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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
r February 28,188*. 
■better change of tups for the home flock, and we shall apply the lesson 
by having an extra one or two for each flock another season. As a rule 
we have had about one to every sixty ewes, but we know that in 
some flocks there are two to every hundred, and it is probably a 
good plan. The price of really well-bred tups has fallen so considerably 
that we can very well aSord to have a superabundance rather than not 
enough. 
Foot-rot in a flock always becomes more troublesome during the 
lambing than at other times, from the fact that pregnant ewes cannot 
be dressed for this disease, because of the risk of injury to them. Let 
those flockmasters whose sheep are free from the taint of this infectious 
disease take due care to keep them from contact with a diseased flock, 
for once it is in a flock there is no permanent cure for it, and it tells 
sadly upon the general health of the sheep. We have reason to regard 
it as being equally infectious as scab, which can be cured, but foot-rot 
always returns in an infected flock whenever conditions are favourable 
to its development. Lambs soon catch it, and suffer accordingly, not 
perhaps from any very severe pain in the feet, but they fall off in con¬ 
dition, and show clearly how seriously the complaint tells upon them. 
Farm Seed Catalogues. —We have received copies from Messrs. 
James Carter & Co., 237, High Holborn, and Messrs. E. Webb & Sons, 
once or twice before sowing, and repeatedly afterwards till the seed is 
well covered. Take care subsequently not to let any of the young 
pasture develope seed, and apply annually in February a dressing of the 
chemical manures mentioned on page 142 in our last article on permanent 
pasture. One word of caution as to coarse Hrasses. Kough Cocksfoot 
and Rye Grass may both be so termed, yet both afford heavy crops of 
most nutritious herbage, and are to be valued accordingly. Do not pin 
your faith upon the finer and more delicate Grasses, for they will not 
answer your purpose. 
Crass manure—Field Fencing (TF. R. It .').—You will find the 
formula for Grass manure in our last article on permanent pasture on 
page 142. Your plan of making a field fence of strained wire with old 
railway sleepers for posts is objectionable, because old sleepers soon 
perish, and then down comes the fence. We know no cheaper field 
fencing than that used by the railway companies. We have atdiSrrent 
times used much of this at a cost of 2s. 8d. per length for materials, and 
8|d. per length for labour. Each length consists of an oak post mortised 
with four holes, an oak stay and four larch rails 10 feet long ; the ends 
of the rails slip past each other in the mortise holes, which makes each 
length 9 feet long when the fence is erected. The fence is supplied all 
ready for putting together at the price we quote, and it is put up by 
farm labourers, but we must own that it was only by close personal 
supervision we were able to get through the work at tbe low price 
Wordsley, Stourbridge, of their new catalogues of farm seeds. They are 
copiously illustrated, and worthy of perusal by cultivators of farm 
crops. 
OUR LETTER BOX. 
Britlsb Bee-keepers' Association (^Bae ).—The above is the only 
Association of the nature suggested, and many county associations are 
connected with it. Particulars such as you require can be obtained from 
Mr. J. Huckle, King’s Langley, Herts. 
Chemical manures (D.).—Professor Jamieson’s manure recom¬ 
mendation circular, being prepared solely for the benefit of members of 
the difierent associations, is not offered for sale. You must remember 
that the calculation of the cost per acre of manures is based upon whole¬ 
sale rates for quantities of not less than a ton of each sort of manure, 
and for lesser quantities the price would be necessarily higher. You 
cannot do better than obtain your supply from a reliable source in your 
own neighbourhood. The manure we recommend per acre for Potatoes 
without farmyard manure is 1^ cwt. muriate of potash, 2J cwt. nitrate 
of soda, 4 cwt. steamed bone flour, 2 cwt. ground coprolite, 2 cwt. 
common salt. 
Unprofitable Pasture (^Comttant Reader ').—YTour acre of land 
“ under coarse useless grass,” may be ploughed deeply so as to quite 
bury the old sod, and sown in March with a crop of Oats and Grass 
seed. As you evidently require a strong growth of nutritious herbage 
for horses and cows the following mixture may be used Crested Dogs- 
tail, 4 lbs., Rough Cocksfoot, 8 lbs.. Perennial Rye Grass, 10 lbs.. Tall 
Fescue, 4 lbs., Timothy, 4 lbs.. Foxtail, 4 lbs.. Meadow Fescue, 2 lbs., 
Y^arrow, 1 lb.. White Clover, 1 lb.. Perennial Red Clover, 1 lb.. Cow 
Grass, 1 lb., Alsike Clover, 1 lb., which gives a total of 41 lbs. of seed — 
an ample quantity for an acre of land. By ploughing deeply now .you 
will turn up enough soil to enable } ou to cover the seed without bringing 
the old sods to the surface. Use a light harrow, passing it over the land 
mentioned. This field fencing was figured in the Journal a few years 
ago, but as the number is out of print the engraving is reproduced for 
the guidance of yourself and others who may desire to erect field fencing 
of this nature. 
METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS, 
CAMDEN SQUAUB, LONDON. 
Lat. 51° 32'40''N.; Long. 0° 8'0" W.; Altitude, 111 feet. 
DATE. 
9 A.M. 
IN THE DAT. 
Hygrome- 
PI . 
Shade Tern- 
Radiation 
fl 
1883. 
ter. 
perature. 
Temperature 
oS 
a 
February. 
° S 
In 
On 
Dry. 
Wet. 
5o 
Max. 
Min. 
sun. 
grass 
Inches. 
deg. 
deg. 
deg. 
deg. 
deg. 
deg. 
deg. 
In. 
Sunday. 
12 
29 506 
34.0 
32.8 
w. 
391 
89 2 
80 8 
58 3 
25.8 
Monday. 
13 
29.725 
344 
32.6 
w. 
382 
40.2 
30.0 
72.6 
22.9 
0.fU 
Tuesday .... 
14 
29.573 
34.3 
34.0 
S.W. 
373 
38.8 
31.9 
54.8 
31.4 
0.018 
Wednesday.. 
15 
29.891 
35.1 
33.8 
N. 
36.8 
38.2 
32.2 
58.1 
28 4 
0.039 
Thursday.... 
16 
30.122 
34.4 
32 4 
N. 
36.7 
37.1 
31.6 
57.7 
27.9 
_ 
Friday . 
17 
29 990 
32 0 
29.6 
36 3 
36.0 
806 
47.3 
20 2 
_ 
Saturday .... 
18 
29.928 
830 
33.0 
N.W. 
36.3 
40.3 
31.2 
60.2 
25.7 
0.086 
i9.819 
33.9 
82.6 
• 
37.2 
33.5 
312 
57.6 
27.3 
0.4 4 
REMARKS. 
72th.—Fine and generally bright. 
13th.—Fine till 9 AM, then enough snow to whiten the ground; dull day, and more 
snow in eveniujr anil nieht. 
14th.—Snow early, fine day with occasional ann'^hine. 
15th.—A variable day; frequently cloudy, but with a fair amount of sunshine anl occa¬ 
sional slight snow showers. 
IGth.—Dull, with a little snow in morning; fair afternoon. 
17th.—Cloudy and coU. 
18-b.—Sleet shower from 8 30 to 9.30 A M., then fine, with occasional glimpses of sun and 
snow and again a hake or two of snow. Snow and sleet in evrnlng. 
A dull and snowy week, with uniform and rather low temperature.—Q. J. STHONS. 
