THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. ; 
[Man. 14, 
seen in’ crowded — plantations, where none of the trees, 
from their number, attain full growth, and many per: ish 
from disease. have here given what I term the 
rationale of my recommendation, and I trust I have 
only farther to observe, to induce your farming readers 
each to test my recommendation, that my practice in 
the first instance was to sow 23 bushels of Wheat per 
acre, and my alterations arose fect observing that the 
thinner sown grain ever in the latter stages grew best, 
and yielded most at harvest, and further, that. although 
I farm largely Ihave not at this time an acre of land of 
my own that has so much as one bushel of Wheat sown 
to the acre ; and that nothing has ever occurred or 
come to my knowledge to cause me to doubt that I am 
right in advising such apparently very thin sowing, I 
have some hundreds of letters in confirmation of my 
practice. Ican name large farmers who are adopting 
my very small proportions of seed, from their own ex-, 
perience, and indeed scarcely a day passes that does not 
bring me letters in its favour ; but I never yet brought 
thin sowing forward as a means to counteract bad farm- 
ing; neither thin sowing, high manuring, nor clean 
cultivation, separately, w ill ensure a crop ; "and itis an 
error to visit every failure of thin sowing as the conse- 
quence of too little seed. I know that many hun- 
dreds of quarters of corn have this year been saved by 
my means, and to advantage ; this knowledge, when 
failure of food is so much to be dreaded, is a happiness 
to me.— Extract from a Letter by Hewitt Davis, in the 
Maidstone Gazette. 
A Mode of Illustrating the Injury done to Manure, by 
being repeatedly Flooded with Rain Water.—Suppose 
that any of the married men in this company was to 
get hold of his wife’s teapot, after she had done with it, 
and was to dry up the leaves carefully, and bring them 
to her for her tea the next morning, I would just ask 
you, whether she would be likely to fud out the trick or 
not? I imagine she would not be long in discovering 
the cheat ; and I might venture to guess he would find 
out to his cost that, if that was the way he was to keep 
her in tea, she would soon finda way to keep him in 
hot water. Now, if the wife would feel so indignant at 
being supplied with tea that had been wet two or three 
times, how ought the farmer to feel that was supplied 
with manure that had been wet two or three hundred 
times? It is true the farm cannot fight its own battle 
as well as the mistress, but there is such a thing as 
passive resistance, and you may depend on it, that in | the 
harvest, the farmer will be made to feel, that in cheat- 
ing his land, by giving it manure which has lost all its 
strength, he has been, in fact, cheating himself, and 
that this may have a worse result even than cheatin 
his wife.—Mr. Blacker, at the late Markethill meeting. 
CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS. 
[The e publication of this paragraph was accidentally omitted 
els k.] 
a2. M is the proper season for sowing Peas. a 
cont two to three bushels per acre in rows a foot apart, o 
land which has been well cultivated and reduced to a fine tlt 
VOKWHEAT-J M—Drill, in the ER d M lj bushels per 
acre, in rows m ws Wege on light la 
Cownouss—J stall a MEUS sentiat stable will answer 
perfectly, Kindaes 88; A all m 
Essay on FE ors SD dio = Wet din take. an carly oppor- 
, tunity of publishing extracts. 
FORWARD WHEAT—A ee —Are you inland? Then, as your 
land is light, sow 3 c of salt per acre, harrow it 
in across] the drills, c whenever yout land is dry enough, 
refer it, may wait till April, eal mow the Wheat down, 
ah cub rs no (ere of your hurting the young ear at so early 
a stage of its 
SENE J M Bow early in April 41bs. of seed per acre on a 
nely-pulverised surface, of clean friable land, in rows 16 
inches apart. 
