Oh ike Specific Gravity of Swede Turnips. 365 
larger tlian a hen's egg. !May not some of the diseases to which 
the turnip has become liable be traced to this cause ? At the 
same time there are many intelligent seed-growers who spare no 
expense to produce a first-rate article ; and even if the farmer 
be charged by them an extra 3J. or 4fZ. per lb. for his seed, he 
will be amply repaid in the end. 
The season of 18G1 was unusually favourable for the growth of 
the turnip in this county, both as to temperature and rainfall, as 
the following table will show, in which the mean temperature 
of day and night, and the mean rainfall are given : — 
Temperature, l^Ql. Day. Night. 
May 55-38 41-19 
June G4-00 50-02 
July 65-48 52-00 
August 05-29 53-29 
September 59-96 47-30 
October 62-00 48-09 
November 43-00 32-19 
Kainfall. ' Inches. 
May 1-17 
June 2*15 
July 3-60 
August 0-18 
September 1 • 80 
October .. 1-22 
November 2-62 
Overslcne Farm, January 26f/i, 18C2. 
XXVI. — Statistics of Live Stock and Dead Meat for Coiisumjjtion 
in the Metropolis. By Robert Herbert. 
Notwithstanding that the Metropolitan Cattle Market has 
been extensively supplied with beasts during nearly the whole of 
the past six months, and that prices have fluctuated to some 
extent, the beef trade has continued in a healthy state. Our 
prices, however, do not appear to have met the views of the 
breeders of stock on the Continent, as we find that only 6195 
beasts were received from abroad in the period here indicated, 
against 12,422 head in the corresponding period in 1861. The 
fact appeai-s to be that, owing to the enormous drain made in 
the two previous years, both live-stock and dead meat are now 
very dear in Holland, and that, consequently, there is little or no 
profit on shipments to this country. Whilst the foreign importa- 
tions have fallen off, home-supplies have increased consider- 
ably ; indeed, we are justified in saying that fully five-eighths of 
the beasts derived from Norfolk and Scotland since the 1st of 
