Jis THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. — 
ment that DaM be done, and that the rent ets The difference between the two is by no means a] And again, speaking of the different powers of rei 
are high . os ae Agni for nitroger liance 
ogether incompatible with the prices of | trifle ; for weer: seed, po ead, Be 8 * . uz "i oan t plants he 
produe.” Nevertheless, the farmer serena the | up also gets every other item of . pie 2 pon g taken as a type of. —— 
or 38 years, at the ren 5 — declined 1 aid the whole of this * is a Aang order, eo Ripe eee — rami 
to wo sti advance, for the same reason is pre ay of stock or working capital during the an be taken as a type of the nitrogen eters Mustard 
decessor, we believe, and, — ‘eft for e of the lea . of the Turnip.” And in another piace, he on Powers 
ica. When he took possession = the The main point, as b above, is a Aer ~ story on soils where Wheat is not increased by pho 
the price of Wheat was ee is Os. — of 3 1 apart from any partic ular lessons | he vigour of wild Mustar Hebes e iner crn yt 
uarter ; when he left it, fro s. to 555 During | it may teach, it is surely instructive enough yi O miuto mean hen growing jn a — = 
his aig tr de he drained — on the old n elasticity and wealt of resource which weed must tints nitrogen, and this it Boa: . 
d 
ing plant amon 
i ivation 2 Iture can boast, whatever the hard- 
system, spared no expense in bin a and | British agricu had agai g R the „e ae 
pe me 
manure, Soppi judiciously, m something more mik 5 which its practitioners hive been often 
than double 
ound till 
what was termed the crac —— ok the dis- — of ex ctra — 3 have been gai 
trict, so that -x the expiry öf his lease the lands fell ROTHAMSTED AND THE caine aR” havo dissppeared in the fowering. Antaa 
into e of the landlord because no one wou ede À 
dro adjal of rent. By the judicious investment | We will now adduce, by direct quo some > eke sitomatio principle öf ihe n 
f a little more capital in draining, and similar im- stances of classification surely e 8 of al transformation ot ‘the e ee 4 
3 i s the landl ot his advance botani nt when the nature of the N Side nes 
ee ae e eee, : ith point under e nsideration at the time seemed to require 
: a it. In the Royal ‘Agricultural J gor Vol. er — — — 
page 496, we say: —“ The e be habits, an = 
drs | of the Turnip are well suited to form a contrast ‘ts ose : 
especially the es of the t In 1852, for in- of our ae crops; and a plant itself may, — some * ie s valid cuca ae cima 
stance, with Wheat at 45s., "the farm is a better ken Alert rops, y required hy our 
i mper hoir PSs eee, Wheat crop. Now, we have a 
bargain than it was on 1805, with Wheat at about | a main effect of which is iss preparation oft has a for | Cha p. , a tready stated 
87s. In the former case the tenant, after cing | the after Pe of corn essentia 255 artificia tes RMS Mu ee ae 
his books, will have more 0 with his banker | condition which is indueed — he eultiva 1e to — — —.— REVES soniye enone at he 
than the tenant had in the latter a plant for anes and manuring purposes is vans | the iverni oe ee 
Such is a brief history of the I of improve- striking ffeet 
W 
. then for the wild Mustard, the 
l 
| classes in n respect to t s of our erops which are, mre 
ment on one farm for a very short period. What on 05 quantity and hes ro of the produce.” | sense, artificial products, such as “thera „ des Mab 
do we learn from it in these pressing times? Of Again, at page 530, “ The contrast ee in * | not only have we done this bu e have wen 
many valuable lessons which it contains (valu- | effects of 8 * 2 aac = — ae up laiih attenttio n to the ona betwee the titeum- 
] ecaus onl ance at à ve Turn rnips is very rem able, and afords à siri ing | wi which ould he sul to t gro of the 
ei eee eee 5 illustration of ag . —— e e e and Turnip when cultivated for its natural seed, and when 
In the first lace we learn from this example :— pon Bs of the exporting ‘ white e erops, therefo with the wild 
That E” brought- to bear upon the and the We een or fallow crops,’ of flowering atid often seeding as it does in our corn fields, 
two agencies are broug Cadel p d the | Which classes respectively the two plants may be consi- and those which are favourable to i as aro 
resources of the farm, the one c se thé 1 f © dered as th A —.— oye detailing tlie effect of crop. And we have shown that under such einem 
other mechanical; and that each of these is of a cultivation upon the quantity and quality of the Turni ip, | stances , “viz, ‘those consistent with “its 
two-fold character—the food of plants and animals we say (page e 553), «We p fa ik Sn eeto individual | tenden cies, the very opposite charac «f 
being the two chemical agents—and machines have à beautiful illustration of some o an e end | soll, climate, and manuring are required to ose whieh 
Mohit to yos upon the soil, such as ploughs, and | physiological charac ters upon which ve amt we claim "he it ak grown as a es crop. nani 
