874 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 
the vegetation is slow i 
, Unity Buildings, Upper Temple s the eive 
Street, Birmingham 
t the last weekly meeting of t 
ent Societ 
e Royal ee p 
of ible, pa tga SE with reg 3280 t 
eted to th -G 
qualities of the plant had made 
ce towards their tall des 3 
N o seem to poin ather 
to m 
t does not all aa — 
a that it 
na spom is perfect 
this 
OH n was ele 
office of Seoretary. Seventee 
were in attendan 
n candi 
EON MM 
THE 
tum), North China Sugar Cane, the Sorgo sucré 
of the French, has of late attracted so pie. atten- 
tion that we o apology for inserting a few 
e experime ents e growth | 
remarks upon 
and e 
omy oi 
we have been | 
engaged during t 
de ded to are as foliows :— 
atch of about a quarter of an aer 
farm, in hers of a tolerably aed 
the brash of the great oolite, d 
tat 
its ds “fogs 
appearance 
About me we sowed one of our 
experimental ia 8 wit idée of Holeus obtained | W 
the Messrs. Surron, of Readin 
pre 
ga 
manure. e di stance apart wa: 
20 inches, depth not more than 
came up soon and for t the first m “th did not at & 
promise the Fer aspect it afterwards pote ‘at 
as 22 5 as t it pid 
d we were thus led to index p too 
exposing them to 
would not be advisable, espec 
gro of Holcus is attemp 
or late ' growing, ons, and in this 
of transplantation Se be 
done in wet — equidista f seed and the 
8 
Horcus sACCHARATUS (Sorghum sagen wa 
the present season. The examples | “hoo 2 
| “near " winter, 
imd hat we have not seen a case of Sr oc of | 
| seed, N indeed, of flowering, w shall hav 
som iculty*here in acclimating this. denizen of 
warmer and more steady temperature. 
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woody as not to be ca ing used as a a sunny da 
wattle. food—hence then we would advise that the| An ana lys sis is giv 2 
central stem be the first to be gather This ean showing that a are pe A 
easily be done by boys who can readily detach it| genous substan e cultivation is 
e kind of knife, and this do the other | like that of Base, Driilled in May at the 
ll at qe nane aap ys growth, P 1 or 1i bushel per acre, in rows ld 
y adopting t expedient we have a better| apart, so as to enable use of the ban 
pee of deriving the fall benefits from the — until the plants meeting keep the ground l 
prog ields a erop of 6 or 7 quarters acre, 
As regards the amount of the crop our caloula-| — ‘‘ The seeds of both varieties form very 
ions founded upon the results of the smaller d for sheep, lambs, and ing 
experiment would lead us to infer that the weight | After they had been weaned fo it, I 
er acre in the second week of Septe seen them refusing cake if they had p 
somewhere about 50 tons to the acre, and the far The straw and 
ed beyond 
hey d — pens — 
which w melude that 
w 
nsidered premature to judg 
; fund merits of the Ho leus india tis but we ye 
even then there is Kei 
| remedia 
th 
soon becomes very In 
any rain falls, the plant 
t , piants grow 
ripe pods being very prone er a: vs 
e danger is e "en 
disease not far advanced. We iv d 10 othe 
plant which gener speaking, is so p 
adapted fo for sheep. 
“The ets have been used for horses anda 
4 E 
o its 8852 | 
able of o 
‘in anything like fll pt i — sud- | 
de 
„Saint Bartholomew 
Brings cold dew,” 
and this has such we upon the growth of the 
there would be a chance, "but while e 
| wa. 
poorest sandy and 5 soils, 
f Rh 
the 
ums "es It it a ps tm ee of | 
owth and develop- 
Mar Hosing t then before this process 
courages it, but by no me nit 
— in forw arding t 
peas = mn 
ean 
ee opel dank when this i is in progress. When, | w 
however, the 
fal stirrin 
— a canó- 
5 row! 
are full 
5 
e new roo 
of the gro 
- 
properties of the aig ag or rather of the tastes 
of cattle in re it. — pareels of the 
— -— pe n close to the ground an - 
once 
the eee, e the — and tried, with 
orses would ps 1 it. 
3 two-year-old bull ate it greedily, and could 
ws, not | estim 
h 
and is E for the 
andy soils. Mr. CRISP, of Butley 
dey! resent — of the Journal 
—— rom Baron 
T Hundisburg, Prussia, 
ve beter descrip on it is no less 
I 
bu G 
a very 
plan 
VERTING OLD PASTU! 
the quantity of cheese, 
cows 3 And last ee 
statisties of an d farm of i 
i he quantity and and tini of ed 
e grain ee and also hes return 
d from 
convent p^ pa wei € 
farms we must pee the patic 
The 15 dairy farms consisted of 1 of 1974 acres, 5 
1716 acres were in natural G and 
arable land ; but asi iti is compl à 
same gen? deseribes the plant and 
its cultivation. v me of bo mip blue — 
ep. makes € p 
portant for —— he says, 
ts — — he mo 
ing luxuriantly on light, , poor, sandy coils, * 
—— i" 
Eu " 
E. 
altogether 
corn for — row and P 
add to the 1716 — 
15 dai rms is § 
searcely be induced to eat 
The milking cows oe 
sparing] 
wit 
ws partook of it HET 
no prejudice wi 
il of 
Now. 
palate, w 
of iie cattle towar a it as even the 
ade er ‘at Ner- — yos E 
f 
à cireumstan nce which we still thi 
nk will | be 
at] 
ieguminotus plauts 
could live. 4 have some pode in the 
parts of and Prussia where a eH 
much more than 
6s., 80 29 Puy reke rent y wold 
- ves, 85 y 
D 
EE 
old Mn and 38 
The return of the 
Weight. 
— — n 
Chee 1604 
Milk — 5268 i nd 
Whey butter, an — ]bs., 2 — 
354 calves sold = € e at 
85 — cows or young heifers 
return from the 1 1800 
Andi 1 ks ve divid "n ig 
Wor now propose to 
© 
re 
t. 
rms in to six 2 
At 
In Se September we again emp d th al 
taste, and in the larg — mney Pic 
and it was not until the 
moni ee tthe he major part o of these became | th 
usi 
an night- frosts 
it is walled may —— 
ink it a E Taw plan | 
CA with dee p; —— a at | 
o it, are 
very 5 s apttd Lupine i in this state, and 
i in nd of Apel ot w — iet Siem da .dare not do before 
of May, sharp 
9 to the young plant, 
If the seeds are 
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— mel s Paper. 
— ure, and 
be on 
1 — 7 — of the 
