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operations, from the commenceme ig Agra cannot bi — * aonn M ben in ; to educate is to | will dispose of another 8 “& Where are the hands 
persuaded that it is good draining. In rst p ring out. By m of the former a pupil learns to | to come from?’ I will take a single parish as the 
I consider the drains uselessly deep, and in Ps second, | re 8 ng a = asians ne ra “a 83 by average of many. I find, then, that in my parish of 2000 
the ti | are ja i some i 
rvious, and it is this bt reason 2 1 be | — — Ta who send them to school to Sa ants for other purposes on the several farms, we have 50 
not t have such deep draining. Your correspondent goes | two or three years to get a smattering of Latin, i.e. to | able-bodied labourers on the spot. I will here state that 
, that the aan of — — — = been | be instructed, or to gain a knowledge of words, and at | for the better success of my plan, I sow my Wheat 
practically answered by its failure. the | the same time they FAR totally ignorant of things. | as near the 2d or 3d week in Septem mber as possible. i 
Regent’s-park ever been before 3 21 1 — dat a Surely it would e better for them, if they want intel- | do this thatit may tiller fully before winter, and so riper 
two or three p which are in possession of gent lectual exercise to study aeey, natural history, &c., | evenly at harvest. Before the end of the month, per- 
men, and I can bear ae to the — of ye a which bear upon thei ery-day pursuits. J. haps, the“ thin green lines“ are distinctly visible ‘and I 
rene in ont 13 or 14 cuir had the whole | Stollard, Agricultural School, Tadika, Staffordshire. at once set to work in the intervals. Now, if it take one 
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present deep drainage. The system I speak of is to ep aged months and a half to trench 200. But, ak rh ‘but 
have the — — im 36 inches deep, at intervals of 15} 7y, Birmingham Cattle Show, A Letter to the portion of these acres is to be dug, and this will reduce 
feet, the main drains 6 inches lower ; lay in the tiles, Right Hon. Lord Lytt telton, te 7 * reply to | the extent to 100 acres ; and the time it will occupy to 
and fill in y} or 4 Salil of pickings or hard cone (which Captain William Saye. By the Honorary Secretary. | two months and eight days. Sothatbeginning, as I do, the 
can be procured from the dust-yards at avery cheap] Birmin i, Newhall-stree t. last week in ae a I complete my labours the first 
rate), brick rubbish, or any such material will answer | 1 4 appears pigs shown by Captain Inge were week in December ; Per nearly five months in hand for 
as well; then let the cutting be — filled in and well disqualified by — rf ax Mb this late Birmingham the ee of fro st, snow, and sickness, before I 
rammed, and the remainder in the same way. It is} on the report of the referee that their age tia nee shutout by the g rowing crop.—I have only to show now, 
my firm belief — this is the most effective mode of wrongly stated, and they were, therefore, not allowed | by my fresh balance sheet, how, with suitable imple- 
draining Regent’s-park; the expense would be but little | to compete for the prizes in competition for which they ments, on Wheat land, the whole schem oe ty propose is 
more, but — would be the gratification of its being had been entered. G ptain Inge brings forward, as conomical, as well as — and expeditio 
a. aptait 
well done. I think it is of very little consequence | evidence that these pigs have been wrongfully dis- Ove double-digging in au El 10 0 
whether the tiles are shoe and sole, or pipe; I depend qualified, the declaration of his bailiff and others, that bee dito, wit ise searifier at een 3 0 3 0 
chiefly upon the drainage over the tiles to draw the | thei stated correctly. The judges and their on — and harrow "implement Sank 
r from the soil. Your cortespondent speaks in F old, “with confidence, to their method of judging Two pecks of seed lan the bushel) | 3 
flowery language of the fog i arises opm m the ground the age o he managing committee e and dri nee 8 
upon autumn evenings. T he par ery — p, l oug 006 
and requires thorough draining I admit, but not that it ofthe etl show having o 1 — i our, borings, ve w 5 horse-hoe im- 020 
is the sole of such fogs There is no greater evil appointed, Captain Inge’s appeal to them necessarily | Bird keepin gee 
genie than the lake, and the best draining that can be falls to the ground. Now, whatever be the exact truth All the opera tions from reaping to marketing’. i fy gy 
tested will never eradicate fogs in Regent's-park Wis’ tr th dispute it W tha Rates, taxes, andinterest .. — 010 0 
frequently 8 tr a nae ae ri — the stated age of some 6f the animals shown at the pig- Total amount of outlay £314 9 
a dense fog. 1 — said that I consider upon the _— 8 aer 2 1 a — The n it equal to that of former 
eat system the pipes are not well laid in; the oe by the animals diequilifed a wend aa v a at yiee A fei —in round erer ould be: 
is; because they are = ari the clay, and no precau- | name. However sahil the method of the referee | Fou" duarters and two busbels of(Wheatat 40s.) ... £810 0 
tion whatever taken with the joints, and the earth — may be for determining the ágas of pu ue doubt 1 One ton and 12 ct. of pe cen (at 21. the ton) ., 3 4 0 
clay then filled in and left ; the ground being allowed to | is jiable to failu ian th we pigs, 1 appear from ; 1 75 
settle by time, po gives — d but a neat finish. the confident re. assertion = his judgment in a parti- Deduct outlay . age sno 
If your M kent feo t can explain by what — the | cular ease, he thinks he can in all cases tell the age of Total amount of pro 
soil is to be kept fr rt pone in the joints of the pipes —.— -pigra by the teeth, then he must certainly have | If I were one of those who are bent on 8 Wheat 
with, the. water, and also why the c cuttings of 4 feet d by so tds the other pens without turning up the | at all hazards on lind @ which is not Wheat land g land. 
