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question by oun ae sowing of diseased Oats, and | 
the matter more worthy. the attention of 
THE GARDENE 
RS 
feet is the result and outward manifestation of the | 
ilst- in foot rot the fever 
e pain an 
he cure consists 
in removing sufficient horn to allow any confined 
T have 
aterm do er and to apply « a styptic or sapaia i 
d o 
CHRONICLE AND MALS GAZETTE. 
{ Novemser 24, 1860 
t the loss in n this matter Wonld be alight in com- 
parison n to the gain in other 
is employed in agricul I shal! deal with 
| the kat principally i in an ae easel point of view, 
= 
5 
I 
© 
p> 
o 
Fr 
late the vascular parts to secrete health 
eon santan is AR y examina 
tion, to generai imitation, as hundreds of import- | m 
ant facts slip daily through our hands for 
of competent authorities to record them, M. J-B 
We have already referred to one disease pre- 
valent among sheep 
<a 
consist sage the presence - of | 
hepat tic 
mye 
+h 
al 
in wet seasons, and Forel 
numbe r of medicines have 
with Kena 
ese are useful if applied. = discretion accord- 
ing to the severity o ey ase, Another useful | o 
ber ne as well a ae eventative, is SOM tar, 
ticularly if a little iA is left in or added 
frequently mistaken for 
a is a mee ps of the liver, and is some eties nee 
san ‘substan 
called 
Grasses ; the other 
it, | to i. A change to a dry pasture or Piet is 
necessary, and some powdered plaster of Paris 
the tar will assist its drying effect. 
ARD’S STEAM PLOUGH. 
is a disease of the 1 Se es hthi: ( 
sumption in fact). The Tangs are studded with 
tubercles, and an the latter stages these run 
ther, vomice, ahd ee abscesses. 
BE 
I maD an opportunity last week of ipa the 
working of Mr, Béard’s steam ploughing aan in 
its every-day dress, on that gentleman’s farm at Stowe 
which | affor rded_me great satisfaction ; and I thi nk ji 
iy l! ae f allen, and Seles 
én drains, and from the undrained clay soils o 
% ib 
© | OF course the best way to 
na. ae ‘soil ih a 
nce, for 
as possible itd ‘the 
| rivers, and if economically e the and mud 
thrown out in doing this should be formed into an 
| embankment on eac 
pr ‘the nore of the r o carry more 
water enon if its bed was goa the Seige of the 
banks. A river in such a e, with no mills, weirs, 
a other impediments to = its course, and with 
an area sufficient to carr, the highest floods without 
yes 
pone drainage, but at the total mein of three of 
con other interests Malone! ing to the water; viz, 
ing the meadow Tad. the mill r, and the 
aviga iois i and I have no hesitation that such an 
alteration would be more loss to the communit 
letting things remain in their prese: te, ` 
2d. After rainag ge; next in importance I consider 
and for 
e need scarcely ODEVE that bot 
orhtitute unsoundness, if it can ‘be proved 4 that 
hey have existed at the time or Th 
drawing their attention to it, and to the facilities it 
ulty of proving i is meet mo praa Bine ia 
ata as the presenc are afforded, a 
pp 
cases where the use of an ordin 
the meadow 
tand tor the produc- 
tion of Grass and hay, consequently aon food for 
in those 
engine can readily be ovens. or where. she more 
o r, Fov pp ves- too ostly in 
oil, | man. t pare sE nothing to show the necessity y of 
rl s acknowledged o Gh, all hid nds'to be 
beneficial : itd o oat think there is that ee 
| attached to eta of meadow land in its.v. 
= manifestation of the disease. Althoug 
ttacking two different sires) can ne saihe and 
the other the lungs, ther 
co: 
t 
(d 
d of 
this difficulty i is the greater “from the lapse of tims 
tl 
a 
of ery ut 
gh saeni in construction, and can be attached with 
7 oO abe h 
simple description excellent and 
the greatest Ream to any ordinar rse 
e price complete with wir a 
between the morbid iaoiae of tl the pagpa orgii fT 
= 
es liver $ studded w ith hard knott; 
anchors, “moveable posters. with pulleys - for sapportin 
gaea, òr ageya, AAP is the ter rta giyen to 
ceive their 
well `a hada ailà these indeed ‘are often | 
sand. In addition to ~ the liver 
often materially diminishes in size, becomes 
otherwise sare affoted pon isas nised. paag 
organs are affecte t the same time, Which i is 
to ke ey on to engine shaft, i is “1102. 