HAND DrsBLE—2M—A simple, heap j cient dibble is, in our 
opinion, still a qoe Jf (which we cannot imagine) 
you can unite simplicity and redes in Eu ingtruth ent 
costing only 7s, 6d., no doubt it will sell, 
manufact turing the puts for 3 
expences will be iE de dados: 
Lives High Weay—Give cal of the meal to each 
boil it to a mucilage į is abst Pas ree times its bulk of |- 
Xt and po i ov hay chaff in their troughs. 
Pics—M D— t SEES s breed. Mr. Fisher Hobbs, 
of Mark's Tall, i2 Kelvedon, is a good pe: 
an any one ci 
n—It ordinarily weighs a little heavier 
70 Ibs, a bushel is an extraordinary 
Rep CLOVER cee 
than good Wheat. 
ou B n safely fold ewes and 
weeks old. That is 
only if it apo be very strong 
or growing it will be necessary to look after them RESI and 
kisses drive them about lest they should overf. 
SHALLOW B is DRAINED 3 
ManL—. 
a most fertile soil. The surface must be levelled with spade 
or otherwise, and the tufts burned ; and wide trenches should 
e dug, 5 yards apart, down through the marl, and their 
contents thrown over the ridges. Dry weather, succeeded by 
rain, will soon moulder the marl thus Rye i 
have been done last autumn, and the land should have 
een dug over, and you might then have planted Potatoes 
this spring but now your first crop m 
you should, as soon as possible, lay th 
and depasture with sheep and’ cattle for 2 or years ; faa 
plough it up for Oa: xit adco dO in the autumn, 
and take some root- crop T following year, 
SHEEP HUSBANDRY- jo, Aoa: on. the Sheep" is the 
completest NH. you can Ee 
STEAM ENGINE—V— rse power engine and 
boiler for from 150%. e 3501. um vill do worth your while to 
get an engine “for 130 acres of plough land and 250 of park; 
and to eut timber, &c." Steaming poor ay and straw is 
said make cattle relish it more. We have not experience on 
the point, but ne of our kioiitpapolidénis may perhaps be 
able to inform 
SUPERPHOSPHATE OF Lime 
sulphuric acid produces in bone: 
answered your question at p. 158. 
is 40, Upper "Thames-street, London 
TANK—. — Let the contents of y our main drain run into a 
tank, cee 6 ‘reat i cep, 6 feet. wide, and 10 feet long, built with 
brick and well ee ed. p of sufficient 
size will EH your pi 
from the botto; 
your proposal—is it not? 
——Y Z—It is the same as that which 
ou will find that we 
Mr. Fothergill’s address 
Quse tie Mere vaew iO poles, a 
‘aggots acres th and ea ver that. The contents 
ll be best applied by a water-cart over Grass lands 
arch; or you may pump th t over heaps of any ab- 
sorbent material, such as t hes, strawy dung, dc. a 
n the garden in this compost form, digging ‘them 
ther in Num 
tch Peas are good sorts 
; the rst. isis the earliest. The Early 
Charlton um Prussian Blue are varieties which will also an- 
swer for field culture in good situations. The Pea n a 
ki inti loam; it oe a lighter soil than the Bean, 
w be turned and commingled ; ee 
intended for the elds aes Carrots are to be sown should bi 
jou ME Re chereHen inch cost ld. per cul uie „yard, m 
Th mer fume now pur pice his stock of seeds—Carrots, 
Clovers, Gates seeds, Mangold Wurzel, and Turnips; and let 
lands in perch-wide ridges, but wi 
dry, it may be cross-ploughed in great widths. 
ere naturally or artificiall 
Oats s RUD nor be sown, Ha 
fallow crop, and drill 4 bushels per acre in 
Heuer Pickle t 
sack of it separately on the barn fioor, and po: 
out of an iron vessel, or it wi 1l be NET a Sor Hcl of 8 oz, 
by an abundant yield, and good and bulky straw ; 
the second, by the quality of the grain; and the third, by its 
earliness. e Tartarian Oat is largely cu ultivated in bleak 
situations, BERE a a large Ret fh of coarse grain is desired. 
