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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
through Bampton Rose, direct from Comet. The world- | 
famed — Butterfly, so _ for 1200 guineas, was her 
f, by Frederick, nagn nifice nt bull, never | 
second cal 
shown, om ESE is the sire 
observed that cows eat the withered Thistles when 
in a pasture gredily an no doubt they are a 
good food for them a also. W. D. Foz. 
[SEPTEMBER 8, 1860, 
ES ET a I r 
indeed, weak in =e a predisposed to lung disease. 
and sterile m fattening propensities. 
wea akly-forme 
ld 
Cost and Quantity of Work with Burgess & Ke 
r.—I have read with inte si re contributions wt 
prize-takers. Royal Butterfly, "the pr resent hero o 
Short-horn circles, is Butter fiy’s afth calf, by are 
and the Colonel has re for him a bid o 
f| Reaper 
eek’s Agricultural 
jfi question, per- 
“pre 
AEE RTR GE decisions are 
class, where the Royal 
d the 
E or a | ha 
of hee 
ps with not the > Tens i e ae md various 
m 
ways sma 
sh and small loins, 
of these pe will always be found in a 
with the ngth of the head. 
Pou Woke wud dite, oa, Vira 
other naturalists recom mend a ough my 
opinio n thick, strong, and nea e ear as possible, if 
“= 
pee ao i ‘ont 
in 
only Thickness 
i- ak nose “and thickness of chest es often pide. and sọ 
e thin, meagre, irregu ular nose and ¢ onsumpti 
Small, snipy into frames of small 
capacities, and are joined to mouths that can op but 
a - 
gamo er, bind, and stook an acre in a day. Thus you 
ondent “M. R. A. C? says, ss «the taking up of 
very 
found ie applicable to any o of ne kinds of cattle 
weastle market, but besides the shape sof 
r the wages aiae ] 
y 5 i Cial c 
tion 
Tbead daccor i 
Mi dapt nh d situation; 
x : f 
oa ofits will be 
tai . In warm sheliry valleys, ae with ri ch 
t 
bull’s progeny w 
the Royal, Yorkshire, and the 
D . 
this goni ol 
pee. of 
Scotch 
t the three great average cost S jrs for most ‘the ‘fa ul 
the qui be don 
“es M. R. 
Y class of 
Sa Ai 
well 
antity which cau n Sen man in 
A. Cs ee 
oy he 
with h 
+] 
J 5' 
confirming mine, 
J 
a day, 
uaar as n | 
im man, 0 
son 
te pry" me Sa TI 
e 
inj and one boy, 
ma making pay, an 
to nips in folds in winte 
and most rapa not any for Tee 
I would choose for Grass in 
fers or steers “quite filled pa hea = ser 
s than two and a half 
for Turn nips ig winter, the same ona iv 
t from three to four rae old, or 
spring hei 
tl 
roporti ey 
and dency a hand 
acres per day,” w ere dons Pa he woman > 
otherwise large irks possessing all their calf life; 
Ial 
iye to be equal to one man, would give us 1 acre 
man a da er your correspondant | 
T CWO 
TG for Turnips, and do infinitely better for the 
ay. In like mann 
“E. B. H? calenlates the. Pet age at 5s. 6d. a 
onl 
or e S 
Queen Mab, apr sont th: 
very generally eritici sed as erroneous. The final con- 
test for ena ilver cup lay between anean Mab (the 
lonel hp sieti 3 es 
with Dua "e hare But this i iss aed | 
ep 
f the summer pasturage of Raging: however, 
aaah are found | to be to fo] good, an nd n whe en ‘onde 
cres 
e average of work. With Burgess & Key 
wo ald 
If 1, +h, Qh 
yen more, “3 thus pay for pl horses, 
ba Ri the extra stock c additional judge 
called in to jE STI a adjudioation, but a con- 
ebie diversity of opinion exists as to its correct- 
ess, un AoA heifer-calf ao again, nobody can ig ab 
lles should have the firs 
prize, “while at least Fev ieee namely, Colon al 
Tı s, — z Mr. SoA Eek — one of Mr. 
Jolly’s are consi to be bet It is per- 
g= nin — to find really ey! any f 
l o you ought to do 
ho relabont hoomes 
tim ted 
on ote half a ty “allows and soe 
k | the former in marshes low and eae 
type of 
e half ‘it on excels the 
half Galloway on ana and the latter 
g (th e the truest the old breed, the stripe along 
arlier the bette: pie the Wheat. Excep the back mis o a8 mre: The Gal- 
Lie my deep plough o A sire pepe eae at work loways are br hardie own, mat 
p 
all harvest time. ne mine is heavy land a 
early cultivation and sowing, and AL ee s “E.B 
ht, and therefore he may be able to afford. his 
nd om ires 
good ju ges 
perfectly free ‘ohn predilections in 
oad pastes of blood in that breed. Times. 
breed of | horse 
oliday in this, to 
Mr. Coleman reports from 
‘om 
a. acres most satisfactorily last season, tying up, | for 
| raking the gro 
und for the sum on As. 6d. | 
"fo T Turn ps than ‘the a 
sie uel to the "Blorthorn 
half Irish as is y ae ered the “half iliran 
d 
Pe m 
Grass, being o! 
