The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-08-28 00:00:00

AGRICULTURE.

TILLERING OF CORN.—lnterrogations are frequently
put to us, will barley and oats tiller or branch as much
as wheat, by being planted early, and singly, and
thinly? Our answer is, that the former will, and the
latter, we believe, will not. Oats, however, are de-
cidedly the most prolific, containing many more grains
in each ear than either wheat or barley, and require to
be planted or sown equally as thin. Every perfect
grain of oats, sown at equal distances, with only half a
peck per acre ( not three bushels),.by proper cultiva-
tion, and one essential point of this is to keep it clean,
will not fail to produce five ears. This, we believe,
cannot be denied ; and each ear will be found to average
200 kernels, or 1,000 fold—equal; of course, to 1,000
half pecks, or 125 bushels, or 15 quarters 5 bushels
per acre. Every grain of barley, too, planted at the
rate of half a peck per acre in equal distributions, by
superior culture; will not fail to produce twenty ordi-
nary full ears, containing in each thirty grains, or 600
fold, and, as a necessary consequence, equal to 600
half pecks, or 75 bushels, or 9 quarters 3 bushels per
acre. The Peruvian variety of barley contains double
an amount of grains in each ear than the common, and
although smaller in size, it follows that this kind is
much more productive and lucrative of the two, espe-
cially as it exceeds all others in point of weight and
nutriment. It is also earlier, but it is to be regretted
that destructive birds will attack it in no small degree,
as they do all early ripened corn.—Hardy and Son,
Maldon.

FOOD FOR YOUNG STOCK.—The Agricultural
Gazette says the following is an answer to a question
addressed to us 140 a correspondent. Calves at a
month old, by the Ist of April, have proved to do
well on half a pint of good oatmeal, or the same quan-
tity of linseed, mixed in a little cold water, and boiling
water poured over it, making the half pint of meal or
linseed into two or three quarts of liquid. This should
be mixed 12 hours before given to the calves, as it
should stand this time, and the vessel being covered
it will be found then of sufficient warmth. Best
Scotch oatmeal is the most economical, and is perhaps
better than linseed. It should be given at first with
a small quantity of milk, or the calves having been
fed previously only on this will not readily take to this
food ; together with this, hay and some roots are a
good preparation for their taking to grass. Six weeks
of this feeding will sußice, giving them the mixture
only once a day the last week, and lowering its quality,
to wean them from it; and by this time they will take to
grass as their only and sufficient food, if good whole-
some pasture. Water should only be given very
sparingly when required from drought, and on no
account should calves at grass have unrestrained
access to spring water. As the nights get cold in Oc-
tober, they should have a small quantity of hay, and
the tops of carrots or early turnips will now forward
their growth until December, when a regular supply
of Swedes with chaff of oat or barley straw, will keep
them in good condition until the time for grazing, or
they might be kept well through the summer on chaff
and a plentiful supply of marigold wurzel until early
turnips take its place. This treatment should be
repeated the second year ; unless steers are intended
to be fattened at two years old ; therefore in October,
at one year and a half, or at two years and a half old,
they should get chaff of good hay, with two quarts of
barley or other meal, either from oats, beans; or tail
wheat, or instead of meal 3 lbs. of oilcake, with as
many Swedes as they will consume given them twice
each day, with no water. Haters should be kept on