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assurance that you have effectually performed your part in every detail. You 
will not see any more Johnson grass on your land.’”’ The following is the 
method of cutting recommended :—Tiake a common, old-fashioned slide about 
3 feet wide, anda blade of good steel to fit ina slot on the inside of each 
runner, so that it will easily be taken out and replaced after sharpening, which 
will have to be done frequently. This must be placed in such a manner as to 
run 13 or 2 inches below the surface. A seat may be arranged for the driver, 
whose weight would be sufficient to hold the blade to the proper depth. 
THOUSAND-HEAD CABBAGE V. SWEDES. 
A wrirer in the Agricultural Gazette (London) says:—‘‘ A few days ago 
I was over the farm of a friend who farms extensively, as he.has recently 
added another 1,000-acre farm to a previous occupation of the same extent, 
making upwards of 2,000 aeres in his holding, and what impressed me was the 
quantity of thousand-head cabbage on the farms. All the sheep, comprising 
about 1,500 breeding ewes and 400 tegs, were feeding more or less on this 
crop, and doing well on it On my remarking on this fact, he said, ‘I have 
given up growing swedeg, as it is a most expensive and uncertain crop to grow; 
“moreover, the difficulty of obtaining hoers when required in haying and 
harvest is very great. I therefore now grow thousand-head cabbage in place 
of them. 1 drill them in May; when they get high enough I run the harrows 
across the rows and skim them about twice, and that is all the labour required.’ 
Now contrast this with the swede crop, the uncertainty of getting plant, and 
all the labour of getting them set out and just at the right time. Moreover, 
the swede crop is very liable to total destruction from a hard frost, whereas 
the thousand-head cares nothing for frost; and T knew a neighbour two 
winters ago, when the severe frost killed everything else, sell three acres of 
this crop for £50 per acre for greens. I therefore think sheep-farmers in 
many cases would do well to reduce their swedes and replace with thousand- 
heads, which come in in this country (Great Britain) from about November up 
till end of March.” 
; LIVE STOCK AND DEAD MEAT TRADES. 
THe Live Stock Journal of 21st May gives the following quotations for fat 
stock and dead meat in the home markets :— 
Far Sroox. 
Trade for fat cattle opened steadily on the 17th instant at the rates of 
the preceding week, but the demand became slower, prices having a down- 
ward tendency. The top price was 7d. per lb. of estimated carcass weight, 
sinking the offal. The highest live-weight quotation was 43d. per lb. on the 
hoof. At the Foreign Cattle Market, at Deptford, 1,520 beasts from the — 
United States and 804 from South America were offered. The best States 
beasts made up to 6d. per lb. of estimated carcass weight, and best Argentines 
53d. per lb. 
The imports at Liverpool during the week comprised 751 from Baltimore, 
2,352 from Boston, 2,104 from Buenos Ayres, 745 from New York, 1,175 from 
Portland (M.), and 249 from New Orleans. 
The number of sheep and lambs offered at the Metropolitan Cattle Market, 
Islington, was 11,280. The top quotation was 83d. per Ib. for sheep, and 
ds. Od. per Ib. for lambs. 
The arrivals at Liverpool during the week were 1,559 from Baltimore, 
2,047 from Boston, 6,431 from Buenos Ayres, and 1,361 from New York. 
Drap Meat, - 
The markets have been largely supplied, and trade has been slow for all 
-except the choicest description, owing to the high temperature. 
The quotations were :—Beet, 1s. 8d. to 4s. ; ditto Scotch, short sides, 4s. to 
4s, 2d.; ditto American, 2s. 2d. to 8s. 8d.; mutton, 2s. to 4s. 8d.; ditto New 
Zealand, 2s, 2d. to 2s. 6d.; lamb, 5s. to 5s. 8d.; ditto New Zealand, 3s. 2d. to 
8s. 6d. 
