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FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
•wlifiti animals were kept cold, than when they were 
Warm. This was clearly explained by reference to 
the voracious appetites of the Arctic savages for train 
oil, tallow candles, and animal food, compared with 
that of the Hindoo, living chiefly on rice and vegetable 
food. 
“ The practical deductions which he drew from 
these facts, were the necessity of keeping animals 
Warm, and perfectly quiet while in a state of feeding. 
The effect of exercise being to increase the circulation 
and quicken the respiration, and the consequent con¬ 
sumption of a greater quantity of food.” 
That animals as a general rule for a certain time, 
will fat faster without exercise than with it, we grant; 
but the meat is not near as lean and palatable; the 
animal also, as We have before stated, is always more 
or less feverish, and in fatting our own stock we have 
ever allowed them a moderate degree of exercise. 
This we contend is necessary to the production of 
good and healthy meat, and such as is most profitable 
for the consumption of man. It is a point that theor¬ 
ists in writing and lecturing almost invaiiably over¬ 
look, and the consequence is, that although they may 
benefit the producers of meat, they will do the consu¬ 
mers a great injury. Who would not choose at his 
table between lean, tender muscle, and meat more like 
untried lard, beef and mutton tallow, than anything else 
to which we can compare it. From the Reports of the 
Royal Agricultural Society councils, held in March, 
we gather some items. 
Recipe for the Cure of Red Water in Sheep. —Take 
epsom salts, 6 ounces; nitre, in powder, 4 ounces ; 
boiling water 3 pints, poured upon the salts and nitre. 
When milk-warm, add spirits of turpentine, 4 ounces"; 
bole armenian, in powder, half an ounce. Mix and 
shake the whole well together when given. The dose 
is from three to four table-spoonfuls, and the sheep 
must be bled before administering the medicine. 
Agricultural Tour in Spain. —Dr. Daubeny was to 
set out in a few days, on his tour of inquiry through 
Estramadura, and other districts in Spain, for the pur¬ 
pose of examining the phosphorite mineral, containing 
so large a proportion of the earth of bones, and making 
other agricultural observations. 
Consulting Chemist of the Royal Agricultural Socie¬ 
ty. —Dr. Playfair is elected to this highly honorable 
and responsible office. 
Alsike Clover , or Trifolium Hybridum. —This is a 
new kind of clover recently come into cultivation in a 
few instances. It is represented as throwing out an 
uncommon number of stems from the same root, as 
many as thirty in some instances, resembling those of 
the common red clover. The blossoms are of a pink 
hue, and it is thought to be a hybrid, between the 
white and common red clover. Others state that this 
clover is a native of Sweden, where it has long been 
cultivated, and that it has been known in Scotland 
since 1836. It yields well on good soils, and the pecu¬ 
liar merit claimed for it is, that it withstands frost bet¬ 
ter than any other variety. It is a perennial, sprouts 
rapidly after cutting, has a horizontal growth, and 
makes an excellent sheep pasture. 
Bokhara Clover. —Specimens of this were exhibited 
nearly thirteen feet in length. It is a coarse weed, 
and notwithstanding the attempts to get it into culti¬ 
vation among the farmers, it is generally condemned 
as worthless. See its identity with the sweet clover 
proved by Mr. Hepburn, page 149 Vol. I. of American 
Agriculturist. 
Experiments with Guano.— Mr. Gibbs has furnished 
a valuable table of experiments with this manure in 
cultivating turneps. We have also received a tract 
of 36 pages, entitled “ Guano, its Analysis and Effects 
Illustrated by the Latest Experiments,” which will be 
at the service of such of our friends as wish to call and 
consult it. This tract comes as a sort of appendix at¬ 
tached to the London Farmers’ Magazine. 
To destroy Caterpillars on the Gooseberry-bush. —Make 
a strong decoction of fox-glove, or strong alum-water, 
and sprinkle on the leaves when they are dry. An¬ 
other method recommended of guarding cabbages from 
the above, is to sow the borders of the field with 
hemp. 
Will any of our friends at the west inform us wheth¬ 
er the hemp crop is a preventive against the ravages 
of the army-worm, and will they make some experi¬ 
ments upon the subject ? 
To Kill White Worms am,oust Cabbages.—Count de 
Gourcey, in his Agricultural Tour in England, states 
that Mr. Mure strewed a bed of cabbages with nitrate 
of soda after a rain, and the ravages of these insects 
immediately ceased. 
The London Farmers’ Magazine for April, we 
find much more spirited than that for March, and the 
editor continues in it the translation of Count de 
Gourcey’s Tour as above. It is an interesting part of 
it; but we are sorry to see such statements as he 
makes of cows giving 38 to 45 quarts of milk per day, 
for months in succession. Mr. Fandley, of Maybole, 
must have been gammoning the Count, or the Scotch 
quart is of a very different dimension from the English 
beer quart, which is the standard in England and this 
country for milk measure. 
Asparagus. —In the Gardeners’ Chronicle we see it 
stated, that asparagus is grown in Germany of great 
size, white and very tender, and to produce it, the fol¬ 
lowing mode of treatment was adopted : As soon as 
the young shoot was perceived issuing from the ground, 
a piece of hollow reed, cane or elder, about eight inch¬ 
es long, and of sufficient bore, was stuck down into 
the clay above the shoot, for the latter to grow into. 
The longer and wider the joints of the tube, the great¬ 
er was the success. The asparagus, when it had fill¬ 
ed the tube, was cut, and proved excellent and of an 
enormous size. A number of common flower-pots 
placed over asparagus beds, produced shoots of great 
size, perfectly white and particularly tender. In some 
instances, where the pot was not sufficiently high for 
the growth of the shoot, when it met the bottom of 
the pot, it coiled itself round, but still continued close 
headed, and did not branch out, or become hard. Tin 
tubes answer the same purpose, and joints of the bam¬ 
boo are perhaps best of all. The tenderness of the 
plant arises from the exclusion of light, by placing 
over it an opaque hollow tube. 
Falstaff Raspben'y, is highly spoken of, as a very su¬ 
perior kind. 
White Carrots. —The cultivation of this root is at¬ 
tracting considerable attention among farmers in Eng¬ 
land at present, as well as in this country. It is sta¬ 
ted in some instances to yield 30 tons to the acre. 
Lord Ducie regularly obtains an average of 24 tons to 
the acre; and Mr. Harris estimates the tops to be 
equal to a second crop of clover. It has been common 
in Flanders and Germany for two centuries. 
Early Vetches. —A kind of vetches is now grown at 
Isley, that were so early last year, as to be three feet 
high in the beginning of May. 
The British Farmers’ Magazine for April, is 
replete with excellent articles; and among others, it 
gives an abstract of several pages of Mr. Ruffin’s Es¬ 
say on Calcareous Manures. It also quotes three ar¬ 
ticles of some extent from the American Agricultu¬ 
rist. 
