Yasca 26, 1859. | 
t 
quine forward that work 
Loraine had not 
pert to the extent 
1 1 be 
e and in 
taken old ould b 
get of, about halfway along, whic 
so that they go 
e f rwards. The land | 
80; 
he owe cle V implements ye 
hey almost entirely saved de os 
They rolled 
up and 
tlof 30 ‘years, and in the c 
d a 
as the 
well gar garden and o 
eee are very drs i on 
x 50 feet ie the 
above 
he ngs 0 
sloping ad. aner country on the o 
There is a tank to reme any wash fro 
ca 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
The 
Dom s 
eset dur" 
and ed the 
side. 
with a deli ghtful 
windings of the rive T, 
273 
md | m merino rams from Germany : and Spain to i improve 
is 
| Mr. M. Connell "s that by feeding Prairie Gras 
| close with sh acep, i it, a few w years, gives way “to "blue 
posi 
er house 
d [sti and without being sown. But the plan he 
ecommends for laying this land down into good 
water to e dr rawn o xia | meadow and past Gi is to break up the soil some time 
mping. This liquid manure is "applied | between. the middl e of Ma y and N od 3 
more, as if 
in 
sent off; not, we pre 
A ihe milk, 
Sb by 
s spring of very cold water, 
e produce of y stock twice a day to 
pool by rail In hot weather, this cold wat 
ery useful — the milk before being 
sinking the milk vess 
This cistern holds 
e, by mixing the water with | the sun's rays, 
sels in the selve 
prairie land i - 47 ou at of season ik 3 is worse 
than lost. w Wh heat in end y August, or Ist of 
s to "e 
ourse of his tenancy has eradi- 
great cose — e£ x " planted also a 
ese 
&|flowo water over each co 
of the pasture land is old turf, all of which produce 
good he rbage, 3 Th. 
now well n 
nds, 
they, eing already imbedded in the 
damp soil, spring up at N and . the € of all 
other vegetation. Lat Mar add o Ibs of 
Clover seed per acre, io 1884 
—Ic can testify to the Success of this N as I 
r | hay. "The aft 
tons and Grass 
rich close luxuriant. ceni on 
azing, just such Clover 
3 on . — e was ricted a crop of at least 2 
ere o A 
which a flock of ants eia 
t 
ada rtment. 
1 
| remainder 
e 
from 1 year 
k 
close s iur 
inter a 
ave never seen 
riod a 
and cannot w ithhold my 
ose 7 engel at a peri 
or the sp? 
out of the Cor 
g of 
ringing 
uch, for 
f which 
ital cj 
this season ; but he Mega tus e rather have seen it in 
fallow than in the state it was, even wit th annual weeds. 
rop of | 
see no more of 
sown t 
the soil zs a en clay lo: (en am. 
wice, having been destroyed by the y. They 
seventh d by sellin pg n 
gt 
wi om vet in cutting, a 
Clover. 
of a soil capable o 
th doin 
M r. M «Connell has no doubt that the prairie lani 
an 
would benefit by the occasional application of manure, 
he never met with any soil so co: y pro- 
uctive without it. He h own the eat 
crop pay the price of the land, wit 
J 
rop 
ide: 
were clean, but not promising it, and all r, and leave a 
|erop, but it was earl en xpected, and much} With to sh cerning, is opinion is gen 
depends the autumn e Mangels were an ex- corn and hay should first be p: 
ding regular planted, healthy — crop, and very | cultivation, before going e € ant a “The 
clean. Head-ridges gk und clean eat, Barl irie G will furnish mer keep at little or no 
and Oats all good clean crops, very 0 for a , but provision must ade x t . 
