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SS. of cream to milk and of ok whine 2 Drainage and nstitution of the Drainage Com 
eld? What per-centage of cream to milk and of, some D or 15 feet above the level of our seed dae i whose uty it it is at poten nister those Acts, and to proton ii ‘on 
Patt to cream may be eg a good Seer sol for want of drainage the water rose to-day in a ditch, | interests of Rev ersioners. 
veg . x y n et wå within 13 inches of the surface. As a matte: ‘“Phis protection is, in a orf orme a è 
mal utter-m: sking munerative? Perhaps > woh of t this ; ose, “hn d 
m i a as k : a si h is th ture of duty see tha s visions 
i milk and the per- the { form vaponr in the spring, such 1s the tioned are hei out according to certain implied, if not f 
a. ee is wat Auke his pa at | the land. Until the existing frost stopped us, we W ast ee rules, This isdone by measuring depth and distan aN > 
oe SR ps banal st whe s Mangel crop, and where we hope tends toa parallel system (4 feet Suet) in all soils, whch 
different periods of the eee mentioning how they-were | paring foren gea nee —_ y ry" notion, only his drains were shallow ei 
fed during the winter months. My average yield | to ge the seed in by the first v week in April. May $ pony vid n 
ar as I can judge from milk | ask your “ Fen Reporter » how he mi "30 ae ‘aes were undoubtedly necessary when the Come 
i ropor- plant on his ‘ight an nd dusty Fen lands when the orare Ars st ter enh green Ri the public money, an 
o | weather is dry, eg it frequently is in = I SER not express my obje — he ped es rd pa ijon Pe which 
y . inni t the nor 
i = ws having nothing but | 0 April, and not only he beginning bu these rmtden that any better course could have been follows 
the last becom two, he 5 aa Som seeds) pe a | greater portion of Ma ay. This I have foun d to be! py the Aruni rf he first instance, than the adoptiong 
littl ay > @ Barley aay ‘One cow has averaged a serious objection to late sowing. Without wishing to | the ‘Parkes—Smith frequent drain system.’ This system wa 
ittle cow hay an r . 1 E E p et Á 
E to nine of | reai our “Fen Reporter” a lesson on vege : 
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0! 
ll him, 
milk s, however. eg physi re 
~ : i have a heavier and better c from | misapplied when adopted ìn Trop} en surfaces of the 
he milk, and therefore know nothing of the total being equal, h e will free water-bearip rt which, , tough cal wet, 
ield of milk or — I cannot tell the quantity of | early than late sowing, and one which in the be tote quently © chained by a ST ew drai ne at le ces a 
cream require e a pound of butter. My yield ihinga Si x hers x Sei ene ce to resist an October half the oak. ai aoni 
ost tehe. ec. “The only circumstance can excuse the indiscrim! 
Mag oa peek a mp geg y the pes oeni ———$—$—$—$ adoption n of 8 parallel olen is the a nt = ee 
ng 
bey Ibs. per cow. My yield of milk during the Jast tek o the Sv i irain, it was nae necesary ee init 
eek has bee: x only 9 ga ete s per cow, but Li magine Reviews, 
that I shall find. a great falling off in butter at the end | ae sa Ty 
of it. 4 Hampshire Dairy Farmer. ream is gene- n Drainage. The Principles, TAIS an ects| r 
rally 10 per on of men and butter 1 lb. in 21 pints 27 “of Draining L Land, &c. By Henry F. French, A. O. MT shoal ave ‘oat it hol have been git 
of milk; an average yearly yield of milk is 550 to 600 e & Co, 1 Rooke Publishers, ork wort! ew a erican ~ enian have 
lons per. cow. on aoei t; New TON had a farm of about 500 pa rained by English 
Notes on the Kohl Rabi.—The was sown on| We ne ton ‘Rouen by Mr. —_ Denton with a | Lan se oe aig rack. fo : the stud as Pai 
-the 29th March on a piece of waking g. in rows | perusal of his esentation co copy of t os ares ahs agrioalburinte aet very res aa Ra z Am 
an g -| ; co ur referenc > i 
weeding. In the meantime the land for planting was | what is one of the completest essays on its subject oo with the cies j he pare and all an details of si al 
prepared x De same manner as for sawap eae exists in the English tongue will, we Bos create ! The book: 4s : copiously lca 4 with weal s 
gravings. 
