described as foll ows ;—'' The 
iiri res rge and inereasing breadths of 
Mangel Warte sl this year, er the four- Mu 
Es 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETT E. 
0 lambs annually, and —€— ea math 
iube 
system, ave extended t readth to 
aeres, at a T: dor » tons per aere 
equals 3000 tons of ew valuable food ; and in our 
eastern counties ex m xi one-third the produce 
f Swedes, and the 
fattening qualities. Independently of our per- 
manent ¢ keeping a flock of breeding ewes, 
we have varied our system of grazing, generally 
uyi 
e opinion, - 
an iv 
Secretary, and take that guidance of the hee 
— which their ofice a res o of them an 
WE have to correct a statement made at page 4 
hes te sathority of a trade circular. It is ther 
tated that, owing to the hig gne s fixed by th 
N Government, is ve upwards 
600, 000 tons in the hands of theii Md dod in this 
0,00 th 
and other 
in London and Live ool mA 
s; and this constitutes andy ah the 
mek of Great Britain 
umption of green 
ving, when RT for | 
t of 28 lbs. a quarter, | 
this is a datum which | 
ost every | 
by a full grown shee 
the buteher, a e vei 
iter 
and 
but x 
BE 
never at a wet or — tim in Octobe October the 
edin different lus. upon the maid 
at which vi. hen 2 
tog uta amn, or in the 
pring, 
e | been dear, and sheep 
we have then fattened — 
After 
nis, s year the ona 
e 
and 60 tods of 
eost) 
he upshot ot m 
s the shee tok is ete sers 
follow — ter 
dance .. 
pee n quarter at 33. * weck 
Winter quarte r at 5 T: Score sper Sone i 
Spr ing quarter at 15s. per score per week V. 
ummer — at 108. per 
een pe Score — be 
Loss 
Tups 
I have placed all the food at cat 
calculation is based u he 
fattened out at 
" Ws Sud. E "— 
as r atio. 
gradually been substituting at 
Southdown nd w 
arly matu 
of some puro ed lambs, by Tu a 
best Sow 
t | best 
Ing, even allowing th 
when compared with the iin of the first cross, 
In the — ment of the flock, fro 
being the scavengers of the farm, hey x 
inexpensively; but they are alway sm . in 
und, ion; and o 
— 
jn 
wt. of ha j 
ewt. of hay per acre 
ield four 5A 
e sho 
or “10 3 varying of course according to 
and breed, and size, and condition „Ko.; š — per- 
it te Pee that an 
— ei if on mde fo ibus a as much as 
a guarter of 5 own carca „ supposing it 
to be at the time in "uir 0 t oondition a the butcher 
Of course if grai cake ay, or ty 
fodder be given in ada ition to «ben n food or in 
substitution for it, the consumption of the latter 
pede ment 
Oro 600 acres of aratia 
d 
land, Mr. Boxp has kept 9 
s kept a flock of 500 e ewes, 
times that |! 
h 
supply clean, fresh- 
placed between Xx e i rak 
most freely. 
they es 
y az - = laa hes Er upon | 
d 
iem 
month p^ five weeks o 
—— — erushed Ra 
the chaff, w sce oe 
eed be: — rag the 
inst 
y 
animal 
aue ewes | it is 
e kept take 
7 
! introduced 1 into 
ze csi it pre judice for that isa wi 2 
| ke freely in the minds of 
be prepa: 
full adv: vantage of the p 
conditions of the corn and meat marke 
WHEEL . gece! SWING I P 
den pat 
m our brethren en. the north of the!“ 
r a churlish disse 
there is stilla iderable amount of P 
5 
en 
E E me of 
10 days etn to 
ave — sexi — it — after 
ures a flow of milk. A 
en placed with the lambs After 
— after- | i 
sing. 
| Scoular' s, Cowan’s, Ponton's 
pl have at nem t noth — 
bres turned out by 
or Hensman in the south, meie 
It is simply the pri 
in the north. 
