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he more muck ” Pasar y put on, the more “ ow ” will inorganic substances ought to be introduced into a The land occupied is too limited to make it desirable 
1 produce, beca the constitution of plants with manure Pay Wheat than “for Potat gh and the same | to get all the best implements, or to keep a staff of agri- 
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is N similar to that of — : ; | observati will apply respectiv with regard to cultural labourers ; and therefore it is necessary to sow 
they can take in only a certain quantity, which allow- a — crop. But let these pe A al 1 thick, to keep down Chickweed and Givuiided which 
ance proves beneficial, whereas a surfeit only acts pre — — with ever so great a degree of ‘accuracy, it seem to be stimulated to an extraordinary degree of 
judicially to both. A practical illustration of the trath | cannot ee xpected that they will act similarly on all | luxuriance by the night-soi!, I find one ploughing 
of this remark I shall narrate. At the * of my occasion “Soil, climate, and locality must of course | of 12 inches deep quite sufficient to produce a good seed 
making the e experimen! ts — uced in No. 49 of your — 9 — influence productive of very different results; bed, after the clods have been broken down is — — 
aper, a neighbouring farmer, who — . * idea of and hence, in a great measure, arise the discrepancies wegian harrow ; and considering that we 
the “ new-fangled eres as he called them, being that we — o frequently hear of bei ay T saa Arm in the | probably the worst climate in the ki Aa r — Wises 
capable of surpassing in their effects, “ the old-fashioned | use of t Nor ery farmer knows, | (50 to 60 inches of rain mis ng in the north of Lan 
sort” that he and his father before him had used, deter- does ure ommon manure alway yield the same result; shire), I think the result of my experi eriments worth 
ined, he said, “to take the shine out of me; and with | for its efficacy, in like manner, depends upon circum- gh seeing that my Wheat last year ripe on 
such intention , added to a piece of his land planted ey and as much attention is ne cessary to be the 12th of August, and the produce 30 5 be to 
otatoes, ‘at the rate of at re 50 — — per bestowed, . aver, 3 the preparation of it properly, ow sie. 
* Vernon Harcourt says, “There is a certain limit 
m grew rank and long ; mei on lifting — — | But I Have? « conside erably digressed from the topic | in all soils —— which Nature refuses to answer your 
the principal ware the tubers, were not on y ec wich ought to have constituted the chief subject of my {demands upon her.” No doubt there is; but has it 
deficient, but about two- thirds in a state of resent communication, and the —.— a return to been reached yet? A field in Norfolk of five acres. 
This, I was perfectly satisfied befo e would the inquiries made by your correspond To answer | produced 90 bushels of Wheat to the acre in 1844 ; 
happen ; but it was in vain my endeavouring then these more satisfactorily than has dida. been done, I cannot scientific agriculture come up to this standard t 
convince him of it. * circumstance, however Se, tended must beg the favour of his furnishing me with more | which, so far as I remember, was the ameg of ae 
more forcibly to strengthen the opinion I have lo ong minute data to guide me than he has afforded; for I mean that there did not a pear to hav K* 
entertained, namely, that this esculent requires for its | instance—How were the crops of his neighbours cul- | traordina ary rks Pu. to produce this erp, which had 
healthy cultivation a much less quantity of nitrogenous | tivated? Was the soil as well as the dung used of the — has a crop of Peas. What is wanted i is a Wheat of 
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submitted to analysis, but in the very clever and useful | were the crops previously grown in each! Did he take | Thickset, but it is coarse and thick skinned. Where is 
little work published by Mr. Solly, entitled “Rural | the precaution to ttn himself tliat the artificial —— there a variety shorter in the straw produeing Wheat of 
Che emistry, which every ore will act wisely in | stances ma were really such as had been nes to good quality? It may be that our wretched climate is 
3 and I have read with a great deal of inte- him by the vendor? The neglect of the me en- the cause of this coarseness, for there has never been a 
well as profit, it is shown that in 1000 | tioned i * che Tast — pe — fully detailed i in my a season since 1846 which has been favourable for 
parts of dry Potato there are 15 of nitrogen, while in “Hints to Purchasers of Manures,” that a appeared in Wheat here. I have obtained a Wheat from Chili which 
the same proportion of Wheat are found 23; and in last vee ich g to ref i 
100,000 parts of the tuber and haulm of the former, him, I have no doubt accounts for the disappointment | (after two sowings) it has not ome acclimatised, 
1429 of potash, while but 245 appear in the straw and | met with in the majority of cases where * 9 although much better the second season than the first. 
e latter, which proves that ammoniacal | are fried. Previous to their application, also, Ie e original sample was a beautiful white Wheat, plump. 
t be more suitable for Wheat, and those in | sider the land being in a fit state of. fertili ity of “the and thin skinned ; the 8 is —— ed and ro 
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ston, also, in his truly able and scientific pea in mind, that they cannot in any way alter its texture— | is 1 ffieult to to iscertain "a the best at mE dE of 
“ Lectures on Agricultural Chemistry and logy,” | I mean, are incapable of — stiff soil porous, | obtai rag — the soil the a A erage p —— that it is 
2d rer wey page 642, in giving a detail of special or adding stability to a light one. Such qualifications expable Se eldin ing; that 
Ban each crop, adds a much ee 8 must be effected through other mediums. W. D. S. diosyneracies in the human constitution which defeat 
the eee of the physician, so are there ‘those in 
diie d other crops. He further atktioh if the thes wok. EXPERIMENTS, IN AGRICULTURE. the soil wh h perplex Ad d mpr — t the agriculturist.” 
