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Exiakg 
eree OR REEDS EF FR. ee: 
i a M, So oe, ee eS a a aaa 
Ee ee ee Mae cree 
à than complic: 
proceedings, and the 
: yp tebe from the we =a charaeter of 
Marc 17, 1860.] 
mous, amount ance | 
seek tb he land fod, sails ‘the cost 
SSR mk oe gee 
trangely does this contrast with the 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 
aa ca aS ge age Se a 5 ee PO PPT EE a ey 
fa ne that the 
nder-drainage is 51. per 
and 
ge actua! l cos t of u nly 
the o Srna? e cont es 
av vera 
5 $ 
agi 
to 2. pe c 
he Under- Drainage Commission 
she ray « exceed one-twentieth this 
tion of Mr. DENTON’s letter i 
ive Fe 4 of the Hinxworth records o 
jnage on arterial outfalls w 
3E we o nnot rorat fom 
opposition to the 
hg 
et 
not mas 2s. per acre!” 
AN ee ee i Phe 
No. 11.—Harmes HILL, BER RE.—Having had 
a recent ororena of Stirrers caian farms and 
C. Ga rth, 12 in the 
fa: rmer jes on the estat eof J. 
d Ruscombe, I p 
dos 
atly and even perme equipped dairy, a bake-house, 
[sanghter-hoose e, 
id of the | building p presents : 
which, ai 
r more, presents its "old 
very z tasteful elevation 
the distance 
e 
mischie 
e y the rooks than 
. And certainly t e Solok and 
backward Wheats as well as the n Beans had 
at c 
opin nion of a gene 
rally well-informed OPIPApORT: d 
our Anes lee un aes ‘helt y d im oe 
ue an 
a flo w 
an account of them as te notes enab 
1. The Home Farm at Haines ii is orth with 
as complete a set of farm s I ha My 
seen. eP ery o 
t Hint ton Farm 
in y: occupation of Mr. W. Hicks, well EER in 
Berkshire and nt _<gjoming counties as a land and 
eet, E.C., an nd their 
Ata blic-spirited man, another 
set of first- class buildings 1 lave oak ocitly erect 
siderabl 
com on to 
river = and nar com: 
from iae ntion 
1ean; 
C n 
r less. 
ma 
the paslileiahet. inter- 
a must be crossed 
ure a discharge of Risso: waters, ap the 
defective cha character of the shallow and- tortuo us water- 
about 1 140 feet by 100. There is a lofty rang 
long side, which runs north and south, and from the 
middle of this ‘projects a aiok piece of the same 
prana rel main block is an ex- 
and with the inability of a | majority of i improving land- 
“that personally I would much 
ampa confine our efforts to obtaini ing a remedial 
easure, dealing with these minor evils by themselves, 
cate the q mc D connecting spia _ 
f main riv Ts wi ith m nill compens 
let it be ever so desirable, 
the g ieee matter 
tension for 100 fee ards of the same roo 
of its full length, he Paes however, of a somewhat | 
iy h 
‘carried out at all the other homesteads | 
he 
e extent k outlying land with 
E 
eal of âraining hist ped done 
ms ‘to be n 
in ah 
Works d soil; a great d 
p5 
quired for ‘the land i 
ra t TE more see 
e horse stock re 
of Mick's s jy een Bay probably eight or nine are nee 
for t e Hi nton farm. „_ The arable land i is culti irae an 
lower elevation, The lofty a 
a very complet e a aoe nery, worked by a 
all the more recent a Ae ances 
ood agricult 
steam-engine of 8-horse pow alt erec ted by Messrs. in use. Artificial manures are A oe —common salt being 
Ransome, of Ipswich, On at side of applied along with them to Mangels, Swedes, &c. The 
må cattle | water drill is used for gettin th Swedes 
this poet -piece lie the 
food store 
e granar Pisk 
with chaff house einek and on Seles ee 
= 
itself upon Sk attention. 
side lies ay and ch: apparatus above and roo’ 
of calves are 
Cattle are fed dor Hie winter; steers purchas 
Hereford ff rea 
affing 
below, Sia es is put Ea -from the i or m] 
Mh, 
ld thin} outside, ae be 3 of oe n floo: fairs are sold oi eady for the 
t ogg to a central board, sitting the hy at foor oie i a Jan nuary and Fe brung, hni X Bitit 
cution of works of arterial emate } be ‘threshed is is thrown i n the upper 1} RA fe Som 
a _ reriket with the working of t Tta RT i g E "x 
‘Tithe Commission, the ‘I Commission, the | ground floor of that piece being occupied by carpen eae cake m hay chaff, Cos 100 or Te mint 
“Copyhold ranchisement Commission,’ and the | shops. The corn fed into E mae on the upper jy with the young stock and cows s durin ng summer. 
