Biat 
) Fesrvary 11, 1860. | 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICIR AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. ar 
Careful and observant colonial writers have estimated “Celestials.” Such coarse- | warm and ventilated, the use of the dandy-brush freely 
the rate of increase in ae D yavs pre as being | v Bp piat (with pets pnt Toa avays bring- p tain satisfaction 
éal per cent. per m, whereas others, more | ing forth lambs at the rate o or five at a time. | N.B. The proportion of straw chaff is 1 to 2 bshls. 
vel state it to be as AEAN as “90 per os Taking W hy, n p hens E Fi i ag meee Betis gf cia wW nA ave | of pu when stalled Sige times y, and at night 
the average increase of the four colonies, I am my self | them any uch men as the lamented Earl | well bedded wi weet straw ; for store 2 bshls. 
inclined to accept the nipa calculation, viz., 75 per | Ducie thought nta se, aba. accordingly, some of this | of straw chaff ays ne of P pul twice a day, with the 
nt. as being nearer the truth; but even at this rate | foreig importation found comfortable quarters at |g waste o wn over food in the stall 
the “flocks of Australia would increase Ais ith much that “nobleman’s estate. Lord Ducie died, and hin | fed ; always plenty to spare. ‘Two men to pulp, cut 
re: y d ang In the meantime; the other chaf v wit whi horse, and feed gs; wages 
pane by disease, drought, wild dogs , and ‘ Z 1G were becoming a prodigio eek, thus charging 1s. per head each 
fellows!” w Zealand there are none of these | nuisance ; fret one ewe had five nd ig eae ‘hen ka bet for ‘attendance 
y lively, nice hinese he Mang yars was in the field rar 
great ira bocks tha ie droni ‘i 
equa ang 
e day; two days after, a third h at four, making 
as mult 
13 the n Oc ered 
titudes | had heen Partially Aeey of Ker raring while ‘ions 
al w wore g 
; and disease, a aithongh sometimes brought over emt from three ewes. Such increasing 
by the "Australian sheep importe eedily qdisappeara; would soon have filled the Zoological Gardens and |that had not been through this orde oats 
d can now scarcely toe: n those healthful Regents Park also; but as this could not be allowed, | saved. Man H'a my , 
islands, ce we find that, in =. an = years, the A secretary hit upon an effectual means of the field, covering them onl y with m arie on kinri 
New Zealand has doubled her exports of wool, notwith- stoppi ng such an inconvenient fecundity, viz. I by they find the Mangel completly de vot 
standing the tens of thousands of sheep which 1 littl e lions. s, | posed ; if a little straw, or Fern, or Fu had bee 
o feed | her rapidly in- tigers, and wolves. Now, it can well be eet that | used a covering previous a ie ald veiiiz 
ight 
wen an nually slaughtered 
haye been partially ‘edi Berk- 
a dps 
ation. ihe ine 
is variously estimated as 
ent," ‘which is the highest 
18,000, 
that its shee ep farm 
Celes tial she 
such treatment lon, g, an nd no hes he. surprised to See Amicus 
Agama that at this etl to t ii 
t a single individual of this nl aa vm ee breed of E 
on EWN alive in Englan 
ere 
append some of the very instructive 
ure many would Messrs. 
ask, fe Waat not one clears sighted wee ie intelligent | Maldon, a 
pu 
this 
ae foie ther customers, which Bentall, of 
and Mr. Woods, of Stowmarket, have received 
s voice in favour blished 
ers have n to oan of the preservation of | & 
anim pals, dronght, reri depredations by Kaffirs and bush this Goslvable present of Mr. Alcock?” Yes, most | _ “vom Mr. F. R. Herbert, Egypt Farm, Trinit 
o „Dise as prevalent in the Avstralian colonies certai ainly there „WaS, and any, one who will take the | Jersey.—In this island where the average rental 
Ait i ant ede w per: in the J ral, will | land is something like 77. per acre (English), it is 
habit of regarding, India a a, we wt Ma find that a paper was read on 26th M fay, 1857, by | eda y a matter of the last ween sh oe hi 
arm 
Mr. A. D. Bartlett, the sperinenen ee the Society's s produce should be economis 
Gardens, from which will e shor possible, and I believ ve I state a \ generally acknowledged 
f | “My atte ptio on was first call ed “the 
I find ae ae for roots has agen more sk an ias grand desideratum 
than an else. You 
4 3 
ritan. 
e... 
tion to the poino i ocd hy y the KAN Gai as a f 
m the official reports w 
Pagar valued at 12 500,0007. Taking, the the average or 
the whole, I y greatly in esti- 
34 ythin N 
of your Phillip s pulpers rome he bye, a very first-rate 
implement, with careful pemr i È ot state my inie 
z | of the pulping of roots, much pleasure 
ool of Pome 
1 | of 
ewes now in the Society’s 
m 
d whether 
the fi eea or Sark the Mange the Turni 
In the first place three years’ use Ne the pulper 
e | taught me that t Ican provision my winter stock on 
of 
Yous 
this ere ee warded 
the same to Mr. ‘Da rlin the Secreta ary ‘to. the 
phen of Commerce at Spreatord, for the armei td 
Be, or a| having it examined by the most 
French | followi g report vege these ele was gent aed alf the quantity o roots in combination 
hey say, ‘that the le of sheep’s wool fr: Chi with chaff I formerly 
z 7 : a att i a pey of fom China by y any of | the old methods ; and secondly, I believe the 
very 
y, the manufacturers of this 
than tl en they were suffered to gorge 
= ed i in Dr. “Price ces 
used b; 
; much better 
presen A ie ay the awd 
of t 
axslegenent 
no | this 
n | wool for cine a ‘purposes, iat would „now command 
per Mr. 
