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Za. muy md productiveness, and very | lessening injury by wind was шен. and last year | road is picked up by the sharp feet of the silent, but 
r made a difference | — little travellers. For the night they occupy 
— So e Án s red ns € per 22 rt — by admi e d 
ашату 87 n numbe mpare ohn | o the first da of new Wheat bei adows, жо m. сан » Which they redu 
ye, bt tf t tel Farm, p” Gloncestershire, мед exposed. D "the market of же place. While you in "^ few hou: th worn-out реА fad ^i 
Jat gere, end extensive ely grow $ ff 'and beards have no relation to the | Turkey ada E eac ty nedow o an only endure such 
эт and heavy g good айу and it may be mentioned as a singular coincidence | a visitation once a year, 1 t likely to communicate 
{и especially by a red-coloured straw, that on examin in g T grain of the present crop of a s гч сту 2€ the iecit sheep of each flock are 
pich becomes yellow on being dead ripe. Тһе | collection numbering about 150 kinds of British Wheat, | always bus mployed in санае ders they can 
pipe," a very 75 red sort, was another kind | excluding Rivets and rri an in every class the us ше modele Palling o the when others take 
uri ont аз as good by Mr. Mor ents, which | bearded varieties were four ] the finest quality | hus 50 ос nuwiberin g perhaps 
see reported in the hrst volume of the English Agri- | of grain." From Morton's Ferunt: Calendar. Uy: 00 г vil -pass over tie. same road, the same 
iani Society's Journal. е7, петата | turf, and Ше anks in one day. Of course 
1s the figure we have, besides No. 17, the Velvet-eare р p | they drink at Ег pix. аже t the three fairs 
of our best sorts as regards ашу ТНЕ SMALLPOX = ала | mentioned above ir have to pass through one 
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f| Ат Allington, near Dev am Wiltshire, | another to "e pens; the AE, roman for a day, or 
с (No. o veg in the valley dna Salisbury. Plein and the Marl. | several days, i ui he; 
a very productive, but coarse sort. | borough Downs, a mali geant disease has broken out in | close 
ini rket. The | another's breath. No doubly too, as Фа: airs last 
jc ear 
fia ens hang as they become ripe and ad their awns. |a flock of sheep fe veding f r the mar first 
fis later than other kinds and not extensively grow prine Was Horrible n d its syanóuis, and very | several days, different, flocks occupy the e pens in 
is however, often chosen Ee allo iment ИҢ ҮШӘН destructive. Hundreds perished. However, it was | succession, rub айан the same hurdles, «ri fall into 
to whom large bro ihe care of tlie same drovers and dogs. 
laf is of more consequence "then as айе From these fairs the. sheep pass onwards 
ene. to Berks, Kent, Surrey, and Middlesex, and 
ON Done v cesi Ц are spread over these and the adjacent 
y some writers as а produc | counties. There can hardly be imagined 
бте sort, does not gain way р бату | | circumstances more likely to convey, to 
The appearance its ears communicate, to vivify, and to spread con- 
тоді lead one to believe its produetiveness 2 5 seems nothing can be done 
si 
infec 
district. ui s not to be expected tha 
graziers, unde existing: circumstances, 
oie, a less anxious .to part with their 
pus (n the fixity of vos Lee sed by 
[71 of Wheat, we quote the 
mme bas been already often referred to. 
He thus of the failures of attempts 
io alter the ch 
“In illustrating this it may be men- 
that a few seeds of the Fern 
ocks. 
Should T disease be really spread in 
ез, were put into the 
March 15th, April 15th, and 
1йһ, The March seeding put tes this way in the metropolitan onion it 
аз and ripened in the usual way. cannot Do suggest some grave doubts as 
ue of seeding in e su bin to our werd system. Nobody will be 
wuey eared" well, while only two puny to blame, for every one will, of course, 
ал came forth from the autumn » consult his own interest, and. there are no 
der being a E са leaves. With author ia- 
ing mmer Wheat t & been unw їйїп to grant 
r^ rapidity, while the autumn ecial for special ваб = 1 
2 contained a cluster of Grass an doubt if it were sitting now and if the 
ear until the following season. danger could be proved, it would do some 
i e is an A king it punish- 
ciefdistinetion betw d 
tumn 
Whats, and I have вай, ће i 
e non- since, i 
ы to in ent parts of the foreign cattle bed tmr all kinds of 
=з эч lop of crops by diseases, an Act w s passed, we believe, to 
ination, But we are 
he ds о 
aware of a Ур 
country атй е 
о паа, flod s from leaving a farm, 
c elling a publie road, and going te 
a fair. Че th пеге be an зу su such power, now 
ti if on inquiry the 
liy da varieties o һеа 
bes e lately had satisfactory evi- discaso should be found spit We 
seeds of one car. S sing from believe, however, there i Р no such power. 
