796 
y have to buy food for them, or give th em 
ther own corn at a well-known meds . 
opinion I quite differ from — em. ru ho ope that 
correspondents will furnish a 
question. 
how many Ib. of 
t. of pork, not dea id w eigh t. 
o make Ist. It wil 
Barley meal it | ew 
h vil 
Mr. a shea 
siete above, but 
| flock at this tim 
Hom e Correspondence | as s raised in 5 5 ane article of the 20th August. d. 
Implicit. ee in a Bai ailiff.— —A sensible farmer J. Mechi, Tip tre 
I am convinced farming is never learnt, and 
I have been often guided by the hohoni ofi my | 
men, and 1 saved from loss. The fo id 
incident occurred t the writer’s knowled ge. 
rook, a — t of I t. 
F. . 
LEY, YORKSH nual s 
Rr» At t a e 
ty, Mr. I. D. Dent 5 * Don to 
[Agri i vim 1 Society," Pep doing which he congr ia etel 
comp on the fact that "the ese meetings were for 
mutual intercha ange of tho ought, 
of pra 
n his own à 8 on 
a most impor ant and n . to 
supplying the 
1, and N 
the odit In N two onthe after m return to 3 would surprise su clin 155 
e yo pc irn directed their attention 15 the subject. 
5 of butter an one they 
of foreigner, according qu the returns o 
millions per annum ; for bacon, hams, lard, an nd pork, 
625 were paying b à 0002. ; 'and for 6500 pena 
and qui null, 390,0007. n, lie thought it would be well 
bete 
E sent n were ping the 
f 1857, t 
bree 
e small farms throughou 
wel adapted for the purpos 
them, and the know ints of this large expenditure for 
| foreign produe e, it was s surely wor th ‘their v wh ile to try 
whether their cheese, 
| bacon, and eggs could not be increased. * This, however, 
a4 
ffice envelope. The landlo ae | 
a little, ea EE the bailiff "liberty i in 
such a case | “to drop him a line,” convinced as all wed 
ond was befor » tha t there is no rale wi tho ut a 
exception. 
a 
ow of A 
bull 
ctical knowledge as to agricultural operations, m 
In the lirticles 5 5 
universal u 
© | tions it 
to gra. 
extent, 
pn fat is per year, 
sold I presume C d 
perhaps t 
o give 
le of applyin na the manure 
with it from 
Hy di m i. 
tons of guano were use bit. vah 
147, per add and 330 quart ers 
ground, 
hal finch size. 
2 
(ws hels 
5 
Between 50 
at a cost qf li 
ordi 
abbit Nuisance. Te: a concur in all t 
written on this t when 
same return 
think it is imposs 
Sm 
13 manures 
„074“. for 
at rw were, paying 8 for f 
th 
ES 396,4967. in the form of bones, and 3,613 
1 making a total of more Shan 6,000,0007. for agricultural 
uce and man ported into this country. 
8 Englist h farmers were paying 
e for manures, cattle food, and pem 
‘hile estimate 
Ilions os as the amount expended for the 
articles ordi to augment the „productive power o of o. 
oil alon 
my cottage door in 8 evening e 
the hundred. The s a 
eek 
six months’ notice to quit. This 
guns, e ge and nets and snares, so dusily to work, 
Mer ta f extermination was waged with such ven- 
có, that in the apres season a party of six or 
wood 
The e in m country 
2s. brad Per day; the men who care 
are taken u 
are 
Hos 
taken the Pasten in which they were placed by the 
doin of the corn law a and were prepare e to main- 
n their ground, but still there was scope for further 
to xp rovement, He had 5 had an GR Si s 
| examining the farms in the Post Riding of Yorkshir: 
5 and in Lincolnshire, aud he must say that in this par 
fof the country they were — — aes de ongra 
lated them on the mut tual confide 
eight gus ne be at 
f land fo 
mi Speaking 
story told by Charles 
5 fa inen, 1 C" freq 290 
a Pore for the 88 
ana 15 here no doubt Hen 
hich 
$ 
Min st 
shire 
led to results equally as e as the 
system of leasing, and said that when 
tenant farmers introducing the stea riia 
who would qua. lly sane: the steam threshing machine, and the various 
d occasio nally sacrifice a keeper meci nical means for facilitating their eiae he 
of extermi inating the rabbits. ig |1 
ntly to and which 
of then N Midlothian 
e hundreds of tenant say 
joice if 
es = 5 
ted |f 
he ti 
gh, the! 
