CRICKET. TAURANGA V. H.M.S. 'ROSARIO.'

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIV, Issue 3559, 12 December 1868, Page 6

CRICKET. TAURANGA Y. H.M.S. 'ROSA RIO.'

A. MA.TOH w«s played at Te Pup* on Tuesday, December 1, 1868, between the above clubs, resultiog in favour of the former, with six wickets to spare. The following ia the score ;—; —

The Use and Abuse op Greejt Food and Boots.— More than tweDty yean ago I (said that early green food w»9 either food or physic, according to the mode in which it is administered. That remark of mine is as true as daylight. I cannot too strongly protest against the common practice of giving an unlimited supp'y of purgative young spring tares, uumixed with other and drier food. Just look ab the stable or cattle she>l under such a system. One would almost declare that each animal had receivtd a strong purgative dose, and so they really have, for it is only physic in another form ; all this is goiug on whil« we are complaining of farming bei 11 tf unprofitable. Another agricultural delinquency (f- r morally it amounts to that) is the turning of a lot of horses, cattle, or sheep into a strong pivce of clover for exercse as well as physic. I*t appear* to me like a piece of agricultural insanity and Miieiile. I feel so strongly on this point of was tint; food, that I am bound to express myself--' plainly. Custom is a tyrant, and it will take some hard fighting and a good many rounds before we\ cau knock down and do away with the wretched '! turning-out" system. It should be called a turn* ing out of tho breeches pocket and of the money it contains. I was led to those remarks, first, by seeing how oue green crops were to day prepared • and secondly, by seeing seven horses turned at large into a fine field of young clover, to drag it down by walking so many miles daily over it, and to prevent its trowih by sleeping and dunging un"on 'it. 1 All this must be altered if we are to farm with the N best results, at advanced rents To-day we are cutting lip young susculent tares into J-iach lengths, mixing th*-m with tine cut hay and straw chaff, so that tho animals shall have food, not physio. The hay^ and sk»w are cut into J-inch lengths. It is only thon* Who have jractUe.i thiH who can know h w much slock an acre of tares will keep. Then we sen huge loads of tares and cl«ver brought into the yards to He picked over and troddm under foot, and aa Jbbey get old and tough they now and then kill a horse or a bullock by flatulence and inflammation. Any mac who sits down without prejudice to calculate the cost and merit of the tyro systems will ris« with a strong couviction that the turning out and non« cutting up system is an unnecessary, dangerous, and most wasteful procsa. Steam-power, or crea hbrsa-power, m*k«s child's-play of cutting up. On© of my men u»ed to cut up occasionally 160 bushels per day, but the time is ajprojching when a little upright or portable steamer, sum-thing larger than a' tea-kettle, will do all that is required in the Out* ting up of green foo><. Tne same remarks ap}>J[y , ia< djegrte to rots.r ots. We never give our bull cks rooxp ■ - than half a bushel (301b.) daily, pulped and mmixer/l r / with hay and straw, chaff, apd^otner drjr fopd^.j A,, o ' man must be employed specially t;o cut ui> and 'mix..,, the fo >d j the ploughmen won't do it. It i 3 a hard ' nUtter to get them even to mow and brinj home ths , '. tares and clover; they like to turn their hon>«>s oujj- ; and see no more of them until wanted for work/ next morning.— J . J. Mecht. n

FIKST INNINGS. Bingham, c Skeet Hay don, c Barnngbon... Moade, c and b Luttrell Mooiv, b Luttrell Cum mg, b Lnttrell Carlyle, c and b Simcox Wood«, hit vriukeb Simpson, b Mmcox Jenner, o Curtis JoliDStou, not ont Fuau, b Luttrell Byes, Ac. 27 0 3 10 7 o 9 0 1 1 0 24 Second Innings* b .simcox ... 4 run out 0 c Ridge, b Simcor 2 bit wicket ... 8 c and b Simcox 5 o Haniogton ... 0 ]b\r b Bimcox... 9 not out 3 o Kkeet, b Rid go 0 o Simcox, b .Ridge 2 b Eidge ... 2 By os, &0,... 16 28 50

H.M.S. «RoSario.'

First Innings. Luttrell, b Mooie Biuf-lem, b Mrada Simc x, lbw b Moore ... Mair, b Metde Ku-<h, c Cuoiiau b Moore Skeet, o Cuming b Meade Harmgton, c Moore Ridge, c and i>Meade ... Curti3, b Moore Gill, not out Bridgeman, b Moore ... Bye 3, &c. 0 0 12 12 0 12 2 4 0 0 0 18 Second Innings. not out 0 c Cnmiog ... 19 b Meade ... 2 run out 12 b Moore ... 10 not out 5 Byes, &0.... 25 60 73

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