138 : THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. Pep, 1 * 
ths intervals, and by means of subterranean pipes and hydrants for | renewing, s stores of Bpo ma den A 
them bought -= apa at Se They will Weed are distribution in the liquid form. The cattle lising influences of the atmosphere, “which pe ferti- 
a 4 Ibs. of grain a day apiece, or 80 tons a year, | should be fed on boarded floors, or at least without bably a greater energy on the crude in it pm. 
* man it 
abo 
Organism 
corresponding t ut 600/. in cattle food ee as litter, and everything should | the soil than manures do, and w chip sé 
w gp by the growth of beef, in addition to pass into from the cistern in which it was long run, less e e of mechanical power. = 
pod * every 14. cwt. made upon food | properly diluted, after the manner referred to in same o ject as poru fertilisation, which t 
he capital in 12 labour, seed, cattle, and the “Minutes of Information,” published by the farming aims at, is thus attained without its n 
— on is thus 2700/., against which as yet there | Board of Health, which we last week brought under manures ; in eed, without the same necessity 4 
appears a capsi of 3007. per annum, or upwards of 12 the notice of our readers. 3 the rien of this asa 3 for 2 W > h has the y very 
11“. 10s. per c fs ng manure the following instances referred advantage of adapting itself to the circumstan 
Now e 8 we should propose would be to in these “ Minutes“ will be some indication. mey armer, for thè poorest may thus — 1 
al desta deteriorating his soil, and with a most s 
Total tual destru weeds, a continuou ‘ 
ma > Cost ot | Annual | Annual | annual S production 
82 8 oe works, and] interest, Ob Hons. of gral seng manuring and ia onl : 
Name of Place. 3 HE Mode of application, appa} Bes at 7h poms, — seryati ET of green crops as ee ao hl a thi. l 
4 ratus. per cent. lüsh acre, ere to Cone, pa aks ‘the perfect tilth ang 
x Sin al f 24) £ eee e cleanliness of his land the expense in the preparatin _ 
Mr. Harvey's farm .. | 508 steam engine, pumps, 1450 © O| 108 15 0 240 10 0 0 13 9 10 feet thick = ent | for +y crops will be much diminiaho 7 
— 24 5 3 — ag 28 h then going to the pape of recommend. 
fa pipes, ing a continuous production of grain erops, may we 
Arnseum!. not suggest the expediency as profitable of ad | 
Myre Mill tam 508 ma ain ee 1586 O 0) 118.19 0) 162 10 0) 011 1 |70 tons of Grass cut from grain fallow to the other fallow crops of our — 
en percha hose, and such a fallow crop being as remunerative ag any 
Canning Park farm...) 50 .. | BRO 0 Oj 1515 0) 11 0 0ſ 0 10 83 147 feet thick of Grass cut broadeast or narrow-row crop, we have ample proof, 
: in seven months. We do not wish our readers to draw from these 
Leg or Dunduff farm...) 50 1 sion, e 101 0 0 14 6 6| 3 10 O10 7 112 — 5 „pen Sache Pre- | remarks the inference that agriculture 15 K 
pores hose, and jet-pipe. year, di 8 ee into yh alternate, but co- i 
- è existent system of fallow and corn fea over 
"lend. = i n 8 f. OP, Oe: AS penne gee ES arable land of this country: but we think that they 
2 i poraba ane ae and fairly tend to prove the great value f. 
ta ris pis and fallow operations perfor 
6 ; land during the growth of our crops, hale liy 
Halewood farm „| 120 Ditto. 321 12 0} 39 2 5| 1915 2/0 9 92 [one dressing of ligaid, may be. G. 
equal to 25 to 30 tons o — ee 
= — aa _DIGGINGS BY A FEN "FARMER.—Nal 2 
SHIRE. 
