The Express.
London, England, 1849-10-13 00:00:00

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is very little large bran formed in the grinding, and the
bread is better with the small bran left in. That is to say, it
should be passed through • sieve much lets flee than for
wheaten flour; and this pert of the operative, occupying ,
only • fur mainaiu, is always done at home in a common
zoned hand-sieve.
We also subjoin Mr. Keene's remark on the value I
of mair.e as an element in the rotation of crops : i'
It will to wen that this culture cleanses the grossed as
much as the culture of the pots° ;* and that after twice
earthing op, the maize stalks stand, or come out at it were
from a well formed, regular, straight high ridge. At the
second earths:rig up, the writer has very sucesefolly sewn
turnips, having children to go along each row with • small i•
cup of turnip seed in the left hand, and opening with a
pointed ated stick in the right, a little furrow from stalk to stalk ' I
lathe maize; then dropping along a few seed, covering it 11 II
immediately with a dash of the stick. The turnips roes
well, and did not suffer from the fly; being on high ridges
were easy to thin oat, and when the maize was gathered off,
ease forward as a rapidly sueceedisg scup, rising as regular
on the top of the ridges as though drilled in line. ,
Incarnate clover Is also sown in the mailer at the mond i
euthieg, and I have rarely known it to fail. It is sown
thick, breed sass, on the ridge and valley ; walking over it . I
afterwards for gathering is the maize dote it to
harm. It is generally ep high and strong before winner
frost, and ready to out, giving a very heavy green crop by . {i
the let of May following. I
Cattle, however lean, fatten immediately upon this clover;
but it must only be given in small quantities the first five
days, augmenting the ration daily, and afterwards as much 4
as they can eat of it. Horns out of condition, fed open it
whilst the crop lasts green, which is about a =oath,
get up their flesh rapidly, and their coats become
fine and sleek as satin. As a dry food it is not in
high estimation. The reason for its sucoredieg so rarely
in England is, that the deuced seed only is sown, whereas • '
the writer sows it with the rough pellieule, as ;tethered. it
This pellicule seems to act as a protection to the
rang plant till it gets strength. The clean seed goenstinses
rises u well as the rough, but it invariably drop off in
strength, and very often the whole disappears as completely
as though nene had bath put into the ground; wherein seed
of the same growth, not cleansed, sown alongside, has re-
dated the cold temperature of the soil, and turned oat yr-
ow plans.
Teen are thousands of scree in the South of Frown of
good soil, but much less in heart than the arable lands of
England, sad on which maize is grown two years following,
then the maize is eueoreded by a mop of wheat; which is '
again followed by two years of maize, with crop of incarnate
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clover, twines, and often flex, interealwed as I have de- r
scribed ; and the ground is, and has been, fra m time imme-
morial under this rotation. I have been, and am cultivating
in this way myself with adventure. Employing more ma-
nure, I get better crops than my neighbours. Tree rapid 1 I
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growth of maize permits this succession of corn crops-I . II
mean that it permits it without loss of season-I do not ;Je-
anne to recommend the system to English farmers, who
, would, no doubt, arrive at the practice et • much better
rotation • I merely mention it as being does 1n my neigh- I
' brurhood. I have been borne away by the current of example
I and am ea. idled. I had, last year, a crop of maize on a '
I field which has been thus cultivated past my memory,
and a finer crop has never been seen on it. It had maize In
the year preceding, with turnips and incarnate Cover, and
wheat the year before. It is now sown in wheat, to be fel- . 1
I lowed next year in maize ! !
D I look upon it that this plant must not be regarded purely
a as a corn or " white" crop. It must be looked upon as par-
a taking of the nature of • green and white crop at the same
, time, and perhaps as possessing more of the former action
" than the latter. It is certainly a much lea exhausting crop " t
'r than wheat; for though it is acknowledged that wheat could I
- not be grown two years running but at a loss, Melia gene.
I rally follows maize with advantage as a preparation for wheat.
, The ultimate chemical analysis of the whole plant has shown i
that it draws from the soil other elements than those need-
ful for the support of the wheat plant, taking out of it much
1 of wlist the letter refuses, and prepaing the soil for the re- ,
I- turn of the purely white crop.
• If
maize
Can be intercalated into the English rotation, the
farmer will derive great advannee, because it occupies the
• ground less time than any other cereal plant, and gives
b time to get rid off the land of any preceding crop which
re may be lingering on it before maize sowing in the month
!* May. In tact, it occupies the ground less time than the
1.1! potato. and in the same season.
