The Sun.
London, England, 1803-01-11 00:00:00

SOME AC co UN't 0 F rItE.S LAS ON$ !NN 141'2.

rit:out; Ft this may tairly be classed among wflat...
we corn lionly call good years, it is marked, however,
by three
,singular periods in the weather, which do,
not always ocettr, even in aeacons the most genial
Or austere, as will :wear from 44 following general
remark
•regularly conimitted at the
doe ot, each ),cparate month, by an inhabitant of the
c,unty of who for some years has taken,
plc!asiire • itt otoeervilig Oulse deviations 9f the times
which of crate so pOwerfally on the produce of the
eato/.

-jatruary.--,•Three firsCwoks, frost atid snow, but
not exit:nue. • Ch, the zoth, about nine at night,
itlbegan and rained violently from the South, till
succeeded by 'a storm of wind from the West, which
raged with unabated fury to the evening of the 2lst.
Several tempests within these Is years. have risen
muclvhigher,':and been rte ,re tremendous for a time,
particularlrortel on new year's day, 1795, and on
the Bth of Novetnber, 1766; but the oldest person
eXisting probddy never witnessed any instance of a
storm cAltinuing at such a pitch so many hours in
surcesviotr. /is the rudest and severest blasts in
Winter are for the most part !neceeded by mild and
p,cutle wea4h(4, so at this crisis, the last wcek of
the mooth tpmperatutc and dryness was' searc,dy
inOrior to April.
FebrNar.y. More dry than usual.
Ata'ra".--Bt iyht 'days, etitting winds, cold nights;
no rain; no hail, no snow.
April,—Tepid showers. On the .7.7t11 it rained
moderwely throughout, the. whole day.

May. --So excev,ively dry, that the uplands began
to be conviderably distresseil, and 4111 'nun bogan to
cry out for rdiu. Several night's .rusts, unusually
severe at so advanced a period, conduced to chcck
AI sorts of artificial vegetatinu.

...7tme.:=—Fine modzrate r.rin at the ininning of
themonth. Last part dry and warm.
- 7 uly..—Coltl, comfortless, and wet throughout,
iwhiclr fell more in the shape of mild,and set rains,
tlhn of rapid and heavy torrents. Six days only
in 30 Varenheit tiinesi to io deg. a circumstance
aliwist,,unexampled at this season. Neither corn'
Ina; 64it,,nor any kind of vegetation made the least
progrwl, All things aggregately comidered,
scerna to forebode the repetition of the, evils of
800. •

, August—Set in with a prospea no better .titan:
that which had closed the preceding month. 4still
rained, On Wednesday the +thi.however, it cleared
ebout the break of .day, when a new and cheerful
scene strildenly expanded to our view, which mune.
diately dispersed a ray of gladness over the whole
serface of our island. Dry, tine, and• hot days,
witlout any variation, came in one after another
quite thron3h the month. The hela,,howcrer, was
melt -excest,ive, for Farenheit on 'a Western wall
never exceeded 95 deg. where not two years before
w it' as eltutt, t tai infg. •
S,liciitber.---7Nu rain, no wind. Simday tjte.l2tlt,
F,,r a clog7iN. a cold, which very rarely
vccor, chp vernal and autktonial equinox.
At '7l a. m. Faroiheit ileptc,it,td to z del;.
I;'::chitig, 1,0 CP.! ANT.), same pi,v.:e where nor a
Wet+. I:44re it had been up at 9S. The elfetis of
this unparalleled severity ar. so early a period, was
visible on all vtz.::able life, more particularly on
ionylinl tats, on the cole, on the turnips, and
even i Nit' gardens on esculents of'all sorts,
..94704.e.',L—Instead of heavy rains arid high winds;
the,usualjorerunners of winter at this season, we
1414:moderate showers, gentle gales and light frosts..
No:oc/nber.-After such a series of dry and fine
weather, evtly one seemed now more than common_
ly impre4sed with an idea that this month, genetally
the mtvst .gloomy in the year, must of course now.
come forth chid in its sattle mantle, and loaded with
alt ;Itc previous; terrors of winter. Contrary. to corn.
won ,expett.ition, it proved what is too recent in the
minds .;41‘,04erving men to repeat, and for which
tiye car,...ept r t 043 thanked to that all powerful and
good ileing who, in his own doe seaon, coveis the
earth w),,ith snow, and scattereth the hoar froit like
•
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mwmbet..--'Though rid, lost division or the year
has nit passed without sbine greater variety in the
weather, still it has certainly been ankh milder, and
enlivened by a greater number of ljeAr days, than
usra Illy occur in such a season, 01 which l'hurday
30th was a very cheerful instance.
Ist. Of the periodi alluded to above, commenced
on the. 21,“ of January and extended ru July. This
in a genet view, wish little exceptiorr, may fairly
he con odcred. as one series of dry tine weather
of five tyt,urnhs duration.

