b 
Amr 23, 1859.] 
ept 
interest et money on the 
t 
ds 
| f even by animals fed i in them. This 
e 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
cto ping tn aes bo kept [ached ou point o the ram 
ched is on the poi f the warmth afforded by | li 
| them, and the consequently smaller Lon ntity of food 
s of importance; 
like our Mangel: heaps, and covering or rather lastering 
it over — a CO: — of road dritt or — The 
earth co ring prev s the escape of ammonia, &e., 
th 
upon vm point, however, presen 
think t} 
| Es — to vine feeding, its superiority as. E 
42 
to the manure made in c "n d 
much to recommend t them—the | ordinary p 
t I think iti is 
h e 
on, but at a — le 
the — ce of i * — ii intelligent 
—— a heap of manure Which is generally vns to 
the acti ion of the rain, and being thrown loosely into a | yari 
y mem reg as to its superiority "for win 
a stock. My own ession is that sheds. wit 
a : 
friend. » James T. Blackburn, Mill 
neshire. 
e that there is an 
om dp 
s p". EE. sop: as n matter of e 
mical as stalls. 
a — 3 — 
| te — animals, whilst 4 feet i in r the length of the shed 
oven stalls of giving the 3 — freedom. of 
bt 
position, and I know from experience difference in the eco , and that if 
. s loss — ng wet weather, and even if the pre- | properly manage im e sided m in them may 
aution of a tank to receive the drainings is adopted, | approximate very nearly to that made in boxes, whilst 
|J WINTER Acconnton DATION FOR STOCK. still I — it entails unnecessary expen nditure. of they! have decided a advantages i in this 3 over stalls, 
oncluded | from pag ge 343 9 labour the opinions of persons 
the manure to remain under the an imals for manm 2 of is count ry. 
fi — re presents ee it is however but a poor approxi . to the | A friend of Mr. Burnett’s, in Kincardineshire, says: 
re fe ment et sains pow ita E „ the ns pay and as the dung i ee only partiall y trodden | — A fen ears ago nothing was thought so suitable Jor 
lit y no means unobjection commodation of stock as covered. yards, now people 
xpense there is no system n att The > te are more anxious to small sheds and yards: for all 
E shed: 16 1 fe ‘eet w vide i is. sufficie nt remarks apply to it as to tails on = health of the store and Fig! cattle." Another in Forfarshire Says: 
of food. as the ai advantage | — mu prefer eeping - fatting 
six 
cattle i in pan" oat sheds, say from 
d, finding t 
ction, and is no doubt 
hem do better than "eh 
4 sad cattle. 
eg Mr. Caird (eee ech mentions food 
As a manufactory for manure wI believe t there i is 
An 
loose close xes.“ 
stalls erected o where | no system to be compared to it. d here it may be A friend of mine now farming in Wales who comes 
| 0 head of cattle ar * used in a wooden t a cost well to make some remarks upon the subject of the from Kincardineshire, also sa says :—“ Store cattle should 
«| e£307., or 30s. per "head, „the shed EE T0 fect long manure made by farmérs; We talk in our d b ke voi 
; and 15 feet wide, only 7 feet corn, &e. g not keep 1 too m: ther. 
p ri animals, each animal tl ly | t r loads of m the acre, little taking into An ex farmer in cine unty of 
$2 squar — me autre of is "i per load. Ww ill call breeder of prize Short-horn stock, says he prefers box- 
Now m the box system it is usual to allow 10 feet by . attent — made Lord feeding to any other method, better still with a 
the box, and the gangway cannot be taken | Kinnaird, spite e Royal Agricultural small yard for exercise. H uch are the 
feet den; making 110 square feet for | Society’s Tiba for des i3 32, page 336). The for feeding prize animals ; e recommen’ 
ese boxes will certainly take in two | compa rison was 4. — Ton manure made 17 two beasts bei gether when not tied up. 
— — ench full sized fatti east bullock s fatte stephens, in his “ Book of the Farm" (Vol. 1, p. 293), 
a question of first cost in — — stall fed, Mid was pyi semaines t into an open in favour of emis 
separa s 
— of the buildings the boxes may be taken at 
nearly double of the stails. 
As to the expense of the sheds with yards attached, 
much depends hy wa the variety. I think it is never 
ied by well. fed young animals. "He considered | 
says “ Mr. ! Boswell's testimon 
(that is, small sheds and MALE is most conclusive; and 
was mado should have been about equal The 
exp 
men iibi. qu; a cte of 20 acres, of very oa 
„From the result of my own experiments as well as 
the 
unanimous opinion of every agriculturist with whom I have 
ua dea aric 
1 
plied, and the field 
pu. F. 
wide affords comfort —— This is Y^ 
but if it is com mere: 
Senecio e divided 
whereas no animals could well be — — 
| doser ier angeli 3 in the stalls: than as mentioned ab 
planted * — — ae kind of Potatoes. Two acres on 
ch hi A easured and the crop weighed. The 
a | result w. 