easier fattened. m ther 
Hu c an 2? In this Mr. Cole eman does n icts where they are 
. zme “horses and driver,” which we may therefore reckon | we ge enerally have fow on offer, and these often 
arvensis.—All will thank you | at 1s. an acre mor ah nging upih sooth otal cos tagiin, n to | ane and high in price, so that the attention of 
za this plant in No. 34 of | 5s. 6d. His experienc o confirm raziers has been chiefly turned to the half Irish, And 
pare! . Bia past to all some ow | mate man the ¢ aris man ood aaa —_ va ~ rapidly increasing demand for 
‘pest to farmers, When a i used | and worth) should gather, bind an an acre a day ; | beef in d possibly be satiated if it T 
puzzle m could be the use of Nettles and | for he says, “12 to 14 hands, men, women, and boys, | for the vat m ranges of gross marsh-land, and the fi 
Thistle, the rat, of which used to punish my poma gers | tied up 10 acres a day.” I think, therefore, that | undulating of endless green hills in E 
and the other prick my legs. As I grew older - I became as nearly as Taik: circumstances will allow us| held mn oe ts peoples = nearly nominal rents—thus a 
get ata result, your question in the} ti them tle, and bring them here , at from 
our lan with the beautifal tortoiseshell and Agricultura Gazette of the Ath g d vations 
Pescock butterflies, as well as feeding many a poor every man » should bind and | are positively to pi obese, at hal if the prices we 
8 pigs and cows. At Criccieth this spring I i tl } est of seen i ne to rear them, 
p kind o the sam es, It is marvellous 
with the dreon possib! t of ee and any and l the expense K: horsing a ronking the machine. | to conte rapid increase in the importations 
that by ene Fase of f this pia Fe aite within ‘the t 70 years. | 
turkeys to a certainty iy peter and ‘Docks Dora iy ork the machine round the “held, Mr. Coleman | 1790, I perceive from statistics, the heads of cattle 
it is to Thistles that I mean to draw your atten- thinks that my mode o ing (only ght to manaog and ner were 19,460 ; in 1826 
tion. Some sank, ethos A observed th id. It 000; in 1835, 98,000; and if t fhe ae 
ae a: ‘o pta i se Tephi ane so; but living as I do near the coast, and ex! iain am rags has been upon my ratio as bei e on 
their cows ; and remarking how slee! e l f north- t w fhi amoust 
looked and how well they milked I EPOE he tay | puine base ae ted et eee by ine peribil one importations t magne 
ve ever since found it the best winter and that while it makes eg reaping easier a: tth PE nage 
i > gainst that ain n country. A ongst the many 
spring food for cows and s. This y was | leaning, it makes it impossible with it. Exile. bequeathed i srei there are, a ever, some drawbacks 
visiting a farmer in the same county, when he w: and disadva contend with, the most formid- 
‘sir, Pe eg man ag to me ape beany if Tea able and deleterious A which are the immens Pried 
> it € rehase. ave = A lence o ves, an devastat: idemic 
apam with a good many Thistles in them, and he bay orteltes. plero-presmoni. The latter, however, may in a great 
come to buy them for his horses.” This ce certainly ure be avoided by a strict observan ot the 
NEWCASTLE : Choice of a Breed. Ab the last recep and healthful appearance of the animals yo? 
to examine into it. I found f thi Mr. Hedley boy 3 = bat the gee nk totally Käden ina p 
i 
all mo 
cottagers about r regularly feeding their pea upon | 
cappi Tpit and I 
to their pola 
get saw animals Jook better 
r ta here tl 
ois krg $ — eae irls comi 
at their bac 
hey kept 
home 
fiel hiag a 
a stick. These took to 
cho pped, and ony horses ate them peed 
tle hooked massi osb, ¢ mere 
to the i S pie spines. I have, here or 
er 
ee i from which we make a following ee 
“We now arrive at the third part o ots subject, 
hat kind of Ska m 
cera 
ives a dea rales to go by in 
S, and scarcel, 
to allure 
vi 
the purchase of lean one 
: Har on the 
5 
und o be a app oer er 
any—I oa alge afterwards roti some in an o 
and had them a 
I 
t c 
| sidan “that i is the true index to the pred acumen, 
nd e n bodi ly construction ; and w rill be fo und to| 
rch: 
mowed. The looks of y carter’s face | a 
h tol him t | they 
were inimitable. - 
and 
ead | faig al: and should: dany ae 
kin 
est a more efficient remedy I ahali fet it as an 
be hai 
foreshadow 
Thus an anima al po sed of a broad, full, spacious 
men 
and s 
Tonna to have a thick n e base, wide 
e! a i 
strong eveniy-bent efective horns will be 
horax, | a 
rong nervous iat ae Eee one with sag 
gene contracted skuih and Pr. Bagh bent 
Sa ssi terised eakness, wildness, 
miles off which T In sean to fetch, 
by w 
a small, dull, sakes 
ch and E to 
eet 
eye pe se oi of tou 
in calf. 
calves. nate then, 
and poe per stone, on accoun unt of the lateness, 
mind that 
gia i shag te large, ar vice 
in kark of flesh less to the consu: 
the value of the calves dea 
for veal, there is a clear loss w 
or an. aggregate of 223,3692., an 
d and alive at 25s. bep 
graziers ers of 2l. 
and to the "consumes 
to 360,000 stones es of beef when at 
the graziers, and 21. “toe. a-piece 
nsumers, 
| 
Te, 
