976. 
THE GARDENERS' ee AND eiie SERT 
Oats, and cte e whilst he: fed his on the mixture he ; the 
ET ER 3, i 
1 
result 
recommends. At tl t had of w sede 80 fr as it goes, is eset agai fon H 1e food. 
lost amira the second remained ei tenni whilst his | But this trial alone does not carry conviction to my 
own had ga ined. weight. Making allowance for this | ATRE pigs are always fattened on the best of food. 
accordingly, and V the milk produ d ‘the result | the issue be fai rly tried, in fatteni ing ¢ cattle € à the 
was that whilst the cost of food was er acto ely 7s., cattle f food Bean 
9s. 2d., an d. per ridic the profit was 2s. 11d., | meal of the like vahie with hay and roots, — let 
4s. 3d., and 10s. 1 kno id result. Not having ie tbe Icannot give an 
The extra expen in cooking and rures opinion, but I fear preju — s too a apt sometimes to 
se he as at 
nce he considers prn: fally compensated by the 
proved quality of the milk. 
difference is certainly eed decided ux 
ow mark this result x4 
obtained by any process of trial and cibi but i 
attention. 
the 
result ed a close and scienti&c examination into the 
subject. 
Mr. Horsfall does not confine his practice to hey 
g, he applies the same aoc with success 
fattening his st n the follow — s in his 
first paper to the al Agr ee Soc 1856, | 
eoe Horsf: 
ya in 
all — to have apes foreseen vé import- 
this subject would rapidl * * think, ^ he 
says‘ cd "that — ta ances peculi 
. 
s rt 
rit re a its title would justify or ca ball for. 
wl 
= 
<= 
EST 
5 
ty Life Assur 
vel, Pall Mall, e 
warp t the j udgment, and Ia 
5 A ; v ce $ Wheat, per Imperia 
and and Wales, from Michaelmas, 1845, to 
— . “he Highest and Lowest rely gs » d 
EMO of the respective years ending Michaelmas Do 
properly applied than it has at — etie given to 
t for. 
I must mention a new and apparently very valuable 
introduction, viz, the Cotton- cake cripta w wp peÜÀ r- 
ticated, seems t whilst not 
nearly so 20 ens 
T + 
one 
comprise in the short ‘compass 6| of F thi is 
seize upon a few of what seemed the 
red to 
| e leading questions of the vei and which per rhaps appear | 
1 e H 
| 
for. bmc Lo een and f hat the 3 of 
materials chara 
ag by peculiar r for the 
—— of s objects has not yet attained the 
attention to — 2 ae is entitled,” 
athe n to let us settle down on 
our ect and . and with the consideration 
that we have already atta — to the highest point of 
agricult nias Ti nce and practice. Fr 
Average price 
for — year ES PE Lowest- Price for! 
endin the Week ending] th 
Micha spes g| the Week ending 
— — 
1846 E Nov. 1, 1845, 60 4 
1847 71 May 29, 1847. a 
1848 51 Sept. 9, 1848, 0 
1849 .. 46 Nov, 18, 1848, 52 8 
1850 40 Aug. 10, 1850, 44 
1851 .. 39 July 12,1851, 43 
1852 .. 39 1 x 1. 1852, 44 9 
1853 .. 45 
1854 .. 72 T 
1855 .. 71 1 
1826 .. 73 ; 
1857 .. 59 lOct. 25,1850, 66 
1255 .. 46 10 Oet. 9,1857, 56 
185^ 43 4 |Mav?T.1850. 54 4 
is only one “quarter of that charged for the food ; but 
It — 
It may y i: be of use to examine the — that 
Other i mor s have followed Mr. Horsfall; Messrs. Home Correspondence. i Water 204. idi 8 5 ere A = 
Lawes and Gilbert have made some interesting ex-| Mangel Purzel. From a notice I saw in Morton's — 
periments, AOR D». An mene des introduced some of| Almanack I am induced to offer a few — on a Per “ London Gazette.“ Wheat. Barley. 