Uncovered Du 
“Tons owt. Ibs. 
p^ acre produced — of * 
2 ” 
Covered Den. 
Tons dwt: Ibs. 
Ist acre produced 17 56 of Potatoes. 
‘ompared toa ea roof, > think I may pläce tlie 
wer of . 
— six animals. 
ar 18 8 
first, then, euniinif talls. 
» e m » 
The field was afterward | sown with Wheat, and the | 
result. was— 
| conversed on the subject, I feel convinced that — is no 
point more — — than that cattle — — 
or, in other, rds, e better in open 
| close by: . 
Mr. Ellman, of Su ae mU heds and yards 
for young — as nothing co ributes mor ib their 
| health and stren han poss z them their liberty: and 
to prove that as 
and yar mea are € to por xes. 
e made 
thus objected d 
yard feeding there is the objection. that the more 
e ke Produce of eee ot ze b e vd 
the atmosphere or washed away by every shower. 
j sia i dis. Dasha "is" Fon to this I reply that it is all nc 
met acre. 1 19 T" 3344 sarily t that either of th ; 
FFF 61 3520 follow. that is required is to litter the sheds 
W ` Wheat on Dung. which may even be slightly sunk as i box 
Produee in Weight per Produce of | and yards Du which itti I 
iene: 1 oag p — not very difficult. Ido not see any objection 
— + 4 eL putting: the scrapings — "— 
2d 47 dale covering it with Stra ain 
Thes figures peme for 2 and iao a| comfortable rae € pe 9 and ns 5 as "the 
broad margin for errors of observatio — Ke. er the shed wi ll be very om 
Let us 
As to the health, &e., of the animal, 1 ‘vel it 
may be suited for fattening stock, I 
t 3“. a ton, and the Wheat at | 
5s. a bushel, I —— "V — a ton, the loss on the 10 
es 
itis by any means desirable for store stock ; to preserve 
Which from s ws tee v the weather I believe to 
be most im but at t I 
m the mm done to the 
m of 1575 „ OF 
cultural Soci 
rr 
Farm (Vo ol. 1, p. 293), who 5 sheds and — in 
preference to boxes, says“ bes — — — 
equally as well ee an 
boxes" I ae ve sometimes pa Aker ay e jit 
| management tha t I am here advocating, viz. the 
practice of dining out the E eds os — and ex- 
valuable po in the late Journals of the Roy. al Agel. 
ety. 
g 
m housing his stock, and Mr. Caird says (p. 67), in 
- Qum and value of farm- ya 
— inves the con 
n, &e. Iam 
— — tion into 
ander different 
— B the Sadie “constituents of dun 
much more valuable fertilisers — m 
exeent th 
ewes, are kept ge housed. night pe 
& 
summer and winter, an SE hn of their Ree 
s bé eee A 
able persevered in the doi 3 5 T Seve 
at last gave it up as uegg irata in 
as Mr. Rue 
ing of Dorsetshire, in the Journal A 
icultural Society for 1855 (vol. 34, 
1 an experiment 
im portant. He carried on for Sik or seven years 
0f keepi —— beasts in houses, only — ing 
That farm-yard dung, even quite in 
tains phosphate of lime, which is 
than was suspected. 
eaps are very valuable. That well rotted dung tÀ 
much cad proportion of soluble matters, and i 
aer nitrogen than fresh; and so, weig ht for 
weight 5 is more vem than fresh; it is, however, 
ble 
— — 
That the Geid ngs from dung s 
at I shall Þe met with an objection to this by those 
armers who have more straw than they met ÀÀ—Á 
— with; whose great trouble, in siiri their 
straw rotted. I have previous! argu- 
— t the ty for he exten- 
ngain — with the — — —.— — straw grown 
r southern s by as that in 
the north of England — Veotland; 1 if Mr. Bond is 
€ to feed and doh is sheep well on straw, surely we 
uch more lia whilst 
practically ute all the essentially rg manur- 
ing constituents are pre pi ie an ‘arm-yard | 
manure under cover. He sa ee when 
d | there isa superabundance of straw 11 — be e 
of — ch 
* def me now draw your attention to some remarks of 
Marshall . in writing on the farming of Gloucester- 
shire, in E — dien id speaks of the sheds 
yards pec 
pre em 
of thelr p € fi e and the to expose it. The worst method c 
tuberc x lungs of of the calv calves ind tie — 3 t by s kept in oj à distinguishes chem. 
P. t . abandoned, and lar * proportion à f valoae fertilising 3 movere 1 io ie th 
attached, their food being taken Duc YThis wast ; and after a lapse of 12 mont p 
of Dilston, a well-known Te 
Royal Agricultural Society, Part 1, 
— calls | stall-feedin ing —— — 
— — 
them and feeding point 
equal — 4 t of fres| eft 
—— also found that well rotted dung 
ha — more than 1. ok its — n and he remarks 
that “a part of thi ma be ascribed to 
f 
goes to — pe importance 
ufacturing 
great of | the yards forming 3 
— og en is manu- | out any i 
On t the 
