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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
[Ocrozer 20, 1880. 
y es, a filly of this stock sidered, about an average. There were ewise | the subject of blights, and suggest to Parliament 
diving a prize at Warwick. Though del buildings £ are | some, very | fine che ceses. ‘The dis hey of isiplawients the appointment of a committee to inquire n 
antiquated, and useful articles, among them F into the subject. ommission of 
ances, the quality and. character of the pure D American a oan, with Suowden’s patent chaff- agriculturists, puema ge ist practical 
stock is in no wise inferior to the Herefords on the cutter farmers, ya go ers iy iz through rab? and 
Flemish farm. An animal here has taken a prize} At Annual Dinner- Sir J. Pakington said: | different o ve and, comparing the Basis 
in the county whence bp ock was originally brought. | Within the last few days he had travelled through the kinds of memares, soils ae roots, would, he heliey 
Two prizes were also a ded o this stock at the agricultural district lying between the rivers F ae as they ich ker 
Warwick Show of 1859, an a prize at Smithfield. The and Tweed, where he saw most pe ndid farms, ledge a a m to ; ne or fl a better position 
farm is managed on the four- course system pi of Mesa fs large and hedges smal!, whe e he chs as regard the gen wth aeir root crops. They 
hom mesteads because of the fey nine of tre | fou nd, for instance, t 
on the 
that 
reared “for giver ney a ner ‘i of 500 
fha view; where, too, they could hear se 
ae e cro 
ps tion ha 
he parish of Leigh productive M 
Hops, and almost = the nla shown at that exhibi- 
q bee n bro t from thence, Another r parish 
brill. oad of t at ngine chimney. 
there were Geek, and under 
were high, because farming was pro 
as profitable, because 
f Pot bated ft Saa from keper and tid 
35 concluded that there wa n th 
es 
W, 
there” w. ible, beca 3 
tie farmer who farme 
jetperience ee no doubt sl 
Bis rsh feed cattle rather 
ock of _the three 
element i in the producti ion and any ty o of 
practised. — jorge cultivation of tde. wA 
of a commission to consider as sh atid 
ch ange, and c limate 
| none pi to farm without it—ha 
ion 
fea! 
in investin ng it iu thie. ays “What was the result? 
ents wér pa eer as 
7 PES 
mmon thing that tl 
was Ed to 
nd of his in 
in this county, a 
rents there RE roe ag SEN “that he 
| mention t them. He was assure ed by : a frie 
Tthat ey 
be of service At He ki-i ite rsa ernment should take 
and then he 
pies uned. x 3 S! 
Mr. Curtler said: Mr, Hudson, he Hhongby, had pro. 
ene 
under hors steam cultivation, may from the chara 
os of their a good pattern TP ae the ving o on | 
| corn rent equal to two, and in some 
the tract sf lava VANS a direc 
Windsor Great Park and Reading, ott 
ve must confess tier 
e all 
a Worces- 
prt to the 
is much room for improvement, 
Home Co yaaa nden 
Deep Cultivation.—As a speedy means a substan- 
tating the theory of deep culture of the soil for the 
Oaks, 
cases even three, la 
poed tko Gov nment, legislate on the aea tof 
aipa Wiat the a of pi Et t of Parliament 
n, he ould be 
| Bins, or sits cosa üs in the 
| ae gee and their fi 
rict h ni 
T% for l v ther 
gore ie as “are md fruitless as | me 
am any 
its title w be, he a not 
ct of Parlia- 
i 
gh steam aine chim 
T fty tree. ‘The asic saa of this peril rts 
ughts. ery 
Parliament for the purpose; : aithough by wham it was 
nor 85 effect much i improvement in their land before 
making such a complete alteration as he had named, 
and he would Reape them to- study the question 