upon uce, such as roeping; thrashing- | at least, the economic value of the Turnip in rotation tions ; indeed, so clearly are these l insisted 
eart being the mechanical agents. The object | with corn. The true economy of alternate cropping, upon by us in our papers, and so emphatically have we 
e 8 first of — classes is to increase the quantity | whilst, however, it € ‘repudiated any arbitrary and “ injleable” adherence ito 
bject o i ifferences, such as we have shown to exist in the « classes,” that we could not wish to have been mote 
selected plants, yet depends much also on the distinction guarded on the subject, had we even foreseen all ‘these 
V and uses of the produce, os — which the created objections of our critic. In illustration, we 
liar ac i of 
cu ulative tendencies rent crops | quote the following sentene our 27 
could not be rendered profitably 8 15 | 1 After having De the i oF Turnip-balb 
urely in these sentences botanical classes are suf- formation, we say (page f Vol. viii. Pa II. of the 
ficiently 3 to the acter of the | Royal Agricultural Journal), com- 
far as elements of rotation ; the whole contrast being | | pared jak requi in the culture “of 
wn, not between class and class, but in these Wheat, are oppose one another in almost ever) 
i den the one broad distinctio pa ony | ismade between | ticular ; but as we e — = see, that. of the 
to 
a constant 
— 
the grain crops on the one hand and all the green Fie observe d differences much i sdou pape 
This proposition may be said to be a mean | fallow crops on t er, whol sekseri y in their agri- | distincti the natural fam 
between the last and its converse 05 and hence de- 1 —that i oor opposing or comple- to which the plants belong; et — of it is alo aun 
monstrable accordingly ; —.— e improvements | mentary ele —. in our rotatio butable to the fact that in the case’ of the Turm mende 
reduce the price, and vice v at Kia Spa er aar din 1 satis oè the one 3 te — — is ie 700 a our e e 
supposing San arg tele, fo ourselves en still o designated it, as te as regards its per tarot g A the n es constituents of 82- 
a e ial balance o 5 
remain s rovements, were this pos- | effect « of climate and manures upon it, as being of essen- —— der stel d a tion 2 
sible, N the same unvaried quantity of mon 
8 be to remain at one level of price, an 
able wi 
ee the —— of the a —— can- | stances for the i ection of met 
mak be questione re- in, we illustrate t 
again coinciden 
side a uniform 5 of itive ig 8 theory; heinean our own net Beate and Pel = our critic—ouwr natural * And at page 552, i stod ld 
descending scale of our first proposition very ideas, in a slightly varied form, but with identity again, we may perhaps that the cus en 
kicked to the back of the door. pa poi m ee by ith as as oe of is the result of a 3 A requit® 
t J. this propositi on without. icin — osen to attribute to papers. | matters formed in quantity e 
3 * 2 N e > to 2 Deni after quoting the following passage from Dr. | ments:of the plant as such.” N 
Piette ' ure tg 
É i pA But we will bring yet another passage (P er a a 
i nitrogen proportion than the Grasses, ean dis- | js — that where the „ Turnip is grown hoo a 
pense with ammoniacal manures, provided only sufficient | seed product, oil,“ ~ heavier soil, ol the Pant, 
5 2 in an early during a considera — the growth — ; 
100 
Ts 
i 
required el 
i su 
in. e two peos tde wit with! res, 
enced an | perty in the Turnip toa difference in their 
À rom the Grasses. But we maintain th 
es | from the totally opposite e În which they are t 
— a grown. Fori Dr. 3 would only — the Amo 
Wheat and T 
is to be cove "i ve reid exem [grown in our; — £ rotations, and compare the 
r dee ion j -a iiye 8 |‘ ivifying influences of early * the Wheat ville 
spots whieh stand forth very 
“ong th T fold 4 ie vane 
We have e Turnip unfolds an expands its leaves, he 
7 e have would at once perceive that this is the ‘principal cause 
s \ bye-gone | Now, inthe first 
to perceive W md 15 doubt the living thing as that N sett did we te bt Ao 2 
lities o ractice tell a more lively tale | manures, provided only sufficient superphosphate be y 
this effect than did the Crystal Palace itself ; | ministered to them in an early stage of their pe 
generally speaking, an overwhelming mass ‘of and in the second place, it will be seen, 
bers ound ready to bear out the truth of our | tions from our papers given ews how preten we stiribute as — . 
Ai 1 the. different. position of W and Turnips in our | expect chat ammoniacal 
man 
ural rotations thus exclusively to a difference in fits- ction in such plants, 
the organisation of the latter ith th is ini in the 
But the writer, “ R. here r 25 
farther be saye;*Mainy of te kae sdb, S0 nech, des, der cour “in 
tons which are often an aa and made in regard to tho division 2 wn into “classes” of plants us 
8 An increase of produce 
al to the farmer than an iner 
ing of equal value.” rath 
; upon the difference in the 
the two 
very probably a considerable quantity of nitro ogen would ; 
i 
a 
