and but barely bear— the cockneys turned out in thousands to alratA «r, fV.. a .■ „ . 



Park The ice broke in several places, but there were Introf no^^ 'sarpentme" in Hyde 



were well duclfed none were driwne^ and the Z'^^, 1' 70^ n'^i 'tM^r^' 

 various games and enjoying themselves first rate, apparently thinking uothlnrof ."f 7!^^"' P'^^^^S 

 of taking a cold bath or of finding a watery grave. ^ = ' "'^ "^'^ "'^^ 



«ti^ ^;l\I."^"f F^f^'-. our ordinary old fashioned eastern winters with three or four months 

 steady sle.gh.ng, to this miserable, muddy, misanthropic weather, even if it is English 



in l;?n ^l\t ^' •"'''! ^'".^^ ^'^' ^ ^"'■'^ ^'"'^'•- ^^y ^"-^ i^ «^« habit of plowin. their land 

 m he fall and throwmg it up into ridges, so as to have as much surface as poss^le ex;o d o the 



months."''"' ""^^'"" '' '^'"'''^' "'"" "" "^^*'^^'' -" P-™t, all through the winter 

 A. Some farmers are in the habit of doing so, but the most intelligent do not. They think it is 



to bring it to a fine tJt'h. Sol ffrn^rs lei: tv' W n il ^^ dTubtireir^' T^ ^^'^^ 



SthSs;— — ^i^ 



U.e fall plowing had not only injured the crop, buJ that theland^ qJred Lf^^^^^^ 

 spring than that which lay untouched during winter. It was the custom of tlTn T 7 

 to fall plow, and his landlord would think him a very Z Wfe™" i he Z TV 77"' 

 From wliat he said I gathered that this was his greatest realon L ^orkin. h T f .^ " 



:;ao:;:=:ti;^5:::s; ---^;-^^ .iani:;L i^ 



ta^s.p::^s::-^^^^ 



i::i:si::;r''''^ '' ' ''''-' ^^^^^ —^ -^^^ --y ^--« toVaii ;:v:;rr w 



thet dVlnlnlLtd "Th^r? t," f^t •'''''" T"^'"^^ '"'•^-" "^'^^^^ ^° *^^ I^orth-Eastern States as 



greater part of the winter's fill of water passes off ll^f rhetf k^w^ ^1^^^:^^ 



fell plowing light soils so injurious with us as with the English farmer 



B. I suppose the English farmers use lime as a manure, to a very ar;at ex-tent 



A. I was told that not a tithe as much was used now as ten or fifteen veaiv a:.o. The introduc 



t.on of guano and of superphosphate of lime, revolutionised English farming iifthis p -tic Kr as' 



well as m n,any others. Many old fashioned farmers still lim^, as formerh- but the n "c iee t 



^:::s? :::::t4 '^^^ ^"^ '""" "^^^^ ''-^ '-" -' ' -' ^^^-^^ ^tis:?:h? 



B I thought lime was very cheap there and did not cost anything like so much as c^uaro and 

 a t^cial manures, and that the use of lime and the practice of under-draining were the gre" ca-es 

 of England's superior farming. o » « ^"^ gi eai causes 



A Tbat i. probably true to « certain e,t,nt, yet it i, J„al„l„s,, tn,e that the u,e of lime as a 



r t:Trt:\:'Ch!Ter:r i:"::t.a,^T tu r,."n' *""' - '--■ -' - *«^ 



1 A \, " . ^ ' ^"^ ^^ " ^^'^'^^ considerable labor to cart and spread it on the 



land, you can see that it is a very expensive manure. ^ 



5. Why do they apply such large quantities at once. I should think smaller doses oftener 

 repeated, would be better economy. ' ^"®^^^ 



th^' ^^7^\""^ ^""'"'7 *f "' '^''y ^""^ ^"""^^ ^y ^^P^'-i^-^e that it did not pay to apply less 



than 150 bush, per acre ; la.d once limed did not require it again for 20 years. Thity bushel of 



^ wheat do not contain more than a pound of lime. A bushefof lime wo^uld certain / s^p^y aU 