them to elucidate his views in his address to the High- | crop of Mangels just harvested here. Mr. Mor 
land ME * Take the ve wing aga in as an actual — in Oct. 1858 y ato 
They examined the carcases of different t animals in | the growth of soils of Ha —.— 15 42 8.551 
various stages of fatness, and found that whereas in This year an acre of Mangel Wurzel has pro oduce 22 — — 42 4.470 
animals in store condition y^ proportion of fat 55 t f Nov Mee * 2 4.178 
flesh ie t differ more ve 1, = increase ot I now offer my experience this ear, off a anit ink. ae oF à ME 
T y pet y » 1 ..| 42 8.946 
fat dur the process of fattening is 8 o times as | 20 ac Lo pig y rere oil i in Esse 19 — 41 10.558 
great as thát of the ———— — the much | the Lith 12th ith th erty dili inm 41 2.744 
larger proportion of the fat than of the rye . — Suffolkedrill 28 wines between ue: rows. Before sowing "e 10 : | = eis 
ing s ld Misure oe L| 41 0.000 
imals. CES xi uld which I could obtain e : E . 2 eae 
They s wever that animals 1 nd clod-erusher, completin the o eration 1 a one- j.. 55 2 ; 
5 per cent. of the Le qum (flesh-formin: d — roller ce the dri E nh h "Wm i 40 0.918 
pounds contained in the fi whereas they can assimi- the seed. 1 used 6 lbs. of see i ha the acre, — 1 in due — 21 — ..| 41 8.062 
late 10 per cent. or twice e of the fatt; Ay m matter, time had a uniform plant, which on the — Ma * Ii 8 — e| 41 9.990 
which in some measure accounts for the great to thi pose = 1 gr : P. 1 
upon those foods which contain a e per centage of — inches long, and with which a expert rorkm — 1s — 40 11.125 
rogenous de A nds. complished 13 acre per day, leaving — e plants about TE ee --| 40 10.187 
To introduce Anderson’s views to you I will 15 inches in the rows; in mos e than Aaroh 11 — x — 
38 ae, ee address. adie myer plant was left, but to make the — on of thinning * ees i: 3.506 
luces. i —. 25 — 8 $ 
— eee 4 e prm er I e a boy to follow the hoe cem d all April ue « e 
used for cattle, and w whether they are Beh werd tous see i ere — eann Soins add BRE — 8.34 
Xa ot forming part of the xal farii 5 completed the summer ivation of th. i i 0.492 
2 T ; best crop of Mangels I ever saw, A specimen of the| — 22 — . 2.760 
; m A e acr on the. — — — - ae : 4.026 
ae too permit the | Smithfield Show. Anxious to ascertain e 2 
full benefit to be derived from the saccharine constituents of possible the weight pee "aere along with a friend 1 : 5.290 
the food ; and their effect is not confined to adding a certain | select a fair averag — 27 — 72 4.674 
2 ‘substan = existing "in the ordinary 9 — — the produce of the field; w eighed half a ton, June x = 6.873 
er other cir: would be lost.” measured the ground, — indicated a pro-| — 17 — a 155 
nd he ill erem ror view by experiments on feed- | duce o ns per acre. connection with a} — 21 — e 11.958 
ing some oxen which wer to er his point. soil admirably constituted for the growth of Mangel, July pi čs 3.296 
re then is a new step in the inv Meri and if| I may itted to add what in my opinion tended} — 45 — "T << 
5 7 established a most impo Mr. | much to favour the result, namely, ear] ing andthe} — 99 — ^. 6.288 
Horsfall’s position was to supply he ‘amitnal « with the | consolidation of the - rom beginning to end — 2 — n 11.555 
substances he found it wilted either In tte shape | their growth was uninterrupted, and on the 23d of last | As. ,$ — «| 4$ 0545 
of milk or meat in addition to what i uired month, wh injured much of the eke peer aa qe eS 11.644 
maintain its animal Mec réel iioi and its constant | the country, these were completely shielded from harm 2 — $i .941 
to loss of le, by their own leaves; up to the time of the frost the | Sept. Deer .548 
3b a step further (whicb, however, e scarcely ernible under the foliage. I| Z 16 — Hr 
r. Horsfall in the extract given Beto some mea. | Well remember reading in the hronicle of} — 93 — 11.008 
sure anticipated) and shows that by a judicious supply the 30th April the owe extract your Fen} — 30 = : 10.261 
of arti food only does that fi give ag Re * Mangel sowing has — bn but 52) 2202 2.300 
account of itself in the improvement of the animal, but | most of our farmers Md found - — sow 
it besides increases the — mee of the ordinary | this crop later than they did some. few years since, and (49 604 | 33 49M. 
