266 THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [APRIL 20 
fer. This is af must suppose that this quantity ne never since | a surplus of fertility that will enable them to bear 
stem anch has long been pursued w with respect to | increased, for there has been no new eation ; and, 5 mo 9 scourging crops for many years without 
stock in the funds, and the continuance of the although for a time locked u up, er can we ima- 
practice shows that i it is on the whole safe and|gine that there has been any decrease. These ele- Ta Watt poesia Be eigenen so me to yield to 
Py, e to all te or it bait not be adopte ed. | ments must have been aa ee deer and those various certain plants the anic ele ts they require, 
e atm mosphere 
stees, on š mia) mus manipulation 
Now, once agree to vest the fee pim e of land in formed from them, before an animal, a plant, the | of the soil that shall Keay it constantly acces sible 
trustees who shall have power te sell to any pur- |m meanest reptile, or the lowest vegetable could | to atmospheric 2 „ces. ut as few soils are 
chaser, and one great difficult in the transfer of|have breathed or germinated. n the waste | so Nee Sa to moth only the inorganic ele- 
land is over. Inquiry as to title, so far as regards | and the decay of their ultimate combinations in| me of any . crop, we would depre 
the persons who — created the trust, may be dis- flesh and vegetables they are tr to the air alte * limiting our culture to any individual of 
d with. rchaser for a valuable considera- undiminished, maT bury them deep as you the crops that the wal is E fa d to produce, 
tion without a gait d as against all persons ie in the bosom of the eart th, or by the art of we can entertain no doubt that a rotation eourse o 
so interested, and in ninety-nine cases in one hun- man, or by the — 5 — of nature, and — will 3 crops would be found more profitable ; 
perfect title would be created against all the rota to the first heaven of their . T . he he oe state of our ne knowledge, 
sell stoc i „or root 
4 
can make a perfect title by the sole act of transfer; thrown u p by volcanoes. s is . a tive 1 — will ne safer. Of this ou yie 
it is only necessary to e nable trustees to ge the like |.plenary by HE in the atmosphere of the aerial | assures us, shange of cropping is y to 
with land, and you may nin similar applica- (organic) food of plants. Is it possible then, by a the fuller Bie of vegetable ‘rede 
ble to the: transfer of land. But if this | is 1 ing system of perpetual fallow to exhaust the air of its from whatever causes it may arise. The abo 
any of our readers, they ia only to look to their organic constituents of plants, let the earth drink | statement refers to what we believe possible rather 
own settlements and mortgage deeds already exist- in as much as it may ? ree ee — sae be | than to what we believe expedient. The value of 
ing, to find that a great deal of land already stands | found in the circumambient sufficient | manure is an agricultural fact wat cannot be denied, 
in this condition, the trustees of which might, if they supply of these matters kor —— e of the and ought not to be ignored; 
chose, abuse their trust, but which is found in practice | e rth? thing that has been said desire ois ce the ore 
to be perfectly safe. In most settlements the land B the continuous fallowing of the land, the sur- | pro overb, that“ Muck is the mother of gold,“ or 
settled is vested in trustees with power to sell and face is never allowed to form a crust to exclude the discourage that tinea of all pe en whieh 
ange, the receipts of the trustees being suficient | influx of air, dew, and rain, a ith what they bring | is one = the main distinctions of an im i 
discharges, and in most mortgages power is given to with them; the willing earth receives them all, hus 
the mortgagee to sell, vi without the consent of and in various combinations retains them = laws Admitting, however, as we do, the sufficiency 
the mortgagor. But we know that ‘handulent sales more powerful compel her to give them up to the of natural causes, aided by mechanical laboration, to 
do not in practice take place. use of sar vegetable organism, Large 424 ee the production of remunerating crops of grain, we 
This then is a hint of the n that we 7 2 ous as may be the vegetation on a soil so constantly | cannot but volere, fiat by increasing a little the 
giving freedom to the transfer of land. In the receiving W of organic matter b the air, intervals betw Surra’s bearing lines, by 
we have referred to a 60 pea ‘title i is still demanded, is it possible to conceive this vege etation capable of manuring these erie and grow in A oe 
the practice of the profession requiring i , and no withdrawing them from the soil to an equal extent, in them, the profits of his farmin S in- 
one will purchase without it. But ois practice in combination with the very small am of | creased, and we have also reason — believe an 
ust be altered or dispensed with when land is thus inorganic matters that enter into che composition of advantage would be gained, in this case, y boa 
vo in trustees per placed on the register : and | plants ? tuting two rows of grain for his three, as = 
how this ee, be safely done we shall shom in a Under this system, Turu, Surv, and others, have would then lean less over the —— wan 
Separate : We have now said enough, we found sufficient organic matter supplied to the soil have also reasons for thinking that the 22 
trust, to put our readers on inquiring, aud we may to give large and successive — ae crops of would be as ne as the three now are. G, 
add that many eminent professional men, as well without any appar ä seg 
barristers as soli 
ent deterioration, but = 
a eitors, agree with us in thinking a rather with evident improvement of it. If such a THE RIDGE AND FURROW FORM OF OLD 
scheme such. as we propose is practicable, : and woul system is applicable to a most exhausting crop, is it GRASS LAND. 