Spring Tares or Vetahes should be sown SA the main 
erop. Drill3 bushels per acre in r2 d inches apar 
Wheat Lands should be ; Docks a Coltsfoot 
flowers pulled; and stones eee pu he: ae Cast every- 
thin, Fat M pra » Get youi 
or Es of S ito and ewt. 
wing d Pu at dhs pae of from 
ic 
seed Barley by this time; next week 
T imi wit. Three bushels per acre on ood 
land is sufficient, Sheyalien Bai 
sort to grow in kindly soils un situations. 
Notices dp » Correspondents. 
RURAL CHEMISTRY, by Edward Solly, E ew 
Es, F.R.S 
yan with a ditions, à ne Topin and will be e s a 
Brans- NotinghonDible about 2 VR deep. 
Bones AND HUR: CID—A Yor Yow 
no doubt answer E m ; 100 be ey sulphuric bona nd 4; 
bushels of bone-dust dried in mould, and sown Nae 
per acre, for young Wheat or Oats, ^ York 
: Ewe 
arley is, we believe, the best stendy : a choice Galt makes abe be 64.—Pork trade is 
plan will bey quien re has been some arrivals from 
To Stock A MOUNTAIN Farm—Shirgar—Excuse the delay of a 
week. 
TunwiP-SEED.—A. Correspondent—Select round or rendra 
Rum fattened us choose those with small necks and n: 
e tops off amd transplant them i 
MU Ri ese been d akg over 
them ğabout a yard 
spring. If you have anes extent oF bd thus planted, 
all th: at you have to doi to E esa E 'ound with the hoe, and 
ipe e only a single ro: w, each 
plant should be support ted 55 2 eh Do not tr: nifenantintg 
richly-manured gro 
WHAT “CAN BE” A  Prorrranm PRICE ror Corn ?—Const 
^h, to be sure, can answer for 
-Reader—No man can tell. Eac 
his em. system of cultivation ; but no one can ere either 
mprovements which may occur in the gue of 
Y neat, Barley, &c., or their influence on price an luc- 
See p. 14. AS s regards what farm. profit ‘in p Sn 2 
ULD amount to; why, there is no limite to be ee isk that 
CO of the question. u ask what it wiLL am. 
e answer—it depends on Ns general dite i the 
country, the market value of land, the abundance of capital, 
the of the farmer. Capital will yield in this busi- 
ness as rich an interest as in any other requiring equal skill. 
Misc—A Sub—Give mare a mild dose o: Pin n 
which a Ves of M Doa a pe d gy with chaff, and a 
rate portio: 5 n hour’s abso pend 
daily fees m fir st SES ie om the second, after which 
T dose of physic,then trotting EDS and afew Beans 
bu. he MN every da; D and plenty of good 
grooming, w y adjuncts, 
"n AAE ME zekota town after qiodissday: cannot be 
"answered the same: week. 
Markets, 
SMITHFIELD, Monpay, Mar. 9.—Per stone of 8 lbs, 
Hest Scots, Herefords, Ao. 4 d oo a pn Downs & Half-breds 5s 4 to $e 
Best Short Horns . Beat Long-wools 
Second quality Beasts - 3 o 3 à Ewes and second sualliy 44 40 
Calve = Pigs s 0 5x0 
ts; 925 Sheen, mios Čaves, “4b; Pigo, 
y; ade very Us. The b at 
E] 
PEF 
Some of the choicest 
arly 6s. per 81bs.—Veal trade is rather dn]l,—Pork 
8 
He 
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3 
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5 
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5 
Father better; nice 
Beast s LA "Sheep; 2980; Calves, 131; Mu 380, 
i mithfield. 
HOPS, Fumar, Mann 
The Hop market continues just in the same mue A Jast:wrdok: 
aN & Sura, Hop-Factors. 
)TAT OBS,—Sournwanx, WATERSIDE, ; Mar. 9. 
