174 | THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [FEBRUARY 25, 1860,- 
erformance of this, that, and the other eoe bo Bee cost 40s. for 40 sacks, or 3d. per tinahak lof manure made upon these farms is betwen 
Earann of tho fara. Within the laste | o doubt dearer than is now done by m y | 22, 000 and 28,000 i? ons, and the a of 
threshing floor and flail have almost T Cipa | enter engines of greater power, but thie {10 anure purchased for the 10,000 acres eX Ceby 
pode and in their place a locomotive steam- | depends not only on the employment of estoy 80007. The liqu g y is preseryed į m tanks 
engine and a threshing machine goes from farm | machinery het on “hed be an economical arrange- | and used on si o “i e : 6 Payee 
to farm, and with the aid of the regular hands, | ment, of labour _ There is a great led p atter f for study, both 
and others hired for the occasion, threshes out| It Is plai of that t in considering the question put |in the details of —_ o the farms here specified, 
the grain, ‘The farmer pays thus perhaps 2d. |by our eorresponde nt we have to assume a certain | and also in the ae ʻ zhin they present, The | 
a bushel for his grain placed in sacks almost ready | power in hi is ma achine ery. „4 able „to thresh | district is evidently highly farmed, especially, | 
ifi ion | 4 eat, | the growth of Potatoes iverpool and ¥, 
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in being threshed and ly wi d, wal robably have to te assed “through 1 ‘the chester markets ; 8 per cent. of the land is un 
Da r io tunes latior eo as mera 30 to 33 ¢ wt. of $ ier And | Potatoes, and for this large quantities of dang 
j o RE $ man ill o 
R D 1 ' ual to tl e most e 
three men who travel with them, viz., a feeder, straw ft om or tick, two women to carry and one | prising instances of Scotch and English agricultur, 
a stoker, and a general foreman ‘who oils the|to untie the sheaves. 0 on the threshing or one | On the aeni hand the per-centage of green yje 
bearings and attends to the removal of the grain. | man to feed the machine, two women to shift the |not 7 p cent. of the whole extent, nor 14 pe 
It thus becomes an important question to the ae straw to the piteher, who stows it away and | cent. o the arable portion—is excee eedingly al 
farmer how many additional hands he will bave | who will need another man and yet another to and helps to explain the large expenditure ir in 
to pay for in order i Y e pon su ply oe him as it grows in height. Besides these - | bought manures 
the machine and the l of the stra gin n will attend to the sa oe of t Again, as ted the quantity of horse labour = 
upon this will depend rhaid the cost of riait e aisi and ‘the stowing it away as acks i of the far referred to twice upon this list is 
by flail an me does afte iffer so very | filled. According t t dta a ietetinary sstablishvndit} dedicting i 
much, and whether the only differehde is one of aw one man and a lad at the rick and cart (the |80 horses on this rg oni we have the enor. 
speed u T S mia 
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This Faas has indeed been put.to us by a|the barn, five women with the sheaves and the | ment of 4500 acres = arable land (neari 
) dent who uses a fixed engine, but To straw, one man to feed, and at the least one man | quarters of this being under grain crop), aby 4 
whom economical management on threshing days il ite sella be d the straw will be needed by our | acres Grass. No ry ubt_a large number of 
is of course as important as it is to the man who espondent. We should be glad to know how | draught animals are needed for the cari 
hires a mower threshing machine and engine fat “this “correspon to his actual Ka gle and | manures an $i roduce to and from town; 
e LIES a either straw for his yards or grain | wha ntity of work is done by the men and | this enormous number appears to us to be a detect : 
for an stipbeiyed And we shall be glad if our |in the marlagement of these the rata ass farms of ioe 
The f following are the terms in which he has mAr EN will discuss in other instances and | South La pegat ci Cheshire. Jderman 
put his case, and he asks for the experience of in the circumstances of locomotive machinery Mecitt when next in search of Teche the | 
our readers on the subject, as it is one on which | what the labour employed should be. economy of are power may well take his stand 
by Siete sadin tosi at et ine 
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comparing notes. He writes as follow a E Oe ay 8 4] lina return to | to the triumphs and economy of steam on eithe 
“Tam in eee oe with my bailiff as to the! the House of Commons, Loa "a in the last| side of him, contrast them with the hole in agr 
uae of rg HAE o SE Whe ato" Ta: anerta Ea ARDI session of. Paillamant by r. CAIRD; a statement | pro f 
is ño farm within 20 miles at which thi is op erati ion is of the number of persons committed for offences wasteful o Srenngemen’ an ee a ee 
| agai a. oeach p i ite manage every 
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mine, I have my own opinion on that t, and that | Kingdom during the year ending 1859. The total 11 acres of arable land and 
it is an interesting pe for Stet ka Ra i numbers are 2341 in England, or one of about every |. he quantity of stock is small. We have 