z,l. I chides tite entire cold and cheerless mond'
cif Jul;'•

3d. 8...?-,an cm W:Nine,',cily, 4-11 of August, anti
~it 11kil to the r .1v worttirg the 28th of De-
( ' . ;trr ; !ity ()f tiownfal in a
~; ; tt,Th ~ie %tit of tile
; < rikang pcct:! ivies in tltt•l year
„ , or i'mr t; ; y arc, chlettiated,
rt iiew:e, still further ft,
. .) „Hi.1..-It•te vertion in the tliarent
6.41 r -c;emiive t:tn st)iis
.iutt will be best abie to deter.
!. Ivrt,,,er :ibove cmiiut dole ihe
s 0, Hitt the Auror;iiioreatis,
;I -t1 an indication of 'fine

Tacoly ;tot; mnatkably pce.
quittoy,,aipt that on Mon,
, i ! 'l.: • any
iti --•: ioaoy y-ars• For
to rearthe
%.I:llcfr.v:,:[LC
hoic sp;iCe, • could i,vinkter was
ttft uoll"priß blr ,y; ; • :to:. As soon act tliir
tnoke, 4,10.pe,r arht d Ishes, of the colour of
ictie4trial matter, crosivd bran(lkhea in every
dir(e.tioo ; but with agetwral oAimation towards
Ihf!.;,,tith,, and kli3appcJred cntitcy in abc)ut zo

ON.THE ECONOMY OF A GERMAN ff.Aßlti.
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13Y DR. THAER, PHYSICIAN Or
- -% Cotig.4 OF tiAlvoyEtt.'. . •
ilubtishedin.ttie Cotnatunications to the Board of Agriculture.

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Whoever wishes to draw the highest possible
produce from his lands, though undoubtedly with a
greater expellee of money, labour, and attention ;
whoever ehoose3 to employ a greater number of
hods io the useful occupitions of husbandry, and
to keep a greater nbrnber of cattle to advantage,
will, beyond a doubt, prefer the mode of stall-feed.
ing. ,

71.11e.•adyantagesof this system are.founded upon
the following incontrovertible principle :—A spot
of ground,. which, when pastured upon, 'will yield
sufficient food for only. one head, Will abundantly
maintain font- head of cattle in the stable, if,the
vegetable's be mown" at a proper time, and given to
the cattle in a proper order.
The stall-feeding yields, at least, double the
quantity of manure from the same number of cattle,
for the best and most efficacious summer manure is
produced in the ;table, and carried to the fields, at
the most proper period of its letmentaiion ;' whereas,
when spread on the meadow, and exhausted by the
air and sun, its, power is entirely wasted.
The cattle,used to stall-feeding; will yield a much
greater quantity of milk,, and increase faster in.
weight when ,fattening, tlnin when they go to the
held/