n with whole roots ad libi 
r lb?” 
breed of sheep to be employed for crossing with 
ther races, ae e pleaded in vain; and the objects of 
eI 
about ls. advises 
a ose who a 
The Jersey pe eiie can bo 
his solicitude now no more had not known A 
cases very aaka akin to thine of the Chinese sheep, I in the world, and this is produe almost entirely by 
should not perhaps haye said so much about this unfor- the use of the raw Parsnip. It has been habit to 
i nate business; as it is, let our blunder in tance | T e large n number of pigs, pond & fo Mowing in 
Toename. Dun Frocks or warn us Lon crap e blunders in future. We have | the wake of iy neighbor T 
SHEEP AND Woot. | lost-the b must recover the „I do not look at | feeding, which to throw a qua wore = 
I starton. ihe plain ground that the rate at which either into the trough or stye to the loss of nearly half 
our flocks of sheep inerease and xt uli tiply in our | that ma be ea a Ahdi aires by the animal treading them under foot in his endea- 
ial possessions at present is quite inadequ: to | despised), but for its great fe aie Pigs Be ‘he ready | VOUTS to reduce aed and so nesta them 
t remedy thew Pt anor g k e | means that it affords of getting up : a flock of shee Let to with the eai paving a van tige s iais 2 through the — 
answer we have—a sure and | ®3Y one = — 
Ase pia Top AA I ae show. Whilst in the United | a progeny ten such ewes and one buck might eari aR Mixing a E eka eee in a fit a fit state for 
44 : 41 3, an 
tions of the American Institute: Tie ha will begin to have some idea of the value ‘of such a| 02 pulped roots mixed with chaff from early in Sep- 
wKoak, oh asse, | breed. on or. boundless plains and hil Africa, | tember till Grass time in_ 
ins —It is now about PP ate yO Ge Tene Australia JM ag 3 and British India. Employ | Parsnip or Carrot with the S Swede and „Mangel, to the 
into posewsion a anole ee pera — Salt Teet EEE E ne oneh ening your flock (always “ial 3 
vi memberin _ | farmers’ cattle food,” of which a daily ration 
from Canten, po sent ‘on to my Norwalk Island, ford) and vien ita ma maias es. perdhiat Beads | each working asni f at a cost a 2s. 4d. per head per 
no buck with these, though ‘te svar al with amb, ana T | then and when. yon h oe t any other de description | week. so fed keep themselves in high 
A emt ae i e sequel show. “They of shee jon may de deem ent sui lity you ealth and first-rate condition, ith 
ewes being iisa ea, ee ee three lambs, the ner t E A wi p produced, | hardly worked; but for the pulper this 
finely. Thenext time, for they } have er aE er oon Pete wool l nished Abya ee we be i limited only by | feeding would not be with aiythieg like the 
bo na three, four, and five la be a Ber yeh i | the capabilities them food. For | ss,and I find in it the greatest eco: pide for at 
-One of these sheep has had bs in 15 months; | England a most of bie wis ; lation I do not der a hi fail size 
and the g v ve eros = mit dr ane He tes 
Tad tho increase of: h th reo ori imal Enh ae win months, | the Chinese and the P will apò more than 1s. a ss ae milking werner 
handsome, and the mutton of superior deli “Wool Pe ate cnt five a3 a bit ia Festi i a i, young stock are fed i 7 to the 
k “Yours, &., ve SMITH, Snila: thee, Y from 10 to 20 Ibs. of wool each, | horses, with the ie differéee that for ee 
“To Henry Meigs, Esq ae U. States Light Horse Service, &c with 58 Merino, or Southdown the pulped roots the da zin before that on ed are 
“Sec; A , New York.” w ab Meaning excellence in every w while si one I = no ot ent p pepe F pee 
t. In proceeding tothe other branch of nearly so mix resh an 
ma fending t his r enarkabl i pae hastened to| T again my tet i£ ss a ae al i pr aed M 2 ject, I say then with Jittle ons e of contradiction that all 
Smith had stated seit: Teg E conte Y~ = raddei ngland; we nyat send aiihar -4p She United 
lara be ident of e ant oan Institute > States or to China for it once more, for on the and I recommend as the result of my individual 
ae eA R and witnessed thei of chaff should be given fresh and before fermentation 
ieiashing fecundity, for they increased largely in woollen manufactures will very pals ae bak. aa 8 aa aii ae a E tial 
hands. This gentleman told me that A of fermentation, and to pi Je tee 5 
pe as much as 9 Ibs. of wool E E arks I g 
at nts and so grent was the public appreciation FEEDING C. 
aa era kar selling them at each prar ience in the n 
of their me Mr. Pell secant, a sample | p ni ‘these last three years, 
Cie When I retnrned to England, I found wa ed to stato hat b ae clever con- 
‘in La cw yep weap er been received | trivan upon 
s 1855, from China, under the following | over the previo vere o ey of hol fae 
h 9m ford Turnip-slicer, besi ae 
ree Alcock, then H.M. Vice-Consul at chaff instead of hay, which was er practi for | 
wy noticed the breed of a in Chins previous to the gen introduction of this new 
rae cir extreme i ment. Pras a fermentation of 12 hours for the the 
fo, place them in the best possi bok. jnices of the pulped bulbs ly to commix with the wa tt 
, Several of them as a present to H.R-H. pin Aa el yee the mixture. Tal shin Sor 
each b w =" j sss 
