AUGUST 4, or 
names tnaea 
S abla S, CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
719 
He cultivates de 
to a deep trench alongside the 
- | Wheet mre the satisfaction of the curious in this 
T ds and t 
he 
culti vation are 
outer row of | 
‘It consisted, according to Pa alladius, o of a square frame 
on two low cat a with a pair of boards sloping out- 
wards, and lowest in front where the teeth were. It 
ousan en thousands of acres of the 
1 same quality „extend across the coun 
of D and the rent of Jeah a is 
me under 30s., being — by Ag or _— tha red 
t 
; - sunshine s amongst t the 
still 
“ stems and leaves a his growing 
e PETRS involved is that on which ,the 
nds— 
of the county. here anything 
in front at the will of the driver, and to ve passed 
over the land oe and —— be ct the ears 
n fact it 
stra aw being disr 
peculiar in its powers = E aD, T ae think i it 
e ine s depen 
idle to take up the aar at all for 
Xs I. 0: phe 
e crop he gets in spite of i 
out of the ed of ect pela ar gre ou 4 x 
~ fact or titers 
js * ; re aA 
and it is “of us sas area jus ust in ra tao 
as our produce eeds that of unassisted nature ‘or Fiome Corresponden 
the fact that the oop is vreu gp ee fro the soil Royal Agricul ne Societys Collections. S fol- 
at Lois-Weedon does not mith’s experience lowing cet sy 84 of the Society’s collections at 
hei s during the last 17 years will be read with 
A peat Aves mpton 
‘and es invokes to its v 
very u utmost ; 
_ howev er other me 
n depend more 
gs even ‘when 1 un nassisted, is proved | 
F 
isaction. It may be extraordinary that the natural 
relations of mineral and ai air ar rti fici: 
a single clay — etann robbed o 
duce, but this 
corresponding fact Which. is pene ndent on the very 
. £2432 | 1852 Le wes ‘ are 
845 Shrewsbury 1682 | 1853 Glouces' er. i: 
w ne 
h on hh 1616 Neweastlo’, >s. a168 | 1854 Lincoln .. <: 3378 
erhaps than they i847 Nortt tok 0473 | 1855 Carlisle .. .. 3260 
iously invoke by Y. p i 1856 Chelmsford +» 2983 
Wis -- ++ 25141857 Chester... .« 6187 
vi Norwich <. 2360| 1858 Salisbury ..  .. 8447 
this—that the suf- 1850 Exeter 2493 | 1859 Warwick 5459 
1851 Windsor $ oe 1860 Canterbu 2689 | 
Fowls and ‘Pigs Fed o ‘esh.—The seal of Dr- 
Duchesne’ s oe ee is near te died in the following | 
ially « . Fow aor pigs may ed on sound 
on ri raw or cooked n fle sh, raw po cooked, of 
ls Seed as glanders, 
ore odota pai Nie mal: ligna ant pust ni hydrops hobia, even on 
ANS 
same causes, that this. island a 
+ 
stan g the enormous waste 
f 
mh its gees washes from its soil, and which its 
sea. 
= Smith does not attempt impossibilities i 
e of fortalising aohia 
res stricted to 
flesh, raw cooke -i even und; 
and a larger number of cheer perish eid m fed on 
ordinary | kinds of food. 3. „The eggs | of Sots „thus 
q 
_ does not teach impossibilities is known to every reader 
_ of his books. The soil must contain the 
The aon however is thinner and 
m a = sh of fowls and p pigs 
more moe broken, 
d furnished with teeth, like an Pere 
on ae front edge which was lowest. To us it 
t t 
a tro ad n othin ng to do with a furrow as the 
cor: oraal of the "Bu ilaer. co je pretty Has not 
| some scutes like oa been employed on the plains of 
Australasia ? Lina, 
Sortettes, 
a 
ars A@niouLTURat OF aR LAND. 