They are less silhjed to accident, do not suffer
by the, flea t, by flies and insects, are not affeded by
the baneful fog.i, which are frequent in GermanYy,
and bring on inflatittnations ; on the contrary, if
every thing be properly managed, they remain in a
constant, state Of health and vigour.
That I may explain these principles more accu.
rately, I "'mist beg leave to present a shOrt desciip_
Lion of this system, as carried on at a firm called
Essenrode, belonging to Baron de Billow.
The .stock of cattle amounts in all to one hundred.
head ; namely, seventy heaq.. Fries Lind milch
or oxen, JO be fattened, which arc continually kept
in .the stable, and abOut thirty head of draught oxen
and yetnig cattle.
'A silietent.or rather plentiful supply of food for
one head of cattle daily, is kept in a
.stable,' consists
upon. an. averagit of one hundred .0 'thirty pounds
of green, or thirty pounds of city, clover, which
answers the same purpose: Hence one head of
cattle requires, in three hundred and sixty-five days,
telnvteltr7sand nine hundred and fifty PUndli. of dry
clo
ver, the portion of food being, according to this
mode of feeding, alike both in summer and winter,
Hence seventy head require annually, seven thou.
sand hundred weight of dry clover.
One acre.of clover Mowed twice' or thrice yields
fifty quintals, 'and one acre mowed once twenty-
five quintalS ; consequently, ninety acres off—the
fOrmer, and ninety acres of, the latter, produce six
thousand three hundred and fifty quintals. The de-
ficient six hundred and fifty' quintals are completed
by lucerne, and 'Other vegetables fit for food, from
the smaller ISortions.
Besides all this, the ofFals of the'vegetaWs Of the
ley lands, the straw, mixed. With clover, and the
'young clover of the fifth portion, wheri.laid down,
joined to the stubble feeding, will produce sitflicient
food for the draught oxen 'and the young cattle.
:Ole hay mowed from the meadows is preserved for
the use of the, horses.

Each head of heavy fat cattle, fed in the stable,
if plenty of littler be given, y sixteen
full double cart loads of dung ; seventy head, there-
fore, yield one thousand one hundred and twenty ;
add to this, thirty draughroxen and young cattle, At
six loads per annum, arid the produce will be one
thousand three' hundred.

A mainigetitent of this kind, therefore, affords
a trkonial'marmring per acre, of ten loads ,of good
stable dung, and as to this is united a 'complete and
regular tillage, and succesAnn of crops, 'at greater
produce of corn may be expeted..
This 'sort of :husbandry
,does not 'admit of any
•
notterial errorsosnd suir.tblk,prcppqcjons ought to
be made against every accident 'that is likely to
befal it.. If once the requisite stock of clever
should happen to fail, the cattle nsed to. abundance
of food, will waste away in a manner beyond all
possible recovery. 'Lon' account of the deft( icncy
of food, the herds be:lessened in number, the lands
will be exhausted fnr want. of manure. If to ob-
viate the Want'offood,• a portion is suffered to lie
linger for raising food than it ought, agreeably to
the systetit above recomatended,. there will be a
want of straw, which is so necy'sary for litter,
and the absence of which is extremely pernicious to
the health of the cattle.

As in some ) ear?, though seldom, the quantity
of. food produced May he reduced to only one half,
the prudent farmer should endeavour to keep one
half of it, and likewise one half of his straw, from
One year to another, and ought nut to sufter himself
to he tempted by ary price, be. ever so high, to
As this' system is on so great a settle, great
difficultids must .be conquered,
.and it required a
fortune adequate to the size of the estate to carry
it mita perfection.
The objed-tion that this mode of feeding cattle is
not agreeable to nature, and consequently must
prove trijurioua to them, is thetitetically the most
apparent ; yet,, it is sufficiently contradkted by
experience, ;whenever' the necessary precatitions are
taken. lo a small farm which I carry on iri.this
manner at a country-house, a qoarter of a mile front
town, and '* hero, from eighteen to twenty.he;id of
mulch cows are kept, and fed in a stable, none were
ever materially ill, none ever miscarried, nor was
there ey,er auv left barren. Mr. de can attest
:the same thing out a greater 'Kale. The cattle
whic'yi in otir coulitry gr,ive in th.t.fielk.4, arc on the
otirct hand exposed 1;0

It it evident, that the country gams most by.
stall-feeding, on account of the greater prodation,
and the more extended employment of men,
have dwelt rather long upon this system of
rural economy, because, though in the. English
writers cm Agriculture, T have indeetl met with
some remarks, relative to the bull-feeding of cattlr,
yet, 1 lout: ~cen none upon the system of cconottly

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