Another experiment is from Prof. H. D. Rogers' Geological Report of New Jersey, 

 as follows : "Mr. Wooley manured a piece of land in the proportion of 200 loads of 

 good stable manure to the acre, applying upon an adjacent tract of the same soil his 

 marl, in the ratio of about 20 loads per acre. The crops, which were timothy and 

 clover, were much the heaviest upon the section which had received the marl." There 

 is evidently an error in the figures ; but we presume the fact that the marl did most 

 good, is well established. 



What, we ask our intelligent readers, do these sundry experiments amount to, as the 

 foundation of agricultural principles ; or what do they show, as applied to the subject 

 of discussion ? They were tried, not on wheat, but on turneps, and timothy and clover. 

 For turneps and clover we have always recommended soluble phosphate of lime as the 

 best of all manures, and think ammonia unnecessary ; that phosphate of lime, or any 

 other mineral ingredient, does no good when applied to wheat on ordinary wheat soils ; 

 but ammonia, in whatever form applied, whether in barn-yard manure, guano, or salts 

 of ammonia, is of great benefit. The experiments quoted by Mr. Babtlett corroborate 

 rather than disprove the truth of this proposition. 



BRITISH AND AMERICAN AGRICULTURE. 



The following conversation between two intelligent Western New York farmers, one of 

 whom has recently returned from a visit to Europe, gives a good account of British 

 farming as contrasted with American agriculture ; with other matter that will be found 

 interesting to the agricultural reader. 



A. "What most siirpi-ised me when first ^visiting the country in England, was the number and 

 width of the hedges, some of them as crooked as a fiddler's elbow, and occupying a rod or two of land, 

 and in many places thickly studded with trees, or, as they there call them, "hedge row timber," 

 which do immense damage to the land. One farmer in Shropshire, when mentioning my surprise to 

 him at this, said that many of the landlords objected to the tenants removing these crooked old 

 hedges for fear of disturbing the game for which they afi'ord an admirable shelter. He pointed me 

 to a field of his, of six acres, around which there was a hedge and ditch at least a rod and a half wide, 

 and in the hedge there was eighty-five large trees, which did great damage to the crops. The same 

 farmer told me that the game did him at least 8500 damage a year on a farm of 250 acres. He 

 complained most bitterly of Free Trade — said it was ruining the farmer, and that he was now losijjg 

 money by farming, but that his landlord had promised to destroy the hares and rabbits, whicli do 

 the principal damage, and to remove the hedge row timber; but nothing could give them such 

 times as they had under protection, with wheat at an average of $3 per bushel, and barley and other 

 grains in proportion. The difference in the language, customs, and farming of even adjoining coun- 

 ties, perfectly astonished me. Tlie farmerabove alluded to said that when Elihu Burritt, the American 

 " learned blacksmith," was lecturing in that neighborhood, he was one day speaking to his men of 

 tlie many languages this working man had acquired, when a good old familiar servant, who often 

 held forth as a primitive Methodist preacher, said that lie knew two languages. His master, a little 

 surprised, wished to know what they were; he replied, "Shropshire and Cheshire," — two adjoining 

 counties. Some twenty years ago, it is said that the judges at the assizes in the county of Lancashire 

 were under the necessity of employing an interpreter before they could imderstand the language of 

 the witnesses. The difference in farming operations is equally striking. In some counties you wall 

 see three, and sometimes four horses, one before the other, drawing a single jilow, with a man to liold 

 and a boy to drive — an acre being considered a good day's work. In another county, "double 

 plows," or plows that take two furrows at once, are commonly used. If the land is heavy, or they 

 wish to plow deep, five horses are attached to it in length. When plowing for barley in the spring, 

 on light soil, four horses only are used, and they will plow from two to three acres a day. Tlio plow 

 will run itself, so that one man only is required; he does nothing else but attend to his four liorses, 

 generally commencing work at six o'clock in the morning, has a lunch and beer about ten, and leaves . 