good yield of — perg about 7 acres of Oats 1 can be bought for 8s. to head 
on an old le ;the dry weather and the grub in flocks There is probably no kind of seen vm rs 
dois injured tbe X akin prairies from which the returns would be so regular 
an 
and a very h 
Claimant mad he can roa ims 
milk than by cheese making 
inter in 
ea M Comet had tried a timber country bef 
oming here, and was very energetic in expressing his 
a there will be a r soe a n opinion of ** superior advantage to a settler on the 
the stock. Some qam ago he soili "tis prairi 
have recei ULT useful and | very e aaf. S Rr cigar Rom th i 
0 = very as to any — 
—interes die wary o y | present milk stock are vem sted for . e 
tailed evidence it 5 gives san the progress — mostly y — — 5 are mostly of the Irish Prairie Farmi urming. A person last spring bought 640 
icultural district, but also as an Leicesters, w! ich, he BY pay’ e has a few acres. of land in this teighboushood. He enclosed the 
the way in| Shropshire Downs, which m — well, but are ex- whol ole of it, had it all Leti by contract, and sowed 
competition and rivalry may be best exchanged | pensive in. Has also a w Cheviots, — T it with Wheat. Not. is purchase was left 
cted. The following is a report of a farm winning n pu ei r rams. and s e | idle. It Was all sown in in good order and in good time, 
. as the best managed dairy altogether under superior Seien pg in v 
ct. It is in the occupation —— — and industry are united. Inspected June As every part of the work was done by contract, and 
yj r ald! b 
M e : wo De 80 Xii ioi. I am enabled to show the exact 
‘t Caiman E en the farm contains 177 rm Me Je. 
s of which is in pasture; 14a. of w €— emora f $ i 
MEL er of irrigated meadow 35 17a. of Whea Mz. d mm FARM rol —I kc cost FVV . £240 
sole 17a. e CON = "OF Bey; 9a. of Clover, drove a few miles out of town p visit a Mme of | Contraet price paid ‘for breaking the whole, and patting 
2 da. of P — i t Mr. M'Connell, who was recommended to me by the a fee wee ie 
an Mangels; — uad rai ead y Bait for seed Whea 160 
F ntract for e thrashing, and delivering 500 
i pd ils x uw homestead ial grity, 3 I walked and iar oe hisfarm ae 
acres our or five years’ | examine stock, and d i i a 
$, according to mstances, but chiefly itor and distinet informat ation: Ae i 3 F das 
* mu Tm Live stock and has fought £2440 
m and stirks x a os S Ein kel, end hn r N r emp — 
igs | left “the old count in 1811, farmed in a small | 
‘a as present, 226. —.— or Bee extra beasts|for thirty years in the pue s, Ne 2 à whare ho x Air AMNES £1920 
ie lst mon ede T. em also been sold | first settled, aud moved then ois 17 years ago. Valve of $ the land after being enclosed and 
cattle aaa sheep pasture | He had always preferred Men tiring: arid * . terio eii d 
X Ta — the cattle are kept on straw, his small flock of merinos with him. They the first th d 
rots Oats, mae and oilcake, to cows in milk | remarkably healthy, increase one-third every <i il T 
e annually, on the farm, about 250 his flock now numbers 25,000. His fleeces average — oet "e que n to ev by: a man of know- 
ops. Stuth each: ais 9001 salis or Ta. Gd. to Se: wae and experience; but the contract prices at 
h of bones, applied Ib. Ho brought his farm at ll. an ac med aia oe af Secaking” i ios below . 
w now sell it at 107., is thus berber 
pital of t buie. But he is so firmly persuaded of t 
otato a which cost | the rapidly growing wealth of Pci M State, that 
Within the last | has no doubt of his farm bei : 
n ined, vious years hence, Heco 
been drained, landlord Springfield to be th 
omas Wild, June 18th, 1 Mr. M‘Counell sends 
ks.—This — rm lies on the banks of 
also T a ca med 
undulated, 
. na pro 
Same remark will apply to the 
are kept in very neat order, | 
| yield as 
pre! 
and soil, and has 
much 
l| have been e —— 
flock (M 
| brought from New 
mutton and far better wool. 