me both new and ur uch a result is to This Metri in our кү an їз опе оЁ 
пишер the тыа; nd while we реу y for self-government, 
buried without fur no remark shall be - which, ances, means nothing 
пібы эң ther experience. New but the Ev) Ө я gov: t what- 
time, and aris time "ever. ас 
Hare fled cena i which The extension of the disease which is 
anew kind does Sot D appearing here al to has occurred not on the 
Meet the Gestis not, however, materially next farm to the originally infected flock, 
чизе varieties, t - ity of pton on Ше farm of 
Dew remain the old r. in mil мк, 
additi шры: ШЕР and it is only the | Allington dii Mr. Parry's 
t enr itai, sort withont the old Rivet. Egyptian. Velvet-exreJ, been bees M By Prof. у Yi ате 
ear of the whole of. Harding's floc ave 
colonrs, the Wheat at plant is presented i in endless | discovered to be smallpox, which soun nds bad enough, | i 1 
ad and form р 
dedi dotting o of the ie rai ee mid is the cradle | but em of ordinary treatment. The sick or nme ейн эй > маса мна el in the ym he 
and the t red and white, suspected sheep were separated, and medically treated. lingo potass VO led with the water which із pl 
pe eril qnd. heit е то rough and the smooth, а пй | The sound ones were inoculated, with comparative the troughs, iasa, mingled with, зей сей boe after 
this ёте success. Тһе actual loss has been reduced within | which sulphate of iron has been substituted. Where diarrhoea 
& 1 and quality Р та guide whatever to the| moderate limits. But these precautions have not pre- bas come, node t tho er in bhs nct оС 
differ materiall e sens S ча otches on the | Ven e flying, nobo ri how „а mile or | opium is recommended as a valuable agent to arrest the attack, 
mistaken dish uvm UN —— 3 = popular and | two, over a sound тні to pee with which there "ue T nr и ed, Very gon сое off s — 
e notches being far apart.| Was no communicatio! is only conclu ded that| "Nearly wee! ave now elapsed since Mr. arry's 
р and icem of evaporation, the lod. ы t the | almost anything will аб 2 "un à vain M d és flock were inoculated, and it із worthy of remark that out of 
lm beating or th сві ing. o y 8 › 8|446 ewes in which the disease was artificially, as it 
hp. ог club shaped reshing of i ie wind, a | sbepherd, the wind, and certainly travelling over the | were, produced, he has lost only 4; whilst hose which 
Provided t е ear is manifestly disadvan- | road recently o bya discnsed oc nder such | took e pen naturally bre doae. M бе qe 60 
р е, perhaps the suffici er of | circumstances, d in iltshire were in Franoe, 4 the Protat per cent, and there are numbers of other sheep ot Wnose 
E beard or awn vider Шу are apart the better. | ОЁ Salisba he Mayor of Devizes would i е руе is ндо зоро; саас о E e d е 
Qm has also been 79 aracterizes some varieties | diately 84 а i сойо round the infe cted distric imates will not be much short of 65 per cent. : 
Vat; eld ча бы ie subject of po pular and sag d "бер unha арру шесе уе: werden. with ы! иш йг са = i cani кн with theresulte s anteri inoc Чан LE 
А long been ws поь tie Dc perm average а ity of more than 5 per cent. esirableness 
ага, But the Rivets e only саа varieties | а5 they ar able. of inoculation immediately upon the a e 
k iet v» Pendulons en, are iat aving pith n occasion, however, approaches which may pos: н Le terr n ur pee Allington flock up to the 
ta dy for dusting ыо ur E] eme rio | a ла in ти е, that —— of non- Кесе — cannot be rockoned at ан —€— 4. the 
on aped e beards aiso a erference rantage: fi weeks | lam not inoculated least а wee! the older 
гче the RD reaching maturity, in con dier toute sheep Wil be assem ated from | Portion of the flock, ви iS impossible to say what ihe, надо 
elast; stalk, ear swinging and rubbi d Wilt result will Ье. Опе however, is already 
"rent . With other Wh s m ing Dor orset, ‚ and Wilts, at the great annual fairs | that the lambs e усл са are by Wo acr (^ 
t ears bein eats the case is|at Wilton, Weyhill and Appleshaw. On these| seriously affected as those which took the disease naturally, 
at an angle it Upright and the beards|occasions the flocks of sheep аге passing alsong | and there seems every reason to hope that the rate of mortality 
Ben of Protection m а strong pet ng, which isa | the same roads in uninterrupted succession for | 50 ре light even among ГЫЗ portion of the flock, although 
agai inst wind, and is also £he| h i d ББА n young Eo are, ава rule, always more susceptible to the 
ы Шады ч d into the hi £ so the | hours and days, as everybody knows to his cost who | influen orm orien = ren гена u^ 
esent season th Sheaf. In several| — n | driv ving or riding e either r with or against Unfortunately we unders wers of Mr. 
e effect of the beard | the and smoothest | Labouchere's Act have ue, а Sir J. T. Tyrell 
