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; ith somewhat more of definite- 
critic writes in his article of December 13th, 
A as iy follows fore we epin i to SPY i the 
rological figures » which we gave in a form 
i e of the causes ‘of our ye 
ee — is py to direct 12 when they sy 
he may depend upon it that others will go in and posse 
the territo 
en after some further general remarks, 
to show that some of 
) is 
rotations, according to t 
e (Mr. Lawes) 3 mch care in dividing 
plants. into peng My: he imagines ha 
n as 5 . of the nitro 
of the Turn + ere is no country where 
there are enter facilities for studying the causes which 
modify the exhausting. qualities of the Cereals and other 
plants, if i do not, tie up ourselves to inflexible 
unnat mug ories. 
* * a great deal of illustration bearing a 
Bre or ge s upon the. point, in. question, he winds up 
thus ;—“ 918 7 will no pa: evident that the 
e of N + aia, hich are supposed to 
y more upon Jay atmoephere. for their nitrogen in 
one ther, is much too wide for practical 
p 
which our 
tions. 
again, A he says, “It is to the conditions under 
And agai 
which they are or can be 2 wn that we must look, 
when we would account for their opposite — and 
requi their known 
taken in connection with 
apy er 
had said,“ Since our soil con- 
must be very re that 
are grown in our 1 rotation ust have 
ur tural 
flu 
families of 3 constitutes, indeed, a most interesting 
c 
rom these remarks, as wellas from the character of 
ur | of anothe 
— against him, is to us 
ee | be 
an apt. illustra’ 
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AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 47d 
believe that the following sentences are to be found in most injuriously on the a g 
the very papers which kan: * just quoted are thus por as much dung as aie to my stnbbles ; aay 
a Bai as to meet and e 
At 
t page 229 of Par 11.5 Vol viii., of the Journal of the | of Re gay is 2 en out and formed in „ 
10 Royal 1 oa f En ngla nd, we say—“ The rest is carted on at once and spread e what- 
a which form tation, belong, botani ever the weather is, If not at on 
call 
ing, for the mhont att, to the three following. iter will do it for you in 
the Gra I remember passing a #8 
ung had been cart 
ing spread; the frost was pair 
Lucerne, C r, Trefoil, Sainfoin | . 0. r, 80 that the 
&e. ; and the Cruciferze, containing turnips and pe. | efor 
The Solanez, yielding the P ugt n 
rrots and Parsn snips, may als meres 
we might add the Gerede. containing Man 
e. But hat W 
eration. the purposes of agriculture, 
ifferent nyetom of classification a 1 be 
antage, neti Auca to the 
bjec 
byy 
y in. heaps ‘fully a “month 
and 
n those 
neers of dung had lain “about, three 
posed to the wea 
the Tigh my gh to. the 
on. | yard dung to the white er 
This — Mog it is found, 
a pair. 2 * A „ the 
d after we e ag been 
t deal of labour for- 
e = in wid 1755 in crops, Peas, Beans, Xc., 
Thus, Ses after enumerating the several botanical 
classes to which the l 
crops belon , we distinctly repudiate the adoption of 
hg tion in its generality for agricultural 
But further: in Vol. viii, Part II., of the sam 
Jo a pages 495 and 496, we say—* Again, agrieal- 
plants have been arranged 
botanical alli 
vation that wee successful gt 1 of the Clover may be 
owing, in some degree, to . e which the land 
must get in carting on the eur in winter and spring. 
ae sual e the first sown Turnips- 
e dung that 
if oy 8 not sufficien 
the las 
the 88 ought to bereversed ; yn Turnips 
should receive light TANS, only, by which they 
autumn, and be 
8 
. 
— 
s besides the (never- 
* ‘istinetions iaa brought 
reliance to etations appearances. 
upon the 3 and the sol of different natural . S les llowed, the S Swedish Turnip should 1 says 
ene its full share of manure. The 
and important point of study 
which the —— system is 
tial co a 2 fr chemical — — but in ma nures br — , befo 
. varying agricultural value of different farm. yard dung is laid down utumn. W 
maa to che functional characters of the several — drilled should . sown immediately, a men never 
ers to whi belong, it must always be fi allowed to i . 
Pope e the natural aim and tendeney of ‘the alent i the great pane the fly, it mended. 
r are favoured by our methods and objects of to use seed of different sees mixed, as that Mat if th the fly 
e and that the b. omera — = the plant attacks the 2 — — the new try which will generally 
is in no way dependant on nstr artificial braird first, there is a of the braird from 
ment at variance with “that of i its ‘individual 2 ri act escaping, thus previntiog the neeessity of 
health and serene te f r again, aE is never found to so we 
as these, ‘distinetly declaring the e| “Fak the — 2 — of s t should be i 
lone we hold the ee seed has been raised sey 
ral ant, yenir to — nat i| planin not — — or from 
to say the le 2 of the wri ag a re ched ma 
to gain a — g | —— 8 151 is ad that Turnip 
ion seed, produced according to th 
to become’ -roote i 
and the oe on 
y derive essen- 
unaceountable! J. B. 
We are unable to eg at iraner. as we could wish, is, 
the whole of Mr. Lawes er to the criticisms of 
4 R.“; but it shall — — 2 as rapidly as seed from wh 
Possible. 
Perea 1 2. 
THE MANURING OF THE TURNIP CROP. proper time for sowing in on in one climate be thought 
arly in another, from the risk of the ie oe 
I consider that too high a manurial value is put on the — to W — — 
su ces as food by cattle, and — d ice followed on my own | above- 
with the value of 1 guano and other it will | the level of the I commence in the second week 
be found that the dung — our fields will be of May to sow a few early white Turnips. are 
that made in our courts, if such a high manurial value | lifted soon, before run to seed, for te use of eattle, 
put upon — — consumed b have which I intend to sell off fat in i winter, 
the air and rains—or else our fields: — Spaai be re- 
ss. The conditi any 
account of Tiptree al The best time for applying the | advanta to — imthe- 
manures rnip cro a most important present condition of my farm. I sow 23 from 
question, and danmi a few xperi- the middle of May to the first week ; yellow 
ments made by Mr. Wilson in so rae) on drainage | Turnips from the first week of June to the end of the 
water, by which he found that much of the soluble salts | month ; and the first week of July. 
of soils was carrie by the water from the drains, Sometimes Iso some white ips later, which are 
was led to believe that it was ee e a allowed to remain all winter on the ground, to be used 
manure in autumn. The investigations of P 
y by my ewes in 1 there is a searcity of 
‘and Mr. Thomson proved that soi — ed Grass. quantities of seed sown are—2 lbs. of 
had the power of absorbing the — constituents of | white, 2} lbs of yellow, -= 33 Ibs. — = 
i on 
on Stubble. ` in Drilis ; 
a 28 16 w. —— 12 7 
. tons 19 t. 4 tons . 4 tons 
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