food by enabling the animal to more thoroughly assimi- (many decline — until May i » sin At the — Ij “Tie 2 Effet of Early Frost on A 
late it. ead this I though it i a grand mistake, but 1 now feel zel. -I ha ve been an inattentive 
The facts menti above, as asce: essrs, convinced if I h . 
Lawes & Gilbert, that only 5 per cent. of FA nitro- | first week in May, the only advan es I on have the ‘Mange Wurz 
genous 10 per cent. of the fatty ds of | gained would have been much less labour — my it Passi is 
ordinary food are assimilated, that there is a wide te eathe . 
margin for such a result, and that there is probably a | While the operation was go To Aa uecessfl i in | grown wil turn ont one of 
reat loss of nutritive matter in in using simply the pro- obtaining a ey crop of M. angel and a . in Oc 
cts of the farm by themselves. cultivatio ty of seed (8 Ibs. r 1 cath Peg oe 
hee Chin ulis aud obser” eae Sk qe rie wed in Abd). U "per ae any sowing as told, *'"Tis easy enough 
offered to us, nay, almost forced ur E atbendod tk the inoue: ‘points | event, t who could 1 a tempt d 
erea » nay, throats, Mangel — pe not arrive e at tha lv M the 58d Oct ber? 
grand desiderata ; do. talismanie power stage of and usefulness of which it is A 1 ; 
of turning, as it w. ld? There is no | ceptible. P. Ri inim Noo. uld not, but provide ieu 
doubt that the (apparently at least) exorbitant Price at | Ray ere e for —On reading your report of ld and ought to hav 
irs they are offered has raised a strong prejudice he late discussion a the cag Farmers’ Club, upo early, and timely storing, 
them. In off fering them at so high a price 1 anora A : Clo ore surprised that no one and securing the roots s oon as the 
think the pee are acting. {contrary to their ow said a a wor abou t Gee, ‘than which there cannot So ded s impracticable, by thing up 
interest.. By aiming at a smaller or Clover, Indeed I think itis plough, a recommen 
tensive sale thay wi much more likely to K. 3 It is an | with you that a crop ought to be , 
" y keep excellent and 
d €: cem e me popular. As ze — — in for Wheat, will g — more, feed, and come wm x oh * pt ess of 
e stimulating the energies of to disco in earlier, tens la bs iL red, ine proe 
— 4 a: alia posi 7 — ny * ns lam better than tdem os and sheep favoured thereby, just as Apples 
re valuable con tthan th let t them - ut hen 4 tter fi 
, Butis is Thorley’ rens [really e We have Mess: ambrid, 25 ee ee wil Baker, =" ui “it * 
malysis, which no doubt is right as Mi e orn Averages.—At this f th tho 
NA as it goes ; but it is xem almost to determine | Year it may mi be be uninteresting to your " agrieul ural | sheep ae ent,” 
the ingredients (of which om old ie to take = re poss t thé. progress of prices no instance h ttle 
hei i flects of F. t, Barley Oats during the 52 weeks ending fos I should feel but li 
e of the ingredients. May there " ome e 24th dy « ei September; 1859. The averages for) p "E, A €T 
not d saa Sate efficacious ? that — vv be se een by the annexed tabl — re as of which is 
, Messrs. Lawes & Gi Vien do not, however, found their | geo gi spring, or dariy in sammet, 
emn. Gia n ne are howe th 5 1 ial ion to learn that this crop. 
food fa mixta = cr Ak ier et scat Bari 8 a re ato — wee so large a weight 
