738 
ally “clear of blight, with 
straw, 
and |t 
aimon everywhere 
r all the bye Ther 
“he — sat though the greater part of it 
n badly won, or is er to make, a great | 
deal of of good hay has been sav 
heavy © 
well podded. Over the ty istrict f i= 
per 
everyw where unusually tate, 
i 
THE ee CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 
be present in the hay, CO ee by, washi ing or 
gar 
ae 11, 1860, 
esex, and Perey, 
K ome of cherie in ete 
ts 
d growing clay, o 
A and energy, and industr, y and capital, bo 
0 
t 
elligent 
orld. Darin ing a ride of a 
few miles you thus have ani before you in review al} 
i characteristic features of Lincolnshire agriculture 
he old di Sike of wild heath; of fenny w H 
f poverty- stricken wold, havi 
ardly 
ts when heap = to; ogether, and . ae as 
the foo di is concerned tha tis all 
ig 
within two generations of cultivators ; pra there is no 
better farming in the island than are here and there 
along, „this line, and generally at either end of it, 
Ju sti in proport 
no 
then ; and our Ths returns, Nye were gathered i in 
last 
fo) 
ak: 
is i Jas doubt ee 
de J aA in Hay seid We hop 
week. They will hah ba 
Mr. DWIN scans in his essay the best 
Te 
period c of mowing —the be st metho od of haymaking os 
of the farms upon the el 
he = now todo. And it is RA — 
a Eo it that he fee 
ertheless js y vig crue ee 
d 
It is with o 
district tha 
y 
It has come with unusual | 
she ties on the Potato crops in Gloucestershire, | 
wile pait very little previos ripeni ing of the le af, 
tap- 
»jin d detail, and „the following are extracts giving 
tained by 
the present deletie mode of aea | N 
the hay crop. Each of thes 
g blackened i 
sin greeny than in any year since fwe in 
which they were first seed in the wag 
t p. 699, 
oving y names 
wig Bai er,” and ‘‘ Fire-leaves. 
Let us therefore soter ‘the follo trite notes upon the 
Publicola,” 
of 
» 
_ | flower at the same time, 
rules :— 
(1). Best time to Cut ani —As all Grasses | do not 
1. In the case of Ttalian n Rye-grass, always mow on 
appearance of the flowers, as this Grass is such a 
m grower that, if cut at this Pa a second cutting 
obtaii ned e qual to the first, and, ou P land, a 
plants referr 
(Genist cs oria) sometimes | 
general plant, 
y 
called D yer’s pA a, isa 
especially in poor ‘‘ hungry cla: ms) as the ger blos 
clays in the east of England, the Oxford an 
i ilts 
clays of and Oxon, and the Li as 
rdi R. 1] yt +} 
Mr. Dudding is well known as a ram bree 
= ey, 
5 J 
ay Chee is best cut when the heads are in full 
som. 
I saw a number of his older sheep extraordinary f Or Fu ars 
aa weight and sal and fleece. In one instance daring 
the seaso! single sheep has grown 49s. worth 
À 
the hesia is in wi "ower, or when the atat of ‘the i 
Bat he point which most ar seer Mr. Dudding 
Kimmeridge clay: 
clays of Gloucestershire. em is A ba 
of poverty, and the pas a res in which it occurs | Vernal Grass (Anthoxanthum odoratum), Meadow Fox- | Cattle. Ther and best 
abundantly ma guey be pronounced to be as tail Cop pratensis); and the late Grasses, as established Wera ofp pee D E shot-omn stock in the 
nearly’ in the e of waste p any we possess— Crested Dog’s-tail (Cynosur a s rista atd Meadow | cou try. ud ing’s fathe Bieta A ee 
its haymakin vin ‘seldom attaining to so much Fescue (Fes! aii ieat s) are just beginning to nee Collings, was well known for is ‘herd i 
15 owt. t g? duce A flor ral organi uç; Timothy te: m | herd-boo kept. ] family inthe present herd 
la pA Rat ae et prate Perennial | is descended (some of then t rough eight or nine 
Moon. fne recorded i i 
| Rye- om (roan, pers = Cock’s-foot Nene 
talog f the | 
er Felsen segetum) Corn Mari- | 
is referred to ae the name of Moon; and | q, 
y e it at oe ntifully ; 
otherwise the wh ies ium 
ae onl i 4 E 
ut it is Wya e tis 
socalled by ala Kerbala init Botha thes wilt 
i gr ext 
rence i 
shania, sad ia ter 
ipe in 
s fact, the yi 
was introduced to „this country in this way, for | 
achi 
1 | 227. calculation on the subject is only nahale e we 
itute the p bulk of good 
meadow Mand i a an Ser 
(2). Cost of Cutt cae Grass. We find the cost of 
ROEN to be— 
1. By Feels labour, say F; 
2, By mowing-machine— 
Home labor 
Per centage p 
dome oie nais 
TES 
Baere, TE per 
ES. 1] + 
i ant, and plentiful as it is sometimes found to be, | 
dow land of Ireland erin d ahe ground pea 
it is rep nase to agrarian circumstanees. 