‘Under-Dra rainage Commission,’ can doubt that acentral f fe eht e bwi cat baly T Hicks used the e rly palper say Chall ind 
nt of outfalls, with power to apport civil engineers 
ans — to act as assistant com maae A would 
fally meet t requirements of the enso. — o not 
want to take the Board “ie e (for 
the defects i in the constitution yA whieh t the ination 
l; to blame, i in not hav 
taken a timely and an earnest interest 4 in the 
mg granary level. 
r 
traw reappears, eae lifted ty the clever ine ting 
hake employed by) oe, Ransome in pee oe barn 
machinery; and- the corn bein 
and m 
ls pulped together ik feed for his 
There is a neat tock of true 
far m—comb in nir ng quality with 
asevidenced 
Turnips and Man 
yearlings and 2438 j 
Berkshire swine on the 
the straw i is carried a 
eS, es, while ore 
l, which exter ete under the hi ber 
ys pl aen eo t Board was fou nded). 
i The 
actual work of inclosing and allotting is performed by 
persons argo by et icheseated; the 
of imply to ve that the 
So it would he 
of out ithe -= : the 
press. appoint their own en engineer and the 
missioners would ne at his operations by the 
score ministration of the 
T. 
of the roof right over the covered yard below, | dow: 
n for 
part 
from which it is thrown dow: 
G g 
Aki ey the fatti ing hogs oma the — sowa: 
arm is admirably equip accommo- 
dation for the tenant himself as well as for the tenant’s 
| stock. A better farm house—an o ntl 
| bethan Ls gaa tg. wainscoted rooms, gothic win- 
I have ; 
ak c 
the supply of the | the ‘uildings, while evi dently on a ilar plan wit 
yards. that of the home premises at Haines Hill, though on a 
From this floor you look down apon the e yaro below aai safa hav features in which I ba they 
and you Ep that the space is divided by three pre are superior. itera like those, nth yards 
ng ways, from ` > south sh a lof roof supported ; 
seth Tin line ‘ah stores of chaff ge pin, roots, parallel the c reas Le a on the north 
des of the yard. The two sid he inr riigina are about | side, and by igi range of barns e w and of 
40 r5 yar rds fr rom the side ean t gangway ies, root-stores, chaff-house, and stables on the east. 
teryening spa: As | The stables are thus to er air, a 
ell under 
ey suggesting the best mode in which the Le nti 
shall with Fiat eiri I beg most r “a 
submit to thst wearé hardly doi e] 
count aon largely -i interested în in ern 
t embers of the 
he be profi 
nage, by with rres an 
ive part oF of the quest 
aily 
h evil 
command its 
sv be obtained for ench district- 
oe whom these prape = 
. 
os n 
pork r w e has ı made 
GRANTHAM’S paper, and i in ae disension, pon 
“The cost of the Act of the Middle 
expel 
ings and 
works is such that it is 
or of parliamentary measures. The out- 
Ea to be benefited by:the Nene drain- 
-e 
-acre has been 
S 
as under-| 
n of time dai 
of many thai 
own remedy, and that a special et act | one h 
| you 
cnet hand sl tenes in whieh = far rie are 
compete Bake ipment 
r condition. 
een you and the horse boxes lie 
of | so) 
cattle. In some ol of te pis ier: 
olk polled dairy cow; in another Here- 
fo iien ; in a third some capital 2-year-old white 
hort-horn coat, purchased I understand from Mr, 
Howey, of Siddington, near Cirencester. 
r. Spencer, who manages the farm for Mr. Garth, 
a ape has the stock in capital and thriving con- 
are 
yards for pe 
ere the 
| dition. The feeding beasts getting ¢ cake and 
eal Gilon with ok. fal § 
sheep also get “ar food to the extent 
about 1 a day. : over the 
flooring , and the 
brushed o1 the 
in pase cond 1 ve 
have soon 
about 2 trusses 
daily a-piece. Eleve ork the farm of 400 acres, 
sens ag being perm bes 
1 of estate cae 
and 
7 
lon, ter. 
this main block of buildings lies Mr. 
LINASE tery, gp e neo 40.40: the 
| eters house and out-houses, including an exceedingly 
and hay chaff, The | three sides, by pas on. ol on one side, 
of | end, and barns d granaries on the 
ed | -The p ares k 
ine Aras Tea olla T t 
arranged in pair stalls with swinging e mi The 
| centr: al yard is is s bya gangway and includes 
ws, for ee Pia a calves and 
yh he The is asphalte. 
The riage Wer y ip es int 
thick, and i, at out ready for i applic 
to the land, and "bei g derived from the excrements of 
ou | cake-fe ttle, and undiluted by ex to 1 is 
of first-rate The ‘barns include storage for a 
large quantity of corn, the rick yard 
within and wit! there was ample 
intelligent a 
ri Hicks w to 
e acco 
e of the neig ibouring farms, 
ticulay there is evidence 
parish of _Ruscombe are, in particular, praiseworthy. _ 
Most fit for any kind of cultivation, and ` 
| peer with ane buildings, n excellent farm 
m | BOM and go . Here, too, the 
aes Tact is PEA these Pip 
food stores 
other. ~ 
as 
A room 
uaa tary 
ed | Oats, giaa =a to 16 T o kar 10 Ibs. of Oats | 
a Ri y 
aving Ricci, € a rather ge liv 
lira, eta 
and back kitchen and 
ouses and good po rag 
