MISCELLANEA. 
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Cut- Straw Litter. 
At a fecent weekly council of the Royal Agricultural So- 
ciety of England, Mr. W. R. Browne laid before the council 
the report of Mr. Bennett, M.P., and himself on their personal 
inspection of the plan pursued by Mr. W. Browne on his farm 
at Winterbourne-Stoke, in reference to the cutting of straw and 
the employment of it as litter for his stock, — agreeably with the 
request of the council at .a former meeting, when Lord Portman 
called their attention to the subject. It appeared from this report 
that Mr. Browne had about fifty head of young cattle in stalls, their 
food, whether green or dry, being cut for them; and that they were 
all littered daily with cut straw, which effectually absorbs all 
moisture. The stalls are cleared out every second week, and the 
manure thus obtained is fit for immediate use. The cattle were 
found clean and doing well. The straw is cut into pieces of from 
one to two inches in length, by means of a steam-engine (employed 
for the general use of the establishment), at an expense of one 
shilling for each four hundred bushels. The manure, from its short 
texture, does not interfere with the working of the implements 
employed on the land; and in the spring may be employed as a top- 
dressing for wheat, without obstructing the operation of the hoe. 
It may be applied to turnips with great advantage, after they have 
been thinned out : it may then be mixed with the soil by the hoe ; 
and in dry seasons, on dry soils, -such application of cut straw manure 
will, they think, be attended with great advantages. Coarse salt 
is sprinkled occasionally on the manure-heaps, for the purpose of 
preventing their becoming over-heated. 
The Wolves of Tyrone. 
In the mountainous parts of the county Tyrone the inhabitants 
suffered much from the wolves, and gave from the public fund as 
much for the head of one of these animals as they would now give 
for the capture of a notorious robber on the highway. There lived 
in those days an adventurer, who, alone and unassisted, made it 
his occupation to destroy these ravagers. The time for attacking 
them was in the night, and midnight was the best time for doing 
so, as that was tTieir wonted time for leaving their lair in search of 
food, when the country was at rest and all was still ; then, issuing 
forth, they fell on their defenceless prey, and the carnage com- 
menced. There was a species of dog for the purpose of hunting 
them, called the wolf-dog; the animal resembled a rough, stout. 