eep are preferable to the system I speak of — 8 é of their in th aOR sane, 
30 to 36 inches deep, with good rome to tn P Vere is, not possessing posar os 1 aturally the mineral 
“opin, I shall then be ant happy to become a atest = Be, Soe ni ora Pree fins * hierie” TP *＋ I should 14 
eep lan * ining. A Constant Reader and Gardener, Miscellaneous. ar agen nd: x direc: ng and importang hoes 
Portla land Town. Interesting Agricultural Questions,—There are many conducted by Mr. Morton—the “Cyclopedia of Agrieal- 
m 
Wicksteed’s Solid Sewage Manure.—In page 45 is Mr. most important questions now developing themselves in 
Wicksteed’s method of preparing = solid sewage N ee to which time will merely permit me to Purposes lat te ber ere, ion, use, price, and high 
authorities ee commend them. Selecting the 
manure, b the simple admix woth of lime | allude : I mean kan distribution of re 2 b 
(slaked, I Lear reer the orate part of the underground io m pipes. This opera as pro wi to agers Bare voy: on that point 
3 à P good 2 of soils would assist me—I should —4 4 it 
solid matters, dissolved as well as suspended, are preci- chea . 8 profitable — affording able 80 n 1 a d in A fe th 
pitated, and easily collected. I wish, not merely to ex- zau ka to t lant, when its assimilating powers ping i ‘the i intel sak — * — $ 
press my 8 of that pr its are fully 8 by heat and light. Another im- pose y AN etwould 3 stand: See e 
Ne success ; but to erably i an x age and its ee. matter is, the improvement ~ tenacious clays, 93 nene z Be: yi A 
remedy, which may considerably improve his product. | by burning or carbonising—the more foul and neglected ‘ a 
Lime will not deco a — 0 a, of which the soil — more grateful for the operation. 1 have Artigiani mana e for the half if portion of ‘each acre an 4 ? 4 
sewer water is likely’ to coats a good deal, and which | converted our concave mudd into conve — 
will thus run to waste in the liquor. But salts of mag- ones, by burning some 2000 cubic yards of their tena- Total amount of outlay . . 415 9 
nesia will; and the cheapest of these is the bittern or cious yellow clay shoulders, and removing it as brick- Protat of produce p l4 0 
mother liquor of the common salt works. A small | dust to our fields, at a cost of ls. per yard. Professor ial < «in 6 
portion of this, added after the settlement of the lime Voelcker, of the Royal Agricultural College, has . 
