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Some of the Agricultural Lessons of 1808. 
have been added to the land, will balance any immediate draught 
upon its resources due to departures from established rotations. 
Many fields of old clover will lie over for another year in place 
of the young clovers which have perished. The wheat crop 
which should have been taken there will be taken in the place 
of barley after turnips, and tlie displaced barley will in many 
cases be taken on the barley stubbles where the clover should 
have been. Or peas or winter beans may be taken on the barley 
stubbles, and thus possibly a diminished area of barley may 
follow in 186!). Anyhow we have in deep and thorough tillage, 
and in our ample stores of manufactured and imported ferti- 
lisers, ample means wherewith to ensure good crops, in whatever 
order they may be taken. And there ought now to be nothing 
in our farm agreements to hinder, as Mr. Savidge says, the farmer 
from doing always the best he can. 
Altered Live-Stock Management. 
The statements of correspondents regarding their plans for 
tiding over the winter with their live-stock have yet to be pre- 
sented to the reader. The inquiries addressed to them about the 
influence of the drought, related successively to the soil, the plants, 
and the animals of the farm ; and it is to the third section of 
the subject that I have now to direct attention. 
The following was the question put : — 
Winter Food. — Please to state in detail how yoii shall provide for your live 
stock during the coming winter. Any information arising : out of past expe- 
rience of feeding cattle or sheep in a year of short supiDlies, and any account of 
yonr plans for economizing or supplementing the store of cattle food, and 
generally for making up for a very deficient turnip and mangold crop, will be 
thankfully received. 
To this a number of valuable replies have been sent to 
me. The following history, as good an example as any of 
"information arising out of past experience in a year of short 
supplies," is given by Mr. Cobban, Lord Ducie's agent in 
Gloucestershire : — 
"The year of 18G-i was one of more gloomy prospects as regards the 
wintering of our flocks and herds than the ]n'esent, for then we liad neither 
swedes nor turnips (except a few on the stubbles for s])ring feed), and but 
very few mangolds. We had, however, about 2^ acres of cow cabbages, which 
proved of great value ; we began to use them in November when the cattle 
were brought into the yards. The hearts were cut through a turnip-cutter 
and then mixed with hay chaff which had been scalded with boiling linseed 
tea at the rate of about a gallon per head ; an allowance of barley and pea meal 
Avas then equally spread over the heap ; and the whole was well mixed up 
and let remain two or three hours, after which it was served to the fatting 
cattle at the rate of a bushel basketful to each beast, enough being mixed at 
once to last all day. After the best of the cabbages were consumed we began 
the mangolds, which were pulped and mixed iu the same way. Each beast 