The w! cies is more common iù p 5- 
tures hetes elsowhere Tt is the oo of af the U. 
even for national s: 
150,0002. annually 
(3). Loss by E: pne inthe Field .—That a con 
able quantity of hay is lost annually, by | Being aloe 
cas 
sider- sufi 
unrecorde 
directly from his stock ; and the bulls ied 
as well as upon the o Ppa progenitors of =a herd 
include all the first names in the history of the herd; 
Mason onem Lar Fev i Toe 
Knightley, Fawkes, Wilkinson, Ea a; and latter 
| Booth. “And of many of them histories could be given 
hich constitute the very romance of cattle breeding. 
is i Benes egies ri by a i be the 
e | best prob: a ts and for the use 
aloof which g is $ Mr. Booth 0 
wy ake a year, was hired by H. . the Prine 
Consort for use at the Flemish farn r Windsor; 
mperorè 
ures (!) too often ar d 
of litte ase, ea ®) panimi 
3d, Fire-leaves.— In tig a a Re the name 
more 
oes and | ™ 
sector dalline used 
to anybody wi who has ce 
country. Within the jast tl thr ree e hav 
made agricultural tours Severe 25 of the 32 binii 
sposed of, 0 
rom busin = jan St Se 
to its borer Aii ring ` 
of Ireland; and Bae Cri ort of be sub- 
ject, a nd having n some used a 5 ap 
vl of it 
and 
igs 
by auction 
it is therefore ‘wihatter of Eae interest to Pere 
poula HA which is very | 
y 
any wal d be 
squeezed ott öf them. If so, this adtituive is said |t 
to induce 
‘Sufficient to 
reiri 
ntation in newly carried hay | th 
a ae Both = en 
— een 
and s0 
farm 
In nine seasons out of ten a Pet On Hay. = 
iias published in the month of August men 
be out of dat f m 
paes rong 1+ ig o. tl 
ar, | 
ven so ie south | 
h the | 
ted mares s have not pein veeri inished 
IN has ther ey don 
Sacra 
are of th 
Ka ——, is permitted to rot i = be eocks, 
to £ Oe niin t hat one- a Rikes 
‘The ternon 
on ee abe de 48 oe 
the 
bef aa = the character of the he rd and the descent 
of its several families. "The present quality of fad 
was well “lustrated the other day at Horncastle, 
the best bull in the yard and the | ee in oe ‘it 
gi 
thing rious 
ireland, i it isnot ents 20 per cer 
of the actual value of the ci 
: „| best in two of the mostrema itp Rea 
class. 
Rar an Aer 
in 1818 
2 | 7,500,000 acres under meadow in 
produce of last year; was 
total hay was 35000, 
nAn 
AN OAA ripen —No. IX. 
—This far m. lies on 
tract 
the “wold,” i 
predetive or deen, according as it is drained and 
Well fa med. The toad to it from the Bardney station on | 
sh y 
at least, dam by Punch oy aie was bought by 
and her tee Cows! 
, Which is fertile and pe 
Leighton, 
ir Gal 
> be Rati 
<4 y Batty ae. 
"hitters, $ i: 
ashi po re mere 
ok on was ty Duke “of Northum! 
bra: brated bai ll of Mr. Bates’ ee Shae oS On her 
daughters Fitz Harry, Master , Lambton, 
Mr. R. Booth’s 
P 
£ 
edge of the fen, then | through a country of stiff F clay, 
from 
were employed. On the next Die 
Leonidas, Belvidere 4th, Lemnos, 
z 
u be e d as 
mewhat a 
blade of maps. 2 
aie tempera 
under that Whea 
er until pertot tly Pathe and then jigy 
ae peim out, dhe bad H 
me would | 
farmed district gan? large en closures, heavy ‘crops 
ey | boug 
| T a Oe 
isn foe inten, ems Sie 6, Knie 
Sir Samuel, Superior, and Vanguard were used, 
of them of Booth’s breedi | ae 
| however 
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