The supply to this market during the n. week has been unusually limited, 
the nor thern 
id was brisk for York and Svotch Beda at fur 
sampler of second-rate 
eds, 808 to M «ua * ton; ditto mora 70sto 110s per ton; 
COVENT GARDE N, Manon 14.— Vegetal de- 
ee are plentifully supplied ; Fruit is nre sufficient for 
the demand. Wow , Considering. the season, are WA 
plentifal, and dus Fid ality. Grapes have ered in 
pace since last week. Sia and PN ae supplied He dux 
tities sufficient for the pus not great. Orang 
are very scarce, so much s NES aed hardly be obtained 
i Nuts have ne very little in price since last 
Among Vegetables "gs p is rather on the. Hao; 5 5 
regard to quaj M it is not so good as it has been, the tw 
three cold nights that we nave: lately had being unfavourable to 
ate growth. French Beans are plentiful, but not ud good i in 
arb are ex e former is 
nt; 
1 rin price. Broccoli and GE winter ome d sufficient 
forthe demand. Brussels Sprouts are not so plentiful as they 
prices. 6d. a 
Radishes, and other Salading, ar and Ue "Ont 
F. Ben chiefly consist of Heaths, ‘Hyacinths, Tu 
ofthe Valley, Pentas carnea, Camellias, ped aes Acacias, 
eames, DUM Grange flowers, Rhododendrons, Cine- 
rarias, Gardenias, and R 
TS, 
Lemons, Der dozen, 6d to S 
100, Ga to 146, 
d (pak pe 
t Almon 8y ponli ^s 
Filberta, English, Pls eo 608 
pte, Cob, per 100 tbs à 
ni, 207 
o 16s 
Pine Apple, perlb., 6st uh 
Grapes, Hothouse, Berth, 8 
— per 100, 4s to 188 - Brazil, z 
Seville, per 100, de to 188 n Bianitbe ie. 
— per dozen, 2s to Chemnuts, pe Pun k, 35 to 88 
Pears, per hf.-s: 8V., 61 to 15s 
VEGETABLES. 
Cabbages, per E Parenips, per doz, 3d to 
Tod, por dez, 4e 0.8 Scorzonera, per indie, if tole 8d 
j btaa Jato 196d, | Salsify, ps 
Savoye per aoan id to 1, ae 
ch is oa to 8s 6d. 
ns Idi. per hf.-sv., 26 to 8s 
0 2s 6d. Garlo; perlb., 6d to 8d 
ive, per score, 6d to 1a 6d) 
Cri per score, Ca s to 6d 
Co: 
a nm o Is. 
a ushel, 35 to j per 1a hands; 1e to La 0d 
ldney, per ‘shel ‘Ba toda Mushy ne Pottle, 6d to 1s 
‘Turnips, per doz. la to Small Salads, per punnet, 2d to 8d 
Red Beet, per doz., 6d t inch, 3d to 3d. 
Carrots, per doz. behs., 
ee 
2 hm, buns 6d to 8d 
Rhubarb, per bundle, id to a ad araley, por Winch, Id tood 
Asparagus per bundle, 2s to 9s — Roote, per eee le 
Cucumbers, each, 2s to oe argon, per bunch, 6d 
Spinach, per sieve, 3s t 
s 6d 
ceks,per doz. bunches, i to le 6d 
Celery, per bunsh, us tols 6d 
Cardoons, each, 
HAY.—Per Load of 36 TREN 
MITAELDA Mar. 12. 
Prime Mead.Hay 853 to 92«| New Hay —ato —s| Ne 
Infr.New & Rowen 6 65 80 | Clover 80 so 115 | Straw 35 
Jouw faces, CNET 
CUMBERLAND MARKET, Mar, 1 
Prime Mend. Hay pro LEES Clover 1108 to 1158 
80 
wClr, ky 
Inferiordo. 90 105 | Straw ^ 3951090& 
New Hay vs 
osua Baxi, Hay Salesman, 
WHITECHAPEL, Mar. 13. 