MONTHLY Coun nesday, Aug. 1.—Present 
the Earl of Powis President, R the at i Earl of 
| Maccle gad va d Ashburto: 
B6 Vernon, Mr. g NY 
| Ba rker Bar arnett, Colon el Challon 2, 
Parad Gibbs, Mr. Fisher Hobbs, "Mr. Hous rd, 
Humberston, M.P.; Mr. Milward, Mr. Shuttle- 
. H. Wilson (of Stowlangtoft), and Professor 
¢| Mr. 
| oa Mr. 
son. 
a 
= 
fo ed new members were elected :— 
, H. B., Stanton House, Burton-on-Trent 
King, Blenbehy he Ha; an, Hung erford 
be not in that sense a Wheat soil it 
to preser ech sae 
and more diffluen ia | 
and the “fat 
5. The donsk e still doubts as to the absolute whol 
someness of fowls and pigs fed on animals | dying of 
landers, &e. 
a or clay land, containing naturally 
, th 
the ‘mineral su 
ances necessary for the growth of 
f such animals should pe hah ge for the 2 rearing of 
fowls and pigs 
ee st hoian so ome from without. I grow Wheat on both 
NERS if bee ravelly soil, 
insta of coy ee eI r i gravely | 
per we aat is tan tat Beant, dressings of dl clay. My heavy 
ay land is ciis already. For I app nd I am 
my belief th ys of fair quality 
0 miner: 
son ng 
I a not mean that ‘the time i will last 
Waban 3 
is infinite, b 
The eo 
health a and e cook 
| ia growth of the ‘fowls, Sad the 
al | 9.7" 
should be absolutely pro- 
ls should not be fed | 
d 
e quality of their 
he e paoa of rearing undoubtedly is, to giv 
flesh bu a day, of ae 
to nish. with a meal 
vege 
the supply will cease, 
shall not me at ms age length, büt will 
recommend agriculturists to Fen ad the book on Lois- 
‘appa 
etable Veteri 
The Bady Machine ke 
known to our Celtic For 
hers !—I read as follows in the Builder. “ Truly, 
thene-ie- s ‘thesun.’. A correspondent 
of the Glouc: writes as to i 
ester Chronicle thus aping 
ma chines :—It may perhaps be interesting to you ae 
eedon c sr * and to satisfy canal ves, 
omy easily do, b bot h oft the reasonableness of the Ee 
learn that those ‘utter 
3 
as our British S have b een wont to be ell 
any o nef those i a s which a 
_ 6 The use of fi hee 
Bromley, Lancaster 
Cam PAE Ww. ‘del Ce Campo, North Wootton, King’s x 
Filmer, Sir E, Bart., M.P., East Sutton Pari ione : 
Halliday, Tho: omas C., Red Hall, Burston, H. , Surrey 
Melee dagen George Arthur, Batts daia Warli Croydon 
Brown, Thomas J., The Moo) 
Fielden, 4 oshua, Stansfield Halt aes 
paige ee sn tind 
Moor, J; , Upp keley St., Portman Sq; 
Ppa a Ps rnett, Chairman of the Finance 
ras Ste, A 
that the current cash Dn the si ds of the 
bankers was 24872. 7s. 8d. d ate at Canterbury 30127. 
13s. 10 past 
The bon oo receipts during the 
pore “ve pan 
spot selected for the show va by a aspen n 
the Council. It was unanimously resolved that the 
ame of Mr. J. Dent Dent, M.P. be added to the list of 
the commi It was resolved that Mr. Manning be 
rele ed contractor for the img show yard. e 
eal of hie ood was affixed to a which 
a lready signed and sealed b, of 
ithe motion of Mr. it was 
tha of 
implements as soon as is open ; to 
. | be henved on the representative producing his press 
ord cae eq of the 
ndreth Gi to avoid 
the complaints which-are annually made as to the late 
>| period at which the Reports ae ae 
exhibited at the country meetings are 
a iety’s 
published—in future, the report as soon as cme shall 
b 
W years i ecodheines of the dung 
„ari se whether we should translate | 
4 
[ee aotar which h bod dau modern ingenuit Lat ode set up in the type p 
Tt onl f a be T nah, | in the Journal; and t of it be 
Wi y that they a the atitin plough, copies of i 
E ndunged deeply cultivated ee em at Lois- | but ‘that vies had ing m there can be no (under the asasi regulations) to which ey o 
'eedon, that when I saw it, just before the Can nterbnry | | doubt in minds of those who "read th = pap ng | the agricultural ReWepepers niir chdis 
ing, it was a healthy, vigorous, upstanding crop, | aana passage of Pliny, w n iad until the next meeting of Conticil: 
