128 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND all lien GAZETTE. —_[ Fenrvary 11, 1860, 
‘pulped roots does not extend beyond the present loss. And as regards the varieties of the Ma nge tl falls to the ground, and 
x beet, wa aT hele ss “ie system, i tat have not suffered equally where stored u the stike |b he sc rk on kipen Mr. Hamilton b 
satisfied with the result. I pre ing them in cumstances. Heavy crops of Long Red pens ca believe, [attor calculations. also j eg leave to say that 
fresh state, as my cattle clear up tuait cribs bio Bait mokk destroyed ; then Yellow Globe; while Oran ge | for one eE Fae e ay AA em 
ushel of Globe—especiall pf p i S val uab 
D rectly it they have fermen ted. Tm wit A Uoni —has stoo od the winter best. Swedes hav ve, i some | manure, but merely spoke comparatively, and in le ag 
i twice that jt may beinti- | cases, gone off very badly. Where timeniily steed in | to shorten the subject allowed the manure t 
i l ‘the fl g iti mber frosts t on, &c. (w 
a 
+1 
fternoon for | turn out well. But from the wet weather, flocks which | respondent says I omitted to mention), to co: 
a fet a any ieee rie of all | have been folded upon them, have made less than | for the mineral constituents. : Your correspond 
Sr beginning with weaning os w Taringa Tre Pe wildy a o Fo Ja = a foll let tt ha s appeared i in ejects sf peicipally ih. tho solid excremeuemy bi. 
? pal ng letter has : J 
Tas eat it; also to For Fave ya Py and to working ji Thor 00 e fo owing ver PP’ os doe aniola Tormak à t ought nat 
pone PER of the mixture. He says, they relish | as peir omia the opinion “you have frequently | valued 7. than about 102. per ton. W, Spoone 
a feed of it, an ad | S | jun. 
ed ou ht toa ear in your columns. M.S. “Iw ing. 
ting th s; "herens when ho gives them cut |g rad D #08 th A f Mr Lawes which was inserte wi aage the Land not of more importance neei 
pa ne es dr b ep Cultivati ion ?—We hee are though j aa 
r food, £ hat if deep cult tivatins 
GN I fe k corn, or hay as a sepa- ti: On Were 
pans past am ahimesad barn peste’ to mix his experience co fally © pen my own in that rapes more aniversally Coe ong would ea in vay 
i ive the chiet value of! I thi g rove a 
Mo Mai aea aag inducing the oat tle t eat a fair | Royal Agricultural Society and elsewhere, have, been able ifi not detriment al. hy epentesi jal 
t I cultivation, with repeated treading «; 
i ng f er: with ty pes om Med he | manner Having | horses on the subsoil in wet weather, in order to thi 
winter, and have ingg been obliged to use pa So seen io dani “tan which ie "Torley h ‘has eared pereen tl though. imperfect be e on of the’ s} 
4 T ff the butter, ve, is ) necessit 
to take the the favour of the Turnips o y it, not that Thad the least Sdan that | so much drai ining. Even the ine aaa rains ad 
ng the ; tee 
have I had omplaint from the shop where the sur- it Sond is ‘profitable to use in a gene ral way, but have by wea a eet this | winter, floodin e 
plus butter i is s sold. March 27, 1857. field edented 
pez other "kinds of food which I w to a few sheep | theless do not Sustify ‘that drainage i is absolutely n 
ries abe? ca maay ieee eee ert ublic exhibition ; yee I ordered aj sary except on lands which are under the ie 
the ; ion a and most beneficial improvements in the quantity of the article direct from Mr. Thor ley ps manu- braseit mode of shallow culture and kneading of the 
management of ie stock. I have adopted the subsoil. In truth, if the contrary deep culture a 
for two years, and should as soon think of throwing the | Lawes and Mr. Mo orton, of going to the ener shop. | similar to that in garden management were perseveret 
plough in the hedge as the pulper in the pond, finding, During the last winter I selected 24 ram hoggs, and = r bait very few drains would be abso solutely regaina 
as I do, that a much pried number of animals lots of e eight | hoggs sats rN one was | called for any more e than i in, noble: men’s and 
thereby be kept, both winter and summer. Having given other Cotton-cake, and the other | gardens, which require no artificial drainage [?]. 
