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WAIt-SniFS MADE USEFUL I>' PEACE. If her...
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On The Cultivation Of Flax * Viii. We Ar...
the food consists of seven-eighths straw , one-eighth hay , with turnip-tops or wurzel leaves , cut into chaff , with a similar addition of linseed compound . The compound is thus made : —Fill the furnace with water to within six inches of the surface , and , as soon as it boils , after damping the fire , strew in by band one-fifth of linseed meal to four-fifths of water , and stir it thoroughly till well mixed . To do this properly , two persons must be engaged—one to strew tbe meal , and the other to stir at the same time . After simmering gently for five or six minutes , a strong jelly will be formed ; then put into the large tub , or on tbe barn
floor , about three bushels of tbe cnaff , and add enough mucilage to wet it ; mix , and ram well down ; then add more chaff , mixing and ramming as you proceed . Throw a sack or two over the mixture , and in about two hours it is ready for the cattle . If it is wished to push the cattle or sheep , barley or pease meal may be added , with Swede turnips , carrots , & c , cut small . With respect to tbe feeding hours , it is Mr . Warnes ' practice in summer time to give each beast half-a-bushel of the compound at five a . m . and three p . m ., feeding the remainder of tbe day with the chaff peculiar to the season . In winter be also commences at five a . m . by
giving each beast half a peck of tbe compound ; and continues these small feeds until they are nearly satisfied . At seven and nine a . m . tbey receive half-a-bushel of cut Swedes each ; at eleven another small feed of compound is administered ; at one and three p . m . more Swedes are thrown in , but very little at a time ; and at six the animals are treated to a good feed of tbe compound , and then left for tbe night . Water should be given sparingly . The best plan is , probably , to keep a vessel of clean water constantly before them , and it will be found tbat vory little will be used . A piece of rock salt should also be placed in each manger .
We believe that Mr . Warnes litters bis cattle entirely with straw and flax chaff , so tbat tbe manure is always fit to go to the field without much further preparation . The animals trafnple down the chaff into a hard mass , and it is never removed until they are fat and sold off . No ill effects on the health of the cattle appear to follow this plan , which seems to us to be quite perfect , except that wc should employ the llax chaff unsteeped for some better purpose than litter . Tbis , as Mr . Warnes is a flux sleeper , he cannot do . But be will , we predict , learn to do so in due time .
Tbe profits to be derived from tins system , or a parallel one , of feeding , appear almost fabulous , as will be understood by an example from , of all places in the world , the comity of Cornwall . A farmer , attending the annual meeting of the Cornwall Agricultural Association , in December , 1817 , stated tbat , in 181 (> , be bought an indifferent lot of eight Devons for i ) Hl ., or 121 . 56 a a-head , and commenced feeding them on the 11 th November . lie sold them on tbe ensuing 15 i , h of March , wben they bad cost , for feeding , and realized as follows : — Cost of feeding eight Devons j or four month ;; . Tail burlev , 7 \ quarters , at 2-1 s . . . . Ci ) 0 0 Tail peas , " 7 \ quarters , al . . _'Jli . v I . 'I 10 0 Linseed , ll quarters , af 50 s 8 K O £ _ll () 18 O A _tltl it' -tonal food . One bushel steamed hay , one Jnilf cwt . of chuff , and one bushel of white carrots or swedes , each , per day ; valued at - 10 2 O £ 11 O O Tbe cuttle sold for . . . C 17 <> 10 I Deduct , cost price . . . OH O 0 £ 72 10 4 Thc . lot thus paid for keep { ll . I . v . lid . each . This return for four months is tolerably good , seeing fhiif the expense , of keeping each beast was only 51 . 5 s ., after purchasing linseed at , 50 s . per quarter , instead ol growing if on the farm . The value of the manure is not reckoned ; but , it was , of course , considerable . Other lots of cattle were fed with equally good results upon bonie-inade cukes thus manufactured : ii i i i i i i oi
.... .. - : :.... u _^ . 1 lbs . of ground linseed were stirred info 2 \ gallons of boiling water , with 81 , lbs . of rye meal , and two handfuls of salt . After being well stirred for u quarter of au hour , if wa . s poured into fin moulds , forming cukes of 7 lbs . each . These quantities would make AO cukes , which a man and two children could manufacture in half an hour . Kaeh beast received one of these cakes per day , and , in addition , got a , bushel of chaff or buy , mixed with n , weak linseed liquor , composed ol lii * lbH . of ground linseed , and 240 lbs . of wafer , which , being well boiled together , wa . s poured over ( SO bushels of the cbulf . The feeder also gave each faffing beast three-quarters of u cwt . of swedes per day , in three feeds . It wuu found that this compound wan fully equal to
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tbe best oilcake , and had the merit of costing about 41 . per ton instead of at least 101 . Had tbe linseed been grown by this Cornishman , and had lie used the unsteeped flax chaff in place of a portion of his bay , bis profits would probably have been increased by fully one-third . Therefore is it that we urge the executors of tbe late Mr . Donlan to leave the country in a state of expectation no longer than is absolutely necessary for the completion of their arrangements . Tbey bave a public duty to perform , and we invite them to execute it with as little delay as possible . Tbe culture of flax can receive no strong stimulus in this country until moro economical means of preparing it are within tbe reach of our farmers . These means are said to be at tbe exclusive disposal of Mr . Donlan's executors ; and we trust that , in the course of another month , we may have the satisfaction of winding up our remarks on this subject by a publication of full particulars of the patented process .
