124 HR AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. (Fen. op 
Parsnips and Carrots, in ores all — well dos (casual) water. In the prent state S 8 seg 
— and wholesome; but very bad o tt — Po 5 e ee clature they may be regar 
-done. The wen: of Mont St. Berna antica 
pon pega noble dogs, are - devoted to the relief The Drainage in Regent’s s Park.—I was —— "meget 
ering humanity, s reading the communication of Mr. He — be 
eee their doing 7 5 ess pay a visit to the draining operations in the 2 s 
cien ’ This would be easily remedied by th e use ite a Park, and from what I saw can bear testimony — 
2 Papin digester, which, in many respects, is so useful. | that gentleman said Tepai the efficient manner in 
infirmities hav — been 8 egi use of which the draining is being executed; also the entire 
snow-water—. rather | uselessness of the previous drainage that portion of the | the 
shoul Me An 
d have — to Somme tes ested. — Agri- | public grounds had been subjected to. inspection 
* belong to that 
Directions for Guanoing —.— or other Growing 8 the improvement of the soil, a, hee he belong 
Crop, in a Apply it at once, twice or three | class who are too knowing to beco —— or too little to 
e whole quantity allowed may * were he will see in ons in progress 
as 
vary * to 4 or 5 ewt. to the acre, in doses of not an instructive fact, as well as a dea example o 5 the m 
less r st oh an 14 to 2 ewt. at a time.—| riga application ot science to pra ; he t the | soi ort 
2. Let the first application be made, if two or three are | sa the original drain as co — — a secure e ag z 
intended, quite early i 2 “spring Lee some time in e ares foh ‘ibs use of the horse- min 8 5 ps Mr. 
the first 
February, upon of “ growing” | Davis ‘supposes „ but from want of judgment in the | hou 
ju 
weather, but before the * aay eee made an opes itself. I aw pact of an old drain tabs up, it 
i start 
b — said, the e 
erop exceeds 8 or 10 inches in height. If one only just because it had — r been a conduit for water. 
is intended, it had better, perhaps, not be made until | is bait er, my opinion, based o or the e experience of 15 
somewhat later than the former period —but this must years se of the a “tile, that had e 3 es e for 
be quite subject to the following.—3. Always choose the vain’ in the Regent’s Park, with a 
ill, Ps „ if possible, showery weather for its longitudinal er pere. of cer siratifioation, — present 
application, but not when the leaves are actually wet, operation would not have been necessary, as the object 
nor when = i it 
t sh be iona fine with a e an ere is no need of apprehension where the operation 
i ted, as such might be i 
am Ga s 
be sown directly it is mixed, or loss will ensue. Some me that the system of shallow draining has 
mixture of ae ard which should be carefully made e by reached its utmost development, and with first-class 
turning of the hee, makes it | cultivators can only be viewed as a matter of mien i 
of i 
repeated a 
more hand dleable, and facilitates the sowing of it with| I could point to an oor where a whole esta 
error reasonin 
of water reaching 4 feet dadasi in a perpendicular line, 
isite. | he states an example of it reaching 25 feet in a hori- 
i 8 the subsoi 
ca- | could not be the want ae oe in 3 8 
water was to be then 
> 
pail the penria fiov As = feet, 21 obstructed its 
„ icular descent to 5 feet! My o pression 
tters is, that 1 to disunite a horizontal peresation 
with the science of deep draining, would des that 
g | happy relation parsa constitutes the ene of a 
d 
i Ww. 
the rate of only 1 ewt, to the acre, mixed with its own | formed and rn the soil. P. M. 