`" The thinning+ out from the crop, and the cuttings from
Hi the stalk beads, necessary in the proper culture of tne plant,
I furnish the best kind of green 100,1 for horned cattle; in-
*" deed they will leave any other:for it.
u. An acre will yield ail quarters of corn, and ten cwt. of
L'l dry cuttings and leaf fonder. The husk furnishes a sweet
eavoured elastic stuffing for mattresses,or a Uugh vegetable
in material for making cartridge paper, superior to that made
from rags, and the sticks and cobw furnish excellent clean I
E ; fuel for &slighting ; in fact, there is no part of this vale-
" sole plant without its use.
It. Poultry fed on =Sze acquire a higlnfl +toured flesh like
he the pheasant, and obtain a preference in the market. The
ut
k eggs are also of superior colour and flavour. The hams are
to high repute where the pigs are fed on maize.
See To have the torn sound and wholesome for human food, it
7 should be grown in the country where it is consumed, kept
4, in the cobb, and be shelled out only as wanted to be und,
lbsk or sent to the mill. Stowage on shie-board and sea voyage
always injure it ; and, for these reran., agricultural socie• r
Ir" ties would do well to offer premiums for the successful culti-
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vation of Ineue not less than as acre, en as to induce the °
11,6 firmer to acquire a practical knowledge of its management
ry
* end value as a green and dry forage and corm trop.
ith These fries are worthy the serious attention of
the English agriculturist, after the recent experience
tar of the potato crops, and at a time when he has just
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nCentered upon the field of unrestricted commercial
~ competition. Mr. Keene is entitled to the warm, at
or approbation for the patient research and tact for ob-
rly EC: vation with which he has studied the qualitits aid
1. characteristics of his forty dais maize, and for the
Ltd perseverance with which, after encountering undo-
served apathy and slight, he has succeeded in gaining i
ecili the ear of intelligent agriculturists. Public g.atii ude
lk. is also due to Prince Albert, and to a number of pri-
ie. vote gentlemen, fur the liberal at d cordial co-oper..-
'r: Lion tney have afforded Mr. Ktene.
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let TRAFFIC RETURN FOR THE PAST WEEK.
MO Miles opened. Marmot Railway. necelptin
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to 1848. 1849. 1848. 1849.
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ing 31 31 Aberdeen
his 371 371 Belfast and Ballymena
'all 16 19 Birkenhead, Lane., & Cheshire 964 928
de, 14 14 Bolton, Blackburn, and ,
get West Yorkshire
lea 854 854 Bristol and Exeter - 4 237
ear 141 154 Caledonian 5,01 8 659
me 694 84 Chester and Holyhead
ks, 354 354 Dublin and Drogheda 731 740
rem 71 71 Dublin and Kinertown
red 474 474 Dundee,Perth,Aberrleen June 91 1,013
em 674 914 Rest Anglian 726 685
tia. 314 764 But Lancashire
ilk, 296 322 Hastert. Counties and Norfolk 16,428 14,906
the 61 78 Rmtern Union
bb, 674 674 Edinburgh end Glasgow 3,72.5 3,888
ow 494 78 Edinburgh, Perth, and D uncle e 1.831 -
res. 74 1024 Glasgow, Paisley, and dye 2,719 3,008
*TO 224 224 Glasgow, Paisley,and Greened' 1,004 971 ,
rip - 143 Great Northern &E. Lincolnsh - 2,743
rip. 130 1684 Great Southern andWestern(l) 3,187 3,362
a at, 206 i 2301 Great Western* .......
me 90 90 Launder and Carlisle 3,166 3,7149
the 1724 2064 Ltheuhire end Yorkshire 11,393 11 227
nip - 13 Liverpool,Crothy, & Southport - 139
lied 435 4784 London and North Western ... 42,848 40,018
Ana 4 64 London and Blackwell
rieb 1621 170 Ludes, Brishron, and 8. Coast 12,13211,677
196 2204 London and Smell Western.
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now 144 144 Londonderry end Enniskillen 147 150
eon 944 1574 Manchester, Shed'., & Lincola 2,848 4,825
win 4234 471 Midland 24,6.5 24 185
and 364 60 Midland GrestWeste rn.(l) 1,233 1,189
lard 36 36 Monklandll
to a 824 122 North British
that 454 454 Scottish Central
tbe 23 43 Shrewsbury and Cotner Bl7 1,400
tbb - 30 Shropshire Union 443
we, 60 671 South Devon 1 817 1,468 •
per. 101 189 Smith Extent 11,117 12,3.58
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and 36 36 Ulster 862 -
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25 Waterford and Linz rick - 247
long 13 13 West Cornwall 193 289
12 12 Whitehaven Junrtion 192 197
Lets. 263 2904 York, Newcastle, Berwick 13,880 12,996
1 the 2551 2564 York and North Midland 9,584 6,251
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h,,,, 145 8.5 Paris and Rouen
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