excessive rains ae ae a April—a very a very wet 
and stormy May—a cold, oa AS June 
during the fist fortigt of an uly, but gs 
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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE A rare Aaa GAZ ETTE. 
LOcrozer 20, 1860, 
season, for determinin ofa 
measure so Wig nt Baie oa dai A a ecoming 
sound of the flail may yet be heard, will findtie mode 
more lea more required, for the improyemen 
of outfalls : 
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fatting cattle standing by turn s atthe barn door, di 
put forth, and wh 
"| satisfied retiring to the shed to chew -the cud, s he ea day 
are in consequence already falling. 
nd S The floods that have cover ed „the valieys and silted 
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ene destroyed to a great extent pi England o el 
_ They ave rly 
ad 
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ha 
mre given self-evident proofs of ay pane of 
They ards of the smaller farmers, as yet 
y SERM innovation, often dis play an Pie 
picture of neatness dra 
arange 
which is 
ure: 
By t arious uncon: 
already executed, 
on of what 
ork w 
which hisa but a very s 
will some day tee ae the 
t ven 
ion, an d have compell lays 
ir hold of ee which had hitherto Been, chimed 
fi rst = 
and vito which 
tudied in 
sequence to the well- being of ven 
“Tables of Nutrition” will bes 
tie nd 
of straw OAA s more foo d tha roots, 
if cattle are fed on the lat: ha pH they will meant 
and o on the former store stock will barely, u 
retain their conditio 
so ly by the atmosphere. These waters 
have been got rid of regardless of iy eer, fact = p 
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ops and peua Pot 
destro eo of o 
injured the vitality of all. ri Sanat see Fass 
with large sto g by them will maie krias, ened 
ur growers will be ruined in larg 
ead: 
we hear of purchases both ( 
here and on eos anea of i ill 
and le wil really 
— 
gant it; ier hi ee rast a 
tl an this year available, so as to | 
make the Bulk required for the demand. There 
in - immediate and 
oe effects the weather the fal four 
ly 
| moment by (dwelling upon this ences of the —_— 
that poh arma at certain seasons of t 
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nothing a as to comparative ao anc it passe oe ithe 
elements of nutrition. must not only exist, but t they 
xist in sy D for: 
n ox fed on il-cake alone would shortly die, because 
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augmented the floods in patiwa valleys, and wi 
continue to mite rtd them sti Pct as the e PER 
shichang may b priha only co 
But I do not desire to becin? pe = at this | 
obstacles 
have to contend ‘with, in andérdraintigg tel from the 
u ere no iffic 
rights if jater- 
es present themselves, but where t 
th Ew, 
posing private property, and the weakness o 
PPE RERE blia Aital 
presented in other gee cor uld not be 
The same ap tise at straw indiana we should be 
led to conclude, from the - Py "of an ox requiring so 
| much bulk in his food, that straw mi ight bo Ci mployed 
to iuh Sa; that need. 
v is a cheap article with which to distend the 
stomach, and we ought to use it in just such propor- 
tio m be pro 
in an aanle form. But it does not follow that at oil-cake 
digested, 
as we find, by experience, it 
, as substitute 
will prove when its mt are 
Where exerted a very disastro ous i influe e. 
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veto on sound and creditable works, In eect 
for other ‘and mo re expe 
m} 
irrigai 
try as to its effect 
“Tt influ uence. how- 
o 
5: -Tecept: ion repnise ye e proved. But it may 
Lt = to pane alih as indeed e; Bar AIDES 
ne i 
gator 
has the right to bring water “through the property o of 
his neighbour upon payment of due compensation. dn 
Engle and, where we talk of D.: 
food, and pike of beef produced. Then 
value of the manure. But ro nitrogena a 
othe: r elements are wo orth somethin; as manure, t) 
our superior agriculture, we ca anno vey t 
of drainage to the natural R i “the “and of an 
nter 
attle 
fed, am efore, so Aged as little as possible goes 
e. In | othe er words, the food should 
ar ing an aon wner in 
a p 
can appropriate vie Coa i 
ublic w: er ee sing i „2 | mum F its most pas constituents, 
has already d e p. 898) to sue t 99 Ahoa are few farmas who do not use straw to some 
penne remain at o and for improve an unprofitable unhealthy marsh, effect, their a subst fe ice some portion of the more 
frma e misohiovous consequences of object va me negative voice is sg Ought we not csp articles of ar EEE its most general use, in 
eather, We cannot help its influence | to have some general and facile means of y, is as food for store cattle in pape 