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WAIt-SniFS MADE USEFUL I > ' PEACE . If her Majesty ' s Ministers belong to a policy of the past , and are reactionary in their sympathies , they are also not afraid of innovations ; and one which they have just initiated promises well . Her Majesty's ship Hercules , of 72 guns , is placed at the disposal of the Emigration Commissioners , to be fitted up , under their inspection , for emigrants to Australia , and she is to bring back timber , for the use , we presume , of her Majesty ' s dockyards . Employment of tbis kind is perfectly compatible with the primary use to which war-ships arc applicable , and it ia one which , by rendering them serviceable in the intervals of war , practically diminishes their cost . That it can be reconciled to the dominant ceeonomic principles of the day nobody will pretend ; but her Majesty ' s Ministers for the time being will probably reconcile it to practice .
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laiMOF . A"LITIES OF THE MARRIAGE LAW . Not a word needs to be altered in the subjoined letter to the Times . The one fact for us to note is the appearance of such a letter in that great organ of received opinions . It is not the first , neither is it the least striking of its series ; neither , we venture ( o predict , is it the last . The subject upon which it touches has long been demanding such utterance as it is beginning to receive within that forum of discussion ; and wc : shall hear more of it .
" Sir , — i ou are always ready to rouse the general ear if a clear case of grievance can bo made out . Let me tell my i ale , —no solitary one , I fear , or there would be less need ( hat . it should be ( old . A poor mmi married , and had half a dozen young children , but the mother forsook them und her husband . Not only bis wife was gone , but his cook , his nurse , his laundress , and his housekeeper . To feed his little ones he must lie away in ( ho fields ull day ; so ho found a clean industrious woman lo come and tend them , and , for awhile , all was well . " Could this last ? You have told mo what tho poor man ' s dwelling is—those eight , anil two small rooms ; answer me .
" Neighbours whispered , the district visitor passed by Ihe door , ( he clergyman rebuked the offenders , und withheld all village charities . ( I > o not blame him , the poor , who were a credit to his parish would have blamed him sorely had Iie . dorioofhcrwi . se . ) lint , Christmas and Eastor brim * no laden _buskefs ( o gladden the poor little ones who livo with ' that horrid woman . ' 'fhe nam would marry his companion if be dare , but trial for biguniy stares him in the face . " A divorce ! How can be hope for it ? . 11 is rich neighbour , who can better keep house without u wife , can buy one , but not , he ! < high I , I his mo to be " f "A Lad v . "
How to liiiu ! .-- " You inust , Hatter or frighten the interest , or ( he self-love of men . Men are asses or monkeys , who only jump for nuts , or skip about iu lear of fhe whip . " Praser s Magazine , for September . Nationa ., Lovic . —M— -once said to me , "I bave known women of all countries . Tbe Italian woman only believes in tbe sincerity of ber lover when be . is ready to commit u crime for ber ; the _lOnglishwoinun when be is disposed fo be downright mud in ber behalf ; nnd fbo Frenchwoman when he is disposed to render himself silly and ridiculous for her sake . " Eraser ' s Magazine for September .