~ nature, and who look upon the use of steam power as a|-8000 of the English people; 235 in Scotland, or | Us the statistics of 14 Gloucestershire farms, i 
ysterious affair, to prevent their being humbugged. one = about every 12,000 of the Scottish people ; cluding 4658 acres, 2372 asture a 
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barn; the sheaves are cast from the rick to a harvest Se Trish pes ol The differences thas brought to | much in the same Sade of arable an 
cart, whereon they are placed; the cart is led to an light seem too great to be attributed to mere|as the 76 Cheshire farms here det 
opening in the „wall of the barn on a level with the | y. at Pian the administration of the law, and | these PEEN a 
: this pe The sheaves are handed from the | yot t} 4 only 131 horses . fatti 
Bi pac and honed le thee pte y see ay He aaea | from — Te ya England only, which point | oxen, 218 2-year-old ki ee 198 ie Le as 
serves the machine. The straw falls below, where it is | that way, and indie e the propriety of placing The piss s kept are not gauner rated, à 
collected into a heap sufficient to be reared on a pitch- offences a against the Game Laws indar the juris- | tate in L their consuming p 
three òr four yards to the = of the barn, where | dictio: on either of fhe County Courts or of a paid to about 11,000 s sheep, or about 250 shee rp 
it is deposited and placed by another hand. The grain | which should administer the law with acne: The eshire stock does not a 
having been taken up by the ee ag through a a teeter wiry. 220 sheep for the same extent; and a 
apanho into the sacks, and I co following fi t| these Gloucestershire farms are on the high 
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of the Koban iga pi in| of the county, where the soil is inferior to 
to the sacks and replace them as they are ‘ale, Nags to light :— the prize farms of Cheshire and Tata 
the tying and weighing being subseave! 
TA ia an omen Number of Persons to 
Leiner te ka he e first appointing. the ine ee Aird ne whe Pa Popula: 
women to ve oi e work as their powers admit of, the Game Laws in oer 
1858-9. 
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ong the sheaves from the man who pitches them — | producing ES 
n to the barn tyg sd iai man serving t ei machines, ne Seu tes "oak w he manures d 
and ct a the as it falls from the machime| Ireland .. i 1 32 i 200,000 fertility where t 
“gr 3 for the piteher to the placer of the straw— | Bucks .. — - 69 2,800 milch cows, and ‘the cropping—grain 
what n mber of m and women arë fequited, ji ee i 5,000 
’ enya Cornwall Se et 5 71,000 
rts? The women while CERTAT $2: lee 7 28,000 Thurs T: SRA ; 
at this work are alowed : Is. a day,” Deven nt at ae 79 3700 by anct: mee the Short hewn herdof Mr. 780 Cr 
Mirsa answering this, let us = st stato our own | Pever i snr at i AN of Stockwood Park, near Luton, Bed 
about 60 hela we. 
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. -engine worked elevators, threshing Hereford 2. RY 7,000 | their quality to bulls hired from Ws Bs. 
: pie rit and Ho €innowing m faiis ines. The | Kent X SRS 70 92000 to descent from the Kirkleavington herd. Ther 4 
om wa ve ete in thesheaf on the ground floor, Lancashire RE LES: TT 28,000 also lots purchas - s is 
Poche tay 3 Monmouth |. 1 12.000 among the a 
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in the wi a Wolke “an |) tting ie SHORES. a is one mile 
bull the rick gpa; Transkei the sheen T a | Rutland ` TERA ty m 10 ni = from Hitchin, and 1 
v roa me woman fed the | Somerse Paes 2 7 n wrap 
Serie one firs untied the sheaves, one man irat fae aai t pig) sage er 88. Ch 
fed the ma ge bet Ma omen and a boy tied the Westmoreland <: > sp week, says:—‘ 
straw roughly in bundles, and one lad built it in the 9, uct ae ae 
ard into which it was thrown from a floor 15 feet| „1t must be remembered, af course, while thinking R e Asa Bad Pou eri of Ab 
. One man managed the engine and removed | ° EE og figures, that there are other pan jakiai toa nor dale no! f 
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the sacks, The engine and boiler cost 2502., and | @ Game Laws besides imprisonment. shee i aN titat laiale ati is Je 
e machinery probably 150% more: 7 cwt: o fab Turni Sp re that i 
coals were burned in one day, and we threshed figures in another page give the particulars | seasons ns would at bo lockod abate rene 
a A days in the year. And in that time we| of rrr prize farms of the Manchester and Liverpool | at 8} to 1 Pa Sheep farmers are 
hreshe y 8 i Agricultural Association during the pit ten years. | severely. "h a ths the hills ly 
A: The in points are as follows:—(1.) That. of | have ats rtially eovered with € 
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about 10,700 acres, 2600 acres are in pasture, 3400 Haue the pataxo 7 for sheep. Eyt 
e | acres are in meadow and Clover, 3100 acres are in | that made vest _rostasetaons, = 
es 
es 483 TSes, payed A 7 
., |1366 cows, 561 heifers, 413 calves, 2850 shee oat) lioo ka sài t for > elie wherever it 
f lambs, and 1290 pigs, equal in ability to consume But t this last storm has left usi ; 
z\to probably 25,000 sheep. (3.) That the quantity as the uplands.” i 
