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in place of the exception as at present ; for when we see a people 
takini? up the example thus shown them, and unprejudicedly 
adopting it as far as their means will permit, it argues well for 
their a(ivancement, especially when that example is such as will 
lead them to wealth and prosperity. 
Mr. Smallbones is now beginning to breed Hungarian cattle, 
with the view of improving them to the utmost. He has also 
been making great improvement in his flock of sheep by careful 
and judicious selection of his male and female animals ; he is of 
opinion that the best way to get first-rate stock is to improve 
the native breeds by proper selection, treatment, and feeding, in 
which opinion there is much sound judgment and sense. 
X. — On Feeding Cattle on Turnips raised with different Manures. 
By Andrew Templeton. 
In laying before the Royal English Society the results of the 
experiments In the following Tables, I have endeavoured to make 
them as accurate as possible ; and as the feeding of cattle, when 
judiciously performed, is most Important to the feeder as well as 
profitable, it Is a subject well worthy of our fullest consideration. 
Being desirous to test the relative feeding properties of turnips 
grown on different manures, I selected 4 imperial acres, in the 
centre of a 30-acre field, on the home farm of Clandeboye, for the 
experiment. The soil, as will be observed by the analysis, is of 
fair quality for the growth of turnijis, sloping to the east, and 
at an elevation of 220 feet above the level of the sea. The 
preceding crop was oats after flax ; the field having been 
all thorough drained in 1846, and the condition of the land 
perfectly equal ; the oat stubble having been deep ploughed in 
November 1852, and in April and May 1853 the field was prepared 
by harrowing, one ploughing and harrowing, one grubbing and 
harrowing, and rolling. The weather during May was very dry 
and unfavourable for sowing turnips, which prevented the sowing 
during that month. On the 4th June we commenced sowing, 
and had reached the centre of the field by the 7th, when we had a 
change of weather with showers of rain favourable for sowing tur- 
nips, and on the 8th June the 4 lots were sown with Skirving's 
purple-top Swedish turnip-seed, on the following manures : — 
Lot No. 1. — Manured with 24 tons Farmyard Manure. 
Lot No. 2. — Manured with 12 tons Farmyard Manure and 2 J cwt. Peruvian 
Guano. 
Lot No. 3. — Manured with 5 cwt Peruvian Guano. 
Lot No. 4. — Manured with 12 tons Farmyard Manure and 12 bushels Bones. 
Each lot of one imperial acre contained 24 drills, drawn off 
at 28 inches apart. The manures having been all carefully 
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