by way of experiment to b 
obati it would not be well to carry out the improve- 
know. Still it might be very easy for anyone to do it; 
call in ae Hudson’s assistance, and the ec would 
be don 
worth of manual labour, on ooh nd every veies gi one E 
ridge in all my fields of corn I sow for crop 1861, msi ir T. E. Wi lon MoD, ae i Lo vd ‘No rthwic& said that inquiries had been 
either with the fork, in addition to other | p p> nd Si Join Pakingior l TS uae righ line | PY Professor Lindley on the subject of blight, an li 
ordinary preparati nd sowing of the said fields. la ien mart 1 R uid si Ris ae pies ti Sof Nic folk 5 a E by other amed, aa who all agreed that no c 
This to be done just previous to ime, wh S folk. an Thet = 1 ae v tall hin O= O a ixed the Potato disease was known. ‘The only principle on 
all will be sown and treated in other respects alike, and HE 1 There nd. acre UCIS intermixe which to ac a o admit air etmon Bn? iff 
so on till the corn is cut. More I int oath ee eg 
M 
myself, or assist, superintend, and watch the assistant 
used. _ Altho ough they had such implements to assist 
labourer whom I may employ to per rform it, in ane 
-about an equal — 
pee 
with almost sure and 
| England Se ie advance in an equal r 
Mr. L akin, 
| that guided them. The labourers required 1 more intelli- 
ence and instruction than formerly, and then no 
doubt they would see the agriculture of the county and 
atio. 
certain hopes of success, The ane is now (Oct. 1st) 
, after another parenthesis of three — the See ere Pra! » then read the committee’s | 
rain and absence of sun. bUan piela ibaa n has | 7¢POrt, 
returned since Oct. 1.) our | late the cpt a ae odin i e Bad aaa] 
aaltoa that the air a conte a usually | in the show-yard were much more numerous than on an 
cold, d sores eee ihamidity; a aë a rd corn | former oceasion, many of them of remarkably good quality, ns 
remaining in Sat ds m have gt uted, Had | it was remarked that the total mei pas piian po agit ae 
the land bear hot, d the th t exhibition in 1852 95, whereas in were 155, 
e! an a er warm as last year | of the increase 54 were in cattle al oe oO he competition os 
ane some others, ‘with ont a super ance of rain | corn was sual, and some of the samples of re- 
we then po ge the co r PrE p might 
ore 
t ha 
poet ae = s than they really are, but 
thanks o God it | is ich le poaten some fears 
— ieee the cw of corn is not forwarde 
ate aan than. nps and the best selected seed is 
uch misplan ‘The 
cold to 
tf we 
larger tha 
arkably pat quality considering the ungenial weather the 
pn have paa to contend with, The exhibition of pigs was 
lieved to be the b that has ever been held in 
od i m, were more 
numerous, and equal in qua y former year, > 
beg to call stanton to: the Kob Rabie ox etied to-day 
root worthy of e As regards the exhit 
of frui t, the Sones 
good in quality 
ports its cha- 
ay. The 
here 
iggers ; snd con- 
ate ure = me: paro Si work was con- 
The prizes in | 
ective classes haviog ed: tn the show-yard, 
Apin seperi k the: ical “papers the committee feel 
ry to en rate thes 
Kotni to piant them on a dry so 
acal m: 
ammon: nures He had followed “that aie 
many years eigliours, ‘and without dise. 
Mr. Curtler said he knew that Profesor Dinale a 
Professor Playfair 
pe a impas sible le to find. out a remedy for blights, and ‘a 
par es e trust to Providence ; but inas- 
wach Me. n had found out a specific they did 
cae want a ey would be obliged to Mr, 
Hudson hae ri them i the results of his experience, and 
the whole t ip a be done. Much abridged from 
the Worcest 
AR eviews. 
