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Winter wheat is ripe at Shanghai about the last of May. They 

 plant cotton seed between the middle of April and the middle of 

 May in their wheat fields, so that when they harvest the wheat 

 about the end of May the young cotton plants are a few inches 

 high. Before the cotton is ripe you see clover, beans, or other 

 plants growing in the same fields. They sometimes sow cotton 

 seed broad cast, and tread the seed in very carefully. They sow 

 broad cast extremely even and regular. The seeds pressed into 

 the soil thus together with the manures which are on the surface, 

 grow immediately and well. Sometimes they sow it in regular 

 lines, but seldom, however. When sown in lines they manure 

 it with the oil cake from their cotton seed oil factories. 



Translated from the French edition by H. Meigs, October 11, 

 1854. 



[London Farmers' Magazine, August, 1854. Extracts by H. Meigs.] 



At a meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society at Lincoln, a 

 member said that an old friend of his, and one of the best experi- 

 mentalists in Great Britain, the late Mr. Fleming, of Barrochan, 

 when he had said to him, " Give me in a nutshell what you have 

 learned in the course of your scientific investigations," had said 

 to him in reply, " Mix your manure; do not trust to guano, or to 

 farm yard manure exclusively, but put small portions of each to- 

 gether." Mmixture is the thing I say. 



At the exhibition the Dorking poultry appear to be ahead of all 

 others. 



We hear nothing of the much hoped-for Forking machine. We 

 hope for our Gibbs and Mapes to do that right first. 



They tested the deep ploughing by the ploughs of the Ran- 

 somes and the Howards, eight horses to draw one, three men to 

 hold on, and nobody knows how many to drive. The test was 

 pronounced by the public and admitted by the steward to be 

 "perfectly absurd." CroskilFs bell reaper was beaten fairly by 

 Dia}'s machines. 



Prizes of £iO sterling to cattle, £30 to horses, je30 to sheep, 

 £15 to boars, X20 to Dray's reaper, X20 to Hornsby k Sou for 