Liscard farm . 150 Ditto 672 1 10 50 8 0 17 11 0 9 84 4 fourth crop of Grass 
being weighed was found strong and continued efforts to WN the publie with 
equal to 10 tons per acre. accurate kno owledge concerning the and 
— — * crop of our agricultural districts. Tecmo of every 
GLAMORGANSHIRE, — farming county, its general aspect, soils, division of pre 
Porth Kerry farm. 30 — Waser aronnd 300 0 6 22 10 0 10 0 0 013 © Tanks constructed suf- perty, size of holdings, style of husbandry, condition of 
iron on wa 5 cient for 300 acres, Be- nantry, situation of its labourers, &e., &c., hae 
tren og ont al wang supplied. And descending into detail, full parti 
culars of single farms, the mode of conducting opere 
mbining these figures with those | fractional part of an inch i in depth would probably tions, the expen Be and returns, have been ferretel 1 
expressing a above ~ 8 returns from the | furnish sufficient alkalies for a crop. sa and ae im pri 
crops so red, st be remembered that the By leavi ving to pasturage, without raising any fres h of highly valuable meng rs thus been 
8 porto on of * sti spent in the apparatus | soil to the action of the atmosphere, we restore fer- Sale and made known community 
: needed for this mode i a ; er | have learnt what an im abe Her — 8 hither thrust 
ats too unceremoniously into the ba as ee 15 N doing 
or their o 
d 
and hapniness of the kin ai Districts 1 neglect, 
wastefulpess, and old- seer 1 inno have been 
keeping back agricultural i provers „ and scarcely 
Grasses i 55 N increasing their production while pulation multi- 
. mired — the uri — jon these ‘felds? (elds left out to es after plied, hav 4 e been e e up to el disapprobation; 
eq , the acreable produce | corn bearing, unmanured) “yield nothing to these whil he other hand, localiti which 
may be great increased, and the nses of culti- | soils which they did not former! oss Ba Th 2: while, on tho — — ae here — — skill or boldness 
vation greatly diminished, beyond the — at argon upon which they li od f i hae’ ho meth aia ‘ates 
w have put them. Some of the . 
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rth megh 
that which they return to it, as excrement. | where the occupiers have kept abreast of modern as 
— 3 —— pase ote shall hervaltet describe | sind always be less than than that which | coveries, and have augmented the yield from the soil 
~ n of our Journal; mean- they extract. The fields, therefore, can have in a large a ar eee ory ratio, have been exhibited to 
time ` may express o — p belief that the | gained nothing — the mere feeding of cattle upon universal applause and partial emulation. We wish n 
a applying manure here recomme d, espe- | them; on the e. ontrary, the soil must have lost 10 the ag of ps an rs we are now y commencing, 10 Bile 
— pam 3 will hereafter be found greatly of its constituents ;” and this land has, he sa K ieee ag 5 . 12 ts, 15 
eapen increase nt of | borne for thousands l com: crop eve third minutely before the eye of sieges i p 
produ year without a particle of man 2 om ~ 0 ga erden 
15 S IT POSSIBLE T0 EXHAUST TH So in 6000 years 6 — of “the surface of the the recent achievements of agriculture; we mem 
GANIC CONSTITUENTS oF — We certainly do gloke has not been exhausted of its i inorganic vege- | travel back into past ages, and see what was in 
draw the inference that it is from the natant use e constituents, what — is there to apprehend | state 8 3 and of the rural population. i 
K snore > ha r believ is very adv 
this 
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five TEEN : 
ns are 8 Ta by objections to —— of the means by which we have been 
successional crops of f : 
without manure, in rows at ee intervals as Ete = Sc erges tt mee e jos 
ore us. 
tells us, of of Ind that . that has oa oea 
! me | of working the ground betw en them during the direction and encouragement for the labo 
ecer e 5 ü, Seer will enable this . “3 their Sry “that it will annuall owever, as we lately said, we 
aff land to remunerative n the long run, totally | we should always be tied strictly to the 
-r 5 hel acted — fof the j justice r agricultura — Een ti zy e. 
j upon connect 
be, not, pe , the find a in 8 . — our crops ew — 3 eae locali ie cl 
—— in ¢ pair pen on e for benr ax rage wed and is exhausted ; this is so selves from all charge of slothfulness 
thousand years to atmospheric action, without the wut, that we have used up the soluble inoreanie Progressive spirit, we shall enter 
exhaustion of its alkalies or other in 100 ga : | matters which a too -spari pak history of these tracts—giving 
stituents of — rocks, fr gps epberie Notion kas Hey . a ma soil to their birth and p 3 
disintegration they have formed. e mall | ds the land, which still contains s false as ueation and after life; describing their 
ed the ro s requisite lite den nal) haustible store piepie aa th an 880 paration for the use and for the 
i And ae the disi for genera baw Pond it rs, though in a state | the spade and plough. Think you that this 25 
A “the gration: of | o o the ing them | be a profita cas exercise for your thoughts | 
ring 4 
“he my ein g i ey operat 
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ed twelve ae po of What Supply it also with organic and ino Ie itue 
y deterioration The Rey. Mr. Apan hichi ee the undoubte 1. — 
it requires an amount of capital rarely possessed 5 may be 
The other n explored 
ception ay SPS the soil continually open to | st 