be attended with the effect we not fashat it should not be to a — 1 collecting g, Mn. Hawer Davis, in ascribing to the 
rendering the transfer of seek G easy. It must be to meliorating crop. Mr. Lawes finds Turnips | introduction — England of the ridge and eer : 
accompanied by other measures to which we shall | no 8 on unmanured land that 28 17 bushels of land, has opened an interesting subject for considera- 
hereafter ad t l of Wheat. Whether is — tillage or the tion; and as I differ from him upon the gets pm will 
One word conclusion. We have now a absence of vegetable matter in the soil the cause, state my reasons for doing so, in the hope that 
Government, as really anxious to assist or are green crops sown oo close together to who are better acquainted with the early history y ai 
the landed interest in eve ry practicable way. When- | obtain sufficient nitrogen from the air, or are their | Britain in will favour us with their opinions 
ever this question has hithert rto arrived at a certain 
point of interest with the public, and those in- 
ol pasmine ee l 
lant, or are they not sufficien indigenous ee the ridge and furrow form were in arable callie ur 
aes in land, * pae been staved off by a sham tie mig y nily indig — 
such 
t : 
to the soil to suc without assistance? We period more or less "remote from the! ri 
i 0 y. Mr. Smitu 
tha wer 
no evasion now. should like to see the E t aa F soma 
The ‘landed interest has a right at all events 1 without manure on some of his Wheat 1 3 a ee 42 
to the fullest help that the law can afford, ground which has been worked for seven years > 3 . a if = 65th Psalm of 
and to be relieved from all those difficulties that the | are not, however, without eee of successful 3 8 
itho 
era and the nr Lenke p ye conveyancing have — 
ofssional men are enough to 
: ans were a nation. Da 3 
be ta T g to ' ; oe en exhausted land without manure, and the | verse, “Thou w „ the ridges thereof abundan 
opted. Let the Government give — last crop has been far better than the first, and the | thou settlest the furrows thereof ; ae 
‘bo = Eada of the soil restored. At A hada, in the | with showers, and blessest the 
of Cork 
„on worn-out land, a dressing of salt 
and 2 kane, mixed with the of the. in 
which it was used, was dt luce er 
id out in Grass. 
In all these cases these lands must obtain the a 
a organic oes: 3 enable them to bear these 
e i on to a crops, exclusively from. atmospheric sources. The 
hend ‘that a ra of hallow eropping without fertility used up by these cr — as been slowly | nnter man i 
u inorga getable su ‘ime — — g es been in ap i si- 
constituents. Let us now proceed to inquire pasture, from these sou The animals fed on “Tand A N the a character of the 1 oe 
w same y, there is any them have added not . — they did width, the “land higher or dach and” 
cause to fear the diminishing of the organie con- not take them, and whi i i * dry ground, the Fam at ee pnd oak ot pe 
stituents of plants, either in their combinations in 2 possess — ; and as Lerte says of the i + was a balk 
e earth wi ap inorganic matters, or in their gaseous 1 wh e 
our t keepin that, however we they (the ae) i liv ve spring from the soil, and that heavy soil it was a furrow 
have been led to view these. organic matters as which they ers to tig excrement must always —.— * was a “hi 
the products of vegetable and animal decay, they ess th — 
_ have no more title to be called organic than the 
earthy com f erms are 
š T i ofitable than under any 
hich the term | added a outing i. vay the a olen have | pier a aga z 
aty of —— nitro- e ee nothing to = 
created, and we 