j ing a full, return, a e= aR pen to the past | the years 60 and y the ea pos jz tpon next mee ingo MaC 
Da four years may be ted to be from 36 to De Messe ot j "1881 was peara rel to of prizes for Essays and Reports 
i; els an acre mpared with bourin. essis ipsius Hallo 40 Gallium undis, valli præ | for 1 agree 
field of Wheat it re. Compared wi uniform chara ar dentibus in sn 6 infestis pe meg gh per meelt eae Prize of 50. offered y the President, the Earl 
were fi dorze na 'dWindled Muntur, Sat in contrarium juncto, ita direpte i of Powis, 4 the best Gamers on og" E rovement 
x e W nde ti winde val um cadunt spice. in the Farming of Yorkshire, since S last t report 
stems. The outer rows of the triple sets were perha: f reaping itself there are various methods: in the broad l. IX. of the Jou: 
a shade tter n the Stn indicating the te of the ge Sraues machines with teeth set in II. 50l. for the best Report on the F. g of Hai 
value o he ies whid Lois- Weedon | 10W: placed o eels; are driven through the standing ILI. 10l. for the best Report on the results of 
‘Stecess d, corn, a horse Being. attaches to it [them] in 4 contrary way to | aa Bonet on different soils, as tested by 
ea ds, t the mól plant was vigorous, | the usual mode of atta ching horses. Thus the corn, being cut | = m of 1860, —— the effect of laying 
ae oe what was growing on it, might | = bay into the furrow.’—Pliny’s Natural History, Book 18, wn an] land flat o: i 
he p unced first-rate fe eget IV. D ion E Bees Essay on the b est mode of Wintering 
If Ido edt 
Dairy Cattle. 
V. 101 red the best Ess: 
of the Bean crop ea Packet on the latter part of this senter Feaalte tavoissa ia (he scan Grecding of Gatle. 
Same day field, an f the i an von Preis and | presenter oe sense given that word at the | VI. 10.. for the best Essay on the Rearing of Calves 
Wheat on the gravelly field which re i dressing | beginning, valè us being a van or machine (see Ains- | VII. 101. for the best ae: on the best Mode of Harvesting 
of clay for provision of those mineral elements in | worth’s ov pine nary), and vallum being a trench or fur-| y and Th Thre acs shin thing Corn sins 
hich it is naturally deficient, and which has at length | row. adopt the latter translation, then it follows r agricul bisot. EREM 
atin rawn from public exhibition for experi timents | that 4 ed t 
Proin 5 is e they are defi- in thei aut 
“in inte or beeause the results 
} et Aa display in any way diminish the fi hand, we translate itas 
but simply ects T a a Wheat-growing on the elay, merry for they 
use ty bi 
Fon ean n afford m ve already oceupied what space machino not only to away- 
po tet Se with an additional extract | I prefer Mr. Riley’s rreruation Th Tn the ene! 
ord in 2” A ter | 
e land :—*“ There are aie: na — ae charac nal of the provinces of Gaul, a barge hollow ghee gen nome 
mo rich that the produ dressing | with teeth and ou cage on two a . 
i ae g the beasts being yoked pame 
ession of heavy Wheat erops. If my land that the ears 1 raced Butterfly, 
even then be surprising that 40 behi es ae orm being that A te | bury, a roan of cent proportions, great length, 
should ever and fall wi within the frame,” To this the following no fon gean mines vs ae pliced Ist, here ; the 
j jece is is added by Riley : “Palladius gives a long descriprion | eiar t Talleyrand, bred by 
the ordi Buy a en piece really is added by m ich seems to have been p: 2d. rer gone to 
inary heavy land of thi this contrivance, which iar a the | Me mbler. 
; and T hav e ox; the teeth, wh aa bulls Sir C. Tempest’s Prince Frederick 
‘ ats yoa papin rward by tuhing the ears and In yearling ir 
and om at the point, catching alluded to shows Flaa at Canterbury, is placed Ist—his nan korar 
* A Wordin Season to the Farmer ; or, How to Hois them off.” The description here ph and size being in his favour; and Mr. Fa 
Profit,” Mth Edition, Ridgway, 169, Pi 
think ily, enough wha t sort of a machine. 
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