ith all Farley’ s food. “They were all mi alike — yi "aay the emt deep bene of such garden be 
I have consequently a considerable number | consumed about 21 _ ress sh er Or wt. |and submitted to the treatment of the surro 
aspan sl aitia Tare oa a ely a during the summer, | per month, whi ch a pent Gi price I think fields, viz., gray trench formed and trodden by twoor 
an am eae sure they are wintered much bett t E wheo — wet wea meee ayi ne oY she fae 
with straw chaff and pulped roots than ever they were | land) comes to 20d. for „eac! ch ho; wo operations, and we that: 
in former years wi y 
ddini 
y. My machin M t: nt, or i the p> re of i 
Corne’s largest chaff-cutter, to which is attached by a| each sven them daily, and cos r bushel. summer three-fourths of such gardens, now hig 
strap Bentall’s larges wate pulper, both working together | 1s. 4d. each per month. Tecan on psal had also | productive from the due share of moisture al 
er. the food and use it fi 3 h m by ure, 
io ung animals by Thorley’s food was given e j ould 
Biring ad opted the pulping system I have pat haa the | directions received, viz., four feeds per oy for eight deprived 
complaint among at cattle since. Sept. 15, 1 rapes which also cost, per month, 1s. 6d. Ihave made consequently, be less productive than the 
Mr. A. S. Rust Wenny Road, Chatteris. = am | a great number of experiments with sheep, and always | fields 
daily bar six tout Rapp and the eek, I weighed them every month, and I found on th ied off | We 
- pursue’ follows: P p experiment I am | can refer to many enon of tact thorongiiy calla 
steers, lf Lyonis o old. 1 feed | relating, th tini each lot. gained i in kek per four weeks | by the spade by deep irena ing 40 
“ meer in eh nce or the natural food produced | as follows supp’ ian oP te nure or vegetable fool, both mae Ar 
my Posscesing 80 Tittle a Bropart Yed peman wt Mutton. - Cost of keep Cost: of | artificial, are retained and preserved, and there is never 
Take the two ‘nd a half year old h oe Moar Sper A NEBA, a too much wet, nor „has there been any necessi ity for 
d 
adj 
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side always have been in a dropsical state, and much j 
pes Ib. 
bou i; and| Beans DP Seats +. 88, Od, bie Po i 
sometimes Hat che. but privet 3 with ri I give tee Cotton-cake ` a A l MEET E T T i oD 
44d. | more unproductive than the trenched parts, In short, 
irly as liev f 
about 2 pecks of pulped Mangels (my land not growing | Thorley’s food 13 9 Bs, 2d. n 
sna = day during ha acts rate the | This experiment, which was con du ected as fai 
ron iiet i ws 
ay 
S ents as J 
ag 1 and Rigor arao l food I tA p separa aty I|compounds as food for sheep. There is, however, al 
the chaff and rool pE am now another fact, whi ch I cannot help stating. When my S a 
Eaa ot pin y gg on seven out of the eight fal on re k 
at night to eac a bal Nock per The bind es I | Thorley’s food 1] ulcers were found, and not 
find accruing from the use of ae mixed Miche a one ulcer was to be seen on either of those lamb hoggs naa AGRICULTURAL OFEN ad 
1. The jaioa pez his food thus inseparably. mixed, | fed on Beans and ead nor on any other sheep | _ A WEEKLY Council Maz: Les ee aE ‘st grt st 
will cons uch larger quantity of inferior food | on my farm. E. Pawlett, Beeston, Sa andy, Ser Walsingham, Presiden Present: 4 
than he would ‘do | were this given to him without the | Feb. 1. P.S. rd lo no n be| T- V- Shelley, Bart., MP; sir oe 
and 2. The straw and Mangel | a “A . i ari way at the cheap rat = I p e | Bart. M.P.; Mr. Dyke Acland, Mr. C. ns $ 
being thos mixed and | taken into the stomach in this — ualties and many expens ides George von Bunsen, Mr. Henry Corbet, Mr. B, T. Bran- 
o Teed attending it, that would materially oe dreth Gibbs, the Rev. L. Vernon Harcourt, ile 
at be ‘bullock is generally much th s, which are nominal, and given merely to | Scott, Professor Simonds, Mr. Thompson, M.P., Mr. 
