The Express.
London, England, 1850-04-06 00:00:00

111 E AURICULTURAL

• LEIGHTON BUZZARD, Aran. 2.
Ilavirg writers to trammel with several
, who usually Weed Leighton market, I
moil( of the opportunity. of being in this
,ur•.o•d to make some inquiries as to the pro-
,( (*ruling in the district. Leghtott Biassed
ot: the e•ttt me edge of the county of Bedford.
Azgish river Ousel, which puws the outskirts
wow, taitg the boundary of the counties of
rd acd Buckiogham. The land around the
ja a fertile loam, capable of very high caltive-
ein mat• places required to be drained. Ton
the chalk formation, and jest b pond the clay
:Tatum which lies below the chalk, and whets
11 stone begins, stands Leighton. Further on
bermes heavier, and the land is chiefly used
tv purl/airs. The market on Tuesdays is one
:nukes at which cows recently calved or
eivirg are bought to supply the London cow-
l: and some of the pt lug's! cowdealers yoga
tend this market. lam told that there is fet-
a good show of cow stock for sale, bat I was
ffnate, for though there was a fair show in
numbers, about two good, and half-a•dozen
• cows and heifers were all that were worth
tngbamsl.ire is now the great source for sup-
cows to London, Leicestershire and other mid-
duties being only minted to by the dams
the autumn ; the reason, u stated to me by
r principal dealers, is that the cows there an
ty so badly k pt during the winter, that those
rich have the run of a summer's grass befire
are in condition good enough for Louden use.
it good and produ: tie. cows— and cows when
condition arc never very productive—will
the purFose of the London cowkeepers, now
.an era subvert to competition, in consequence
rut quantities of milk which are (omelet d to
by the different railways. Indei d lam told
.r y of tLe milk-dealers are givir g up keeping
take a part or the whole of their supply
,erns who send up milk by railway. I have
t! at will eventually be the only mode in
k w i.l be supplied to the metropolis, &eel
..• c. raider t-e more healthy condition in
-.e cows are kept in the country it caonwt be
e.l that the change will be a most beneficial
cmsumere of milk in London.

• .a :$ also a gnat market for suckling calves,
:c brought there and taken into Hertfordshire
:3 be fattened. Tne veal trade, however,
•r rose time a bad one, and farmers are
r becoming convined of the fact that the
• table way of using cows is to make veal.
ittedero a irod deal with the home
• t•oil., because the butchers prefer the Dutch
-. because, it is said, they die witer than
, and are, berdes, very fat. The tut.-
s atd superior quality of the Dutch veal
truly I know not) to the practice in
aerer allowing the fattirg calf to suck
it is taken away as soon as dropped,
re's night to driek the sew milk from a
simple an alteration has such imp:•rtant
: 3 oar suckling farmers should look to it.
.Dutch calves sold in Smithfield on Mon•
1;o. mpteec, a rice not often realised of
. :mt- d ealE But suckling is a lazy ors-
:. pazt:sed to any great extent by iota-
.N.
a large supply of pigs at Lrightno
• oly of the Berkshire breed ; and some
• • begs, weighing 11 or 13 score, were
.• pit sew., without finding purchasers.
:.1 capital Large and fat pork in the
• ..4 at 4). per lb., and the hams alone at
,td though these prices are low, it must
that the food on which the pigs have
tu also very cheap. One farmer, after
; :.into about free trade, told me he had
...rr aeighirg 48 lbs. a bushel, delivered at
: 1.35. 3d. a quarter. Of course under
•:tot cc pork eni pig meat will be cheap ;
• ou.;ht to be glad of it, for they will the,'
altar st unlimited supply of manure.
coatis& my notice of this district
o'.ormr Looted'. Form, about half a
the town, the property sod in the
7. • Mr. Ilayter, M.P., the Secretary of the
The farm, as managed by his bailiff, Mr.
. ‘ootchmsn, is a model of neatness, order,
y. It is highly termed with a large stock
' cows, and a full stock of feeding bears,
• ! p'3•, end the right honourable farmer, es
• . receirts a good rent and a hir interest
a: he Las expended. At ace time Mr.
d e tery valuable and costly herd of high
horns, but these he has disposed of, and
t meager now buys the best heifer.. he
; and, takirg care to keep a first-rate
- sto kof ows little inferior to the origi,al
.7 ia for the sake of the improvement made
f, what I wood call the effective per-
:: telord's business, that I refer to this

4 2:0 acres, chiefly convertible, and some
•= r 'lt:. but most*/ it warred draining. In 1439,
t. r •rnk It. farm into hie own hinds; the
- • ro- it was valued at 1,0001., and the an-
:. • •:mated vine was 20s. per acre, but no tenant
• •t f, dat that price. fhe arable land was
• • r :-..ridawe small and irregular in shape, inter-
• a. 3- broad and deep ditches; overgrown, wide,
-ng. 01 hedges divided all the field*, and
lath .urn for vermined weeds. Since that
.te land has been drained, more than GO milts
drincing having been laid down ; the arable
•••• • • .• -ftr. divided into ten fields of about 17 acres
••• ! with new quick hedges • the bed of tie
• bounds the farm, has been cleared one,
irds tf 7,000 cubic yards of deposit seed for
•be wide open dite' es ; the meadows have
I,: ::raited ; and the value of the stock now
• • fern is more than 3,oool.—treble that ori-
g• , . gill. The sum expended on these Im-
i• was 1,906/, and the increased annual
!.• -.‘rquent upon that outlay has been from
•.ngraal valuation, but which could not be
at which several respectable farmers
• • r to take it. Moro recently a very
- - •.bstantia.l set of farm-buildings has been
..q I have no doubt that on a 21 years' lease a
' • sr might be found to give 4001. a year for
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