IT 
it: may d rather AR the gh 2 M 
Mr. T.’s land, with probably the sole 725 
* Riby farm,” is ns bip Ress to, if 
included i in what is pesi 
ot requiring her the nef of ir 
steam to — 5 ee » = : does on some 
+ the 
ran 
sf 
la st few s hav 
times 8 aing 21 Ne was pee 
ached wherever circums "E 
E 
— 
he word 
dos 3 th ‘i ; 
Farm Memoranda. 
AYL ; NEAR GREAT GRIMSBY.—Mr. Wm. Tor 
d Sirpis "ent farms, inall covering an area of 
2100 acres, and supporting, among other objects of in 
managed, that will retarn, a fair eo 
Mee t crops rires with anf sit 
allowed to g uch a condition that 
that t mediu 
terest, a most eters and valuable herd of Short- 
horns, and a thrifty flock of Leicester sheep 
The land he occupies varies N in n character, 
is generally rather Fielding underlaid by clay o 
or| —Or 1 if the 
the fullest sat thickest hea 
salt per acre may 
the “straw, eo i thoug! ht best, E 
and will del r it, 2 ewt. of guano i 
ih larger a aot ‘of salt—either pt 
but 
chalk, and aces 5 yielding quite pian le 
under good m ment. e system Monet is, 
generally speaking, the ep shift, a h Mr. 
T. n not bind him a on- 
e 
"n 
finding his own ammunition and certi cate. 
ne the tibia of breeding and selling d ogs. 
, and th ter for a mere trifle the 
cause for 
ved, and 
comfortably i e ero 
agi Bes miss in os distribution Upon his] lend. he . that to manure for the Wheat 
— ao a game eater uch ee of growth, and 
^x tenants by Mang d lee he consequently 3 to manure ma 
the purposes of sale, 
neither honest nor Mais 
a Barley crop, thus increasing the area 
“the a 25 without ever taking two white 
e case | for 2 root crop. Not onl s h 
ble. | straw which he converts into ae wealth th 
e MN 1 f 
lot the two latter, a Hind qr 
acre | seems to be n quite 
d he told me, 
n ce 
ly adopt the sam, e ? plan of 
use only 3 pecks of seed 
of 
* 
m bars T averages 48 bushels - 
throughout. I sold immediately 10 d E zt prega s 
I . avera ge yiel 
32 b — I shall certain! 
planting in future, bet Tshoutt 
instead of 4, which I did last 
Kent. 
Cinde 
The wool he cli 
sufficed to cove 
„ for he 
pped this spring, however, would hay 
yos Mc NITE T nO decay im Aa pet this lange 
ers for Pigs.—A lon 
that pigs 45 2 fond of co 
that you ca dly f: 
— t eng them 
— a er the "Vel 
ör brick dus 
g ee has taught me 
ashes r cinders, wes 
permanent Grass, and the other 
o Wheat 500, 
eeds 335. 
moderate supply daily r^ 
div id 
is ar ulia ivi "i uk 
ti 
es burned clay | 415, and s 
if ou do not yer 
k walls of | 
cause of | a 
dealers, wh 
— generally een 
that 2 eir pig 
_ Progress favourably will do vell 
es consume quite a | basket = burned ¢ 
mE ug ie average 
32. Two 
g 67 acres 
i of the Barley | 
3 quarters, that 
Whea tagih 
es full 48 bushels, 
ere were 28 acres which produced 1 
is, six and a-half (52 bushels) to ea eiio 
o N y | 
hat ^ — of fat 
lay ashes daily; 
8 vor to p^ with the irons above n . 
—the prize 107. Its dimensions, 8$ er g 
ds 8 feet 
at bo 
corn 
for the past Eu Mor these materials was |i 
the ! id 5 f seeding Í in the autumn, or sometimes $ 
Ex hg the prize at Mie for 1 
1 
1 
that at the hinge a 
by 21 inches; six 
" inches Mes pec “the d 
w 
further 
taat E 
n opene 
nt 
ower hinge is put enough fu 
upper one to let the gate $ 
of course the end rises w. 
enough to Walke the rh close 
| The bars are all of them 
the heads— the mortice 
pin a wrought n 
Te 
" 
tainly se 
bre Ath, a hot my descri 
nough to car carry the same 
e, m 
idea to 