Sek is ge better upon the RSA aunty and show theo mparative value of the different kinds of Western a 
auatty of Siva. when mix ized tha thái he wou nice do t| food T E. P, The names of sale ss ee were read. 
given to him in a separa m fully od ot opinia ep Feed and Manure.—In —— to “B? ak me ee VETERINARY Report.—The annual Rep 
that where the roota a of a K tana quality hay may hast ite on this a “it ‘will be u nnecessary for me | from the Governors “of the ‘Royal metera 
be altogether with. Fe b. 23, 1857. repeat my reasons for concluding that some mike teigi then read, of which the following are the pr 
=o be continued.) amilton’s first pa poin E 
= will peran ret zeply to the letter. In the Wanae 
i irn pienia coke taai t rv Hamilton has taken the As 
3 fi avet paar ia 7 cation ies, 
woe. wreel— Tne following is fom Mr. Brovick's informed of the result of the second trial. | Seonnalyy , | tke veterinary inspector, an arrangoment 
arwickshire Agricultural Report :—. gany is distin tated Banilton’ paces 
loss. fromt fron pee in “Tevocrable iti si owt na in Mr, s i the eed me from $ the members of the Society. 
to 4 tons per acre. But hg Pe ies considerab] y posal previou 
to the mode which had been adopted in Sonal bare 
rhors, after 
experimented 
experiment, but pes a 
faim mei fed on concentrated ft fet Tt 
‘Where RA w, or seattle, only, were used, to ver | wise stated that it received 1} lb. of ber 
great a thicl kness, or howe ever carefully laid on, the "oss S| of Oats per day, and it does not say that 
injury has been ‘proportionably greater, amounting in | days. But sing the wether did receiv 
some cases to almost total loss. On the a hand, | | addition to i to the ein tea ‘ood, as yo vgn Grain 
where a light coating of straw or stubble w. s used, an nd | ass serts, A Sk hat it mi 
then covered with 6 inches of fine soil, little damage | this part: v than on bette and supposing also 
has, comparative ly speaking, been received. In future, | that thé analysis of the Oats and ileake i 
we would not Shag disposed to tr ust to thatching only. what under the average, these little facts would go but 
oe has | a very small way to account for the great value assigned | the 
n occasional heap covered with | to the ur ine. For if these eg Sra: good in the first pe 
bay’ has eafered less Moi where covered wi th | exp periment of Mr. _Hamilto nc 
straw; bs hile tl he s b etter 
t that pone 
and è i with oe 2 the causen heen, and oct a 
me e, shee os Ji are a 
bom an wrongly and pi ar 
weit 
© presume we may | and 
enter sae th l ol ae most any 
as been sus- | ment ; why then sonia thet beta ed the wether of the pee ee ges a 
he frozen soil rer experiment contain three es the res x nab mee of th = ikek ‘apie A audtich acne all ral 
acti n | ammonia a s the urine of the sary experime nt? treat tme At and m it it must ever remain & 
of placing also of 
ate its bain ore 
base of the ian on | depends much on the state of the] kidneys. the mins |E = 
escaped without | r readily admit, but if the animal was in a diseased state diseases, sev 