The engine. we 
was working -the plong gh was 
one of Rickett’s 
nay evi 
cylinders, and cos 2502; .; 50 that a complete. set mie 
apparatus can be opined for ba is 8 where: the 
engine has also to be p rchased. of a 
but T a tory Yini e quanti tity of € the land come is 
flooded, ‘perhaps the largest , half, „that receives very 
ngage and tw bi tats dy Oh 
ease $ skaar the on is that: of the sp 
‘the writer's, 
Karea his 
dif- 
r 
ust enterin ng a ee Mises “tn, 
reeding ewes in the: autum 
ferent sources, | 
, one at each | 
the mes! and one: ‘with the 
nto the rô Sey 
ithout interruption, and v e 
ki giving a heavy 
to a piece of tha ff ff waxy clay Which abounds in 
Bucks, and aithoagh. jhe fields had a sharpo: ascent. 
The rate of - ‘motion bot I fou 
an hour, and the k done equ 
3h acres “per day. On "lighter liha” ‘with a thee 
fanow opna 5 acres per day is the ordinary amount 
of w 
end of the field. with itis impossible to 
e work proce mate gular the , with no sta 
greatest celerity, ie A ES lowes mid; now much of the land that is 
a the fl 
injured; and in many cases s under present eireumstances 
amend it. d ood meadow 
trend H 
ie 
ar current over 
winter furrow | pokes ina flood does not get a current to run overit; 
water oe 
hie zone An aa those po 
ph En 
®t Bde gol rora i 
tagnai arly so, until 
m, consequently thel Hha is starved 
instead of sig bencfite 
sigs ric for 
mol or réceives the drainage “of lai mB a 
Ase 
I do, not of course, for a moment attempt | to depre 
ch. nothing ip the shape. of moving 
can be more 
es. 
ds of the disease 
eroditary in the well bred 
encase greatly assisted 
pent a Goat nk s Tety Grass fi 
z April, and ing a 
Water or drowñe a ray is the t 
by that are Steet 
n floods. 
afterwa: rds "henry ar òf has, 
excellence peculiarly its own, 
tahil 
paxtirient. ps Fo wey the. ‘sheep, which we 
e ĉase in the human subject. 
instances as the 
‘the lee a such 
above, beca: er is gene- 
rally in a tn as'to the sorte fe of the disease 
bg wke ete it papens the best 
wo push on wes for thein | 
bataher by eis a wt cake, & &e., notWithstanding |! 
8 
Foot rot mehr ona which of late = as 
been less frequent tha son the but h a aati 
lace ; the thin horn aay 
and exposes the soft ee 
often f bears a 
of the | hen 
any implem 
it Salen derek 
the 
| ra 
EIN a Pover; Ath, T T 
P | eeaehe ee gehen 
; a ries no 
it can be worked by a farm labourers, and set 
to drag ploughs, cultivators, harrows, drills, or irideed 
These are watered from The clear. water streams, and 
those flowing from a calcareous soil are the best, as 
proved by the water rendowed in Berkshire and Wilt- 
shire from the chalk springs, and ‘those in Gloncester- 
shire from the oolitic ALTE but from the continual 
atever, a quality which was tur ied o 
secottht h st Serge Se in ‘sow eg Beans se land pe 
aie to crop in tha 
had had w 
on paper 
f horses 
eral a in go surface of the field. John: Girdwood, 49, 
the | 1860, 
Pall Mall, November 
= ES 
oe ey te 
tees parts of riven 
London, and its 
more partially polete bein I. think the value of thet 
several pee pe Wee order :— 
me. d Meadows ; 
a rs, and | to 
es above 
1st, Draina 
e prese 
irg tation 
butarjes j hidhi my Pp rethnths will | 8 
ir | tim. 
r 
ed), | ¥ 
for 3 anna E Sealing woul not Tage uate 
wat Shi 
é drai f the 
mei as whit? 
siderable injury is done to t 
joining, Brea as much in bu instances 
ey ed from floods. 
hese flooded and 
Now Aias 
jched themse! sess by 
is carried off and consumed, to rach vt side Fa 
iures nearly double the 
ity is watered. 
3d. The mill power EW Bik 
interest td ih Mae ahd its: 
wage} 2 
bea y tor aie Se ok, p 
3 
but I do no = a iia Nc ibaa a rule 
aildis when it did, I 
doubt we 5 shodld mee 8éen ‘our rivers ra ri 
different titat ‘whist the yare in à i 
4th. Karak n A navigatión ee 
a aaa sts vinta 
o coun 
|s0 T willnot make any observations respecting it’ 
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