itchell, 7, Fin - 
bulk of si ashes, on one part, and at double — street, kee, e = TPR 
upon another portion of the field of win Disease in Swans.—Havin lost several swans in a 
5 3 wy the aay it | poa Se I send you you the 5 in hopes that 
much out of conditio n (having bo Fay e x D tl fall. i 
before te 5 P icone 1e plumage, with peri erect, comes with othe 
crops usly), and — ss Tiia 
asea — et the Vetches where 
had been app: e . — e dene 
es on thrusting 
‘ie | but still the sudden inequality hich mprise — enay the ab: f snow storms, being 15 45 
the crop along the line to which the! ‘iis ta ween comprise about 36 acres of water, the greater Parzen me eee : sams 
—— The difference had extended, 5 from we — 
o and i the business of the publie to 
octor S 
of those operations will reward anyone who is interested | m 
yer. oley, Mr 
s. | Fuller, M.P., Mr. Brandreth Gibb 5 Mr. Fisher f Hobbs, 
Mr. Majendie, Mr. 5 5 „Mr. M. Pain ie Parkins, 
ty | Mr. Pendarves, M.P., . ee Pole, M Rowland- 
0 
gence of the operation is associated with the law which severa 
e one may b er a remedy. A bird in fro 
rs at inte} 
0 1 3 e, bends his neck, takes a drink, but refuses |i 
Thi fi 
Go, again, to a seedsman of the sa me aa 
the same question to him, and his answer wit Pe pu 
similar kind ; thus proving that there are alre read of 3 
rate a edsmen, possessing both capital and intelli 
notoriety, who regan rich by vendin 
“ soothing and life reviving cordial,” “when 
asked by a 1 friend how he man * 
of them, there are 99 fools and onl 
6“ fool” . his common-sense behind his 
e; | presses on fe sori the bait held out for him in the 
shape o of a ving of from 30 to 50 per cent. in the 
t | price of seeds 7 ;” the said seed bait being artfully dressed 
with num ne puffing 3 that Holloway him. 
— be pms but what sham to those who 80 gull 
them The time was soas the seed trade er 
En land ado ed on the most Danse and fair 
b 
„ eee e 8 adopte 
ng 
peeps but by too apeme have these pee fer 2 
2 
e hav -= da part of this — 
the writer 8 evidently eee with the er 
tion of the laws of libel.] 
RE 
: Sotieties. 
ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGL AND. . 
son, Mr. Sandbach, Ar. Sha w (London), Mr. Shelley, 
Prof. Sim Mr. Re eynolds Solly, Mr. Stansfield, 
E R. co and Prof. Way. 3 
Mr. Lister Maw ‘communicated the results of his 
=f 
draini 
presented to the Council, for trial by its members, & 
supply of a new variety of Spar — winter 
Sari purposes, ear fie ind of more delicate flavour 
than the Wi deot Bean.—Mr, Dig 5 j „Seen 
n Agency in London, informed the Council that 
the imperial Agricultural Society at Moscow had trans 
mitted, for the Royal Agricultural ‘Boclety f England, 
l s of agricultural machines, as well as 
gricultura i 
samples of farm produce, which now awaite be?) 
hag et of A Council as to their disposal.—Fro 
Wa ay hav: » las t year, e from anning 
to the next Council a 125 of pra ti 
i ti 
= ter | distribu — 
; Of itself. was 2 e hav 1 > 7 e The Couneil ordered thanks for the favour of these 
l gh not pressed into the ground tall; F ingot 5 way. 5 e een; a nd adjourned, over As Aee = 
to the Monthly Meeting on the 3d of Mare 
Calendar of Operations. 
FEBRUAR 
MMERMUIR SHEEP FarM,—The management of Hig 
same 3 aracter, noticed in our pases 
„Portion of which is 44 feet deep, free and — 
€ weeds, cati esent, to make a few remar 
portions on which had gaiamen and en with deer. Besides swans, there important sul subject of Shelters On hill grazing aalen of bot 
— — ot gr had been applied at are perhaps 200 dueks and 15 Canada geese in these 2 kinds—natural and arti or a combination o 
its having boon comet nat Visible, partly owing. ̃ lakes. ‘The ducks are tia aaa nes dand divers, | Legare may be derived fom parions souroes; %3 ar 
in some degree also te tae ff ct sown, and possibly | Q. M. Eliot, Ripley Cande Forbes divers, | modara hole of whieh the same foci have asce 
e e ashes 7 y ole e same 
-junction with the smaller ar we H. m con- | The Seed Trade—That “there is something rotten in many of the border sheep-walks, but especialy 3 
hloride of Prt a Bashiey. the seed trade” is what no one the least interested in it | S¢°Uan4, — ö 
Salt a otassium and Bones. can f . 
is in 
nts, p. 61 c, respecting the titans bein 
ae sulphurie acid 
the Tr of ous 8 nae ; 
us 
few of — 7 ence 
halt dead — 
y 
i injuri ep a 
attended with heavy loss during the lam 
D a 
hepherd i 
gone 
if 
3 being, ! 
heavy 
— mulated at 
p 5 0 
"Tor. T “blacks meat er 8 
e th 
ane: principally com 
Ash, hen seen species of dwarf. 
been very numero 