A ( Ik . nti _. k Sou i ,.- -Madame de Tcncin , with the Niiavest manners in the world , was an unprincipled woman , capable of anything . () n one occasion , n friend was praiising her gentleness . " Ay , ay , " said the Abbe _Iinblet , " i | _. A \ o hud any object whatever iu poisoning you , undoubtedl y she would choose tbe _sweetest unci the least , disagreeable poison in tho world . "—Eraser ' s Magazine for September .
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[ iN THIS _DEPARTMENT , AS All OPINIONS , HOWEVER _Ettp _^ ABE ALLOWED AN EXPRESSION , THE EDITOB NECE _^ _T ? HOLDS HIMSELF EESrONSIBLE FOB NONE . ] _* 3 » _AEILX
There Is No Learned Man But Will Confess...
There is no learned man but will confess he hafh profited by reading controversies his senses awafi and nis _judgment sharpened \{ , then , it be profi tffi for him to read , why should it not , at least , be _tofiS for his adversary to write . —Milton . _^ arable
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THE TRUE PRINCIPLE OF CONCERT IK RAILWAY ADMINISTRATION . " ( To the Editor of the Leader . ) Sin , —Agreeing- generally with your very excellent remarks on "Concert in Railway Administration" I must beg to differ with you on one special point of your argument . I take the liberty of doing so on tbe grounds , that , before the evils attendant on the present railway administration can be removed , the real cause of those evils must be discovered . When this is done and not until then , can the true principle of " concert " be applied to the advantage of all parties concerned the workers , the proprietors , and the public .
I think , then , that you are scarcely warranted by the circumstances in stating as a " fact , " that " the traffic on the London and North-Western Eailway overcrowds that line , compels the managers to send trains too large , or too rapidly after one-another . " Now the trains which are started the most rapidly after one-another are usually tliose of the greatest speed . And railway statistics will show that accidents by these trains are but units compared to those occurring to trains tbat are more slow of speed , or those having tbe greater amount of time between the departures . The real practical working of a railway train , when in motion , rests with the driver and fireman on the
engine , and the signal-man and points-man on the road . And the reason that there are fewer accidents hy tbe trains I have mentioned is , that every man is compelled instinctively to feel , tbe extra dangers and _responsibilities attendant on fast travelling , and that extra caution , activity , and attention are required of him , and lie gives them accordingly . The slower trains aro not considered to be attended with such great risks us i " the other case , and tbe men have no interest , and little else to make , or cause them to feel , the necessity of tbe same strict attention ; and hence we may account for the dillerence in the number of casualties in the two cases .
That the line is overcrowded I believe will be found to be equally erroneous . And , alter some years' experience in the practical working of the line , 1 would venture to _a-ssert that one-third might bo added to tb * present traflic with equally as much safety and cortainty . The extra trutlie consequent on the Exhibition of last year will bear me out in that assertion . F _' be it remembered , that , throughout tho , wholo of that busy time , with all its extra pressure upon the tin " and attention of the railway-servants , not one _accident of a seriouH nature occurred on the main lino _<> ' trail ''' of the London and North-Western I tail way .
' If , is true that during tbat time there was considerable inconvenience to passengers , occasioned by tne ' lay of trains , in consequence of the unusual numbers " be accommodated . Hut for this evil , resulting froi .. _^'"' want of room , and other _urrungeiiients , af the val lt ) ' stations und termini , timo and experience would Iin \< - * taught the remedy . _With-this drawback the hief ' patent , that nearly double the amount of truth" , ' _«** conducted , without injury to any one , during tbo su "
liter of 1851 . ,. Why , then , ho marked n freedom from . 1 , cc '' _""^ , ' that , extraordinary epoch of railway travelling r _^ why the frequent " serious accidents tbat have 1 , 'll , l ) 0 j - , _ Hinoo that time ? Wben l have shown that tho '' _^ nienf is nbsent that insured tbe safety of the 'rave during the Exhibition , it will easily bo seen bow u count for tbo difference . . ttaiiA It was ft national ambition that _succew . should n all that related to tha Exhibition , SU contributor *
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 11, 1852, page 16, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_11091852/page/16/
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