The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-10-25 00:00:00

In connection with the foregoing, the following letter
has been gent to The Times:—

The important questions raised by Mr. Jelfertes on thla
sutject will not be solvt dby lattri, I food, or by artifhlal
ms,,ures, If E gland is not to become more and more its.
pendent on f reign supplies of both meat and corn, then
Mogland most ad/mt a system which will naturally result In
produdng more collie and more corn.

1 Lis i..an only be done by making more of the eoreal u
dirtli ania..ed from the pastors middy ition of the soil. and
the solution of the question lies chit fly in the capacity of
cereal sotis So hi ar more o rn Py p<rmanently carrying more
cattle.

Let but it e cereal soils he established in such a system of
Cattle bearing and it will he found that Instead of lama than
one-ball of a cereal form being able, as at present, to pro.
dole corn in one and the same year, quite two-thirds of it
will produce annually hotter corn crops thou are now grown,
while there will be a Inealieta gala In the quantity also.
To bring this about it will be necessary to keep three
animals where one Is now kept, so that while Mire will in
such cues bean Increased production of corn, the increase
of cattle will be the previous c d,diLlon of producing it In
certain individual cavil this may very soon be effected ; In
the case of the Country generally time clone can accomplish
It. Eut that both results must be attempted, If either of
them is to be accomplished. Is as plain as the difficulty
which Mr. Jefferies sees, but the remedy for witch ii
appears he fails to see. • That there Is a difficulty in tint-
ver•ally establishing the rent, dy must be admitted, but this
Is nevertheless, the real difficulty that hal to be met, and It
must be met and overcome.

The snb,l,ct ts all the more union. by reason of the en-
deavour of Mr. Delmar to cousin., the farmers of the
United States that the world Is producing m ru bread than
It can eat, as aut.:du:ea Ii your journal containing the letter
of Mr. Jefferies. The United States already produce lees and
require mole wheat than for some years past they bare been
wont, and if, with the necessities of Europe on tile Caere..,
Mr. Delmar should suczetd In the minden he appears to be
eng,a,l I. how long will It be safe for England to depend
on the United States?

The who course for England to follow j, to my mind,
quite plait.. Assuming the pastures to have done and to be
dult.g their raw at, laigely and permanently Increase the
cattle of all kinds on the cereal farms, sea that will result In
a wry great Incre,se in the production of both cattle and
corn —I remain, ticc,, ALBERT WILLIAMS.

East Daley-hall, Oct. 16.
In noticing the shove letter, Mr. James Howard, of
Clapham-park, Bedf.mdehire, remarks
in the very let resting letter you published upon "The
Form of the Future." I cannot hut think Vat the writer,
Mr. Jefferies, took too gloomy a view of our prospeGts, and
failed to toke Into account some of our resources. For In-
stance, deeper Olive will render the farmer more Indepen-
dent of manure, as it Increases the fertility of the sell and
will incr,ase, very materially, the quantity of artificial food
for cattle and Sheep. Again, steam power In tillage will not
only give us this Ce-per culture, but the recessity for deed
fellows will he avoided, thus yielding further armpit.s of
cattle and sheep food. Then, again, we shall hot lunch
longer, continuo to pour Into our dyers and the sea the
sewage of our towns .11ri elite., hut the foot consumed by
mau will be returned to the soli which yielded It, to restore
and lovreaAe Its fertility ; moreover, the bones, oil.calb-, and
other an bstaiLeta which have of late years both ro lonely
Imported, will probably fled their way her. In still larger
quantities, and 'mutely large beds of coprolltes and other
manurial substauc will yet be discovered In this ,aid other
countries.