: If the produce of a fie at the rate of Ire every landowner were to devote an acre or two to | No doubt ihe ie great th in this ; but has not the 
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a 5 and if the straw average twice the weight of and recorded year after year—it is, I think, extremely with fertility as its chemica tow ness the 
grain (it is es 3 ah 2 34 times as much), then probable that the condition of agriculture would soon be | experiments of Mr. Smith. In my own little attempts, 
the ia Ka of inorganic matter carried off the soil by | different from what it now is; there would not then be| the Wheat grown in that portion ‘Of the land which was. 
the cro be per acre a rule of thumb, a blind adherence to antiquated prac- | most profusely covered with sand and gravel was earlier, 
In 12 Ibs. of grain, 3 ss at š.. 30 lbs. tices, a strong prejudice 1 all innovation, and a brighter in the straw, and a better sample than the 
In 3000 Ibs. of straw, at 6 per cent 1 10 violent hostility to fp ttempts made to introduce new | other. I can hardly suppose that this Me 2 75 
Total .. een methods of farming. thing obtained from that sand and gravel (it is true the 
1 e pet . as fea a or Tam induced to make these remarks by observing in | gravel was 1 limestone peilis the sand mostly 
— py te wees hee í 85 — your Dina of the jiu inst. (p. 27), an account of a quartz), because the same effect had been previ 
— 8 to the means of an analysis before pres will series of experiments with various manures, which are | produced by the fragments of sandstone from the stones 
r recorded by Mr. Faden Harcourt, who is another | of which the church was 2 25 and there was previously 
Siik Total. proof of the advantages oeo 5 eee by e at * in —4. 
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3.02 my family have been tenants for many generations), I has made a mistake in the — —— on of a . E 
12 94 feel a Molen veneration for the name of ourt, is not a pra etical st but a chem 
10,52 which I 97 perhaps be allowed to express, seeing that chemistry, as applied to ture, is but in its . y 
2.55 pe have no favour to ask, and am not con- | but if it be applied as perebverin gly to agriculture as s to 
10.56 nected with either Church leases or Church Jands. some manufactures, and all the com i tim 
1,97 _ Will Mr. Vernon Harcourt, when he next writes, be soil, proportion of ingredients, &., be carefully — 
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Potatoes, page 387, it is makes all the difference between producing a very good | about 5 ewt. of lime to lf acre, was taken at once 
I oy otatoes con * two or a very injurious effect ; for instance, if night-soil or |a wheelbarrow! and this was the fourth white erop 
om a 4 ich keat; when burned, from 8 to ariy other ammoniacal manure is applied to Wheat in | grown in four successive years. 
P per prne ot ash, or in all 400 lbs. The tops of the the spring, say in April ( (with exceptions to be here- I had written a far, when ag Rey of the 
otato, weighing 4 or 5 tons green, contain 1000 lbs. of | after mentioned), it, for a time, seems to be of extra-| 17th Janua: , came to hand; and I leased to 
— * leavin ng 10 ＋ cent of 1 or, in all, 180 Ibs. ordinary benefit—the blade . l . and observe, in your ur Leadin ng article, a con on of my 
us e crop carries off alto together more luxuriant, and grows away a fam but ideas, namely, that a manure which ma may be ; g 
In the as 22 eerie A after it begins to shoot, the bie 838 . Z valuable for r a particular crop, if applied at one season 
Ta the straw e iol the Wheat is pia ie a bad is comparatively worthless at another, and that crops. 
T 580 Ibs. sample and an indifferent yield. This I have rep 80 ö iha to 
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the : Men (so far as my experiments have gone) better and more days. Peas also are so different a crop, 
above — some the erop pen, Wheat, and n straw, hae pe other I know. in quality and produce, when 8 late, that i Berg ‘hey 
ene: half more; an the proportion of tops, in I have found i 
Turni und the use of stable manure for Wheat (even | are almost worthless if er April. I am aware 
— jer d iie Pointo eyed a uch larger when used in autumn), produce the same morbid pith ard some ascribe the mildew by which late Peas are- 
These a aa 88 — in the blade, the same discoloration in the straw, and frequently attacked to thegrought to which they are- 
into consideration in estimating the effect which; en the same inferiority of sample in the sack which the use pen but kreii suffer as from this mildew in 
crop, or any succession of aan of these pre 1 of guano, nitrate of soda, or night-soil produced when | Lancashire ire, as elsewhere, although it is ey Het for 
to produce upon a given soil. ps mona used in the spring. Are e injurious effects pro- ae of moisture. 
The e Eu ion’ ms . duced in the south? The warmer climate and drier t the risk of being thought desultory and uncon- 
extracted from e soil | by ed as ken git | atmosphere may make a great difference in this respect. pected, I may as well notice what you say about — 44 
Was nearly as follows hire Hy crop of E Potat otatoes, I have also found heavy clay land derive extraordi- or rather request you will notice what I said 
Sere benefit from an abundant supply of sand and gravel Wheat night ripening, by g sowed after ata. 
from th er. e y a 1 | This latter crop may take pe 8 Aer nem 
— | church was built here, and the year after I observed but does it n e a 
in the corner of the field where the grit stones were | soluble silica—the of which in the 18. 
strewed that the Wheat vas ripe 10 days earlier than in | of grain in my opinion, 
any other part of the field. P ting by 
a portion of it covered with gravel at the rate of 100 
cart-loads to the acre ; another portion with half that 
quantity, Pe the remainder 1 
comparing these analyses, fore, it will wi . uD suecession wich 50 m 
that a very N a of the mineral or gel eerie and of great prom ? acre 