ientific Farming m 
de Bary, or ain Science of A 
sayin reduced to Practi ice, 
Igri- 
Thomas C. Fetter 
Rou 
Agricu meen and Analytical Chanist 
Mr. Fletcher has compiled a pact nee ok whe the 
little origins nal matter bs at t contain: to be 
trustworthy and instru The voli = a sh ree 
um 
parts—on the Soil abi ‘te. Vrartilisera and on Ca 
is given of the eae al s in 
tained in one ton of s veral manures, and among 
esn! e of soda 
Mr. Hudson th vee is gentlemen who had ha 
the spirit and aie age to bcd Ba ome and high | 
iums to induce the far f Worcestershire to 
Potatoes are expected by this a $ be 
should now be taken up and stored in 
to the which, under God’s 
Providence he attributed ‘their “having stich iors 
crops as compare ed with other cow It w a great 
| of soda, and 364 Ibs. of haere pago 125 
jis a synopsis of our breeds o: Poattle, i in vt we see the 
«Dut tch! or Short-horned” breed d as ha 
hide thin, ri ated little hair ; elo 
uall Hee nye nstitutions,”— 
hardl 
a 
b 
s 
a cool, and ventilated ine apariment, ee course Sasha 
from frosts w y about one-fourth 
are expected pres see hoit Todas A. Hardy, 
he: arali 
Sees te gate r 
Of Herefor ent on 
des several fat 
39} h 
seni con- 
of Leicesters, 
cntinaly they should be 
finest samples of corn that he ad ever seen. es there 
w: d si dark side of ae coat 
r there were fine co: 
d particu ga rly 
of s 3 
She expect 
chemist should 
our domesticated partia na oan he should not under 
tuke to instruct farmers on such subjects. Andas to th 
composition of manures, on which he may speak oh 
authority, greater care against blunders should ha 
been ex xhibited. We extract in ill lustration n of th 
REL AN 
P 
: hi } 
ch they m ust all de deplore 
ey fei eS wor! aliki ne classes. But ‘whilst supposing 
tht they would has — obliged to give up growing 
, | Potatoes, sudde nly he was surprised = an announce- 
nO Adult teratio oe 7 ae ie Ap vinnie urer of 
an excellent a ial m he other 
day, to the anther ‘that i = his piety wis am worth 
for he found t ts e manures 
cottish papers in one of the 
- | most beautiful parts of Scotland a farmer had sold his 
per acre, prod 
entire crop | of Potatoes at 57} O! "ore i 
a sum of about 4 That far 
bit es. Of b 
wasa capital soppy. The corn included some secured 
after the late oom but which w: was nevertheless 
the 
e Swedes 
t pe rhaps ever 
this society. aon lve 
might afford to give a Rit! high rent for his land— ata 
ts of Scotland so pepe 
th of the soil 
hat fe could” compared Ho had not 
himself been into Scotland, nor had he seen that crop 
of Potatoes, but he had seen one be lon nging to a farmer 
duced by certain other peer 
analysis to be ` 
r | readily bought by the 
is, I 
m he had 
_— = objected, as as he 
off 
sight Ps nine : bul t ‘the 
per 
soil 
elie 
shown ~ M’Cann, an 
first prize, weighed no less than ta Ibs 
y op ne 
ee er y th 
after an agent offe: 
` the twelve best red Mangel Wurzels also exhibited by 
Mr. M‘Cann, and the twelve best nS 
lbs, 
rekat s as rich and beautiful, and roots as manh and 
productive as could be found, and they were, he believ ed, 
red hi aon 
ton. He Eanes boagit ol oF kim ue 7 tons 
a sample fie the bulk, analysed it, aa 
per ceni 
Ibs. ; 
es shown nby d =~ ae Randell 1 
Of Hops were — and of better 
ty | land. 
He was glad to see so many of their repre- 
sentatives in the House of Commons present, and na 
tter quali 
ering the season; th 
wool also was first-rate; ead ee E iat Gidea am 
felt it his duty to ask them seriously to think o 
contain among other ee a 
sum, worth in that market 10s. 6d. per ton.” T 
(2) Advertised Cattle Foods. — “I eie aa 
| favoured by a friend with the following, as as the 
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