AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 7863, 14 May 1891, Page 2

AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

Recently a memorial peal of belle wm opened Iα the Parish Church by the Bishop of Richmond, in memory of tha late Mr John B. Booth, the famous York. shire Shorthorn breeder, ot Klllerbj H&llnear Richmond. TJS* deceased geatlemn died at Scarborough brT the 23rd of Jane. 1886, in hia 51st year, and was interred in the Catterick village churchyard. He w.ft3 for many years master ot the Bedale Foxhoundg, and being & groao favourite among the sporting fraternity of the neighbourhood, was, ou ais resign* tioa from that post, made the recipient of numerous and costly presents. Hla greatest success, however, was his Shorthorn breeding, which gained for him tha highest reputation throughout the whole of the civilised world. Hie cattle, known as " Booth's Blood," were eagerly sough] after, not only throughout the United Kingdom, but In. the colonies, where the name was very familiar. Mr Booth was a great friend of the poor aud needy, ana many a farmer who had fallen into low water would have sunk had it not been for his timely and generous aid. Ihe three bells which already hung in the vlUagJ churoh steeple were re-cast aud augmeuien by other three. An experienced American breeder, in reading recently a paper ou cattle, does not speak so hlijhly of the meek character of the hornless. He save that he has found that "of all cattle the hardest to turn with an ordinary fence are taote without horas. Twelve or fifteen yean ago I began crossing native Muley cowa with Shorthorn bulls to obtain a polled herd of shorthorn qualities. Hound these hornless cattle foremost m finding craefci in the fences, and In pushing rails and boards Off aud leading into nilachiet, ana abandoned the enterprise, *g>l «2 learn that they can slip their b*ad» through an opening without getting their horns fa«t. and then it require* every strong fence to resist them. I etfll b&n some of these Muleys on my ***%>*** they are always in the lead in foraging expeditions." - -^ A Glasgow firm favours Uβ (%*r*w? Exprm) with their opinions on the suDJMi of the American surpluses of wheat ami maize. According to Messrs F..art * of wheatand 3,602,002,000 bushels of mm figures which wo believe to be a« new awuracy as may be. The two JJ» average of yield, therefore, to,. Www 444,911,000 bushels, and maize * £&**"£ bushels, while the eleven yearn•JjgjJS 445,110,508 bushelsof wheatand W*J.Tj bushels of maiae. Messrs C,i*ml»WJJ the conclusion that America cannot »»<? be regarded as having « Qd « aT€ ffi«K and, ac a corollary to this present high prices are to be«W*J5 excessive. Well, the olntnwß ;&> gjj enough, but there happens toft'gJJJii The eleven years' average of PWfJEU not be construed apart from the. Jjjw years' average of population; **&*£& of home requirements. Now, toe JW" lation of America five and a b*M*«™ig (the average of eleven 56,000.000, and it ia now 62,622,&0. ijjg are tt.500,000 more moutha to feed, »«$» CauaelH, and that is the; reasoniWJJ'**.old average of production is fa*» a » w to the same journal *&<*<* fi be no doubt in the world but *b*®_s Native 3uano Company, by the *****% "A.8.C." process of manurial properties from/»*«*«*% well of the country and of ag" cUl *~Lgß has just issued a very ren*™*3 pamphlet, giving the exP erJen^ tt SB farmers and gardeners In no !«» *&8J Euglieh counties, as well as la w«gj Ireland, and the Channel use of the native guano so op 6aln ,l7n P these results deal withi notow JWJJ distinct • records with 43 dUfe»>£% and garden crops. In every results were favourable. The P**?", can be obtained of the compan/t wiwr address ts 29 New Bridge-street, friara, London, B.C. There « VfKindex, by means of which the reeoercf at a glance see where he can B»« result* obtained for any special crop. A Canadian exchange tells s°£,3«i» its readers manages to get feed lo* «|Vm and ac the same time milk churn, as follows:-At the two veesels are put outside the l>e»«gS one marked r ' dairy" *n< l .,. " calves." One-half of the milk «£•»s each cow, that drawn first, is P«V a n! r& vesiel marked "calves, and ww ' half, the last drawn, is put InW *fo veswl marked - " dairy." This ]«(ter is found, on being tested, to two-thirdato three-fourths of the The calves have the advantage ooafS£ a fS fed with milk warm from thei cow, same time they are reared at a co*t, as their allowance of miikoW w contain much cream.