Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-07-10

D. HOWARD, OF Chaplain park, Bedford. said he
was very much struck by the order and reru~
ers, particularly In the management Of their
dalr1es. He had had an opportunity OF Visiting
few OF the best bomesteads In France and az
inspecting the daily management OF the diaries.
and he had been very much struck with Ihc
precision which was there observed Every
ounce or food or every animal was weighed
given IN milk by every cow was tabulated daily
on slate. And he thought IL no small matfer
when French farmer at the end OF the wear
was able TO tell what every cow had cost TO
keep and what it had yielded IA the shape OF
produce. There was another lesson which they
could learn from the French, namely, the order
and neatness OF their homesteads, and the
greater care which they took OF expensive agrf
cultural implements which they bought very
freely. There was yet another point In which
I'M, me Epgllsh farmer might learn something from
the French farmer. Those English farmers who
had walked through the French agricultural
Implement department would have been natu-
rally struck by the large number OF huge plows,
WIN tnelr mold boards as high as a table, and
they would naturally inquire what those imple-
ments were required for. They were very ex-
tenslyely used on the great beet-root farms by
bullock teams In deep ullage for root crops.
The French farmers paid more attention to
depth OF tillage for their root crops than any
English farmer with whom he was acquainted.
TLey devoted as much attention TO THIS matter
as we did 10 the quantity and quality OF the
manure applied TO the ground.
MT. Dent, while travelling abroad some years
italy, and he was then struck with the fact that
al nearly every hotel be was able TO get q good
supply both OF milk and butter. There was
scarcely an English or a Scotch hotel where
one could get anything like a plentiful supply
Cf good milk and butter like that which could
be obtained abroad. That was a fact which
English farmers and English botel-keepers
might study with advantage. He saw more
weeds In but one day. travelling in the neigh
borhood In which he lived, IN the north OF Eng
lard, than In the whole two months that he was
travelling abroad. That, perhaps. partly arose
from the small number OF hedges abroad -
with respect TO poultry, they contrved, besides
very large quantity OF poultry and eggs TO this
country. That was another source OF profit
ne was immensely struck by the beautiful for
ei ad I Shor.horns- He was not breeder, butt he
mao seldom seen anything In a royal agr1cultu.
raj show better than the Shorthorns he had
seen at Paris. He had also seen a wonderful
snow OF Ffenca cattle at Paris, and there was
great uniformity OF type amongst them.
III. NJ. Jenkins said that, In some OF the by-
parts OF the exhibition, there were TO be found
coilections. sent from different parts OF France,
which showed the pains taken by the govern
ment and by private Institutions TO Improve the
agriculture or the country. and TO bring home tn
me MIND or the smallest farmer the best meth
ods OF cuitlVating the land and utilizing its pro-
duce. IL should be remembered, ia estimating
the merits OF French stock, that the French far
mer had generally something on hts mind very
Glnefent from meat, for be bred either for work
or for milk. Meat. was, In almost every case a
secondary object. The breeders OF the Charolsis
cattle, for example, judged them, not py the
amount or their meat or their perfect sQuareness
or form. but rather as We should Judge cart
horse, that is by his capacity for work After
keeping q bullock for three years, the breeder
would Sell IL for large price, and all the pur-
chaser cared for was beast that would DO bfs
work and bring him good price afterwards
And the case was the same with the breeder of
dairy cattle. He had met with dairy farmer
in France who could bring his books to show
that he had made his COWS produce gross re-
turn OF f40 $4,000 year each. That was rather
startling fact; but the object OF the individual
FARMER was to get money, and IL he could get &c
by his method, II was worthy OF inquiry whether
We could not find something to lmitate1n his
practlce.-t London Agricultural Gazette.