80s to 7 | ie lover uo. 101208 
Fine Old Hay ~ 
* 90 97 | secum 288 to 84s 
Inferior Hay 
New Hay 
lover 
Meieri 
katany p price, 
RK-LANE, MONDAY, Mar. 9, 
"The supply X “Bnglish Wheat by land carri; 
morning was 
Td prommen this 
condition bein what 
er qr. was realised E the 
h p qualities cannot be noted higher ; 
free Foreign E An good aun onded we did. 
not hear of ransactions,— y sells pene but 
, | ordinary desoriptions are offered at low figuros, —The show of 
EL 
8 good, and we reduc uotations 1s, 
a er qr. on all mud sof the latter,—Oats are eae, English and 
fine Dim: must be written 6d. per qr. dear 
ITISH, PER IMPERIAL Ser E S. Se 
Wheat, J deer Kent, and Suffolk: finite -58 à. 6; 
—- folk, Lincolnshire, and Yorks White 59 68 
Barley; wating and distillin Be ods Chevalter At Grind. 93 2 
Oats, Lincolnshire and Yorks + Polande $22 Feed ^ 91 25 
— mberland and Sot Feed $2 Potato. 23 28 
a: 
Malt, ale ship TEMO INPS ae 
rtford Gna elves" . eis 
+ ot BÉ 
Beans, Mazagan, old and new 28 to 40 — "Tick 30 
eon, Heligoland 35 to 46 inds 4 
Pons, White + 84 to 38 Maple 28 
An RRIVALS IN THE RIVER LAST 
row 832 44 
Longpod 32 35 
27 80 
WE! 
Flou ht. | Barl., Malt, P nos Peas 
English 4028 Ske, — Bole, 4417| 4009 | 6564 | 2492 Her E 
[rish . » » — — 2705 
Foreign . 1088 °» 553 n (usol — | — | 2706] Z leiso | iod 
Mar. 13. 
The XD em 
English on 
been sold at pr CE rates,—Dar] 
fully Maia their late value ; 
Oats are in fair FE and th 
VALS THIS WEEK, 
Wheat Barley Oats Flour 
English . 7370 4890 5040. 4890 Sks 
VIDA NETS =- = - 
Foreign... 12960 120 5160 ^ - 
IMPERIAL inet aly 
Wheat. | Bar Oats. | Rye. | Beans.) Peas, 
Jan. 81 per Quarter.| 54r Bd) Sle dal Blsi0d| B2 04, aba dd 36s 8d 
Feb. Pio. .| 6€ 8| 8010| 91 7| 8t 9| 85 85 6 
EXEC ag 54 9| 20 1 9| 332 7| 34 85.7 
— mM. . .| 55 0| soi! 91 6| a210| a4 34 8; 
aE E BR 30 31 5| 38 4| 84 85 9 
Man 7 + . «| 5410| 99 8| 2110| a8 6| 2411 | 38 8 
6 weeks’ Aggreg. Aver. | 54 8| 30 8| 91 8| 83 1| 35 oj 350 
Duties on Foreign Grain 18 ^! 8 n! eol 9 «| 7 e| 7 6 
Diagram showing the fluctuations. e oF Corn on the je average of the 
six weeks ending ANiiediy Max. 
Fan, 7 
.91 | Frp, 98 
bry — 4 oz 
EEDS, 
ana elle ce pum p.ton 8} to. 97 
Ber emi 40°" Go| Mustard, Wait cns 
Glover, ep p - 8) 100 fine oti pi: 
wj - 50 82 n. -© am 
Z White, Fori ~ 20 8 | Raposged, ellen Sx 39^ Su 
= 48 84| Rape Cake s son, - - 
Gorlandes - lm ode Sainttol = 
empseer * pergr. 85 T En e= = 
ine. x 2 ares brisa bush. = E 
— Patio 7 
Cahen Eng. per 1000; du T Tun (too o variable for qu for d 