on as tity of = seed a. we can do but littl If 20 Jo. of siai and 1 ewt. of roots ‘ea 
help or s effects one th e ia A Seer: from the _ neighbourhood of cd ta; thri rive as fast a ae g roota fhan there will be 
sing rs zea the on “our columns the other day, and contended for| sa 
in our columns the other day, and contended for oe i 
the seed, and in its a for | | the some joo a gunna measu nodes iie whole gost g2 om past 1a: 9a. PEND RIE 7 
pag of ung en mags mablin ng majorities to a iroum- And 20 lbs. of straw at 1l. oniy AE fo bd 
& ponani janer ilos of the oS measures k f grent local value, He tT “out This is a saving se a a- ent. n i 
us aa abling Act for ie 8 
: owen is ‘the only specific for an exces- | whole , but that at present local Acts ver isa g districts, where roots 
t grein atal 5 and by its influence on the “ k tt m- | often rene nege pa a 3 the objects whieh r — s to Te Tei Bare et o on a abont 2 lbs. of ‘straw 
in which our plants are grown, it is the cst they were naan oa ee ilitate, Thus [AP ax with roots instend of meal, when ‘the 
agree at ome aand for meeting the evils | we have before us a copy of hot (1772) affect- | °™ S owt. per head paral 
of ta wonderful results in both of| wa: s passed for draining g of Yorkshire, whieh | Ca ee wintered on straw and meal only become ae i 
pe pe oe a great stimulant wil p fits a which arep ly an antagonistio s and te ayay though mt probably the most econo- 
ailin s 5 Ae n given by the l e plenty of similar instance whole 
- socal re id to g3 great permanent localities, if they are not separately the amdi ot bens bine straw, diare mea a 
impr > ils on e rela- ibili m, t, cul are gehaters 
tions of water and soil, where these are difficult, A ogee 8 — = tomay pene 4 3 then, T fit an animal 
that our cold unmanagea 
contain more r “the food of plants than 
our loamy sands letting for muc higher 
any of y 
ak It is not =e poverty of the 
measures inconsistent ra at other. 
Large areas of first ged hee land are thus 
entrenched, the o drainage, su ae an a is isolated, 
e Com mmissioners of on ying, “ ‘Oh, 
thro: 
the roots ar 
usually rit ton Tarn may be | given 
with 
causes the starvation of the ee a the want of 
Land d s that k 
sp th 
ey. | to 
h a} an anntesly direction. There were two local Acts to 
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roe ‘You cannot go in A a 3s 
Ore 
estate which should have been ome in 
prevent it, the drains connected with which are 
ufficient for their own districts ; the conse 
quence ae land w Sarita, due west against 
the fall! re our correspondent poi, pa EN n A 
of the 
o 
et 
DT i 
rtant then it is 
Ms Š ould interfero with a 
no artificial 
rocess which 
to the Perinat of 
| should be drained as one estate 
ee | 
van e molt tr the 
Sappig vee mgs 
Sw 
ptos Sirig "Stor Tipp ted in this 
will ldo well, and ~~ a ‘it aie ee fo 
it hopola ly in conseque: age EA 
tion wsi dogtatition of ‘food w 
It was one of the advantages of 
e dail 
the te came he barn into 
w anted. 
irae srs 
I 
lace Aas from damp, for 
the 
-disorder sedi ait abe 
tion bearing on its een of Skien 
ti 
A 
ility of the tenant w life of 
estate to charge it with the of so 
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proof in the “experienc of most 
of our cater during the extraordinary seasons 
through which we have lately passed. 
pee a can nowbe borrowed on aa h pro- 
t 
here must 
unless other 
se gear . per ton. 
as much to aan it b et wer, 
y steam po’ driven: at the same 
nery, covering part of the expense, is 
THE PROPER OFFICE OF meee WO A FARM, 
Tepayment ean be grante 
d by owne: ith limited 
interest i in the land, y, a a 
There are man 
. 
permanent improvements-—draina age among yaio 
—on such te 
>B. N, the well-known engi- 
neer of one , di od service the other 
93 PPR ses p- 
STR. F Foo 
Mop cattle will i a pate: pet of rer if they |e 
n getit. The calf, who knows no stint, nevert 
= ws straw in his pen, and the pampered iin w| 
Baker Street, or Bingl oe Hall, astonishes wondering |% 
citizens by condescending to eat a portion of his bed. 
Taraia this an a an l condition of thi 
i legis- | o will visit those beautiful southern counties 
begs led PBs forded in the ng He! celebrated "by Cobbett in in hig “Rural Rides,” where pio- th 
* This picture belongs to the poetry of 
deck the bottai bende delightolaess we 
h doubtless is o t service, directly to Piet 
plain bo Potato with his cream. 
8, or le sat of porridge ni “not 
But ur author shows plainly, io ed 
worst straw as the mainstay of b 
consider the natural form of straw to be 
fora = ee 
wa} 
n Turnips aero eer ir? 
‘in in wel littered Lair ta 
B ben siete’ 
straw consumed 
is suffi 
a Ai alas 
ates 
