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delivered at King's Cross station ; cost of carriage 4s. per ton. 
The price would, in consequence of the partial failure of the 
turnip-crop, have been higher but for the large supply of potatoes. 
The only stock required to be kept is a sufficient number of 
cows to tread down the barley and oat-straw. The produce in 
milk is sent by rail to London. 
On calculation, it was found that the first idea of establishing a 
dairy on a more extended scale, and sending the milk to London, 
would prove less profitable than the system just detailed.* 
The usual price paid in London for dung is 2^d. per horse per 
week at the stable, if within a mile of the station — equal to about 
3s. Gd. per ton on the rail. The buyer carts the dung ; the rail- 
way charge brings the cost to about 65. Gd. per ton delivered 
to the station, at a distance of 25 miles from London. 2d. per 
ton is deducted for the carriage of quantities of 500 tons in a 
year, and ?nl. per ton for 1000 tons. The manure from omnibus- 
stables is frequently spread at once on the land ; that from livery- 
stables, where more litter is used, must either be carted on 
heaps or spread in the yard. 
There are several dairies in the neighbourhood of Hatfield, 
where many cows are kept for the purpose of supplying the 
London market with milk, which is conveyed in tin cans by 
railway night and morning. The buyers are principally wholesale 
dealers ; but smaller quantities are bought by retailers. The 
price varies from Is. 3d. to Is. 5d. per barn-gallon of 17 pints, 
the buyer paying carriage. The cost from Hatfield to London 
(17f miles) i^ (_></. per can, containing 9 gallons or less imperial 
measure. 
Mr. Laicess Farm at Rotliamsted. 
The readers of the elaborate papers in which the results of the 
Rotliamsted experiments are recorded can have no adequate con- 
ception of the exact and laborious system by which those results 
are obtained. 
The experimental farm and laboratories are conducted on a 
scale that gives them rather more the character of a public insti- 
tution than that of a private undertaking. About 50 acres of 
arable land and 6 acres of pasture are devoted entirely to the 
purpose of successive experiments on various crops. The results 
of these investigations find a sufficient record in the series of 
able and exhaustive papers published in this Journal. We will, 
therefore, 
* Mr. Eansome contracts for the manure made by 72 omnibus-horsts in one 
establishment, where the daily provender is as follows: — 3 qrs. of oats; 4} bushels 
of beans; 13 trusses of clover-hay ; { load, or 9 trusses of straw for litter (36 lbs. 
per truss). 
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