precipitate, will, with the ai ammonia set free, | recently, and in my opinion clearly shown, that the otal amount of profit .. £6 19 0 
separate the phosphoric acid from the phosphate of great liberation of alkalies, &c., is a eee Should the stout 5 still ex, e that all is 
soda, and carry + down to the sediment. If added | Practically, I find it pre ell, and is available on all |is out of his usual c requiring an unwonted ex- 
before, or with e, more or less of it would be our heavy clays. There are millions of stubby pollards peee. of bistak as well as — 22 4 to carry 
d up by the o ser phosphoric salts ; therefore it is | almost praying to be — to warm our cold clays it out, I bid him look to the results; and ask him 
best economy to let the lime first precipitate all that itj by combustion, Mr. Mechi’s Second Paper. cr rather bid him ask himself and his own aT sense 
will, and leave only the soda phosphate for the bittern. The Plough and the Spade. What ie t the differe =f, it not worth while! A Word in Seas 
proportion must, o ined by en, in point of expedition and expence, between t hó — — M — 
periment. The use of magnesian lime (from the mag- | plough and the spade ? rity is much in t- N ti c fai 
nesian 8 formation) instead of common lime, ters. “ It will take a good labourer 30 days to trench an eas 2 ” arempi kin ennen f maai i hich 
may answer the purpose, and is worth the trial; but [| acre, and 16 to dig it well,“ says that most useful little — 1 n one journal, he ait, eJ 4 ya 
should ae feel the same confidence in it as i lt | work, the“ C Cottage Fa rmer's Assistant,“ by Cuthbert the common brewers’ hogehead of 54 imperial gallona, — 
bittern, — — its efficacy be fully proved by experiment. | Johnson (p. 17), who is qeti from an essay on farming e large cider ones used in Herefordshire an 
J. Pridea by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. which measure upwards 4 Gens" pe ae Boas 
Dairy Taue ment. In answer to your correspondent | 1 ele Dienst instruments and some experi- loose, into his casks, and if so, how does he prevent their 
“A. B.,“ I may state that the pans I use for scalding | e e, a labour dig an acre of light land, 18 inches | coming out at the tap whenever any beer is drawn? Small 
the milk are of common earthenware, glazed inside, and deip ih in 25 da ii ve even 2feet deep in 35 days.” (Sin- its the od 22 r a F, Wee 
it is customary to boil water ~ them when new to test clair’s “Code of Agriculture, quoted in the same work, he W z 82 pa xe 45, No, 3, a recipe. for e 
their soundness. ese pans measure internally — p. 29.) Now, at the commencement of my trenching a| bitter 28 to be so kind as to state the quantity of water, 
diameter at top 14 inches; itto at bottom, 6 inches; | field, I bring up only so much of the subsoil — sa malt, 72 pte i ‘for * 8 "a . 
sa, 10 inches, Brass and ti are also com- 4, 5, or 6 inches—as can 8 by the atmo-| 4 v= Peta ions © Economy,” 4 vol. 3 . Dr 
used. In answer to rhe 8 “s Will cream sphere, and prepared for use by the one year’s fallow, n of making pale ale with sugar. lts ens in our 
bet sade for a few days do for wpe by this process! | increasin g y~ quantity — Alter year, till the staple paper would occupy too much space. 
I do not quite understand “ A. B By this process the hs becom wo good spits deep. And, -n all has geii a 
3 $ ette, Gated Jan 17, inferms us of his ; 
butter is not churned. The cream is put i the | e been — in A ses way, 7 becom e light, the brewing beer. lie particularly directs that the head or crust 
tub, which, o * ram ir the year, is r gaben, I have quoted may, I think, be considered formed on the beer, after it has 
warmed with hot w r previously; the cream is then correct. ing, then, pny 3 of these calculations, not be broken or otherwise 
worked with the flat 25 the ais ; the butter usually and commencing with 12 or 13 inches, inclusive of the Si e enough to tell us how the 
“comes” in four or five minutes. The cream ma y ploughing, the first year, — allowing for obstructions | . . fin er, ther 
dimmediately after skimming, or it ma mula e in the variety of soils to be acted on, I will reckon that 
accu 
for four or five days if nec cessary. From the e tot one man at the outset will dig, and in 
have had I can 
1 not concur in the opinion expressed by | degrees yip double digan acre in 30 days 
your e the Rev. Geo. Wilkins, * 8 as I do, men for work, I thus accomplish a 
re ians eee sti flavour of toasted cheese, — n five days; wise at 28. a day e 
„ instance of this 3 — amount to 60s. But only the hal e 
soa I sat 2 Ace: “apis J butter used in my house. T. B. aere is to be dug for one year’s crop, and this will give e — 
ucation.— Few people will have the hardihood, at reduce the time to two days and a half, and the yal wea of Apri, if the evga ome ame — f 8 — 
top 8 bah t dine; to deny the necessity of a educa-|to 30s. Say, however, that the time and the e à ense apran- e b 
sa e rising e oni co ntly t exer- are here underrated—that the time ag will | Gameness in Senen — do n touch with a 
shee 8 e And be. three days, and the e expense 365. the aed 10 alano uch = — — a ond afterwards 
it would. be well if a little more attention were paid to n then, in point of e my and expedition 1 D í 
he quality, as well as the quan tity ; there is not suf- |ploghin ng and the tre . will be just a par, 
Seient Siani made between mere instruction an andj Another calculation on the subject of this * labour, 