dressed w enoug due j 
t Rylands x Tatnip manure per acre, and cast up into | English editions. It might no doubt be to some extent SPORE LE hatha ant a 
ridges 28 inches bya e the last week in efi and shorte ned and condense d with advantage; there is a TRAE ERS 
bee gan! of J une ry illustration which acm Memoranda. pa 
the eyes of the English reader; | CHU AND SARSDEN Lopor Farms, new 
of 20 in por ut I intended Theys shoaitinr been | but, that apart, ets is in this octavo volume of 381 Chipping SNORO embracing 1200 acres in extent, — 
15 or 16 rent apart ; the lan wards twice | pages a completer Seniiedkien of the facts which bear on | about 800 = ion ch are arable, form one portion ig 
horse-hoed. A small Loewy of ‘the. feld. was dri Hed the drain f the Jand, and a better marshalling of | a out 2000 a occupied by Mr. Langston, M.P, i 
ted | the argumen! <n + hte justify and explain the practice, in ees lavish aiita ainle which might adopt th 
similar to tl P 1 and | than is = be found in any other book we know. m plough as a farm luxury, apart m busin 
t The chapters, introductory, akja | mo! aeni, o profit, Sy ‘well at 
sown too late. i have poer given it it tomileh c cows, theoretical, iâ practical, on the relations of soils to | display of a high o order of cultivation. And u 
d heat and mo sahara! on the geological and ee skilful manager, Mr. Savidge, they pay r Sy "ied 
a = milk and butter, and without imparting to the | aspects of the subject; on methods, materials, arr other farms on the estate, ciation of 
a ngels and Swedes | ment, cost, implements; on the legislation o: of l: ft 
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me 
- My ‘when lambing w ast year fed on} drainage, with CPR - $a effects both in America |The soil is all heavy ; geologically s irk on the 
coh Rabi, iene the only complaint w So that they ne | and in Grea’ t Britai We cannot on such an enume- boundary — the oolite ae and the Oxford 
much milk. Of its feeding properties I have rati illj clay, a few miles north of Wye hwood Forest. The lan 
+ little experience, but have been tol td it is quite oa ual | fullness of the book, but there is no difficul | was ready a region of now rec 
o the mae I find all the domesticated animals of | justifying by extract our stark of the quality whieh by clearing and deep 4-feet drainages which pi 
farm ea i with h avidi ty. The Kohl Ra bi is, characterises it. jaake the following as a specim n of | down, however, to 19 feet in some 
I raa the hardiest root enltiv: for way in which ena me ak French ihutrtes "the off springs. ‘The fields were in h 
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the early frost in this ge did not in | cost to undrain eee idges, found necessary to some extent 
he sli td affect i Swedes it. ith e 
ightest degree a t, whilst 
lurnips were entirely checked in their growt! so 
wit Xen, 
M stly : The drained land comes condition for v working | ap plough, or in some cases thrown: 
Kohl Rabi have been growing up ws be "settings in of a week or 10 days s earlier in the sprig r than other lan n spite of the complete under-drainage, wat A 
the late sharp frost. It will grow ost any de- | the o summor by a iB i CaS nahe actus tet "al through appear in the furrows after en downfall, bit 
scription of soil be is not affected by Poey} James | tu re of the empera- | now that the steam-driven shares have „severed iF 
Innes, Thornton, an e A co 
fter t 
Backs A aipame effects of frost are kept off several days s | soil to 
ue of these conditions, the farmer, w? Oh 
rack of a few moro warm days may make his rience of many other farmers a A 
. P. Rand — cape portion a that, whatever need may exist for the primeval it 
ioe et, | with its water-shed and rain-receptacles under tt 
-labo ere is no doubt as to” 
Cordener<anid 
ail —The Gardeners’ cathe 
Agricultural Gane has presented lately on hi 
subject the singular a ue a house diel |e stimates. 
wit x “agp If profuse argument and ass ye oar not 
peers would avail them, the” Gazette h 
only pcan on a smaller scale, who o gene ee 
the land entrusted to their care in a wa; worthy 
imitation by farmers, are no more qualified to 
hed home farm than a shoemaker; but the SE that în 
many places the e offic es of gardener and bailiff 
hi 1 every 
ban training of the Cream enables him soon to | dols. kin. piv intersect the whole 
ae my duties he n = called on on to ERN omes PAET AA ts meet large estate Mr. Ta eonstructin: a poin 
al O u 
Mr. Morton, in a: bod froin thie Daraa Te oiy DAES all, and the tenantey y ast ng a small a 
Uniform facili raffic is thu: s $s a 
may adapt themeetves to 
koda cation ‘There is no perce oo 
gardener filled | The cost of 
. person, is an r ab a | wauld pass off in on E e enoii water hiet hors 
Miers et is fit for neither. any bail searrag ae See ee Yc single tine ing fe botto 
likel, ed o satisfaction a ome ; gar BRE | the los baat Ve iting from wg en oe the poaching or detrimental se of the ir 
paar. = itha whieh upon the moist and cohesive surface. Bare fa 
yer, is rarely Beana, M green amd 
btained. 
ed by the own 
Sia excepting the light summer wor 
r four 
some one el io. Lean kearen ae 
ad gol Growing and our “ Fen Rep by 114 tons of roy aie i 
each acre, in each of the three 
The whole cone on the rainfall and evaporation with poplin cae, teen race Mr, Fowler 
on the i 3 temperature, on the | threeweeks it worked daily without the slightest, 
somatie on concerved to aR Figari on and plant nutrition, and there- | ng awe 
tivation of the a aep - also gave my own —— ore on fertility, axe aiani: int . labourers, without Sit 
which here ab lanst-his beon soocomiiak e your Mr. publishes the following letter from Mr. | delay of any consequence ; 
“ Fen Reporter ” I may, wand TI I sg without ihe charge | Bail Denton, one of the principal nathorities on on the} formedi—comtthon el 
of egotism, claim to have some knowledge on the sub- | : with i asaran e 
ject. I have shai the  Meejjok $ > eun different a treatment of land according not to rigid ru 
aiin of lati l between the 
24 of i a Aa Thames, 
soil and 
subsoil. Aaa ss eee ne ee pe varying | the 
“Fen Beten Thuit 
ise oo ote a for ang Ekibe direct draining, ai aires will treat mixed soils and 
, aeee ag irregular suriaces Te ery ee 
creased. 
without doubt, Arkivat that: puint in tho practics of 
in wees eles i revision ntl, tae gine 
eo and Tule. wh i ; n, which, wate 
Which pave into force by the working expenses Ti. 13s, 
